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A 3 Step Process to Make Social Media Produce Sales

Pointclear

Today's guest blogger, Jeff Molander, is adjunct professor of digital marketing at Loyola University business school, a content marketing speaker and author of the forthcoming book, Off the Hook Marketing: How to make social media sell. Follow customers into social spaces. Consider your current social media marketing activities.

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Tell Marketing They Can Keep Their Leads

No More Cold Calling

Consider this example from Dan McDade, president and CEO of PointClear: The marketing department for one unnamed company generated more than 9,000 “sales leads” in a year, but only 1.28 But investing in more lead-sourcing technology is not the answer, nor is inbound marketing or social media. percent were actually qualified.

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The Problem with Inbound Leads - A Sales Rep's Perspective (& Solution)

Pointclear

The webinar was called, "The Future of Social Media." Which is relevant when you''re selling social media management software. Think about who uses social media management software? But, who wants to watch a webinar on the "Future of Social Media"? Both good and bad trends.

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Is It Really B2B, Or Something Different All Together?

Pointclear

Jason Falls is an author, speaker and CEO of Social Media Explorer. He is also co-author of the book No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide To Social Media Marketing , available on Amazon and in bookstores everywhere. And that person has a name, a face and probably a LinkedIn account.

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10 Reasons Why Inside Sales Will Displace Field Sales Teams by 2015

Pointclear

The hybrid salesperson will emerge, and they will be technically, culturally, socially, and skillfully diverse and astute. It is expected that 85% of buyer-seller interactions will happen online through social media and video. Virtual interactions will replace face-to-face field visits.

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PowerViews with Jonathan Farrington: Stay Focused

Pointclear

I’m really pleased to introduce you to PowerViews, a new series of Q&A video interviews that are all about providing solutions to the marketing and sales challenges we face today. Moving to cut costs, companies are using video conferencing to reduce the number of face-to-face sales encounters.

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Day 2 Twitter Recap-Sales and Marketing 2.0 Conference-Part 1

Fill the Funnel

Best Use of Social Media for Sales or Marketin g - Adobe Omniture Business Unit. Dan McDade/Pointclear posted a good highlight of the conference from his perspective. It was great to meet so many new people and to put names to faces as well. sorted out. Conference on November 9th. Conference on November 9th.

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