Why The Blog Will Be Very Quiet Until June

Posted at 09:54AM • PermalinkNo Comments

We’re working on two books and a website refresh right now, and we just took on some new clients, and we’re about to bring on a few more. We’ll try to post good stuff, or excerpts from the book, about once every week or two. Sorry blog-land: the books… More»

Sales 2.0 Chat: Miller Heiman's Richard Blakeman on Strategic Selling & The Social Customer

Posted at 03:56PM in , PermalinkNo Comments

“The behavior that [a consumer brand like] Abercrombie wants is ‘who’s gonna want it where, by when’ If [they] don’t have that framework, then all of the social data is noise.” – Rich Blakeman, Miller Heiman About a year ago, I lost a consulting bid proposal that I made to a… More»

Sales 2.0 Chat: Salesforce's Brett Queener On How SMEs Might Have To Embrace Social Cust Mgmt

Posted at 01:12PM in , PermalinkNo Comments

bq. "If you have a screwed-up customer process and you deploy Salesforce, all you do is screw your customers _faster_," he said. Brett Queener is, admittedly, not the "guru" of social customer relationship management at Salesforce. He bestows that title on SVP Product Marketing Kraig Swensrud and "Chuck Ganapathi":http://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckganapathi… More»

Sales 2.0 Day Two: The Notion Of Social Enablement

Posted at 11:54AM in , PermalinkNo Comments

“Sales 2.0 is still reactive – we need to go into a proactive mode.” – Gerhard Gschwandtner, Selling Power. The Sales 2.0 Conference kicked off its second and final day at the Four Seasons San Francisco today, with a rock-solid keynote by OracleCRM’s Mark Woollen . I’ve packed my Sales 2.0… More»

What To Read Before You Hit The (Sold Out!) Sales 2.0 Conference Tomorrow

Posted at 01:58PM in , PermalinkNo Comments

I’m about to head to Chinatown for an afternoon of chilling and reading, but before I take off, I wanted to share a quick reading list for what you’ll want to digest before heading over to the Sales 2.0 conference. If you can’t print out and read these bad boys… More»

Search the Blog Archives

Recent Articles

Writing Your Social Strategy

Posted at 09:05AM in , , , , , , Permalink1 Comment

Ed. note: This is part of a series of excerpts…  

Choosing Your Social Management Team

Posted at 09:05AM in , , , , , PermalinkNo Comments

Ed. note: This is part of a series of excerpts…  

Social Media Strategy 101

Posted at 09:05AM in , , , , , , , , PermalinkNo Comments

Ed. note: This is part of a series of excerpts…  

Metz Methodology Explained

Posted at 09:05AM in , , , , , , PermalinkNo Comments

Ed. note: This is part of a series of excerpts…  

LocalsLikeUs's Neej Gore Breaks Down How Local Business Can Successfully Leverage SMS

Posted at 10:00AM in , , PermalinkNo Comments

Yesterday, we ran the first part of an insightful 2-part…