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Social Selling: A Sales & Marketing Love Story

For the past year, I’ve worked with Carola van der Linden (Carola van der Linden), Marketing Manager in EMEAR, on Social Selling. I wanted to get her unique perspective on how sales and marketing works together and what marketing can learn from sales. Carola brings not only a deep understanding of how social is used in her region but first […]

July 20, 2015 • 2 min read
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Beyond Sales: The Future of Social Selling at Cisco

We recently reviewed the results and findings of Cisco’s Social Selling pilot program in a 3-part series: Social Selling in Action—Part 1: Innovation starts with Sales Social Selling in Action—Part 2: Attribution for Accurate Metrics Social Selling in Action—Part 3: Regional Rollout, Regional Strengths and now we’re moving to the future of Social Selling at […]

November 10, 2014 • 4 min read
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Social Selling in Action—Part 3: Regional Rollout, Regional Strengths

As the number of users of social media continues to grow, the boundary between our personal and professional  lives begins to overlap. Unsurprisingly, the customer buying cycle is also beginning to change. By the time a prospect has reached out to a sales rep, in most cases they already know what they want because they’ve done their research on […]

October 2, 2014 • 3 min read
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Social Selling in Action—Part 2: Attribution for Accurate Metrics

As the number of users of social media continues to grow, the boundary between our personal and professional  lives begins to overlap. Unsurprisngly, the customer buying cycle is also beginning to change. By the time a prospect has reached out to a sales rep, in most cases they already know what they want because they’ve done their research on […]

July 25, 2014 • 3 min read
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Social Selling in Action—Part 1: Innovation starts with Sales

As the number of users of social media continues to grow, the boundary between our personal and professional lives has begun to overlap. Unsurprisingly, the customer buying cycle is also beginning to change. By the time a prospect has reached out to a sales rep, in most cases they already know what they want because they’ve done their research […]

June 23, 2014 • 4 min read
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Quick Insights from the Big Boulder Data Event

On Thursday and Friday of last week, I attended the Big Boulder data conference, which brings together vendor, academics, analysts and practitioners of social data.  The purposes were many: discuss emerging trends, acknowledge the issues and challenges around privacy and security, and make introductions to encourage discussion of how we all envisage social data technology […]

June 10, 2014 • 3 min read