The Twitter recap post are my least shared posts, but I love them dearly. Here are some of my favorite findings of the week.
This tweet from Eric Wittlake on #b2bchat resonated with me. There are still social haters and their main complaint is what they perceive to be a lack of ROI. The problem with social is people want to judge it’s effectiveness by 1-to-1 attribution. They want to send a tweet and see how much they make of that tweet. I prefer to view social as part of my overall mix. A critical channel to communicate with buyers along their buying journey. Your buyers are on social, so why wouldn’t you?
Most B2B relationships evolve beyond social, makes it hard for success stories to withstand criticism from detractors. #b2bchat
— Eric Wittlake (@wittlake) March 15, 2013
This tweet from Howard Sewell was astonishing to me. Following up immediately to someone who filled an online contact forms should be table stakes. Seeing this, I guess it isn’t. Bad call.
Scary. Nearly 25% of Inc 5000 websites don’t offer any type of online contact form, according to @optify study – marketwire.com/press-release/…
— Howard J. Sewell (@HJSewell) March 12, 2013
I always gotta include something funny. Sam Lawrence’s company Crushpath picked up some VC loot and below is one of his tweets. I am not sure I have seen firetrucks and ferrets in the same sentence. EVER.
When reporters ask me what we’ll use the money for, I always want to say “Firetrucks and ferrets.”
— Sam Lawrence (@SamLawrence) March 12, 2013
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