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B2B Social Sales Facts & Figures

Barbara Giamanco — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:19:58 +0000

Thanks to the folks at Inside View for putting together this incredible infographic demonstrating facts and figures for B2B sales. To see the full scale image, click here! Here are a few things in the infographic that caught my eye… Most popular social media sites for generating B2B traffic: LinkedIn 17,618 Reddit 11,968 Wikipedia 10,944 Twitter...

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Blogging from Word is a Snap

Barbara Giamanco — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:42:06 +0000

Last week, I decided to upgrade to Office 2010. A former Microsoft colleague of mine had mentioned the recent release, so I scurried on over to my Microsoft alumni account to make my purchase. I hadn’t gotten around to making my Windows 7 purchase yet and took the opportunity to do that at the same...

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Social Revolution Marches On

Barbara Giamanco — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:48:38 +0000

If you watch this and still think that social media is merely a fad, there is just no hope for you, as you are still stuck in the land of what was, but not what actually now is!

The New Handshake: Sales Meets Social Media

Barbara Giamanco — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:50:06 +0000

If you are like me, you’ve thought about writing a book. And, if you are also like I was, you may still be walking around with that book in your head. A spark of an idea that was coupled with a dose of universal intervention and a terrific writing partner in Joan Curtis, and I’m...

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Cold Calling 2.0?

Barbara Giamanco — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:00:30 +0000

Since the early days of John Patterson and his NCR sales playbook, “cold calling” seems to be ingrained in the collective sales consciousness as an expected part of the sales process. I still wonder why. Come on. Cold calling doesn’t work (it never has, and I don’t care what that last sales trainer told you)....

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Reorder Your LinkedIn Profile Elements

Barbara Giamanco — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:19:33 +0000

“The ability to reorder the sections on your profile is just the first of a huge number of enhancements that are coming to your LinkedIn profile in the upcoming months”, says Aaron Bronzan on the LinkedIn Blog. I played around with the ability to move sections of my LinkedIn profile and it seemed pretty easy...

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LinkedIn Navigation Changes Coming!

Barbara Giamanco — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:30:34 +0000

WOW – LinkedIn has been quietly testing changes to their overall design and are now in the process of rolling out the new design to all of their users. If you don’t see the change yet, you will sometime in the next week. Some of the changes to the new design include: No persistent left-hand...

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Do You Toodledo?

Barbara Giamanco — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:17:05 +0000

Resident Talent Builders tech advisor, Mark Moore turned me on to Toodledo, an online tool to help me better manage my goals and priorities. It was time. As much as I love and use technology myself, I had not transitioned from my old habit of writing to do items in my Franklin Covey binder. I...

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Think Social Media Is A Fad?

Barbara Giamanco — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:56:00 +0000

Think again…this is a revolution that continues to grow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8 Tweet

You Digg It, I’m Delicious, We All StumbleUpon

Barbara Giamanco — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:00:54 +0000

Social bookmarking is a popular part of the social media movement. For the tech dweebs that is:) I say that lovingly of course, because I’m part dweeb myself. Though social bookmarking hasn’t quite caught on with the mainstream user, I’m confident that it will be soon. Most of the folks I meet are still grappling...

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