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Video: How Cisco gives their sales reps the tools to build relationships with customers

At Cisco, sales reps use LinkedIn to build relationships with potential customers, inspire word of mouth, and earn trust. According to Jennifer Roberts, Cisco’s Marketing Manager, it’s helped them build better networks and reach more customers. But they didn’t get there without some training and lessons learned along the way. Check out Jennifer’s case study on social selling in this presentation at SocialMedia.org’s Member Meeting.

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Instantly impress your newest customer

This is a guest post from Andy Sernovitz — CEO of WordofMouth.org and SocialMedia.org and New York Times bestselling author of “Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on his blog. What’s the opposite of Batteries Not Included? How about: We give you everything….

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Video: How Thomson Reuters earned new customers with great content

According to Casey Hall, Thomson Reuters Senior Marketer, a blog is not the place for product promotions and selling. It’s a place for sharing amazing content and earning loyal fans. How do they create amazing content? By bringing in subject matter experts to help. The problem: Not all of these experts were ready to do…

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You need a smaller net

This is a guest post from Drew McLellan, CEO and Top Dog at McLellan Marketing Group. See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on his blog. Fear can make us take our eye off the ball and lose focus on what really matters. In marketing, that often translates to these…

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How CustomInk.com creates a love affair with me

This is a guest post from Drew McLellan, CEO and Top Dog at McLellan Marketing Group. See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on his blog. There’s no valuable and ROI-focused marketing goal greater or more effective than to create a love affair with your customer. Remember the perks: It…

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WOM Tip #501: Get someone else to tell your story

Imagine this: You’re making polite conversation with your taxi driver when he starts telling you about his only daughter who ran off to marry a man in a different country. He says he just discovered her husband is abusing her and that he’s packing his stuff to go kill her husband. That’s pretty dramatic. But…

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How to build a bond with your customers

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. “Deciding to be there” begins with learning about your customers’ lives and their needs, then building a solution…

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Do you start with the product or your customer?

This is a guest post from Jeanne Bliss — customer experience expert and author of “I Love You More Than My Dog.” See the original post this is adapted from and more like it on her blog. At Lands’ End we gave customers a guarantee to drive our own reliability. But we also imagined customers’ lives….

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Use the examples in this guide to help inspire ways to make your message more portable and shareable.

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These tools will help you kick off any word of mouth campaign no matter what topic, industry, or budget.

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These tips can help you get your marketing to do more work without a lot of extra effort.

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The most effective ways to stop negative WOM with examples from Zappos, FedEx, Dell, and more.

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The New Topics Worksheet

All word of mouth starts with a topic of conversation — a simple, portable, repeatable idea that gets people talking.

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The Word of Mouth Action Plan

Create a complete word of mouth marketing plan using this worksheet’s eight simple steps.

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