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The new home for the Tribalization of Business Study

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May 5, 2010
The new home for the Tribalization of Business Study

Considering that the 2010 Tribalization of Business Study, a yearly study sponsored by Beeline Labs, Deloitte, and the Society for New Communications Research, which looks at how companies leverage social media and communities as part of their business, will be totally aligned with the Hyper-Social Index that we developed as part of the upcoming...
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Announcing the first Hyper-Social event

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May 5, 2010
Announcing the first Hyper-Social event

As society has evolved so too has the nature of commerce. Presently, business is being conducted markedly differently than it was 10 years ago, owing to the explosion of the Internet; and big bureaucratic companies will invariably crumble in the face of these changes unless they adapt accordingly via adopting a new formula – a...
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WOW Services – the way to win in this marketplace

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March 27, 2010
WOW Services – the way to win in this marketplace

It used to be that the company with the better product won. Then came the age when the company with the better message about the product won. Very few companies still win with on the basis of having a better product. Apple is probably one of the few that can still achieve that. Their products...
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Hypersocial Organizations

CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, CMO at Dell, and Manish Mehta, VP of Social Media and Communities

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March 27, 2010

My CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, the CMO at Dell, came with a bonus in that Manish Mehta,...
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CMO 2.0 Conversation with Christa Carone, CMO at Xerox

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March 27, 2010

I had a very insightful CMO 2.0 conversation with Christa Carone, the CMO at Xerox. As with many other...
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Word of Mouth is very valuable – as long as you do not pay for it

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March 27, 2010

There has been a lot of research on the value of acquiring a customer though Word of Mouth versus...
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CMO 2.0 Conversations

CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, CMO at Dell, and Manish Mehta, VP of Social Media and Communities

CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, CMO at Dell, and Manish Mehta, VP of Social Media and Communities

My CMO 2.0 Conversation with Erin Nelson, the CMO at Dell, came with a bonus in that Manish Mehta, the VP of Social Media and Community for Dell joined us as well. I hope you will enjoy this CMO 2.0 Conversation as much as I did. Erin is responsible for Dell’s Global brand strategy, social...

CMO 2.0 Conversation with Christa Carone, CMO at Xerox

CMO 2.0 Conversation with Christa Carone, CMO at Xerox

I had a very insightful CMO 2.0 conversation with Christa Carone, the CMO at Xerox. As with many other CMO’s I interviewed on this site, Christa has had a pretty long tenure at Xerox – 14 years to be exact, with the last 1 1/2 years as CMO. Being the CMO at Xerox is a...

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WOW Services – the way to win in this marketplace

WOW Services – the way to win in this marketplace

It used to be that the company with the better product won. Then came...

Rethinking customer reference programs

Rethinking customer reference programs

I recently attended the customer reference forum, which was a great event. It has...

Customer Reference Programs in a Hyper-Social world

Customer Reference Programs in a Hyper-Social world

There is no question that customer reference programs do work. Long employed to support...

Active lurkers – the hidden asset in online communities

Active lurkers – the hidden asset in online communities

Most communities have 90% of users who are lurkers – people who may consume...

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