22% of Salespeople Don't Want to Make Money

by Rosalia Cefalu

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May 22, 2013 at 12:30 PM

sales-social-selling“Two roads diverged in the social media wood, and I, I took the one less traveled,” said 21.7% of salespeople.

In a recent survey of 511 predominantly B2B sales reps and executives published on A Sales Guy Consulting, approximately 22% of salespeople claimed they didn’t use social media to close deals, while an overwhelming 78.3% said they had used social media to sell.

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A Chat With an Internet Addict Who Was Forced to Go Off the Grid

by Corey Eridon

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May 22, 2013 at 9:00 AM

internet-addictMy fellow inbound marketer Sam Mallikarjunan is an internet and social media junkie -- always connected, always checking in, always tweeting, always emailing. He went on a cruise with no internet for a week, and had to leave his cell phone and computer at home. Here's how it went.

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8 Data-Based Tips for Optimizing Your Content on Pinterest and Instagram

by Dan Zarrella

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May 17, 2013 at 12:30 PM

Instagram_PinterestEven though the two most popular social networks to emerge in the past few years (Instagram and Pinterest) revolve around visual content, there isn't much data about what content performs best on these platforms. Because Instagram and Pinterest revolve around visual (not textual) content and their APIs are difficult to access, it can be challenging to research these networks.

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How Marketing Legend Guy Kawasaki Manages His Social Media Presence

by Guy Kawasaki

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May 13, 2013 at 9:00 AM

guy-kawasakiGuy Kawasaki is a special advisor to the Motorola business unit of Google. He is also the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchantment, and nine other books. HubSpot invited Guy to reveal the secrets behind his incredibly active and popular social media profiles that enable him to reach millions each day.

Many people ask me how I manage my social media accounts (and others make stuff up rather than figure out what I do). Here are the gory, inside-story details of what I do. 

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HubSpot Announces Social Inbox: An Integrated App to Make Social Media Personal Again

by Mike Volpe

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May 7, 2013 at 4:00 PM

social-inbox-top-imageAt HubSpot, we’ve been using social media as part of our inbound marketing strategy since before Twitter was born and back when Facebook was only accessible to students. Since then, we’ve accumulated a half-million Facebook fans and a quarter-million Twitter followers, been among the first businesses using Google+, and dove into Pinterest, Instagram, and more. Today, social media is one of the key inbound marketing channels we use to grow our business.

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