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Social Media Prospecting: Every Sale Starts with a Conversation | Kruse Control Inc.

Social Media Prospecting: Every Sale Starts with a Conversation | Kruse Control Inc. | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

How good are you at spotting opportunities to engage? In real life or on Social Media, every sale starts with a conversation. There are many missed opportunities.

 

I see them everyday. Businesses post their content on Facebook and forget the fact that it’s going out to real people who can respond back. Not like before when you broadcasted to the masses. That was so impersonal. Now we get to have conversations with our prospects using Social Media and when they respond, we need to be ready with the right words and actions.

 

Have you seen this show, “Car Lot Rescue”? Tom Stuker, seasoned car sales guru, finds dealerships who suck…and helps them not suck. This week’s episode involved a store where the dealer had hired women as greeters and chose to have no salespeople. He was close to losing his business and that’s when Tom came to do his magic. W

 

hen Tom quizzed the dealer on why these women weren’t trained to sell, the dealer said, “All they have to do is smile.” Tom replied, “Well, it takes a lot more than a smile to satisfy a customer and sell them a car.”...

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Content Curation: How To Cite, Credit and Attribute Other People's Content on the Web

Content Curation: How To Cite, Credit and Attribute Other People's Content on the Web | Public Relations & Social Media Insight | Scoop.it

Robin Good: Here is a good guide providing the basic principles that should be followed when using, reposting, citing or quoting other people's content (both text and images).

 

The article outlines "proper methods of source attribution on the internet to guarantee the right people get credit for their hard work and ideas."

 

Specific sections of the article cover:

How To Cite Content in Blog Posts How To Cite Content in Social Media How to Give Credit to Guest Bloggers and Ghost Writers How to Cite Images and Visual Content

Well done. 8/10


Read more: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33098/How-Not-to-Steal-People-s-Content-on-the-Web.aspx


Via Robin Good, janlgordon
El código Gutenberg's comment, August 18, 2012 2:01 PM
Thank you very much. You're very kind. I hope that readers like my work in "El código Gutenberg". And thank you for the information in your page.
nickcarman's curator insight, February 17, 5:45 PM

This is an excellent article, which lays out the groundrules for using, or citing someone else's content.

Patrick Wohlmut's curator insight, February 24, 3:32 PM

Citing sources on a content curation page is important, not only for enhancing your creditability and being a mindful, respectful Internet community member, but also to let people know the kind of information to which they are linking.