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How to Use Social Media To Drive Sales

ConversionXL

eCommerce sales during the last Black Friday topped $1 billion for the first time in history. On average, during Black Friday 2012, social traffic converted 77% higher than normal. For Facebook average order value was $74 with 76% of total social sales and 69% of total clicks. Black Friday data. Numbers in perspective.

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Where to focus in 2012

Up and Running

The common tone going into 2012 is cautious optimism. Instead, focus in 2012 on your high payoff activities and leverage the abundance of low cost, no cost marketing tools available to you. Use them for testimonials, to explain a concept on your site, for product tutorials, or even to share great content on your area of expertise.

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Quickly Unpacking Microsoft’s Acquisition Of GitHub

Haystack

Stepping back, it’s interesting to see this cultural shift among larger companies who are comfortable with these co-branding scenarios, which actually may provide better PR and future opportunities to add to their portfolios. As Garry Tan observes , the GitHub outcome demonstrates the true power of building relevant products for developers.

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Twitter Link Roundup #187 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

If People Don’t Get Your Product, It’s Your Fault, Not Theirs – [link]. Penney failed with its no-sales selling | ThoughtGadgets by Ben Kunz – [link]. “Less than half of US display ad impressions delivered between May 2012 and February 2013 were in-view” – [link].

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Do You Really Require a New Business Plan Going Into 2012?

Up and Running

What was your product/s and services that were going to set you apart from others? In the event that you have gotten away from your original plan, take the end of the year and starting fresh in 2012, review where you got off course, how such a move has impacted your business, and what are the options to regaining the ship.

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Cracking The Code: Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan

Cracking the Code

Building Your SaaS Sales Compensation Plan. Compensating the sales force is a difficult task and the key is usually to keep things simple, so that each sales rep knows what he needs to optimize to make more money at the end of the quarter. which is very close to the typical 8% paid for sales commissions.

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Transforming Marketing With Artificial Intelligence

Duct Tape Marketing

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). It's called drip.