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How to Train Salespeople on Social Selling with Kurt Shaver

GaggleAMP Webinar Series Presents: How to Train Salespeople on Social Selling with Kurt Shaver

Kurt Shaver, founder of The Sales Foundry, is a sales leadership expert with over 25 years of experience. Since he started, Kurt has found the most efficient strategies to gain leads and close sales, something he has won several awards for along his journey. Kurt is a Social Selling Speaker and Trainer for Organizations. He will be joining Glenn Gaudet, the founder and President of GaggleAMP, to teach you how to train your salespeople on social selling.

While most salespeople have a LinkedIn account, social selling has typically been an tactical, bottoms-up effort in most companies. The greatest benefit to a company comes when a strategic, top-down approach is implemented. Learn the options, benefits, and stages of social selling training. This session is for Sales and Marketing leaders, Sales Enablement, and Sales Training professionals responsible for sales team skills.

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11 Easy Social Media Tips and Tricks ~ By Chris Abraham

This week I am going to just take it back to basics.Here’s a list, off the top of my head, of things that could and should make your social media and blogging life more full, exciting, passionate, accountable, fruitful, and maybe a little less intimidating. Add Social Media Information to Print Media
This is the most effective way to grow your followership organically without needing to resort to either buying followers or playing the super aggressive game of follow prospects in the hope that they follow back; and, if and when they don’t, unfollowing them.
There are other strategies, of course, but make sure all of your printed media includes every social media platform possible. You need to make everything easy, too. Nobody’s going to want to type in plus.google.com/103099807663073306865 but they might type in plus.google.com/+chrisabraham or google.com/+ChrisAbraham, for example. While not widely used, QR Codes can be utilized to make access to social media easier.
When you’re considering using print as a way to integrate corporate social media branding into your business, consider business cards, letterhead, and also placards, posters, and decals in the waiting rooms and public areas of your business.
And while just adding Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, and Google+ icons below “Find us on social media” might work for some people, it’s much easier to include as many clues as possible such as your Twitter handle, be it @chrisabraham or @gerrisd for Gerris digital (that’s how people use Twitter).
It’s especially important when your custom URL is not intuitive. Unison is @unisonbrand, for example, and not @unison or @unisonagency. Also, cross-platform consistency is key, something I have apparently ignored by setting up GerrisDigtial everywhere except on Twitter, where I decided on @gerrisd instead for reasons of brevity.
I might change it back to @gerrisdigtial if the lack of cross-platform integration gets annoying or muddies my nascent brand.

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Honestly, I get pitched all the time by fly-by-night offshore and unqualified copy writing outfits. Once in a while, I give one of them a go, look at the product, and conclude that it’s not worth it to order content writing on the cheap. Maybe it’ll be okay to use these folks in the future, but so far I write all of my own.

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Chris Abraham

Principal Consultant at Gerri Corp.

Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.

 

You Must Live Tweet Live Events~By Chris Abraham

I can’t believe you’re still hiring professional photographers with expensive DSLRs who shoot your events live but time-delay the results by days and weeks. Yes, I am looking at you!
I am not saying you shouldn’t hire a professional team for posterity, the Annual Reports, and your organization’s archive; but why are you time-delaying your fundraisers, events, conferences, gatherings, jamborees, and rally by hours, days, and weeks when you have all the cheap-and-accessible tools all around you to take dozens of “good enough” images real-time, allowing hundreds, thousands, and millions of friends, family, fans, and potential donors, clients, customers, attendees, and members to get a selective and well-curated peek into all the cool stuff you do every day, as it happens, live, en masse, over the course of the entire event, instead of only the tightly-edited album you may only share with your current friends and family, all in one dump, at one moment, well after the event is far in the rear view mirror.
Yes, those professionally-shot 16.2 megapixel photos may well be well-lit, hi-def, perfectly posed, and color-corrected, but they’re also planned, dull, and edited down to so few images that all you’re left with are some boring photos of some random “celebrity” at a dais, some sponsors, board members, and honored guests mugging in a huddle, some glad-handing photos, and maybe a snappy of plates of rubbery chicken on linen-festooned banquet tables. Lame. Keep the pro shooters but see if they might be willing to live tweet, Vine, Instagram, Google+, Facebook, Pinterest, and Tumbl on your behalf, logging in to your Twitter, Vine, Instagram, Google+, Facebook, Pinterest, and Tumbl accounts before the night begins; alternately you can follow my advice below and get the sort of impact you need from the events that you’ve spent a lot of money and energy on already — events that could really help your brand profile in the noisy, noisy, world — but at which there are only dozens to hundreds of attendees and not the thousands-upon-thousands you’ve acquired through social media marketing across all of your social networks and social sharing platforms. Plus, there’s the excitement of the check-in, be it checking in on Foursquare, Facebook, Google Plus (or even on Foursquare through Instagram, actually).

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Scarcity and Optimization: The Monopoly Web Page Strategy~by Craig Andrews

Monopoly is the quintessential game of American capitalism. For better or worse, it focuses the player on one goal: maximizing the number of dollars in your pile. Everyone has their own strategy and their preferred properties to own and build. Your little sister may only buy properties if she likes the color.
Excellent monopoly players learn their opponents’ strategy and then adapt to respond to the environment they are in.
If you look beyond the “greed is good” focus on money, you will realize that playing the game teaches the principles of scarcity and optimization.
The number dollars you start with is scarce. You must make the most of your limited resources.
You want to be ready when lady luck glances your way. When a dog, a car, or a hat finally lands your property, you better be ready.
Running a business website is no different. You inevitably have scarce resources to spend building the site and attracting traffic.
And when those visitors finally land on your site, you better be ready. This is the job of optimization.
If you viewed your web page as a Monopoly board, would it change your priorities and behavior?
Like houses and hotels, would the right elements be on your page be there?
Too often, we don’t think about our web pages as scarce resources that have to be optimized. Too often, we use our little sister’s “pretty property” strategy. Trust me. She still hates to lose.

Scarcity

In Monopoly, we can’t own all the properties and have hotels on all properties. We have to deal with scarcity. Our money supply is limited, as is our opportunity to buy properties. The desire to compete brings out our analytical nature and we scheme to make the most of the resources we have as opposed to the resources we want. We do this because we know we have an opponent that is actively working to undo us. Again, do we think about our web page the same way?
In reality, we do have opponents in our web strategy. Not just one, but many. In fact, we usually have more opponents than competitors. Some of these opponents include:

• Limited attention span
• Lack of common reference and knowledge base
• Low-resolution computer monitors
• Negative emotional association with specific words or images
• Slow connection speeds

As you think about the opponents listed above, you will recognize scarcity working against your ultimate goal. Vigorously compete against these opponents on your site with the same vigor you compete in Monopoly, and you’ll be more likely to “pass GO and collect $200.”

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About the Author

 
Craig Andrews is the Principal Ally and founder of internet marketing agency allies4me. Andrews brings extensive scientific and marketing expertise to allies4me. Over the last 25 years, his experience has spanned search engine optimization, internet marketing software, biomedical and semiconductors. Andrews is backed by a team of marketing allies who support start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.
In recent years, clients have been seeking guidance from allies4me on Social Media strategies. Rather than jumping on the latest hype, Andrews sought to understand Social Media through solid metrics across large data sets. The result is an unconventional and insightful approach to Social Media. Testing and data driven decisions advise all areas of allies4me work. Solid metrics and disciplined parsing of data is where allies4me clients find results.

You can connect with Craig Andrews on Google+ and LinkedIn.  You can find allies4me on LinkedIn,Google+, Facebook, and Twitter.

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Remember LinkedIn for social media marketing ~by Chris Abraham

Promoting yourself, your brand, your products, your services, and your clients via social media is what we’re about here at Biznology. Social media marketing is what I have been doing for my clients, my business, and my own brand since 2003.
In spite of all those campaigns, all those clients, and all those hours, I tend to spend all of my energy on blogs, bloggers, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and even reddit, message boards, fora, and email lists before I spent time on maybe the most powerful top-down influential platforms in the social media- and social networking- sphere.
LinkedIn is not just an optional social network to use when you’re either between jobs or looking for a business upgrade. LinkedIn isn’t simply an SEO placeholder for your brand, your company, or your name. And, even if your job is not in sales, business development, or business to business marketing, there’s a lot going on on LinkedIn you’ll surely want to spend some serious time exploring.

 

 

Completely Fill Out Your LinkedIn Profile

Maybe you set up your LinkedIn profile years ago. Maybe you’re still in the same job and aren’t looking for one. Well, you should return to LinkedIn because it’s a social media platform that introduces new products, services, and access relatively often. While you probably did fill out your LinkedIn profile completely at the time, quite a few other descriptors have been added since, including things like awards, specialties, charity, details of your career, education, publications, and events in your life. If you dig in just a little bit, you’ll see there a lot more going on. LinkedIn has bought web apps like Slideshare and Pulse so they’ve been working hard at becoming more of a social media destination, your one-stop social network for not only finding business and a job but doing your job better, staying on top of industry news, what your competitors are doing, what your clients are reading. If you’re anything like me, you might go for more than a couple weeks without dipping a toe into your LinkedIn account (while you probably are unwilling to let an hour pass without checking in on your Facebook, Twitter, or even what your friends are passing around on Pinterest. LinkedIn is no longer a stagnant pool, it’s become much more of a community in its own right.

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About Chris Abraham

A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, web strategy consultant and advisor to the industries' leading firms. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication; organize search engine optimization (SEO), online reputation management (ORM), content marketing, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media.

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How to Sell Social Media Internally~by Lilach Bullock

Take a stroll around the Google-sphere and you’ll find article after article about the importance of social media and the benefits it can offer. To most marketing experts, social media is a no brainer, but when it comes to getting your boss to buy in, there is usually some resistance. Don’t be surprised if you find that the higher the executive position, the more social media resistance.

Chart and research by EMarketer.

Your executives are busy like you, so don’t waste time. Be prepared and have all of your data ready to present. Start your discussion by telling them what you want to do, why you want to do it and that you have developed a comprehensive plan that shows the costs associated, time involved and projected outcomes.

Here are some tips on how you can sell social media eternally:

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About Lilach Bullock

 

Lilach is the founder and driving force behind Socialable, and highly regarded on the world speaker circuit. Forbes and Number 10 Downing Street have even been graced by her presence! In a nutshell, she’s a hugely connected and highly influential serial entrepreneur – the embodiment of Digitelligence.

Listed in Forbes as one of the top 20 women social media power influencers and likewise as one of the top social media power influencers, she is one of the most dynamic personalities in the social media market, she actively leverages ethical online marketing for her clients and for Socialable.
After launching her first business within three years of becoming a mother, her financial success was recognised by being a finalist at the Best MumPreneur of the Year Awards, presented at 10 Downing Street. Following a resultant offer and wishing to spend more time with her daughter, she sold her first business to focus on social media, developing a multi-site blog and online marketing portfolio that generates in excess of 600,000 + page views per month.
A business owner, social media consultant, internet mentor and genuine digital guru, Lilach is consulted by journalists and regularly quoted in newspapers, business publications and marketing magazines (including Forbes, The Telegraph, Wired, Prima Magazine, The Sunday Times, Social Media Today and BBC Radio 5 Live). What’s more, her books have achieved No 1 on Amazon for Sales and Marketing and Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
When Lilach isn’t working she enjoys spending time with her family and is an avid fan of Zumba.
To connect with Lilach follow her on Twitter at @LilachBullock and visit www.socialable.co.uk.
Subscribe and get the AMP Up Your Social Media podcast on iTunes or listen below. Tweet about the show using #AUYSM or Tweet at us @AMPUpSocial.

Facing the Facebook Algorithm: Force Your Own Hand (To Blog) ~ By Michael Stahl

We are clearly at a crossroads, social media marketers. Facebook is going to continue to make our jobs increasingly difficult, week after week, as their algorithms continue to tighten and there’s nothing we can really do about it. They’re a publicly traded company now and “have investors to answer to.” I’m not exactly complaining here, mind you; I’m just pointing out some facts. This is a free country and a free market and it’s not up to anyone to tell Facebook what they can and can’t do.

Some of you may be concocting points of attack at the algorithms and finding success in your Facebook posting. But I don’t think most of you are. If that were the case, then the topic of the mighty and fluid Facebook algorithms wouldn’t be dominating the industry’s discussion as it is now. Social media marketers simply have to adjust, and I would like to discuss some possibilities on how we can better serve our clients.

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Michael Stahl

 Michael Stahl is a journalist, social media manager & strategist. Hailing from Astoria, New York, his articles and essays have appeared in several online and print publications. He is currently accepting new social media clients, so if you’d like to procure his services, contact him at mrstahl7@gmail.com.

 

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By Joey Atlas
M.S., Exercise Physiology
Womens’ Body Enhancement Specialist Free Cellulite Removal Presentation..This video presentation  shows you some unique and rare tips on how to release your cellulite, for a sexy lower-body. This is based on true physiological science on how to stop the actual CAUSE of all the unattractive, mushy dimples and saggy shadows in your lower-body trouble-spots and problem areas. *And if you also have any excess, unhealthy body-fat, then the moves highlighted above will help burn it off, giving you tightly-toned and super-smooth lower-body. Remember: Watch the whole video, as the ending will pleasantly surprise you…

LEARN MORE:

 Jacksonville, FL – At this very moment women of all ages, all around the world, are literally throwing money down the drain on completely ineffective ‘cellulite treatment’ methods and products…
Meanwhile, a small handful of fortunate ladies have discovered something which actually removes cellulite permanently – and with literally no risk, hassle or expense…
In this report you will discover their secret…
- The simple 22-minute, cellulite reducing, method – which in 3.5 years of home tested trials and actual use has amazed the skeptics and empowered hundreds of women to reclaim their natural beauty and regain their womanly self esteem by removing the dimpled, ‘cottage cheese’ looking, orange peel textured appearance from their butt, hips, legs and thighs…
- Most women seeing definite improvements in just 28 days… All without painful weights, dangerous machines or useless gadgets – and NO changes in diet, at all…

LEARN MORE :

The anatomical illustration below shows you the two primary types of skin:

Bumpy Skin ——- Smooth Skin

1) ‘Bumpy Cellulite Skin’ on the left… and… 2) ‘Tightly Smoothed Skin’ on the right

The Naked Beauty 60-Day 100% Money Back ‘Smooth, Tight & Sexy’ Guarantee

“Put ‘NAKED BEAUTY’ to the test for 60 Days and if you’re not simply blown away between days 28-59 by the undeniable reduction or disappearance of your cellulite then just send us an email (no later than the 60th day from today) and I’ll gladly refund 100% of your money – No Questions Asked…” – Joey Atlas
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Hi Friends and Marketers from around the World!
Have you seen these numbers?
They are VERY revealing…
Here’s the breakdown of 10,000 signups…and how they signed up…

• Popup: 37.8% (Big pop, nice design, big ebook cover)
• Sidebar: 20% (Text only, graphic subscribe / call to action button)
• Footer: 19.7% (Text only, graphic subscribe / call to action button)
• Signup Page: 3.2% (a single, UNLINKED TO squeeze page, similar to popup)
• Get The Rest Of This: 10.4% (A Special post, with a sign up form in the post…more about this in a bit)

source: Steve Warwick, used with permission

What If You Could… Quickly And Easily…

• Add An Optin Form with a “lightbox” (a popup with the background darkened, so that all your visitor sees is your Optin Offer, so they either have to subscribe or dismiss your form in order to see the page underneath…)
• Have a Footer Bar or Header Bar Opt-In Form — especially if you want to attract the visitor’s attention, but not hit them with an “in your face” popup requiring them to take action
• Display hidden content: Rarely seen outside of expensive WordPress membership software, but you can have it — get your visitors salivating to see more, and show it to them after they’ve opted in.
• Subscribe on commenting: Get the ideal subscribers — those folks already commenting on your blog … this makes it super simple for them to do— all they have to do is click a checkbox…
• Subscribe on registration: Not something most blogs offer, but if you offer user registration, why not make it so it adds them to your email list (the one of your choosing, of course!)
• Put a “Subscribe” Box In All Your Posts: Hey, a sweet, quiet, simple request for them to signup to your email list to get more … you just gave them great content, show them how to keep getting more…
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Should you hire a social media community manager? By Chris Abraham

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   Hiring someone to both speak and respond as you on social media is not cheating. Think of it as delegation: you can’t be everywhere, all the time. There’s just one you and there are upwards of 1.4 billion people who, at any moment, could engage you, your brand, company, product, or service — brands, companies, products, and services. Your slice of that humongous pie is surely fewer than the global membership of Facebook; however, even if your portion is modest, are you committed to not only producing content for online consumption (broadcasting) but listening, responding, and engaging, too?

We’re coming up on the 10-year anniversary of Facebook this February 4 and we’re still arguing about online authenticity. There’s still a core group of social media consultants who consider outsourcing your most personal social media properties as being somehow inauthentic. Sort of like cheating.

According to Boston.com, back in 2012 President Obama had “181 actors, musicians, authors, athletes, mayors, Congress members, and more that fit any and all demographic groups in the president’s target zone,” all stumping on his behalf, all over TV, radio, events, gatherings, fundraisers, and even small special gatherings in target cities.

Surrogacy has been part of public affairs and publicity since the beginning of civilization. Delegations represent the will of their home town, city, state, or country. Embassies and ambassadors reside in-country as a literal remote sovereign nations abroad, representing their home offices. Ministers are sent as officiants of their government with true power to make decisions and policy as well as to enforce decisions.

The idea of deputizing someone else to act on your behalf in an official capacity is a time-honored tradition. Why then, is it so controversial in social media? Maybe it’s as simple as stating, in the Twitter bio, “from the office of…” instead of suggesting that all the words hereby tweeted are his or her own.
Whoever you choose ultimately represents your brand

Even so, whether they’re your words or they’re an interpretation of who you are, what you believe, what your do, and how you think by someone who knows and works with you, they are still representative of your brand. Be it ghost-written autobiographies, the answering of fan mail, the mass-production of autographed photos or signed letters, the taking of dictation, support staff has always made things happen as authentically as possible without burdening the boss.

Unless you’re absolutely passionate about being engaged in social media, have everything else in your life delegated, have plenty of time, consider social media engagement to be essential and real, and are committed to keeping up the same level of engagement and commitment from now and forever, you really need to retain (and delegate to) an experienced community manager.

And, depending on how much time, interest, experience, patience, and passion you have, you’ll either use your social media community manager as someone who can simply add volume, coverage, and responsiveness to your already-engaged but spotty online engagement or they can take over your social media completely, managing your brand, your products, your online reputation, and even your own personal profile.

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Chris Abraham is a partner in Socialmedia.biz. Contact Chris via email, follow him on Twitter and Google Plus - See more at: http://socialmedia.biz/2014/01/14/should-you-hire-a-social-media-community-manager/#sthash.ECwTv7eM.dpuf

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Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
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Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.

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Chris Abraham

Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham

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Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.

- See more at: http://socialmedia.biz/author/chrisabraham/#sthash.30TZokrP.dpuf

Chris Abraham

Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham

Profile

Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.
Offerings: We specialize in comprehensive Online Conversation Marketing campaigns. We integrate Online Publicity, Online Grassroots & New Media Marketing, Business Intelligence, Search Engine Services and Online Reputation Clean-up and Defense to ensure that our client’s message, the right message, is being portrayed in every corner of the digital space.
Speaking & press availability: Chris has taught blogging courses for the Writer's Center of Bethesda, has been a guest lecturer on public affairs blogging at Columbia University's SIPA school and the American University in Washington, DC, the Emergent Technologies Advisor to the Urban Institute's Communications Advisory Board, and a Renaissance Weekend participant since 2001. Additionally, he is the go-to expert on social media, citizen journalism, technology, and the Internet for BBC World Service, CNN Radio, and CNet's BNet.

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Chris Abraham

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Twitter: @chrisabraham
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Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.

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Chris Abraham

Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham

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Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.
Offerings: We specialize in comprehensive Online Conversation Marketing campaigns. We integrate Online Publicity, Online Grassroots & New Media Marketing, Business Intelligence, Search Engine Services and Online Reputation Clean-up and Defense to ensure that our client’s message, the right message, is being portrayed in every corner of the digital space.
Speaking & press availability: Chris has taught blogging courses for the Writer's Center of Bethesda, has been a guest lecturer on public affairs blogging at Columbia University's SIPA school and the American University in Washington, DC, the Emergent Technologies Advisor to the Urban Institute's Communications Advisory Board, and a Renaissance Weekend participant since 2001. Additionally, he is the go-to expert on social media, citizen journalism, technology, and the Internet for BBC World Service, CNN Radio, and CNet's BNet.

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Chris Abraham

Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham

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Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.
Offerings: We specialize in comprehensive Online Conversation Marketing campaigns. We integrate Online Publicity, Online Grassroots & New Media Marketing, Business Intelligence, Search Engine Services and Online Reputation Clean-up and Defense to ensure that our client’s message, the right message, is being portrayed in every corner of the digital space.
Speaking & press availability: Chris has taught blogging courses for the Writer's Center of Bethesda, has been a guest lecturer on public affairs blogging at Columbia University's SIPA school and the American University in Washington, DC, the Emergent Technologies Advisor to the Urban Institute's Communications Advisory Board, and a Renaissance Weekend participant since 2001. Additionally, he is the go-to expert on social media, citizen journalism, technology, and the Internet for BBC World Service, CNN Radio, and CNet's BNet.

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Chris Abraham

Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham

Profile

Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.

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Chris Abraham

Blog: Chrisabraham.com
Twitter: @chrisabraham
LinkedIn: /in/chrisabraham
Facebook: chrisabraham

Profile

Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital, including online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy, social media marketing and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement and Internet crisis response.
A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, Web strategy consultant and advisor to major brands. He specializes in Web 2.0 technologies, including content syndication, online collaboration, blogging, and consumer generated media. Chris Abraham was named a Top 50 Social Media Power Influencer by Forbes, #1 PR2.0 Influencer by Traackr and Top 10 social media influencers by Marketwire. For what it’s worth, Chris has a Klout of 77 the last time he looked.
Chris understands that the Internet is not just a different advertising medium, it is a different culture with unique customs and protocols. Knowing this culture allows us to translate your unique company message to relevant online communities. This approach drives business your way — our primary and sincere goal.

- See more at: http://socialmedia.biz/author/chrisabraham/#sthash.30TZokrP.dpuf