WOW this is great reading. 5 concrete models for using Facebook to generate revenue. Most relevant is the autor Brian Carters relevant questions to ask before engaging with FB. Does it fit and how? Se quote/questions from article below:

“First, consider your revenue model. What steps will get your users to buy? How do you attract their attention in the first place? What does the conversion funnel look like? And how does Facebook fit with the marketing channels that already work for you, like email, text messages and affiliate revenue?”

No one should go into FB activity before answering this type of questions.

Secondly this article gives you real simple guiding in making the right Facebook strategy.

Enjoy this reading.

5 Proven ways to generate revenue form Facebook

New from Social Media Examiner!!. Read the latest predictions from the US experts in Social Media. There are some good ones in this article. Happy New Year to all..

Link. Social Media Examiner article

Fascinating McKinsey article on how a great leader has envisioned a long term dream about making Procter & Gamble the most technologically enabled business in the world. Using data and technology real time and in every aspect of the value chain from product innovation, production, sales, marketing and consumer communication.

The insights about the leadership and process is fantastic and useful for most of us to start a discussion within our company or with our clients on how they use realtime data to plan.

Read more about CEO Robert McDonald’s mission:

Link: Inside P&G’s digital revolution

Cool new insights by McKinsey research estimates the impact of Internet search in the global economy, pinpointing the sources of value and the beneficiaries. This article is great reading and reveals some good points in terms of the commercial and personal values of search. One of the findings are that each search by estimate is worth about $0.50. in gross value. In other words everytime anyone searches it creates a value of 0.50 $.

Read the full article here

Facebook has announced big changes and this Mashable link gives a great and quick overview. You can expect changes in layout and features in a dramatic way and some people think this is the biggest changes since the inception of Facebook.

It is worthwhile to read.

Read Mashable link

Great Social Media infographic from Digital Buzz Blog. Again a reminder to us all that this is part of our lifes and the greatest opportunity for companies and brands to communicate and service customers. Take a look a the article or use the link direct to the infographic.

Link: Article Digital Buzz Blog

Link: Infographic

“Sales reps spend 75% of their time away from the phones”. WOW. This article talks about the importance of sales forces actually sell and how to improve efficiency throughout the sales proces from lead to closed deal.  How do we maximize time for selling and relationship building?. One approach is to follow orders from their point of inception to completion. The big challenge is that this requires many actions and alterations from the whole organization. This transformation isn’t easy but will result in better sales. And at the end of the day most of us depend on sale results.

Enjoy this great article..

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“Engaging customers today requires commitment from the entire company – and a redefined marketing organisation”

This is the best strategic article I have read in a long time and its points are so real and true that it hurts! To me it is all about mastering the conversations and there is no short cuts. It requires massive change in organization and new tasks. As I have said before it requires hard and thoughtful work by the entire company.

Some of the points that companies need to look at is: “Elevate the role of customer insights”, “Design and build great customer engagement strategy” and to be “More data rich and analytically intense”. The truth is that many companies still have a traditinal go to market approach and therefore is not getting the optimal results for their investments. Our luck is that many brilliant marketers have had success by using the formula of this article and has shown us the way to create great results in hard times.

Read the McKinsey entire article and become a better marketer

“If I had to quess, social commerce is the next thing to blow up” – Mark Zuckerberg.

From DigitalBuzzBlog a relevant post about the value of social commerce done by SpinBack. The great infographic shows and documents that shares drives sales and that many brands have had a great succes using social media for commerce.

There are more and more documentation that proves Social Media as commercial channel. Read it and judge if there is a potential around you.

http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-the-value-of-social-commerce/

A study by Buddy Media shows that timing it is very important when you want to improve your engagements. Study also shows that in many cases Brands and companies are very poor with their timing. As always timing is everything. Take a look. In the future I will promise try to time my blog post to optimize my traffic.

There are many good conclusions and differences in terms of which categories works best at certain days.  According to this I should have posted this on wednesday instead of friday. I will remember this for next week.

You can read the rest of the study on Mashable