NeedTagger is an intent marketing platform that helps you find and engage with people who may need your business right now. Creating an intent-filtered stream of engagement opportunities for your business is easy.  If you’ve ever used an advanced search tool like those offered by ...Read the rest

10 Ways To Introduce Yourself to a Prospect On Twitter
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10 Ways To Introduce Yourself to a Prospect On Twitter   It can be awkward to introduce yourself and your company to a prospective customer who does not know you or follow you. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. After all, millions of ...Read the rest

How To Mine Twitter for Prospects & Customer Issues using HootSuite [video demonstration]
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Do you use HootSuite for social media listening and engagement? Then you might be interested in the following 11-minute demonstration video, which shows how to use the NeedTagger app in HootSuite to monitor Twitter for three types of business opportunities: Sales prospects – 1 stream ...Read the rest

Social Selling is Like Water [video]
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“This is Water” is a great video that will inspire you to look at your job in a new light. Based on a unique commencement speech made by author David Foster Wallace to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College, the video points out that ...Read the rest

The Flipboard Effect: What If They Never See Our Content?
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It took Google thirteen years to fill the online marketplace with search-friendly customers and web-enabled vendors. Today, blogging, social sharing and marketing automation are filling the marketplace with content – and most of it is crap. In response, your customers and prospects are starting to ...Read the rest

(note: this article is also available in our Customer Service Center) Using Twitter to generate leads and meet sales prospects isn’t hard, but takes a bit of practice.   Since launching NeedTagger in 2012, we’ve helped 2,500 businesses find and connect with new customers on Twitter.  Along ...Read the rest

How Many B2B Leads Can You Get From Twitter?
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How many leads could your company get from Twitter, if you focused on it as a channel? In this post we offer examples, facts and figures that will help you frame the size of the Twitter lead generation opportunity for your business. Regardless of your ...Read the rest

How To Connect With People One of your basic objectives as a social sales person should be to establish yourself as a trusted resource and a subject matter expert to your market.  You need to be viewed as a helpful professional whom your prospects and ...Read the rest

The 3 biggest challenges to social prospecting and how to overcome them
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After helping over 2,000 social selling professionals connect with new prospects on Twitter, we’ve learned there are three challenges most first-time “social prospectors” will face. The challenges we see professionals struggle with when prospecting customers on Twitter include: not being clear about who you want ...Read the rest

10 Great Resources for the Social Selling Newbie
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2013 seems to be the year Social Selling hit the mainstream – especially in B2B sectors where “Facebook marketing” never resonated that much. There is growing evidence that adding social prospecting, lead nurturing and relationship building skills to your arsenal will improve your sales performance. Consider what ...Read the rest

How To Capture Leads, Acquire New Customers and Sell On Twitter
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Can You Really Sell On Twitter? Let’s end this debate once and for all:  yes, you can meet new prospects, capture new leads, acquire customers and sell products and services using Twitter. Thousands of companies, business owners and sales professionals are doing it right now. ...Read the rest

To acquire customers with social media, share your most helpful content with people who need it, as close to their moment of need as possible. Recruiting Fans Isn’t Enough Is your social media marketing objective to grow your business? If so, then you know you ...Read the rest