Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. Visits are up. Page views are up.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up for your email updates when you send one out, that person will receive it in almost every case. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. “If we’re going to counsel clients on the role of community, and its ability to garner insights, we need to be able to walk the walk.&#

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. 60 Certainly, there are many other factors that contribute to number of followers, and I’m not saying this is in any way a metric judging how influential a person is on Twitter, just how efficient their Twitter usage might be.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

link] Eric_Hoffman I'm game, even if my game is a bit weak…in the month of March, for my personal blog, I saw a whopping 29 different search terms used to get to my content and for the work blog that I help to maintain we saw 190 different search terms used to get to that content.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! Because the real advantage email has over social is data.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

We measure it (personally and professionally) quantitatively not qualitatively. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Social media has never been driven by function and purpose. It's mostly based on buzz and mass popularity. It's… well… *mostly* a mass media so far.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Having a social media policy is considered an enforcement action by the FTC, which can be important if you are sued for misleading or unsubstantiated claims on a blog or by a blogger.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. I'm taking some of your suggestions above and tailoring to what I *think* will work best for my personal needs. I haven't used it, but looks interesting [link] [link] Meylah Community Anyone use NutshellMail? This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. It’s a good mix of coach-speak, highlights, community service footage, and cheerleader features.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Another person tweeted a link to a blog which turned out, much to my chagrin, to be a post asking for votes rather than a vote about the subject. One other thing that I would toss out there…in our community of Social Media, marketing, etc., But until then, I can’t not participate as some sort of personal protest.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 5, 2014

I majored in Marketing at Bentley University, but was jobless and discouraged post-graduation due to the 2008 market crash. My career didn''t really start until I launched this in 2009: Connections were made, interviews were set up and I eventually landed a job at an agency later that year. Channel Marketing Associate, HubSpot.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. The more email addresses a person uses across the social Web, the less ideal the results. Isn’t that worth the 5 cents per contact that Flowtown charges?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. The B2B prospect hanging out on Facebook Sunday night behaves differently and has different information needs than the same person reading e-mail on Monday morning.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header. 2 many words I guess?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

MediaPRO Community. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. only ask that you refrain from personal comments and remarks that are off topic. Thanks for being part of the FOLIO: community. RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The following five case studies lend insight into how B2B marketers can use social media to generate leads, create specialized communities, improve SEO, become knowledge sources, and strengthen marketing campaigns. Affect recommended an integrated campaign that combined social media, online video, an online sweepstakes and in-person events.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Paul Gillin

AUGUST 29, 2012

P&G had actually begun shipping the new product in August, 2008, more than 18 months before it was announced. So staffers were understandably concerned when a Facebook group appeared in late 2009 entitled “ Pampers bring back the OLD CRUISERS/SWADDLERS.” You can’t join a community at a time of crisis.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2012

MediaPRO Community. Sales & Marketing. --> Bloggers. --> Resources. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. only ask that you refrain from personal comments and remarks that are off topic. Thanks for being part of the FOLIO: community. Personally, I detest the digital edition.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. There’s been a bit of news about it recently. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(. Need to … noodle on it a bit.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

In the first section, Hsieh recounts his personal story, including his early childhood and nascent entrepreneurial adventures, including a misguided effort at worm farming. The book concludes with a few pages about the science of happiness, and how personal and business happiness can be inextricably linked. See you there.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 26, 2010

This makes it possible to walk through the first few thousand ids in using the API and reconstruct when every person joined, and so how many users there were at any point in time. neha " learned about twitter very early because I worked at Google when the Blogger guys did. This is the day-by-day chart for the initial launch.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

There's “bad&# advertisements and “bad&# uses of social media as well… Maybe you'd call it human marketing or even personality marketing, but the concept is really simple. He was personable and funny, a real likable guy. That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Showcase the strides that the company has made for the cause, whether this means funds donated, awareness raised, consumers reached, beneficiaries helped, communities improved, etc. Rally third-party endorsers to help share your stories.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

.&# But, I’m excited by the possibilities, eager to get our kids set up in what I think will be a terrific situation, fired up about our new home, and eager to get integrated into the Indiana social media community. Personally, I love that you have all of the essentials in the car… the family, pets…and the wine!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Private brand communities vs. Facebook. I’m not sure it’s broad vs targeted as the main difference, necessarily, as there are a lot of narrow B2C uses of social media (like invite-only brand communities and such). Top B2B marketing posts for 2009 (hint: social media) =-. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Great stuff.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

The email is well-designed, personalized, and compelling. Allowing for and creating communities. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. So much so, that 49% of recipients take the time to write about their experiences on a website form Western River provides. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. It will be interesting to watch.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Community Managers RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Community Managers RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. Better question: How can we develop a sustainable, ongoing social media strategy that will turn customers into advocates over the long haul?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

Amber is Director of Community for Radian6 , co-proprietor of the influential Brass Tack Thinking blog (formerly Altitude Branding), a cool mom, a motivating force, and a hell of a flautist). Plus, it’s like the personal trainer scenario. I can’t miss deadlines, because Amber will kill me. is my vote. is my vote.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. population. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer. Thanks again.

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