Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Swix also plans to publish its own API so that third-parties can push and pull Swix data into other applications. They’ve only been around approximately 8 weeks, and they already have thousands of customers. Mr. Lake told me that beta customers are likely to receive a discount when Swix switches over to a monthly fee service.

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

Diagnostic Example: Microsoft Infrastructure Optimization Assessment Microsoft wanted to provide analysis and roadmap advice to help get more C-level engagements, engage earlier in the sales cycle, and shift customer perceptions from tactical product provider to strategic partner. Interesting post, Tom. One could argue both are right.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). link] (great tip from @jaybaer) [link] AlzayCalhoun Using the "long tail" to reach even more customers [link] [link] interlinkONE "Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail?"

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. 2) B2B and B2C are really not that different, on many levels.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). Should companies treat customers differently?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Content marketing is perhaps alone in its ability to be a successful endeavor at every phase of the customer lifecycle: When a potential customer is using Google to research new digital cameras, what is going to get them to a Kodak site? But, when the next issue is printed, unless you advertise again, the flow of new customers stops.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. What Kodak said about connecting with customers is spot on! Doing that will help empower publishers to use video more effectively. link] Patrick Reyes WATCH & READ THIS!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. To create an efficient ladder, you must understand the comparative publishing schedules that you typically employ for each of these outposts. Your actual customer is. (Re: What do you think? Worth a try?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

On The Road Again If you’re reading this on the day it’s published, me and my family are somewhere between Albuquerque and Oklahoma City , with cars full of kids, the dog, the cat, the snake, the lizard, and 8 cases of wine. All these pine trees are starting to look the same. And my laptop. So, Bloomington it is.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. We’re crying about BP too, but for a whole other reason. Billions of dollars. A coven of PR practitioners. And they can’t get just two little words right. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

We also have an outstanding publisher ( Wiley & Sons ), and a fortuitously patient, experienced editor ( Shannon Vargo ) guiding us through the obstacle course. Customers can be won or lost, every second of every day. Plus, it’s like the personal trainer scenario. I can’t miss deadlines, because Amber will kill me.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2011

Curation brings brands and customers together : elevating brand visibility/buzz (76 percent) and lead generation (48 percent) were also top objectives. Yes, we are all publishers now , but the evolution from marketing departments to more of a publishing department will still take years for most brands to transform into.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web? Better question: How can we optimize a video so that prospective customers find it in search results?

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

So click here to find out whether they changed my mind… Read more… Stan Woods | June 16th, 2009 | one comment The Content Marketing Workbook It’s here. Read more… Doug Kessler | June 11th, 2009 | 3 comments Choose your patients carefully The most respected surgeons in the world have the best survival rates.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? On a related point, overlap in social media isn’t as large as we (or at least me) thinks it is. #19

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

19% seek customer support. I maintain that as Facebook continues to tie together the real-time Web with the open graph, Twitter usage will inexorably shift from person to person connectivity, to customer to company connectivity. Even though half your customers may not be tweeting or retweeting, they ARE watching, reading, and clicking.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Invest in a custom design In my own blogging from 2005 – 2009 I was using/tweaking various free themes, which did the job. But hiring a blog designer to create a unique, custom theme is something you should do immediately. Sample image from 2009 blogger quotes project 7. Yes, blogs are best consumed through feeds.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. 4 Free Tools that Publish Blog Updates to Twitter by Freesourcing Blog. Post on Google Buzz. The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS] by Mashable.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Opening the kimono and giving customers and prospects a better sense of who is part of the company, how that company operates, and what it stands for in a less formal, more spontaneous fashion is doable. Another way of saying it: imagine if we treated customer relationships like we do our dearest and most important friendships.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure, social media differs from the marketing we’re used to in that it puts the company and our customers on the same – rather than opposing – teams. I’m not talking necessarily about acquiring new customers, but rather using social media to keep the customers we’ve already earned.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

You need to be creating custom charts and graphs and ideas that speak directly to the operational realities of each client. Assuming you want to dive into the pool of custom graph creation and data manipulation, you’ll probably do so in Microsoft Excel. or engaged in brand reputation management, often on a weekly basis. .

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. I’m calling my publisher! This has happened before online.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

The shift in marketing dollars from traditional advertising mediums to the emerging media available to us via the Internet has more to do with the customers’ behavior than the seller. Jeff Ogden, the Fearless Competitor President, Find New Customers [link] [link] [link] Ann Marie Bland Why D.I.S. Love the graphic too.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

But things kept speeding up – companies’ increasing customer data needs necessitated more complex forms, that were faster and more easily modified. I think Netflix is a great example of this quandary, as their customer preference data & the recommendation engine that sits on top of it are key to their biz model.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. Jenise Uehara Henrikson highlights the phenomenal growth of social media over the last six years, and particularly since 2008. Infographic: Social Media ROI Statistics by Digital Buzz. We’re all hungry for data. 71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Like a fussy deconstructed salad at a downtown restaurant with ridiculous unisex bathrooms, Facebook wants us to publish in tiny bursts of words, pictures, videos, and single purpose apps, rather than the page-length containers and complicated databases of yore. Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Like a fussy deconstructed salad at a downtown restaurant with ridiculous unisex bathrooms, Facebook wants us to publish in tiny bursts of words, pictures, videos, and single purpose apps, rather than the page-length containers and complicated databases of yore. Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Buyers Set the Pace for B2B eMarketing - Marketing Interactions , November 16, 2010 The ability to instantly publish content, send email, and Tweet give the impression that speed is a marketer’s friend. Audience: Business Development Professionals, Marketing Managers, Channel Managers, Customer Service Professionals, Product Managers.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

Do you know why you don’t get angry when customers call customer service and say all kinds of crazy, depressing stuff about your brand? But meanwhile, you need to recognize that the ire you direct at the customer that DARED to slam you in a blog comment is wholly misplaced. Your problem isn’t social media negativity.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. 30% of social media users access a social media site “several times a day,&# up from 18% in 2009. goes to Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Getting publisher to agree was different. The stuff that we think our customers don’t care about, they actually DO care about. After that, it was Match.com, and from then on I have never stopped trying new ways to connect. For business? But predominantly I love social media personally. link] jaybaer It was easy for us to agree.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

Ask Emmanuel Rosen , – whose revised version of Buzz Marketing should be required reading for all communicators. Or, Steve Knox and the guys at Tremor who spend massive amounts of time and energy figuring out how to make Procter & Gamble products buzz-worthy. One, really positive, customer experience sticks like glue.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We are spending countless employee hours tweeting, retweeting, responding to tweets, figuring out whom to follow, secretly following celebs and athletes, and designing custom Twitter backgrounds. Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. We just did it voluntarily. And for what? Interaction.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There is More Than One SXSW As the conference continues to grow (interactive registrations up 40% over 2009, to more than 15,000 total), attendee segmentation follows apace. Start-up Sticky Bits exhibited at the conference, and their version of QR with custom content, integrated statistics, and crowd-sourced notes may have real promise.

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