Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. At the very least those companies are engaged in the conversation and have a strong awareness of the perceptions of their brand. Most of us don't look in our GA stats daily either way. Why ignore it?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

the sources below provide a vast wealth of data, statistics and research results, as well as a bit of interesting social media trivia. Discover the answers to all of these questions and more here in more than 40 of the best resources for social media and marketing stats, facts and research of the past year. 40 percent of U.S.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter? population.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Pay attention to your statistics with regard to calls to actions. Spend some time tractor beaming your current visitors and watch that recurring visits stat rise. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. I'll have to check my Google numbers, all that good stuff.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

JB : How are companies incorporating influence metrics into their marketing? JB : In addition to influencer outreach, how can companies engage in influence mining for customer service? Should companies treat customers differently? TA : Each of our companies is a “smart agent&# in some way.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. So I think there's a bit of relevance to tracking those stats. What do you think? One caveat though.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Find the answers to these questions and many more here in more than 40 of the best reports, studies, videos and other sources of social media, search, and other marketing facts and statistics of the past year. General Social Media Statistics. 71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook. hours to 6.3 for the year).

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

One of the best sources of information is industry statistics. This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

co-authored with Clinton Bonner ) Is Your Company More Interesting Than My Wife? This is obviously invalid research statistically, but anecdotally it makes you wonder. This is obviously invalid research statistically, but anecdotally it makes you wonder. Thanks for boiling these down and providing links. Longer headlines, eh?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. Don’t Sell Too Early Many of the missteps that contributed to MySpace’s decay were based on the company not moving beyond its core proposition. In 2006, you have a veritable ATM machine, with companies begging you to put banner ads on your site.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Social media relies on the premise that we’ll believe what people tell us more readily than if we were told the same thing by a nameless, faceless company. That’s why it’s more important than ever for companies (in social media or otherwise) to embrace the truth. A survey of 4,875 adults (500 U.S.)

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

The first is the experimental, dip the toe in the water approach whereby a company begins a modest collection of initiatives to get familiar with the morays and methods of social media. Ready, Fire, Aim There are two schools of thought regarding social media effectiveness tracking. This is the pet naming program.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

I’m already brainstorming some ideas to help inspire (and reward) my company’s. While judging our Viral and Social Marketing Hall of Fame entries earlier this month, I reviewed several strong entries from B2B marketers that cited impressive statistics for their company blogs. Lisa Keller : Great post!

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Webbiquity

MARCH 31, 2010

Searchers Using Longer Queries in 2009 by Small Business Search Marketing. in 2009, while 4-word searches increased from 13.3% Companies with the highest level of social media activity increased revenue by 18 percent in the last 12 months, while companies that were the least active saw a 6 percent drop in sales.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. Have I gone MAD??

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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. What percentage of Fortune 100 companies are on Twitter? How do B2B social media marketing practices differ from B2C companies?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert. The real advantage of TubeMogul, however, is that you can get comparative statistics. If you’re serious about Twitter, this is a great app.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

Ultimately, this will make for stronger companies. Social media just makes it easier for companies to do the listening, learning & recognizing issues that might be out there that never really arose in the office when the product or service was created. Too bad to see that a company that already understood the issue ignores it now.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

play with the data in the super cool interactive tool below) This correlates well with a similar, but far less statistically rigorous poll I conducted one year ago asking Twitter users what they checked first in the morning, and email was preferred by 77%. Because relevancy = respect.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert. The real advantage of TubeMogul, however, is that you can get comparative statistics. If you’re serious about Twitter, this is a great app.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

mid-sized and large companies today, the email group and the social media group are not the same, and communicate infrequently. This will provide companies with an holistic view of their customer relationships and each customer’s communication modality preferences. to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. But yet so many companies are using Twitter as a post-modern headline news service. Startling to me, but less than 1% of the participants would use Twitter as the first way they’d contact a company when they need customer service. And for what?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Within 12 months of its invention, 1,200 companies entered the radio “business&# in some form or fashion. Social media adoption is happening at an extraordinary rate, and I believe every company will have some sort of social media presence within the next 24 months. And that’s the problem.

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