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APRIL 20, 2010

While this is important for a blog like mine, it’s flat-out critical for e-commerce companies, and others that are blogging for business. Those long-tail stats are real eye-openers. Those long-tail stats are real eye-openers. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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MARCH 25, 2010

On the ROI front, Swix CEO Scott Lake ( @scottica ) told me that the company puts as much emphasis on tracking the “I&# as they do the “R&#. Mr. Lake believe that access will be granted however, allowing his company to deliver a whole suite of new Facebook data points into the Swix system. New YouTube video that goes viral.

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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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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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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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MARCH 23, 2010

[link] [link] Beth_Carroll 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Beth_Carroll 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Beth_Carroll 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] davinabrewer Jay, the stats on first time visitors are interesting.

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JUNE 22, 2009

I presented a webinar the other day where I stated that while white papers are still the staple of content marketing, they’re getting really stale as a communications vehicle for B2B. The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. Come and get it! Seemed to go really well.

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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?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

co-authored with Clinton Bonner ) Is Your Company More Interesting Than My Wife? link] Aaron Lee Thanks for sharing this great blog post Jay, I’ll try to play around with the title and coming up with titles like “Is Your Company More Interesting Than My Wife?&# but question is. Really enjoyed being on the panel with you.

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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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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Companies that simply put a “Follow me on Twitter&# or “Like us on Facebook&# without registration are doing themselves a disadvantage as they throw away hard earned traffic to a social network. (I Thanks, Bas Jeremiah Owyang Bas Many companies are integrating social media into their corporate website without a plan.

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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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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. Far too many companies practice ready fire aim, and one day wake up and find the market has branded their product and services and it is not 100% accurate.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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 this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me. Analytics For basic stats tracking, this app is better and faster than Google Analytics on the computer. Disclaimer: I tweet and blog for the company. Type any domain and scan the site.

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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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JUNE 30, 2010

If we’re not using the available data (made even richer by the coming ubiquity of “like&# ) to boost relevancy of our social and email communication, our fans will gravitate toward companies that are. Because relevancy = respect. It’s time to start thinking about social media the same way.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me. Analytics For basic stats tracking, this app is better and faster than Google Analytics on the computer. Disclaimer: I tweet and blog for the company. Type any domain and scan the site.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Home How it works Solutions Customers Company Free Trial Blog Get updates via email: What is ReadyContacts? Whether they come from form fills, landing pages, rss subscriptions, webinar registrations or downloads, these are now regarded as some of the most qualified and actionable kinds of leads that can be generated. Not any more.

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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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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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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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