Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing the prior survey's results published in April 2009 , I expected that the economy -- and burgeoning interest in social media -- would accelerate the shift toward digital channels throughout 2009 to an unprecedented degree. Tim Harmon will likely publish on this data.) " in the marketing mix.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

I’ll continue publishing the Social Media Messenger after a short hiatus. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances. As a business owner your goal needs to be having no gap at all, optimizing every point of contact with your customer.&#

Social Media 115

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 26, 2009

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markempa

JANUARY 19, 2006

Jill Konrath: Selling to Big Companies Jill Konrath: SNAP Selling: Speed Up Sales and Win More Business with Todays Frazzled Customers Josiane Chriqui Feigon: Smart Selling on the Phone and Online: Inside Sales That Gets Results Michael W. Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0

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Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

It is a blog post that informs you of industry changes or a video on social media that reveals a customer reviewing the brand. Michael Brenner has brought a customer-centric and creative approach to his insights on content and digital marketing. Mark Schaefer has over 30 years of experience working in global sales, PR, and marketing.

Paid Content 112

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. Sure, social media is rooted in conversations, and listening to your customers and then responding on the social Web is a pillar of social media.

Social Media 114

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Sorry Works Contrast that with the guts and class (and good crisis management sense, despite having zero PR counsel) shown by umpire Jim Joyce in the immediate aftermath of his blown call, robbing Armando Galarraga of a rare perfect game. A coven of PR practitioners. That’s how much we are wired to forgive. Billions of dollars.

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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.

Social Media 117

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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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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2012

2008 FOLIO Award Winners. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. Tool: Open Site Explorer (SEOmoz) URL: Opensiteexplorer.org What it does: Offers data on most-linked-to content and most-linked-from sites, and allows Web publishers to compare their own data against the competition. It’s also simple to customize.” First Name.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Marketing Management CMS Development 40

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?" Im Jay Baer.

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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.

Paid Content 124

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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!

Social Media 134

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Video Marketing 134

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?

Paid Content 143

Paid Content Ad Building Brand Identity Branding 143

Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2019

I quit the restaurant business, I was building websites, I was building some affiliate sites as people did back in 2008, 2009, and I needed to figure out how to market them. How is this job that we’re doing of making websites more visible and helping people connect with customers and visitors, how is that going to change?

Work Management 40

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Directive Agency

JUNE 24, 2019

I quit the restaurant business, I was building websites, I was building some affiliate sites as people did back in 2008, 2009, and I needed to figure out how to market them. How is this job that we’re doing of making websites more visible and helping people connect with customers and visitors, how is that going to change?

Work Management 40

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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.

Webinar Metrics 124

Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency Social Media PR 124

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. At least I can say van den Hurk PR has gone global. ;0) And my laptop. So, Bloomington it is.

Social Media 115

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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?

Paid Content 133

Paid Content CRM Paid Search Agency Social Media 133

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.

Social Media 159

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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

Social Media 141

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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.

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Demand Generation Agencies Advertising Agencies B2B Marketing 40

Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Get Customers. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey. Get Customers. Eccolo Media 2008 B2B Technology Collateral Survey.

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Demand Generation Agencies Demand Generation Demand B2B Marketing 100

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.

Social Media 119

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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.

Conversion 116

Conversion Paid Search Agency Social Media Advertising Agencies 116

Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Get Customers. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. She empowers her clients to create customer-centric nurturing programs that leverage strategic story development to engage prospects until they are sales ready. B2B Lead Generation Benchmark Study 2009. Cashing in With Content (a classic by David Meerman Scott).

Work Management 100

Work Management Marketing Management Demand Generation Agencies Paid Search Agency 100

Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

There are at least a few points of entry to integrate your corporate website: 1) Extending your corporate websites to social networks, 2) Allowing for customers voices through reviews and ratings, 3) Aggregating the discussion back on your own website. you turn your customers into company/brand ambassadors.

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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. Social media for me is like selling PR to a company who had only done advertising.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 120

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.

Social Media 137

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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. Here’s a quick example.

Tactics 40

Tactics PR Buzz Planning 40

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. .

Social Media 119

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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.

Social Media 110

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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. 11 infographics for your next presentation by Ragan’s PR Daily. ** 5 STARS. We’re all hungry for data. million followers”).

Paid Content 100

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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.

Enterprise Management 40

Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management Marketing Management 40

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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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 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. Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone.

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