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. “I can publish search engine optimized pitches for free, really?&# It’s not just distribution, it’s self publishing. Why Am I sharing This?

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Ambal's Amusings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

One of the many goals of B2B marketing is to continuously forge better customer relationship. We have invited B2B Experts to shed light on the following question: " What is your one tip on how B2B marketers should forge customer relationships by providing compelling content? Get Customers. Get Customers. Get Content.

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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.

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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.

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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

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

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. Marketers are really making it harder than it needs to be.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. Your actual customer is. (Re: What do you think? Worth a try?

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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

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

And they can’t get just two little words right. 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. 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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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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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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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 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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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 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

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. It’s the entire issue of “failure&# as this big awful dirty word.

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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

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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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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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Social media is word-of-mouth on steroids, and our ability to praise or punish brands with a few keystrokes is satisfying. Getting publisher to agree was different. The stuff that we think our customers don’t care about, they actually DO care about. Technology I’m a gadget guy. For business?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

We also have the shortbread cookie, which has finally returned to the air after three and one half years of customer requests. Personally, I've had terrible customer experience with US Airways and unfortunately this doesn't change that. One, really positive, customer experience sticks like glue. The rum is Bacardi.

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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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