Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

From the average customer's perspective, it can seem very unfair. It’s in our DNA. We know that a grizzly bear has a marked impact on its surroundings, and can change behavior in ways that even the fiercest badger cannot. I'm not sure how I feel about it. From a business perspective I understand it.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing. Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Combined with their above average income and above average education, Twitter users’ propensity to interact with brands make them a huge potential source for Mass Influencers (although Forrester’s research says Facebook is a better pool ).

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Furthermore, there was a 33% percent conversion rate on leads generated through the New York landing page , compared to a 12% conversion rate on 2008. The success of the campaign also prompted Regus to have Affect implement similar campaigns in five additional markets in Q1 of 2010. For a niche community, that’s a feat.

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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. in the 1960s.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

The average visitor spends 66% more time on these sites than they did a year ago. Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog, and 38% of them post brand or product reviews. 40 percent of U.S.

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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. You’ll find the answers to these questions and many more here in 50 of the best Twitter tools, posts, how-to guides and rants of 2010 so far. And much more.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

So, over time, shell-shocked from seeing everyone around them being shot down and rejected; and, after repeatedly being warned by the media and by social media gurus as to how much of a mine field blogger outreach is, once-bitten, twice shy. Bloggers are generally more libertarian rugged individualist than sycophantic people pleasers. “How

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. On average less than 0.05% engagement rate. MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). Further, mobile users actually spend more time on Facebook, not less.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

I mean it in a 2010, gothic cool sort-of-way in which vampires are smart, sexy, bankable characters who can’t be killed and are making boatloads of cash for the people who channel them into books, TV shows & movies. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! Email is a vampire. October 2009. So is email immortal? Why is this?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy May 19th, 2010 |Written By: russhenneberry | View Comments Tweet Guest post from Russ Henneberry , who writes, speaks and executes on content marketing plans for small businesses. Many businesses today are holding onto the hopes that this is all a fad, that this will all go away.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

The average Facebook member becomes a fan of just two companies per month, yet is exposed to thousands of brands during that same period. People don’t experimentally engage with brands in social media, they engage with the brands they already support.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# But, if you want to organize and harvest the tweets about your posts, this is the plug-in you want.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website" [link] #sm #blogger via @jaybaer [link] Scott “@jaybaer: "R.I.P. Without Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and other social platforms, the average website was more like a barren ghost town than a digital success story. link] 3 ways Facebook is killing the website | Hammer of Truth 2010 [.]

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website" [link] #sm #blogger via @jaybaer [link] Scott “@jaybaer: "R.I.P. Without Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and other social platforms, the average website was more like a barren ghost town than a digital success story. link] 3 ways Facebook is killing the website | Hammer of Truth 2010 [.]

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Jenise Uehara Henrikson highlights the phenomenal growth of social media over the last six years, and particularly since 2008. times each, on average, across all sharing channels, so content shared by large groups of people reach a wider audience than content passed along from others.” hours to 6.3 for the year).

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I’ve seen my average number of comments increase since I moved to Disqus. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# But, if you want to organize and harvest the tweets about your posts, this is the plug-in you want.

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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. Senior marketing execs see their companies moving to social media in 2010 by The Viral Garden.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

In other words, I think businesses need to find the time — but I do hope this doesn't turn out to add 10 more hours to the average work week in America. In other words, I think businesses need to find the time — but I do hope this doesn't turn out to add 10 more hours to the average work week in America.

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The ROI Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010 IT Budgets into 2011 - Robbing Peter to Pay Paul? in 2010, essentially flat in 2010. More good news is that 2010 is far better than 2009, with a weighted global average reduction in IT budgets of 8.1% Powered by Blogger. Latest Research. Let the Good Times Roll?

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