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JULY 5, 2010

I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund ) finished up.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

link] links for 2010-09-07 | Glenn Friesen [.] UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Co… Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better! Seriously honored to be on here. link] unmarketing Thanks a lot Jay.

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MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox?

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JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

“ Your Content Stinks! Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. For every vote you cast for the keynote at South by Southwest featuring me and Amber Naslund , we’ll donate $1 of our book advance to Make-A-Wish Foundation ®.

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JUNE 29, 2010

In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer challenges big and small, if we’d just watch less TV and commit to participating in something other than our own mental decay.

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JULY 21, 2010

You'll see a line that resembles this: © 2008-09. | I've just changed mine to © 2008-10. All rights reserved on the content of this blog. She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients.

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MAY 13, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say May (..)

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances.

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JULY 20, 2010

Some of my favs include: Books – Content Strategy for the Web (Halvorson), Letting Go of the Words (Redish) Networks – The Content Strategy LinkedIn group Blogs – Here's a great list from Catherine Ventura (@catherinventura): [link].

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JULY 26, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts Why D.I.S. He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy.

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MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Anonymous This is really interesting, because not only is Twitter its own culture, yet it is changing the marketing culture.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About (..)

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AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Since April, 2010 Western River has collected more than 1,100 of these customer stories. said Brandon Lake, Vice President of Western River.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and testable.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail February 19th, (..)

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MARCH 4, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy (..)

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MAY 11, 2010

At the end of the day, however, a great product and great customer service is still what will keep your clients coming back despite the notion by some social media gurus (certainly not Mr. Baer) that positive word of mouth (or “buzz&# ) was created by social media.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Please Help Me Pick a New Look For My Blog February 5th, 2010 (..)

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JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter.

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JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace Driving Sales with Relevancy and Utility [link] Innovate AZ 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. But, I’m not.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome.

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MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer.

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JUNE 7, 2010

This is the overarching theme of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness, a Path to Passion, Profits, and Purpose. He was very passionate about happiness and creating a culture to support the vision. I talk about similar core values but he was the first one to embrace the values to the extreme commitment level.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. If you would find a social media and content marketing editorial calender template helpful, I created a free Google doc spreadsheet that makes it easy to plan and track activities.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter.

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JULY 15, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Get Your Social Media Operations Act Together July 15th, 2010 (..)

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JUNE 3, 2010

We may be the least vindictive, grudge-holding society ever. For the most part, we’ve forgiven Tyson, Clinton, Nixon (my father-in-law is still a hater), Tylenol and about 63,157 other transgressions.

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JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Obviously this is a valuable metric but we are able to give companies a network value score to understand a person's word of mouth impact. Obviously this is a valuable metric but we are able to give companies a network value score to understand a person's word of mouth impact. It’s in our DNA.

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APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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MAY 27, 2010

The way Donovan McNabb hates T.O. The way Lindsey Lohan hates non-alcoholic beverages.

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APRIL 28, 2010

more [link] ) [link] jaybaer I believe we agree far more than we disagree on this point, and as a former direct marketer, I share your concerns about chatter being overvalued. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective. link] jeff_molander Fascinating, Mike. Especially the competitive aspect.

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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. Other than the extraordinarily unflattering camera angle, it turned out pretty well (especially the super cool SME opening animation) 14 key points are below: Jay Baer Interview from Michael A.

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