Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# You just have to put on your customer glasses for a while and think through all the questions, confusions, and frustrations they may have at each stage.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. What other aspects of the marketing services business are likely to grow like that? Get Your Foot in the Door Selling One Service. Direct mail?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Instead, it is the next best way for them to finally join the conversation with their customers – who have been talking about them the whole time. Sessions start October 5.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Agencies, are there any other services you provide likely to grow 34% each year?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. Responding to Forrester’s research about the need for agencies to become “connected&# – to be the bridge between brands and their consumers, St.

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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 ). 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Any factors you look for or service you use that I didn’t mention? One recommendation we put forward when companies inquire about our tools/services pertains to the objectives/questions item on your list, the point about on-going monitoring, and the need to provide historical data. What about you?

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The ROI Guy

JANUARY 17, 2011

As today’s buyers are empowered by the Internet to do their own research and drive their own purchasing due diligence – engaging sales later than ever, or not at all – easy to use versions of these diagnostic tools need to be on-line, readily available, interactive and personalized to empower self-service research.

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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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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

Americans spent nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs in 2010, up from 15.8 At its current rate, Twitter will process almost 10 billion tweets in 2010. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn continued to add users in the second half of 2010, albeit at a slower pace than in previous quarters.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The Techcrunch acquisition dispels those myths 2 days ago « People on the Move in the Social Business Industry: Sept 21, 2010 Upcoming Research Teaser: What do Employers Want in a Corporate Social Media Strategist? you turn your customers into company/brand ambassadors.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

disclosure: ExactTarget is a client, and I have worked with them for more than six years) Feedburner To power my RSS feed and to send daily emails whenever I write a new post, I use Google’s Feedburner service. It’s not perfect, but it’s free and easy to implement. No – I’m not a paid spokesperson for HootSuite!

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Top 10 Tips for Lead Nurturing Success RSA and Social Media: Nasza-Klasa in Poland A Look Inside the Sketchbooks of 12 Top Designers - Stefan Sagmeister The Status of Social Media in the Middle East Straight from the Arabian Horse’s Mouth in Cairo Bees’ Views on Brand Building Financial Services: Transparency through Social Media?

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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. But after rapid growth in 2009 and 2010, the study found that “There has been little or no change in the number of companies using corporate blogs (0%), Facebook (2%) and Twitter (2%) in the last year.”

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

disclosure: ExactTarget is a client, and I have worked with them for more than six years) Feedburner To power my RSS feed and to send daily emails whenever I write a new post, I use Google’s Feedburner service. It’s not perfect, but it’s free and easy to implement. No – I’m not a paid spokesperson for HootSuite!

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

As I wrote just a couple weeks ago, email and social media are more alike than different , and the major corporations that comprise much of the customer bases of ExactTarget and CoTweet are embracing that concept. A way to remain top-of-mind with your customers, in a way that’s (hopefully) relevant and engaging.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

August 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet We built our own Frankenstein. 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. Interaction. Think about that for a moment.

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