Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Have them document EVERY question they receive. This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg. Here’s how it works: 1.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization. But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. But remember, every successful content creator starts the same way – with no audience, and a blinking cursor.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Instead of a series of self-contained initiatives, build yourself a content ladder.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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Convince & Convert

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. If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. Your Web site. Linked from Twitter.

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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. The Content You Want, via the Channel You Choose The future of integrated communications is in consumer choice and personalized preference centers. (For

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Previously, content about Kodak products would have been created by the media. Smart, optimized content.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Baer’s review of a new marketing book called UnMarketing by Scott Stratten is as insightful as most articles are on his excellent Convince and Convert blog. The rise of [.] link] UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media … | eBook Reviews [.]

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Convince & Convert

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? link] [link] Maria A.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

The more content pointing to your site from sites with authority the better. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Consider the Followers-Per-Tweet Equation [link] [link] webcopywriter Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off [link] [link] indiebusiness Good article – [link] Takeaway: Twitter is about interacting with people in pursuit of definable goals. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. That’s the old-school marketing to which I think you refer — and another article we need to write.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

I would also put another group — one more focused on helping marketing align with, support, and enable sales: firms like BrightMarket, einsof, Longwood Software, and Salesforce.com with their Saleforce Content offering, to name a few. 9) Collaboration — capabilities like wikis, sales-contributed content, voting and tagging.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

McCann : We know not just identities, but also a second order of information about your content publishing frequency, density, and topical focus. And even another order that includes content interactions – who consumers and retweets your content? We can now associate a tremendous amount of data to individuals.

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

As a result, from 2008 to 2010, blogging actually rose 3 percent as an Internet activity among all adults. Remember this: with a company blog strategy, the organization owns (and controls) the content and discussion (assuming the organization isnt using a hosted solution like Blogger or a WordPress hosted blog). Objectives differ.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Is anyone out there?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

80% of consumers content about products and services created by just 16% of the population – [link] [link] Laurence Bret Who are your influencers? link] Christopher Smith Great article. Multiple purchases doesn't always indicate that customer is a “talker&# that creates content or spread the word about your product.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Interesting article about online marketing. Interesting article about online marketing. link] #bgsd [link] Forge Communications You want killer content on digital? I can help with the website [link] Rich Barker RT @ScottHepburn: RT @LisaHoffmann @jaybaer: [link]. If you missed it, read the recap.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

RT @grmeyer: @ashleyjablow here's a nice article on #CSR and social media [link] [link] jan radish Tying Together Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] Anne Social media is gaining so much momentum that so it’s becoming a if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em scenario.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

found @jaybaer article and am intrigued, to say the least. " [link] #socialmedia [link] Mark Van Baale Swix aggregates your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, digestible fashion via @jaybaer: [link] [link] ldjenkins That @jaybaer is a smart one >> Yea! link] [link] Vantage Pointe SD RT @jaybaer: Yea!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Terrific content, per usual. Terrific content, per usual. There is an interesting article about it. There is an interesting article about it. What I like most about this article is that it gets “big business&# to think about acting like they are small. So, giving you all the cred., Thanks for sharing.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

What #BP Can Learn From the Umpire [link] [link] Steve App Absolutely brilliant article via Mr. Jay Baer RT @jaybaer: Truth, or Consequences? RT @sawaob12: brilliant article @jaybaer: Truth, or Consequences? What BP Can Learn From the Umpire. Schatschneider agreed. What BP Can Learn From the Umpire. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. link] Chris Johnson Another nice post, J.

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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. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. Create a content ladder to leverage and syndicate your content.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It works for those kinds of accounts because the content or offering is SOOOO valuable that the engagement would only dilute it. It works for those kinds of accounts because the content or offering is SOOOO valuable that the engagement would only dilute it. is aware of Twitter, but only 7% uses it. (6

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. And make sure to atomize your content , taking one idea and propagating it in as many places and formats as possible, each reaching a different audience. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

link] #sm [link] Richard Becker Best Fresh Content Pick: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] by @membershipjedi [link] Martin Seibert I definitely like your approach and I fully agree, that strategy comes first and social media and tracking follow. It's the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master! Do you agree?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Then, strategize ways you could make those problems disappear by providing better content (as with Geek Squad), faster response (as with Nationwide), or better access to help (as many companies are doing by launching online customer support communities using Get Satisfaction or other systems). Excellent article! Excellent article!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we create content in multiple forms and locations that demonstrates our expertise? Ironically, an article I wrote on optimizing social media strategy was just published this morning at iMedia Connection — you can read it here: [link]. I had your article on-screen already, prepped for Tweeting later today.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 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 Do You “Like&# How I Look In These Jeans?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe. The appetite for tools content is huge. The numbers and lists thing works.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

I'm eager to learn of the content in it. I'm eager to learn of the content in it. I'm eager to learn of the content in it. I'm eager to learn of the content in it. I'm eager to learn of the content in it. I'm eager to learn of the content in it. Joe [link] Joseph Manna AWESOME!

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