Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs.

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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 ). I wonder if this has to do with the correlation between the black community and musicians.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. I’ve played with social media at a personal level and now it’s time to take it up a notch. That would be two strategies, not one. How Does Your Audience Use Social Media?

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JULY 28, 2010

I personally can help people with every aspect of running a business operationally as well aside from accounting and law and I have referrals for both, as well as connections with experts in the areas I am not an expert in. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

That's why I mentioned that even though I'm showing in my table my personal ranking of these tools, it's meant to be just a starting point. FohBoh (the restaurant community) works exclusively in the restaurant industry, which seems to be attractive to a lot of social web developers these days, particularly on the B2C side.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Sears.com has integrated community right onto their homepage, and also offer a variety of ways to login and register, such as Facebook. Plus, building in some checks to the login process should further help keep personal information in sync. "We or something to that effect.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 23rd, 2008 | 3 comments Papa’s got a brand new bag, maaan. Check… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 15th, 2008 | 3 comments Five Basic Social Theories of Online PR Roger , our web wonderwall, posted a terrific article on the essentials of Online PR.

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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. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community or comments at all.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog, and 38% of them post brand or product reviews. Roundup of the Top Internet and Social Media Statistics by Awareness Community. 35% of bloggers are professional journalists. 5% of Americans had heard of Twitter in 2008; that figure rose to 87% last year.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

Not the ready, fire, aim email that’s the bane of your inbox, but smart, contextual email that sends the right message to the right person at the right time. And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S. to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either.

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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 20, 2010

Overwhelmingly, respondents in the study prefer interacting with official, branded accounts rather than personal accounts from employees. Most Interesting New Piece Info For Me Overwhelmingly, respondents in the study prefer interacting with official, branded accounts rather than personal accounts from employees. Wrong approach.

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