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JULY 20, 2010

Very helpful as our company moves forward with our plan for Social Media. RT @MikeCorak: Honored as guest blogger on C&C-RT @jaybaer: 5 Steps to Winning Fans with Content Strategy [link] [link] Abby Thanks for the resources. About a year ago, I wrote a guest post here titled “ Use Online Listening for Competitive Research.

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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. This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care? What’s the Point?

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 14, 2008

In my continuing effort to clean out my bookmarks and stay ahead of the game for the Best of 2008 series in January, here are a dozen of the most linkworthy articles and posts on search engine marketing so far this year.

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AUGUST 5, 2008

Tuesday, August 5, 2008. manufacturing) which requires a higher level of thinking and access to information if a company is going to maintain a competitive edge. For example, within a manufacturing company, you have the personnel department who work primarily in people to people jobs. ▼ 2008. (60). Subscribe To.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? Companies are trying to stay top-of-mind among their prior customers, and incentivize those customers directly or indirectly to spread the word to their friends and associates. Will they click on it to visit your offer/website/landing page?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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JULY 21, 2010

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Companies must also uphold privacy laws. You'll see a line that resembles this: © 2008-09. | I've just changed mine to © 2008-10. The Lawyers R Coming.

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JUNE 29, 2010

More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. More people sharing the stuff that they make (3 billion photos per month uploaded to Facebook) 3.

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Hubspot

JULY 22, 2013

Statistics wizard Nate Silver, a keynote speaker at HubSpot’s INBOUND conference in August in Boston, made news over the weekend by deciding to move his FiveThirtyEight blog from The New York Times to ESPN and ABC News. What’s more amazing is that six years ago, Silver was an anonymous blogger posting predictions on Daily Kos.

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MARCH 25, 2010

On the ROI front, Swix CEO Scott Lake ( @scottica ) told me that the company puts as much emphasis on tracking the “I&# as they do the “R&#. Mr. Lake believe that access will be granted however, allowing his company to deliver a whole suite of new Facebook data points into the Swix system. New YouTube video that goes viral.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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MAY 12, 2010

Could I get you to reply to the people who like you and your company on Facebook if we can demonstrate that it strengthens your brand recognition? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. I feel like the other guy in the story- will you try social media if I give you some great case studies?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Unify Your Team The first step is for companies to devise a coordinated strategy that uses email and social communication synergistically. If you update your company's Facebook page about latest happenings, or create a YouTube video, or write a blog post, the conversation comes AFTER the content is sent out, not before.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Is that due to the natural progression of success (all big companies are eventually vilified) or a fundamental shift in Apple's brand promise as ultra hip and very convenient? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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JULY 5, 2010

arikhanson [link] Mike Cassidy RT @jaybaer: I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends [link] honored to be in such great company! Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Thomas for five days. Wonderful community-building strategy! link] Ankit Bathija Waiting for the awesome posts lined up.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Not sure who came up with it originally) Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. But, the service goes a long way toward tying email and social media together in a coherent, actionable fashion, and is affordable for almost every company. But, the current system is just the beginning.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? I’ve even left the stat breakdown public so you can see all the views are organic, not off-shored to get views (like some video companies have done). A tall order, to be certain.

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JUNE 17, 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: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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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. Are there specific markers that indicate readiness within companies? How should companies evaluate success? Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header. I’d like a stronger visual identity overall.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] Clinton Bonner Another #SXSW Accelerator company, this time covered by @jaybaer [link] –> @NutshellMail [link] 451 Heat New Email Service NutshellMail Simplifies Social Media [link] Would you use this service? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. This, I'll try.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. That seems short-sighted and workable only for very small companies with a minimum of online chatter about them.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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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. All of this is happening to companies (maybe yours) every minute of every day. If a consumer emails a company, we’ve trained them to expect a response in a day or so.

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JULY 26, 2010

Each of the 27,000 companies that use the service had the same goal – to share their pitch. The more one company shares their pitch, the more views it has, the more backlinks it provides, and so on. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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JULY 6, 2010

As the world continues to watch the devastation caused by the BP oil spill, it shines the light much brighter on the impact that major companies have on society while increasing consumer concerns about business practices. If a company is “doing good,” don’t be shy about talking about it. Don’t be Shy.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Pay attention to your statistics with regard to calls to actions. I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# This is really really helpful, especially for an aspiring blogger like me. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. 5 ways to fix it.

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MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off. These are exciting times at Bulb HQ!

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MAY 5, 2010

Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted. Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. Company launches a media content destination for women. From a business standpoint, it’s brilliant. With JaneNation, St.

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JULY 15, 2010

Again with the blogging, make sure your blogger or bloggers want to do it, if they are forced into it, you won’t get your posts on time. Amazing to see how many companies use Facebook as a one way communication when its real strength is to create a dialogue (engagement). You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. The statistical similarity shocks me. Yes, social media applies to B2B. The range of Facebook usage is just 37% – 51%.

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JUNE 7, 2010

As befits the CEO of a company built on a wide-open corporate culture, Hsieh is remarkably candid about his successes, failures, and fortunes throughout, and this first section is the strongest in the book. Each harrowing near death of Zappos makes you cheer that much louder inside when the company eventually succeeds on a grand scale.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Since we moved down here, we've gone through my wife's heart surgery and kidney transplant, me getting fired from two jobs (people in Florida find us NYC types to be very disagreeable – don't know why) and starting my video production company. I'm connected with quite a few Indiana bloggers and they are all terrific.

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