The Effective Marketer

JANUARY 11, 2010

This question on a recent LinkedIn discussion thread for the Technology Marketing Community reminded me of when, a couple years ago, I delivered a presentation at the 2008 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Summit. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [.]

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This showed that as of December 2008, search was still the most common Internet activity (used by 85.9% The Twitter figures are surely much higher by now.) By contrast, the Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey in December 2008 found only 35% of adult online Americans had a social media profile. for TV and 10.2%

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 10, 2010

More recently even Twitter mascots have been showing up as a company’s public face. A recent article I read on Harvard Business Review, “ Aflac’s CEO Explains How He Fell For The Duck ” made me think about brand messaging and the use of mascots. In 2008, revenues were up to $16.6 That’s what makes them memorable.

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The Effective Marketer

OCTOBER 14, 2010

According to their post: “Last week in San Francisco, 211 business-to-business marketers spent two days sharing insights, case studies and advice on social media marketing, lead generation, Sales and Marketing alignment, and other hot-button issues on the West Coast swing of MarketingSherpa’s seventh annual B2B Marketing Summit.&#

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B2B Marketing Savvy

AUGUST 25, 2009

The good news, unlike most previous evolutions of outbound channel alternatives, Twitter doesn’t come with budget requirements. Still, content… management… and metrics drive the accountability and Twitter, Facebook and the like can be no different. If you like the read, please subscribe to my RSS feed.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Despite Facebook’s apparent addiction to public relations missteps and half-baked schemes, they still keep chugging along, taking over the world one “like&# button at a time. Many businesses are past the point of asking the “should we be on Facebook&# question.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? That depends upon how many other people/brands they are following, and how often they check Twitter. In general, however, the chances any one Twitter follower sees any specific update from you is minimal. Very, very few.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 14, 2013

But in 2008, with graduation looming, the Great Recession hit hard and she began to think creatively about career choices. “I quickly realized that trying to do business networking locally was very narrow.” She had started off her business by helping individuals and small businesses—entrepreneurs like herself.

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Convince & Convert

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. You can download it free below. Maybe you will also.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? And that means branching out beyond marcomms into other business divisions, bringing them into the discussion and aligning efforts. Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

But I tried to offer some hope during a May presentation in Shanghai to the Worldcom Public Relations Group , the world’s leading network of independently owned public relations firms: My 7 Best Practices for Social Media Tool Adoption: Understand your assessment context before you begin. and great speech!)

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The faux testimonials on the back of the book are priceless, including: “This book is the greatest business book in the world, besides mine.&# - Author who only gives testimonials for people who give him one in return Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better!

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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? And that’s just it.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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JULY 27, 2010

Mike Cassidy made me (and a lot of other people) think differently about the intersection of social media strategy , and business objectives. Business News "Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting." link] [link] Lanc. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

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

Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. Absolutely. As you know better than I, we are in the early innings of social media.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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Convince & Convert

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. Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

The Revolution is Coming I don’t think I’ve announced it publicly yet, but the final title of the new book from Amber and me (coming in February, 2011) is: The Now Revolution: 7 Moves to Transform Your Business with Speed, Smarts and Social Media Many, many thanks to everyone who voted on possible titles, and provided suggestions.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. 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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. You’re in an industry (photography) and are a business type (small) where a lot of people would say “social media isn’t for me&#. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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JUNE 29, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already? Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. Spread the net.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 9, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Strategic Guy Timely views and best practices in the world of technology public relations Sunday, April 12, 2009 Three Phases of Social Media Maturation At Strategic Communications Group (Strategic) weve been through the cycle. Twitter feeds spring up. LinkedIn profiles are updated.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start. However — and this came up frequently at the recent Social Media AZ event — in B2B applications, they haven’t been as useful because people still often use a different e-mail address for personal and business use. link] Ian Greenleigh Great post, Kevin.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Twitter is for people you want to know. (I Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Linkedin is for people you know.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

B2B: Business Media. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. Business-to-business marketers are underutilizing social media and its potential, according to new data from Eloqua , a marketing automation company. Follow her on Twitter. Summit Business Media's AdvisorOne.com Launches Paid Content Product. Featured Jobs.

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MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. From a business standpoint, it’s brilliant. Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. With JaneNation, St. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. Sessions start October 5.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

million followers on Twitter? Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

prepare TV review content about HDTVs for twitter and blog comment distribution). Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Package for Consumption Observe what types of content social media users are interacting with and where.

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