Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

When I am asked by companies, I show them the website I worked on regarding content marketing and then search on Google for the keywords they rank for to show the value of content marketing. Prasun Shakya , The Prasun Shakya Company. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Explain Content Marketing to Anyone (Fresh Examples).

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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% By contrast, the Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey in December 2008 found only 35% of adult online Americans had a social media profile. Zenith Optimedia pretty much agrees: its October 2008 report shows U.S.

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Bluetext

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Government efforts to engage PE and VC-backed startups puts federal marketing and messaging in the spotlight Venture Capital-backed companies accounted for less than 1% of the $411 billion DoD contracts awarded last year. Analyzing that figure probably comes down to whether you are a glass half-empty or half-full kind of person.

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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. 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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markempa

JANUARY 19, 2006

FREE lead generation consultation from InTouch Just Tell Us How To Contact You First and Last Name Company Email Telephone Ext. Also, if you’re a B2B marketer with a complex sale, check out Tracking ROI From Web Generated Leads for additional ideas on this topic. 3: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. What do you think?

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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? 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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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 founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Thomas for five days.

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Convince & Convert

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

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? Heading over to buy it… Guest I really don’t want to be one of those people that trashes an author online but the thing I have never understood about Scott is the claims he makes all over the web.

Social Media 115

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. link] sadie harris Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh “1. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s finding other people in your company to contribute an occasional post, recruiting guest bloggers from within your industry, or encouraging your customers to let you interview them for a podcast, make finding and supporting new content creators a mandatory part of your content marketing strategy. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

We absolutely realize it could be interpreted as if we’re trying to “buy&# votes with Make-A-Wish Foundation as the conduit. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

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. Is it good enough to just say “here is our product, go buy it?&# and hope for a.02

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

Social Media 116

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Convince & Convert

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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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. 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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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

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.

Social Media 151

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted. John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. With JaneNation, St.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. Show them aspects of your company that they didn’t already know. I'd buy a book from him. That’s just a brochure in 140 characters.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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. I'm going to try it!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. If your customers and prospects feel like your company is more human and actually cares about them, they’ll want to be part of it.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Which is closer to buying, a consumer searching for “flat panel TV&# or a consumer searching for “26 inch 720p flat panel TV.&# ? While this is important for a blog like mine, it’s flat-out critical for e-commerce companies, and others that are blogging for business.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Very helpful as our company moves forward with our plan for Social Media. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. *” [link] MikeCorak Looks like the site is backup, thanks for your patience!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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