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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

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UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. Both are wake-up calls for marketers, and make the case that separating marketing from day-to-day customer experiences is an impossibility. A tall order, to be certain.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. 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. What others are floating around out there?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Is this a great way to bring remote friends’ commentary into a purchase decision (fashion) that is driven by peer feedback? June 2nd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is the interconnected Web bringing us together, or making us all distracted voyeurs? Or is this just creepy? There are something like 150 million blogs.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

disclosure: MarketingProfs is a client) Their State of Social Media Marketing report – a comprehensive survey of more than 5,000 marketers – is filled with more than 225 charts and graphs about all things social media. Yes, social media applies to B2B. Focus on How, Not What I draw two conclusions from this data.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Segment by Age The average age of Mass Influencers are between 32 and 38 years old (younger than the average online American, at 44). online average of $79,000. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. population.

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Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master

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His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

world-wide shows that just 25% of respondents said their friends and peers are credible sources of information about companies – a decline of 20% since a similar analysis in 2008. That’s why brands go to great lengths to humanize themselves on the social Web. A survey of 4,875 adults (500 U.S.)