Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

The first step in that process of course is knowing why it is that you’re blogging. This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. For more on advanced blogging, please see my post and slide presentation: 11 Must-Dos for the Serious Blogger.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. If you have all of your passwords and such handy, the process should take about 5 minutes.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jon Miller Today I’m pleased to welcome Gary Katz, founder and chairman of marketing operations consultancy firm Marketing Operations Partners , as a guest blogger. On July 26, 2009, I celebrated a half-century on the planet. The right data + process + technology = maximum learning IQ = breakthrough results.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. link] [link] Jeremy Bryant RT @jaybaer: Adding SEO, Web analytics, email marketing, social media services to your ad/PR agency. link] [link] Abbie S.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Marty Weintraub provides a remarkable and highly detailed guide to setting up a social media reputation monitoring dashboard using free tools such as Google Alerts, iGoogle, Google Analytics, and keyword tools along with Excel. 11 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Social Media in 2009 by Digital Labz. What’s In Your Social Media Toolkit?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Also, while I think it’s somewhat less likely that a first-time visitor will tweet or Digg or Stumble your work (I’d love to see a study on that), you should make that process as easy as possible as well. I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# 5 ways to fix it. 5 ways to fix it.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. population. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

How can you take friction out of that process by just-in-time tweeting, participating in Yahoo! You’re not “selling&# you’re “helping&# – and that’s the most powerful type of selling there is. On a near-continuous basis, consumers are asking for help making purchasing decisions. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Find keywords and search phrases to include in these four places: Google Analytics (or whatever Web site analytics program you’re using) Look at your keywords report to find phrases that are driving traffic to your site. Consider adding some of these to your list if they differ from your analytics results. GREAT INFO!

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Mail), social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace), blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger, TypePad), media sites (Flickr, YouTube) and more. This free analysis tool from on-demand CRM consulting firm Demand Chain Systems short-circuits that process, helping to identify the most promising areas for improvement in just 40 minutes.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

month), so filtering and more and more analytics are important to our customers. It will be a great year ahead to see how social media analytics can directly measure and drive sales. Viral Heat data includes location, wherever available. We have a lot of small business customers due to our price-point (note: as low as $9.99/month),

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. SazBean ( Social Network Analytics Measurement Social Media ).

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

In addition to their desire to be the hub of the Web, and create the greatest analytics-driven advertising platform imaginable, Facebook wants to enable our relationships to curate the world for us. I wrote a article on my blog about the friend gathering process that most people use to gain more friends on facebook. 500+ TV channels.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? As a blogger, I receive misplaced pitches for the most part from agencies in Calif and New York who don't know me from a hole in the wall, and have never taken the time (clearly) to read the blog or get to know me.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can study your Web analytics, and see which pages get the most traffic, and what questions are likely to be in prospects’ minds when they are on those pages. Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time. nuff said. nuff said. nuff said.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I mined my Google Analytics and put together a list of the 25 most popular posts that have ever appeared on this blog , ranked by total number of page views. I go through this process for my blog on a regular basis (number junkie that I am). But this distribution surprised me. link] jaybaer Thanks Jeremy. I appreciate it.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. Companies are starting to think of Facebook as a natural piece of the conversion funnel, not just as a free-standing silo.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

They are tracking all of that, and by Christmas, Facebook will be a formidable competitor to Google Analytics. Hilarious, useful post [link] [link] Your Analytics Site Yes, I am taking the link bait. Coca-Cola just took me on a free trip to Shanghai with 22 other bloggers from Australia and Asia.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 21, 2009

A sophisticated yet free analytical tool for optimizing your CRM implementation? Social media analytics? Find them all and others here in the first set of the best cool web tools for 2009. Mail), social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace), blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger, TypePad), media sites (Flickr, YouTube) and more.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

John Bauer In considering baby steps to leverage social sign on and speaking from an IT security/traditional single sign on perspective, it might be helpful to consider social sign on as a "step" in the user authentication process. Plus, building in some checks to the login process should further help keep personal information in sync. "We

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Invest in a custom design In my own blogging from 2005 – 2009 I was using/tweaking various free themes, which did the job. Throughout 2008, I gathered quotes from some of my favorite bloggers and published it: 22 inspirational quotes. Then, I sent each blogger quoted their image along with a link to the presentation.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But I get a lot of questions about why I like particular tools better than others and how I decide to use which, so here’s a summary of my thought process that I hope will help you make a similar decision for your client or your organization. First – What are the objectives? What questions are you trying to answer? Great resource.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

As social media monitoring and integration with CRM systems improves, marketers will have the metrics and analytical tools to more accurately assess the value of various social media efforts and continually improve them. Influence in social media: how to find the top bloggers by blur Group. Olivier Blanchard, a.k.a.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

Because the RowFeeder team is very welcoming to custom report requests, it’s a good solution for agencies looking to put their own stamp on analytics, especially those without an Excel ninja on staff. link] Komputery Sometimes I think, that people doesn`t work, but still analysing statistic, google analytics etc.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 13, 2010

Oh, and for those that think that “blogger outreach” counts as social exposure for your staff, don’t kid yourself. Instead of writing web copy for your client, see if they’ll let you assess their current site analytics: If you are a keeper of data, you have access to the quantitative insights we’ve always longed for as a profession.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. I implement bit.ly Try it yourself.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

But after rapid growth in 2009 and 2010, the study found that “There has been little or no change in the number of companies using corporate blogs (0%), Facebook (2%) and Twitter (2%) in the last year.” The most rapid increase in adoption has been in the use of social networking, which has nearly doubled since 2009. •

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Google Analytics. People are now curating lists of the most influential bloggers by Klout score. Why Chris Brogan is invincible - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 14, 2010 I am fascinated with uber-blogger Chris Brogan as a cultural icon of the social media revolution. Facebook Insights. ReTweeting.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Marketing is getting involved in many more areas that touch the customer along the buying process, multiplied by a dizzying variety of new tactics, online communications and engagement platforms. 5 Ways to Make A Better Analytics Presentation - Manhattan Marketing Maven , July 23, 2010 Analytics are the new black.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out). Billable work that will make us look awesomely smart to our clients, but hey! Anyone else?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out). Billable work that will make us look awesomely smart to our clients, but hey! Anyone else?

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. I implement bit.ly Try it yourself.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more. Help Shape the Future of the Real-Time Web Gilbert is considering adding several other features to today’s admittedly basic version of Kurrently. All rights reserved.

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Right from lead data capturing, lead nurturing to lead qualification , technology has been evolving to help automate the demand generation process and help marketing and inside sales work smarter. This is certainly a step in the right direction for marketing automation and online lead generation in making the process more intelligent.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

The social media community is starving for a viable way to track customer behavior throughout all social outposts (as evidenced by the massive number of retweets for this post I mentioned recently about a new way to tie Google Analytics to your Facebook fan page ). It's essential that ROI is an integral part of that process.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 18, 2012

One-third of global b2b buyers use social media to engage with their vendors, and 75% expect to use social media in future purchases processes. Between mid-2009 and late 2011, “messaging friends declined 12%, searching for new contacts fell 17% and joining a group of Facebook users dropped 19% in the U.S.” Mindjumpers ).

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