Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

There are blogs, forums, quizzes, polls, and sisterhoods (micro communities based on women’s life stages like “caregiver&# or “widow wise&# ). Responding to Forrester’s research about the need for agencies to become “connected&# – to be the bridge between brands and their consumers, St.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation.

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Ambal's Amusings

MAY 27, 2010

Is less better than more when it comes to content? Instead of bombarding prospects with "too much content" should companies carefully chose 1 or 2 pieces of important content that will educate prospects? What kind of content is most useful in each phase of the B2B marketing cycle? Content has a job to do.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Combined with their above average income and above average education, Twitter users’ propensity to interact with brands make them a huge potential source for Mass Influencers (although Forrester’s research says Facebook is a better pool ). 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support. population).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. Have them document EVERY question they receive. This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ.

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Ambal's Amusings

APRIL 29, 2010

How should marketers leverage content? Which content should be free? Which content should be gated to genereate leads? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. In my opinion, all content should accomplish either lead generation or play a role in creating momentum toward purchase. " Ardath Albee.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on the practice of SEO so far this year. Blog SEO Tips: Top SEO Mistakes to Avoid by Blogsessive Alex Cristache details five common SEO mistakes bloggers make that cause their sites to fare more poorly than necessary in search engine rankings.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!)

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Ambal's Amusings

JULY 22, 2010

For example, how can trade show marketing strategy be consistent with blogging and other social media strategy? Blog Marketing Interactions Twitter Ardath421. Whether those prospects are at your website, blog, receive an email, or are attending a trade show, the story your company shares with them needs to be compelling and consistent.

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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. It’s a journey that’s similar to my own when I merged my digital agency (Mighty Interactive) to Off Madison Ave in 2005. 17 Services.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Several blog posts have foolishly been written about social media “killing&# email. Here's why: [link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. But the problem with email and social media is that too many people are positioning it as an either/or scenario. Im Jay Baer.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Why not just establish some sort of conversion goal from the web on your own site (blog or www) as hub and create a social segmentation, establish process to campaign tag special links / promos and set everything else as a KPI (community size, engagement events). Will send you a ping.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 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 Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Create helpful and link-worthy content, optimize your pages, and get other sites linking to yours in order to improve your site’s position in the search engines. Create content on a blog or produce videos, and promote using Digg, Twitter, and other social bookmarking and social networking sites. Acme Software Inc.).

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 24, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar The Marketing Mélange A blog on all things Marketing with Strategy & Information Technology focus Blog Archive ▼ 2009 ( 22 ) ▼ June ( 2 ) Strategic Insights from Calculating Lifetime Custo. March 20, 2009 1:17 PM Kenji said. What do your C-Level Execs want from Marketing?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. Compelling thought-leadership content, blog posts, white papers, video and SEO efforts support and create long-term value for social media tactics. by Dave Fleet.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. I think Facebook Lite makes Facebook engagement easier – maybe you will too?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best SEO blog posts from this year. Guide to Search Engine Ranking Factors by HuoMah SEO Blog. SEO Basics: 6 Tips for Google Webmaster Tools by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. What other tools are worth checking out for keywords, linking and website analysis?

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Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 27, 2009

ClickInsights is an Expert Interview Series brought to you by Connect the Docs (ClickDocuments blog). B2B marketers are producing, managing, and distributing marketing content to reach prospects and turn them into customers. Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Rebel Brown's blog Phoenix Rising.

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Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Forrester Blog for Interactive Marketing Professionals. Ardath Albee's blog Marketing Interactions. Rebel Brown's blog Phoenix Rising. Brian Carroll's blog B2B Lead Generation Blog. Patsi Krakoff's blog Writing on the Web. Mac McIntosh's Sales Lead Insights: A B2B marketing Blog. Get Content.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2009

Home Forrester Research « Getting Up Close and Personal | Main | Social Technographics Data Now Available » March 20, 2008 B2B Lead Management Market Heats Up [Posted by Laura Ramos ] Since the start of this year, I’ve been receiving a boatload of briefing requests from companies wanting to show me their lead generation and management solutions.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

Home > Our blog HOME | RSS FEEDS | SITEMAP | CLIENT ZONE | CONTACT US Our blog About Velocity Our clients What we do Who we are Recent posts The white paper is dead…or is it? The book of the webinar of the movie: The Velocity B2B Content Marketing Workbook. The new B2B marketing is Content Marketing.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

Socialnomics blog by Erik. Marketing Like the Big Boys—Facebook for Small Business - Content Marketing Today , March 29, 2010 A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Facebook for small business. Blog links are valuable for SEO. Relevant blogs can drive targeted direct traffic from the blogger’s social media sphere of influence.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Reports, surveys, studies and infographics are among the most popular content posted and shared across social networks. But which networks are most effective for spreading the content produced? Who is actually consuming all of this content? 59% are on Twitter, and 43% use a company blog for marketing. hours to 6.3

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), Social media networks and blogs consume nearly 25% of people’s time online. Social Media Facts and Stats. And much more.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 - B2B Lead Generation Blog , April 29, 2010 The single biggest issue for B2B marketers is effective lead generation. Content means web copy, blog posts, videos, interactive presentations, social elements, diagrams or other pieces of information used to engaged users / visitors.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. According to a HubSpot study, 71% of marketers viewed Twitter as a useful marketing tool last year, up from just 39% in 2009. Adoption soared. 85% of Inc.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Home About Speaking Research Media Contact Subscribe via RSS Connect with Jeremiah: twitter friendfeed linkedin flickr technorati Connect with Jeremiah on twitter A few years ago, critics said Blogging was a fad. That was a superb reference link you provided.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Really great content around B2B Marketing again this month. Here’s what the social signals said was the best content and the hottest topics. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community or comments at all. There better be. Why not use it? Facebook Insights.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. I think Facebook Lite makes Facebook engagement easier – maybe you will too?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S. You can look at Jay Baer and determine that he’s a follower of your Twitter account, and has commented on your blog 3 times. to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either. The area of “metrics integration&# is especially interesting.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. How many journalists also maintain blogs? million pieces of content (videos, photos, blog posts, links etc.)

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Note: This post, a joint effort between Cheryl Burgess and me, originally appeared on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog last month. So, as promised in Tom Pick’s blog, “ 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Women ”, in honor of mothers, our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men now honors fathers. But, by no means, is this list complete. You expand it.”

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2012

What are the best practices for sharing content on each major social network? Jeff Bullas lists “50 synergistic social media marketing tips and tactics to market your content and ideas and help them to spread to a global audience,” divided into six platform categories: blogging, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and Slideshare.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 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 Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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