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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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

B2B Marketers Less Engaged than B2C The results of “B2B Marketing Goes Social&# indicate that while some B2B marketers’ social media engagement statistics are similar to those of B2C marketers, overall B2B marketers are less engaged in social media than their B2C counterparts.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. 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.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? It's awesome! link] jaybaer Oh man.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Like RSS for your relationships NutshellMail sends you a highly customizable email digest (from 1 to 24 times per day) of what’s happening in your social media spheres, so you can browse and get up to speed quickly, without having to visit several different destinations or fire up your iPhone’s social apps. And it’s free.

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Social Media Media Paid Search Agency PR 115

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Video search 101: Marketing and optimization by iMedia Connection Noting some statistics on the explosive growth of online video, David L. Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles about social media marketing so far this year.

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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. Won’t we soon see forms that ask us to choose one or all of these contact methods: Email newsletter Blog (via RSS or email) Twitter Facebook Remember, social media is an ingredient, not an entree.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

This post started with an article earlier this year on “ 30 Tips To Make Your Companies Blog Rock ” and I had quite a few comments by readers and so added more tips on more keys to making a blog successful. Subscribe to the top industry blogs in your market, both company blogs and personal blogs for ideas 10. be authentic.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As Pay attention to your statistics with regard to calls to actions. Example: Subscribe to our RSS Feed cos next weeks post will be just like this one – but TWICE as awesome.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

How can you monitor everything that’s being said about your company, competitors and key industry topics across the social media landscape without spending a fortune on monitoring software? Noting some statistics on the explosive growth of online video, David L. 11 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Social Media in 2009 by Digital Labz.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. [link] Molly Carter Gaines I'm a little torn between #1 and #3– but my final vote is for #1.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. This makes no sense.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Try to return something to your own company. 5 excellent points that a company can (should!) 5 excellent points that a company can (should!)

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. Companies often get so close to their own knitting that they cannot see the knots, and that brand of myopia is especially difficult to overcome in social media.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy. If you’re a big company, how can you act small again? link] Weekly Links: August 23, 2009 | UpYourSocial [.] What’s Your Pitch? The elevator pitch is dead.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

The creators of PeoplePond more recently also launched CompanyPond , a company profile site that improves online visibility and SEO for corporate sites. TAF offers free and fee-based tools to help companies capitalize on word-of-mouth (or word-of-web) marketing. Tell A Friend. Bing Tips & Tricks by Digitial Inspiration.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. March 2009. October 2009. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. A few of my favorite reports of email’s death that were greatly exaggerated: July 2004. October 2007.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

One of the best sources of information is industry statistics. This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Although fewer Americans use Twitter than Facebook, Twitter users “are far more likely to follow Brands/ Companies than social networkers in general.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 10, 2012

It also allows you to view basic statistics and download your sales data for your convenience. “The WooCommerce plugin is built by the WooThemes company. It allows to keep an eye at incoming sales and reviews, stock levels, general store performance and statistics from the WordPress dashboard. Last updated: May, 2009.

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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!) Hope that helps! Joseph | RepuMetrix Inc.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

Over ~30 days, there are 24 sessions about everything social media , and because it’s totally virtual, one registration can cover your entire team or company, and you get access to a registrants-only Linkedin group and other networking opportunities. link] Zack Wow, list of heavy hitter presenters… you're in good company.

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Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics Social Media Advertising Agencies 108

Paul Gillin

APRIL 28, 2011

It was a powerful story that encapsulated the curious appeal of geocaching in a way that no statistics could have matched. One of my favorite angry writers is the Baltimore Sun ‘s John McIntyre, whose You Don’t Say blog should be in every writer’s RSS feed. They hit us in our gut. That’s embarrassing.

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Classified Ads Tips RSS Storytelling 50

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Find them all and others here in the first set of the best cool web tools for 2009. It includes features like a People Sidebar for staying in touch with your social connections, an integrated RSS feed reader, blog editor and web clipboard. A sophisticated yet free analytical tool for optimizing your CRM implementation? And it's free.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

I’m already brainstorming some ideas to help inspire (and reward) my company’s. While judging our Viral and Social Marketing Hall of Fame entries earlier this month, I reviewed several strong entries from B2B marketers that cited impressive statistics for their company blogs. Lisa Keller : Great post!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I advocate participating in Twitter, and I’ve certainly grown my own audience via that channel, and it should be part of almost every company or business professional’s social media tool kit. Don’t get me wrong. But, new data from Compete.com shows a clear stagnation in Twitter’s runaway growth.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

When I'm clearing emails or reading (RSS, web, ReadItLater, etc.), Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. the iPad is just more pleasant, even if the ability to sort emails to batch process seems to have eluded me so far.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Social Media Facebook Paid Content Marketing Websites 167

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform. What neither of them seems to have is an RSS feed for results, which would be the Holy Grail of Facebook open-graph API monitoring.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

You cannot just show up to the party and create your 10 podcasts, and not think about what keywords apply, what the psychology of the people using those keywords is, and how your company can fulfill those needs. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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