Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. 2) B2B and B2C are really not that different, on many levels.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. This is especially important now that Google and Bing are incorporating social content into real-time search results). and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). I am showing as 2291 keywords where my site appears in Google's index, but only 170 words where they have actually clicked through to the site itself. marierowley thank you for your great information.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Content marketing is perhaps alone in its ability to be a successful endeavor at every phase of the customer lifecycle: When a potential customer is using Google to research new digital cameras, what is going to get them to a Kodak site? Smart, optimized content. Smart, optimized content. Smart, optimized content.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. What Kodak said about connecting with customers is spot on! link] Darren Robson Great tips.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). Should companies treat customers differently?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web? Better question: How can we optimize a video so that prospective customers find it in search results?

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 30, 2011

Curation brings brands and customers together : elevating brand visibility/buzz (76 percent) and lead generation (48 percent) were also top objectives. Yes, we are all publishers now , but the evolution from marketing departments to more of a publishing department will still take years for most brands to transform into.

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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. My friends at Social Media Examiner (where I first published #19 and #21) have built a very successful business on this concept.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Sure, social media differs from the marketing we’re used to in that it puts the company and our customers on the same – rather than opposing – teams. I’m not talking necessarily about acquiring new customers, but rather using social media to keep the customers we’ve already earned.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

There are at least a few points of entry to integrate your corporate website: 1) Extending your corporate websites to social networks, 2) Allowing for customers voices through reviews and ratings, 3) Aggregating the discussion back on your own website. Single Sign On systems don’t go away they simple aggregate this new level of data.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

You need to be creating custom charts and graphs and ideas that speak directly to the operational realities of each client. Assuming you want to dive into the pool of custom graph creation and data manipulation, you’ll probably do so in Microsoft Excel. or engaged in brand reputation management, often on a weekly basis.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Opening the kimono and giving customers and prospects a better sense of who is part of the company, how that company operates, and what it stands for in a less formal, more spontaneous fashion is doable. Google Wave was the closest we’ve come, and that got killed off faster than the new Knight Rider TV show. Absolutely not.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

The shift in marketing dollars from traditional advertising mediums to the emerging media available to us via the Internet has more to do with the customers’ behavior than the seller. This means the best kinds of marketing content need to be findable by Google (and the others), properly tagged, and optimized for search engines.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Like a fussy deconstructed salad at a downtown restaurant with ridiculous unisex bathrooms, Facebook wants us to publish in tiny bursts of words, pictures, videos, and single purpose apps, rather than the page-length containers and complicated databases of yore. Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Like a fussy deconstructed salad at a downtown restaurant with ridiculous unisex bathrooms, Facebook wants us to publish in tiny bursts of words, pictures, videos, and single purpose apps, rather than the page-length containers and complicated databases of yore. Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook.

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Single Grain

MARCH 7, 2022

With the launch of Bitcoin in 2009, the decentralized cryptocurrency market powered by blockchain gained massive success. Traditional PR agencies may still use the older tactics of publishing press releases for a product that might not generate the required results for crypto companies. Year Founded: 2009. Budget: $10,000+.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

We also have the shortbread cookie, which has finally returned to the air after three and one half years of customer requests. Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? Personally, I've had terrible customer experience with US Airways and unfortunately this doesn't change that.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We are spending countless employee hours tweeting, retweeting, responding to tweets, figuring out whom to follow, secretly following celebs and athletes, and designing custom Twitter backgrounds. Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. We just did it voluntarily. And for what? Interaction.

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