Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. You're almost to the point of sale.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there. And it’s free.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Social media statistics and reporting, without the hassle. Social media statistics and reporting, without the hassle. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2010

The Best FREE White Papers of 2010 Since April 2009, cataloging free white papers that have been tweeted via Twitter has been a regular part of this blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 You can also follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. You would be entirely wrong. Visits are up.

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MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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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. While most of the sites on the list are hardly surprising (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn), there are a few unexpected results, like Tagged at #6 and Yuku at #16.

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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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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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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing Home Bio Speaking Grade your Site Marketing Resources Twitter Jeff’s YouTube Contact Congratulations: You have successfully subscribed! Provide “share this” buttons to Facebook and Twitter as a minimum 22. Implement “subscribe” buttons via RSS and Email 23. be authentic.

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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? Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. I also prefer the overall design to #2/3. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. Sessions start October 5.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Rick Burnes notes that without a strong content strategy to back up social media efforts, marketers risk the “all hat, no cattle&# syndrome: lots of attention on Twitter and Facebook, but no compelling content to back it up and turn the curious into the converted. Noting some statistics on the explosive growth of online video, David L.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. First time “as Todd Defren says&#.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success. Instead of the customer leaving your store (or unfollowing on Twitter), this help can encourage customers to stick around and tell their friends, thus increasing sales.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. 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.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Somehow, thousands of B2B companies seem to have come to the conclusion that because they aren’t being mentioned 65 times per hour on Twitter, that social media doesn’t matter to them, or their customers. Thought I'd be ostracized by the social media community and have my twitter privileges revoked. Social Media?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. For anyone who wants a cool, custom Twitter background but is design-challenged, My Tweet Space provides a wide selection of free and low-cost professionally designed backgrounds to enhance one’s Twitter presence.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. Hope that helps!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. services like Twitter, Pownce & Jaiku. 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. October 2007. So is email immortal?

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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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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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. 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.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Tweetie This extremely intuitive Mac-only app is my hour-to-hour choice for Twitter. Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc.

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

When I'm clearing emails or reading (RSS, web, ReadItLater, etc.), Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. 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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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

5 Most Popular Blog Posts Content Marketing: How to get your subject matter experts on your corporate blog (7) Social Marketing: Twitter contest boosts followers 43% (6) Marketing Research: Cold, hard cash versus focus groups (4) Email Marketing: Improve deliverability by deleting subscribers? (4) We treat it as a privilege. Warren, RI 02885.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. I’ve been wondering whether the Open Graph API will yield an explosion in Facebook-powered satellite applications (like the 2,000+ Twitter add-ons that all seems to start with “tw…&# ). .

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] He points out that at some level, we are all beholden to some stakeholder if we are doing business on the net: domain registrars, hosting providers, WP.com, Tumbr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I agree and I'll share my own take on the fact that Facebook and Twitter is still rented land. Will it start an “Unlike&# trend?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] He points out that at some level, we are all beholden to some stakeholder if we are doing business on the net: domain registrars, hosting providers, WP.com, Tumbr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I agree and I'll share my own take on the fact that Facebook and Twitter is still rented land. Will it start an “Unlike&# trend?

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Tweetie This extremely intuitive Mac-only app is my hour-to-hour choice for Twitter. Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced less by the grand, sweeping programs that take old marketing and put a fresh coat of social paint on them. How can I help you?

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