Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Compendium is a uniquely powerful blogging platform because it creates separate, “compended&# blogs for each keyword.

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JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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Ambal's Amusings

JANUARY 31, 2011

Blog WhitePaperPundit Twitter Jonathan_Kantor. "Discovering the Power of Twitter and Adobe TweetDeck.” He is also the author of the White Paper Pundit blog. During this past year, my “aha” moment was discovering the power of Twitter for Social Media with the Adobe TweetDeck application.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, facebook.com/mntimberwolves appears to be available, and their Twitter handle is @mntimberwolves. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Linked from Twitter. Your Web site. At a minimum.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. 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. It’s no contest.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg. Your blog, naturally.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start. If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them.

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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? Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Then this is the blog post for you. Fink) Twitter Comment As always, great stuff.

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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. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances. Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 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 It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” The blog was a failure because posts were not written on a regular basis. Who is responsible for adding content? Who’s Doing What? It might be different people for each task.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Twitter is even narrower at 36% – 46%. Whether you’re spending millions per year on marketing, or less than $50,000, your proclivity toward being active on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and YouTube is strikingly similar. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

This post was originally published on the WebMarketCentral blog in January 2010. Here are seven reasons every business needs to be on Twitter. It’s not that Twitter can replace other touchpoints completely of course, but it can reduce the required cost and frequency of high-touch interactions. To Become a Resource.

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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&# ). JaneNation will package its findings through newsletters, seminars, and other research programs, and also connects brands with female consumers (for a fee, natch).

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 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: Why D.I.S. 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: Why D.I.S.

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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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ConvertKit

JUNE 18, 2021

Miller breaks down her income and shares it with your email newsletter to demystify how writers make money. Miller mixes custom projects, books, and freelance journalism with content marketing projects for B2B clients, consulting and teaching, and writing for niche publications like those at universities, hospitals, and associations.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Possibly a future blog post in that concept. link] jaybaer First time pettifoggery used on this blog. So, really Jay, it kinda does fit into your blog. Great analogy. Seems like the more time we spend thinking about what's right, the less likely we are to do what's right. Look it up. I screwed up.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). link] Tin Hang Liu RT @jaybaer Please Help Me Pick a New Look For My Blog [link] #SMM [link] Adam Sherk Looks like the polling is fairly split right now, which I guess shows that you've got three good variations.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? A write up on a blog. Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat. A new product launch. Trade show.

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B2B Marketing Traction

JULY 24, 2009

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JUNE 7, 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: The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life It’s Time for Real-Time Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble? Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. At first, you knew everyone at the party. But then, it all changed.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

million followers on Twitter? million followers on Twitter? Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%. The reality is, there’s never been a level playing field.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 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 Do You “Like&# How I Look In These Jeans?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

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. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

The blog will remain the same. 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: 11 Whys I’m a Social Media Addict Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? No idea what a Hoosier is. Decided to find out first-hand.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

I’m not sure whether Dale would be rolling over in his grave over the prospect of an iPhone app, but the app is incredibly content rich, and worth far more than 99 cents. See my review of the iPad review here) This content would also make a fantastic Facebook application. Dale Carnegie Wisdom 2.0 I also recommend it on the iPad.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

The very blog that you’re reading came out #1. Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Gizmodo and other tech blogs. Smart, optimized content.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. Some of the guest writers blog on occasion at their own sites. None of them blog routinely. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. They like it. They’re pretty good at it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog. Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. See my earlier post, “Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog.”

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Marketing By Objectives Objective-Action-Budget In a recent article for the CMO Council’s Newsletter, Nicolas Watkis argues “ Marketers won’t succeed if they don’t have objectives ”. Right on, my friend!

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