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 ). Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header. 2 many words I guess?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. Each of the 27,000 companies that use the service had the same goal – to share their pitch.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

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Writing on the Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Wednesdays, November 10 – December 15, 2010. A personalized blogging strategy that you understand and can implement. Blog this on Blogger. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. The Real Problem: What NOT to Write About… Blog or Newsletter? Join me for….

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

The email is well-designed, personalized, and compelling. Since April, 2010 Western River has collected more than 1,100 of these customer stories. So much so, that 49% of recipients take the time to write about their experiences on a website form Western River provides. said Brandon Lake, Vice President of Western River.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

You will see in 2010 that most companies will, hopefully, leave behind both notions (media is important, and B2C and B2C are different) due to results that we will start seeing in the market. Things I Don’t Want to Hear Anymore in 2010 =-. Things I Don’t Want to Hear Anymore in 2010 =-. Nicely said, Esteban.-=

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Follow Me On Twitter 90 Tips To Make Your Blog Rock Written by jeffbullas - 30 Comments Categories: Blog , Blogging , Social Media Share Tweet Blogging whether it is for your personal passion or for the corporate blog is quite often a journey that has its highs and lows. Look through your latest news releases for ideas 11.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). Google isn't going to be enough forever.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 14, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing Even though “content curation” is not a common phrase, there’s plenty of discussion to be found on the Internet. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.”

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. It’s in our DNA.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? Better question: How can we develop a sustainable, ongoing social media strategy that will turn customers into advocates over the long haul? Everyone, ultimately, is as ‘bad’ as each other when it comes to SM. Does that make sense?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

A Google search of the phrase “social media ROI” provides 694,000 results (at least at this writing). I recently heard a poignant expression, “you are your Google results”. Personally, I have had to serve in the positions of jester, leper, and pariah in my efforts to have others adopt social media strategies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Google is not the only source of content ideas. REVEAL Adding a personal experience helps to humanize your content. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing. All Rights Reserved. Resources

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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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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0 link] online marketing blog using facebook fan page as a newsletter is a great idea, thanks for the great article.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients. I’m sure that there are many of you who have heard (or perhaps personally believe) something similar. Links Let’s be real. What do people like to link to? White papers?

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Besides Google Adwords and Bing, what other major PPC sevices are. A study conducted in 2010 would position blogging as such, and even a " blog post " written in The New York Times highlighted the point. As a result, from 2008 to 2010, blogging actually rose 3 percent as an Internet activity among all adults.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Make sure you’re not just shopping who you think your competitors are, but also who Google says your competitors are, based on search engine results. The way they handle questions, friction, and sticking points can serve as inspiration or a warning to your efforts.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve played with social media at a personal level and now it’s time to take it up a notch. I’ve played with social media at a personal level and now it’s time to take it up a notch. I’ve played with social media at a personal level and now it’s time to take it up a notch. link to post].

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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. Personally, one gripe I have with popular solutions out there is the latency in acquiring the data posted live. Hope that helps!

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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. Most of the rest are from spring 2010 or earlier. At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 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 Social Conversation a Myth? That’s feedback.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

If you have a contact us form, an online lead generation form, an email newsletter sign-up, or a shopping cart, why are you still only asking for name, address, and email address? Now you know that person is active on those social outposts. While this integration is intended for personal use, you can utilize it for your business, too.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2011

and 2) there are more ways for people to search than just Google and Yah-Bing (YouTube is now the second-largest search engine and Facebook SEO is its own emerging discipline). When appropriate, let key bloggers know about it.&# not personalizing your invitation-to-connect messages, and more. Tweet about the video.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. MySpace adopted that spirit of personal scrapbooking, and let its members commit unspeakable crimes against HTML, fonts, color schemes, and animation. Best sentence ever!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

According to a recent Social Media and Online PR Report from Econsultancy , 86% of companies surveyed planned to spend more on social media marketing in 2010, but only 25% say they have gained “real, tangible value&# from the medium.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. Add WordStream’s Advanced Keyword Tools to Your Website for free , June 8, 2010.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Google Analytics. Google Analytics. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 13, 2010

Every single person in a public relations firm should: 1) understand the impact of social media and 2) be able to activate that marketing potential for their clients. Oh, and for those that think that “blogger outreach” counts as social exposure for your staff, don’t kid yourself. I don’t believe in a “digital divide.”

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Isn’t our Facebook page just a post-modern email newsletter? Why aren’t we asking our blog visitors and Facebook fans to subscribe to our email newsletter? There’s a reason that some videos show up on the first page of Google, and others do not. There’s a best time to send Tweets.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 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 Why D.I.S.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Apparently, for the short time that my blog has been online, the traffic and interactions on it have been called impressive by some other bloggers. Hopefully bloggers new and old will be able to take something away from this. I wrote a post, “ 11 Things I’ve Learned as a Blogger “, where I reasoned why that was.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2014

This one may surprise you: Google+ actually averages more visits per month than Facebook. Google+ receives 1.2 billion Google searches, with 78% of U.S. The top three content marketing tactics used by B2B marketers are social media other than blogs (87%); articles on their own websites (83%); and e-newsletters (80%).

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

Schoenfeld says that the original RowFeeder project was intended to integrate into Google Spreadsheets (and it still does), but the recent addition of Excel tie-ins open up the user base substantially. Want to see every person that’s tweeted about you or send a Facebook message about you in the last 2 days? No problem.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. Best of B2B Marketing. Featured Sources. Like hooking their toilet up to Twitter. doth protest.

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MLT Creative

JUNE 10, 2010

The last day of the BMA Engage 2010 conference in Chicago last week began on a high note, with Chris Brogan delivering a rousing keynote. LOL Subscribe to your own email newsletter on multiple mobile devices to ensure that it's viewable. Agent Zero is the person who always knows how to connect other people. Be Agent Zero.

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