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MAY 5, 2010

Women are routinely misunderstood or ignored by advertisers despite their unprecedented purchasing power and loyalty to brands that earn their trust. link] sadie harris Online Community With Purpose and a Plan [link] [link] sadie harris Online Community With Purpose and a Plan [link] [link] Katherine M.

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JUNE 7, 2010

But the stories and nuggets of insight make it well worth the purchase price and then some. This is the overarching theme of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness, a Path to Passion, Profits, and Purpose. Did Delivering Happiness rock me to my core?

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JUNE 22, 2010

If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified.

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APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers.

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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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MAY 11, 2010

You're then using structured content to overcome purchase objections, and knock them off the fence. “Overcoming purchase objections with social content&# would probably have been better. I'd hope for the latter. link] jaybaer First of all, we're largely dealing here with hand raisers.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Raj Kadam is CEO of Viralheat , a social media listening platform (disclosure: I am a paid customer of Viralheat). It’s in our DNA.

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APRIL 14, 2010

By being helpful and removing friction, you're removing purchase impediments. And certainly, once you've built that bridge using usefulness and trust, your ability to then “nudge&# the consumer toward purchase via whatever mechanism make sense is a lot more effective. link] jaybaer I think it's both John.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. Help clients take their message to consumers directly, impacting purchase intent by providing truly helpful information at the right time in the buying cycle.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media strategists should help to do just that – build strategy – but I believe execution, especially blogger relations, needs to become part of overall media relations. I might add; Social Media can be managed by a junior marketing person. Media, mucha gente se ha creado falsas expectativas y creencias.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. It is for this reason I include manual review as a part of my “sweep&# of social media monitoring. Admittedly, I do a lot of my monitoring manually only because it nets better results.

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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. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert. There better be. Why not use it?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

While the erosion of the MySpace user base has been ongoing for years, the fact that it was purchased for $580 million just five years ago says all you need to know about the vagaries of online leadership. Nearly all the once mighty, now defunct social network or community sites unfurled and died after being purchased. The goals shift.

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JULY 13, 2010

Oh, and for those that think that “blogger outreach” counts as social exposure for your staff, don’t kid yourself. That’s the essence of a good social media strategy , anyway. Instead of assuming you can find/purchase all the answers yourself, admit you need external teachers: We all need role models. It’s a big world out there.)

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FEBRUARY 25, 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 Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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MARCH 18, 2010

Why would a consumer “friend&# us or “fan&# us or “follow&# us in social media, unless they were either already a customer, or at the very least had us in their purchase consideration funnel? People don’t experimentally engage with brands in social media, they engage with the brands they already support.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

If you log in to Amazon (and have connected your account to FB), you’ll see friends’ birthdays, be shown purchase recommendations based on what your friends have liked, etc. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website" [link] [link] Social Media Guide RT @jaybaer: "R.I.P. Build a website. Keep it updated.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

If you log in to Amazon (and have connected your account to FB), you’ll see friends’ birthdays, be shown purchase recommendations based on what your friends have liked, etc. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website" [link] [link] Social Media Guide RT @jaybaer: "R.I.P. Build a website. Keep it updated.

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APRIL 22, 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 Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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JUNE 30, 2010

You are absolutely right in that people aren't making their purchase decisions or determining the brands to which they are loyal based on their demographics or what their favorite social medium is — as with everything else, they're doing it based on an intrinsically personal motivation.

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AUGUST 25, 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 Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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APRIL 7, 2010

Just in time marketing, combined with social listening, equals brand kinship and word-of-mouth that you cannot purchase with a commercial. I’m starting to hear a lot of smart people scoff at these services, primarily along these lines “Why do I care where someone is eating for lunch? Not sure where Gowalla is on that front.

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MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem. Social business takes a step forward.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

As my co-author Amber Naslund put it once “with social media, my relationships aren’t bound by geography or circumstance.&# Kinship creates purchase intent. Hence, the ROI of social media. It would be nice to see a bloggers only social network. Family, friends, colleagues. Long live small talk (in a new form)!

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JUNE 23, 2010

I would argue that Ford should go leagues further, by embracing a consistent crowdsourcing approach that constantly empowers consumers (and would-be consumers) of all Ford vehicles with opportunities to co-create, relevantly share and earn legitimate rewards that drive loyalties and purchasing habits for years to come.

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APRIL 27, 2010

We have a new biscotti, terrific with coffee or Bailey’s and coffee, from a company ironically owned by Interbev, the European brewers that purchased Anheuser-Busch, which is based here in St. Louis to Phoenix, coming back from SocialFresh.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 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 Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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JUNE 28, 2010

On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced more by specific, hyper-relevant pieces of content that your brand creates to get in front of potential purchasers at the contextually-perfect time and place. link] jaybaer Defiinitely bloggers. link] #GIFB [link] jaybaer Excellent Jordy. I'm glad it'll be useful for you.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There was no shatteringly impactful takeaway from SXSW 2010, as it seems we’ve entered a (sure to be brief) innovation lull. Again, this is an incredibly positive sign, as we can’t treat social media as a unicorn when it’s really just a horse. event, and the Techset blogger lounge.

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