Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. That seems short-sighted and workable only for very small companies with a minimum of online chatter about them.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Companies must also uphold privacy laws. Read the fine print.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

You do not feel any connection with a mere ask, but you probably feel differently when the ask includes a story that adds value or makes the company relatable to you. He has been recognized as a “Top 100 Entrepreneur Under 30,” by former President Barack Obama, and his company was featured on the list of “100 Brilliant Companies.”.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? New YouTube video that goes viral.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off. Let’s say you have a white paper for download on your site.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Unify Your Team The first step is for companies to devise a coordinated strategy that uses email and social communication synergistically. If you update your company's Facebook page about latest happenings, or create a YouTube video, or write a blog post, the conversation comes AFTER the content is sent out, not before.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

During my 15 years of Web site strategy and usability work (before I got all social media on you) I very much tried to live by the two-click rule (discover the most common questions customers have about your business, and answer them on your site within two clicks or fewer). Put it on YouTube of course. How does zero clicks sound?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The Facebook page has a not-too-shabby 13,000+ fans, but most of the YouTube videos have just a few dozen views. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook. The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

In serving in the capacity of a consultant, colleague or employee, it is not my role to try and change that vision, it’s to execute that vision and make it reality. Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. Why ignore it? Thanks, Mike!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. And you know what, he didn't take a week to consult with PR folks or attorneys. There’s nobody that feels worse than I do.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. I recommend using a mixture of your Top 25 phrases and some that are highly relevant to your business, but perhaps aren’t sending as much traffic as you’d like at present. What shows up in these search results?

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B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

They don’t want to be sold to, but when they have a need they consult their friends, peers and industry experts to find the right solutions. The challenge with a SWOT analysis is being honest and open – transparent – about what is good and bad about your business. You can view the SWOT with Actions on one page.

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B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 18, 2010

They don’t want to be sold to, but when they have a need they consult their friends, peers and industry experts to find the right solutions. The challenge with a SWOT analysis is being honest and open – transparent – about what is good and bad about your business. You can view the SWOT with Actions on one page.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. Bravo, man.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens was asked about the contradiction of a services company providing helpful videos at a conference where I spoke. That’s measuring results on an annual basis, not a weekly basis.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. However, I think it is a new and permanent reality of the current economy and have learned to adjust my business model accordingly. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites.

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Paul Gillin

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It’s the most important publishing brand I’ve been affiliated with during my eight years as an independent consultant, and I’m truly sorry to see it go. In 2007 I remarked on how big brands were embracing blogging and YouTube , completely unaware of the impending arrival of social networks.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Can Industrial and B2B Marketers Learn Creative Problem Solving from Fifth Graders? Consultative selling is one of the recommended ways and that requires us to sharpen our listening and creative problem solving skills. 1 “leadership competency” of the future.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Every social media consultant , corporate marketer and PR professional was challenged to keep up with the latest writing on the topic. by YouTube. Why Many Businesses Still Fear Social Media by The Marketing Mélange. Winning with Social Media at Your Company: A Letter to the CEO by SocialSteve’s Blog. Mike Frichol.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. Have you looked at any tools that allow local users to speak on behalf of the businesses social media channels but then give an overview to the home office to watch all activities? That said there are some options.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

However, accurately defining and measuring customer engagement in complex business or industrial sales is still elusive. However, it is not so simple to measure customer engagement in situations with long sales cycles that’s commonplace with manufacturers, sellers of technical products and B2B consultative solution providers.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Kaila Strong | Dec 6, 2010 | 0 Comments Tweet Arguably, social media marketing for B2B companies is one of the most difficult campaigns to run. A Few Successful B2B Campaigns IBM, the technology and IT consulting giant, started using social media for B2B marketing before many were even on social networks.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Translate Features into Benefits if You Want Your Marketing Content to Engage and Sell by Achinta Mitra on July 6, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies Marketing 101 teaches you “Customers buy benefits and not product features.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2011

Even though social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) adoption is lower among industrial marketers, YouTube usage by manufacturers (50%) is higher than other B2B marketers (38%). So I went to YouTube to confirm the report’s findings. Here are three examples that I found on YouTube.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? Create content – It is easy to get bogged down with the design aspects of a company blog. I say you need both.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Hubspot

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Use the Real-Time Insights Finder to gather information about your business' target audiences, or simply browse through the site's Facts & Stats. Source: Netcraft, Dec 2010) Tweet This! Source: Generations Online, Pew Internet 2010) Tweet This! 5) In 2011, the average shopper consults 10.4 million in 2010.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

According to Jill Whalen, CEO of High Rankings , “The solution is for all business owners to insist on SEO right from the start. If your designer isn’t an SEO expert (and most aren’t), it’s critical that they be partnered with an SEO consultant so that they’re not designing invisible websites.

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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! Subscribe to the top industry blogs in your market, both company blogs and personal blogs for ideas 10. Be yourself even if it is a company blog.

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 26, 2010

Twitter Twitter is a social media darling for any product launch, service or business. Facebook Fast becoming the key destination for many businesses and their products, Facebook offers some great built-in tools as well as demographic options to help gauge a campaign. Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:38:27 PM by Tony Karrer Great post.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric Boss & DJ Waldow’s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : The Wall Street Journal reports more people are turning to YouTube as their news source). It’s the same company that did the net promoter scores that kind of come up with a social media score that’s kind of parallel to that.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Unreasonable – No other company should have this goal. He said he had some very important business model questions for me and thought I could help. Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t watch TV or YouTube videos or surf Facebook. In 2007 I left an executive job in media to start a business. It’s not big enough.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! But what about the use of social media between businesses? Business-to-business (B2B) social media is a different animal.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Head over to my Flickr account to see a few pictures of our visit or to YouTube to see a couple of video clips of my favorite pavilions at the World Expo. Quick question: it looks like Backtype has changed its business model, removed the search feature from the website and instead is now focusing on overall analytics.

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