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MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. While many organizations have got social media religion, there are many others still swimming against the stream. I like the way that you phrase that. Enterprise 1.0

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JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. A good example of a company’s CSR successes is Target® with its long-standing commitment to schools and education.

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MARCH 4, 2010

effective social media campaigns that left no question of their effectiveness. JeffBullas.com How to measure social media. Like the rest of social media can be of great value to your small business in many ways if you know [.] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Testimonials are a huge part of the infomercial world, as they are for effective social media. Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. Relationships.

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MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. 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

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JUNE 3, 2010

Their transparency on the effects side less so, based on new photos today of oil-soaked birds, etc. link] Kade Dworkin Brilliant piece showing the effect of "I'm Sorry" RT @jaybaer: The two words BP should steal from umpire Jim Joyce. We may be the least vindictive, grudge-holding society ever.

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APRIL 28, 2010

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%. Consequently, look to your Facebook fans, or use of the new Facebook “like&# feature as a marker for Mass Influence. (It

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JUNE 22, 2010

The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook). The impacts and effects of social media are too broad for that.

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APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates. and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention. Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. What shows up in these search results?

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MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Your LInkedin page. Your blog, naturally. Put it on YouTube of course.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. The range of Facebook usage is just 37% – 51%. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

The old ways of pushing out content is no longer effective. Here’s a short but highly informative slide show that explains how to use content effectively as inbound marketing. Junta42 reported that for the third straight year, marketers are planning to spend significantly more on their content marketing efforts.

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JULY 28, 2010

Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. 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: Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Ask your customers directly.

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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. 87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Look on facebook.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

I don’t deny that effective SEO does take experience, expertise and time to produce results. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. White papers: Without a question, this continues to be the most effective content to build your in-house list. However, these tend to be far more effective in the later stages of the industrial buy cycle.

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JUNE 19, 2010

Creating effective marketing content requires a well-rounded skill set that includes researching, interviewing subject matter experts (SME), customers, and internal stakeholders, compiling all that information into cohesive content and a basic understanding of any existing content management system (CMS) to update your online content library.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 per week in 2006.

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MAY 26, 2010

Allocating online marketing in a broader and deeper fashion across multiple programs not only helps you connect with more potential buyers throughout the buy cycle, it helps prevent a key mistake that some marketers make: relying only on the ‘last click’ to determine which marketing programs are effective in bringing buyers to your company.

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JULY 23, 2010

Those punch lines and stereotypes may be amusing but they won’t really help you come up with an effective site redesign. It shouldn’t be an afterthought because retrofitting SEO after the redesign is typically not very effective and usually costs more. I have even read statistics where Facebook is now drawing more visitors than Google.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

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. TA : Most companies are looking for listening tools to do two things: show trends and anomalies; and show cause and effect.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers. Thanks for the post.

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MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. There you have it, six quick ways to make you business blogs even more effective.

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MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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JULY 29, 2010

That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. In addition, companies that reported using more sophisticated measures of ROI reported that their marketing efforts were highly effective and efficient at engaging than those not using financial metrics.

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APRIL 13, 2010

While it pre-dates the Internet (and commercial air travel, ATMs, competitive eating, Red Bull and a lot of other stuff we take for granted), its core premise serves as the foundation for social media effectiveness. See my review of the iPad review here) This content would also make a fantastic Facebook application.

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MARCH 23, 2010

If you can successfully answer their question, perhaps something like “how do I maximize my blog’s effectiveness?&# At first, you knew everyone at the party. They arrive on your blog because they have a question in mind, and are hoping that you can answer it. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Why can’t your social media program do that? The best – and most effective – social media programs aren’t based on promotions and message distribution. You might also enjoy this interview series of social media experts: [link] [link] benedetta Hi Jay great post. They monitor SM and help customers and noncustomers alike.

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MAY 25, 2010

I was there speaking at the Counselor’s Academy PRSA annual conference.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients? Better question: How can we optimize and improve our existing social media programs? What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? How can we make a viral video that gets thousands of views?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 20, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on July 20, 2010 in B2B Marketing Collateral , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing , Sales Strategies To be successful in industrial and B2B marketing, one has to engage with prospects and customers in a meaningful manner. Then, the teams developed a plan of action. . –

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# What other social media fallacies do you have?

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? by Achinta Mitra on September 27, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Industrial Websites , Sales Strategies , Social Media Marketing Remember the very first music video ever played on MTV?

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