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MARCH 25, 2010

Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? Events & ROI The Swix team understands that to understand social media’s true impact, you must track over a lengthy period, while simultaneously accounting for external factors that could skew results disproportionately. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat.

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MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Event attendees often ask me if I have them written down, and I never have, until now. Twitter is for people you want to know. (I

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Unbelievable turnout (more than 260) for a first-time event, and tremendous kudos to Fred Von Graf , who organized it practically solo. Because tools will change. Fink) Twitter Comment As always, great stuff.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Reviewing this year's survey results I was surprised that, while B2B marketers experimented enthusiastically with social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn) and microblogging (Twitter), social media have yet to create budgetary or business impacts on the marketing mix. Note: this research looks at firms of 50 employees or more only.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users. facebook Rocks [link] objectivemarketer Facebook Success Summit 2010 @marismith @jaybaer @briansolis @mike_stelzner @ekaterinawalter and the likes. How can I help you?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We have many good tools at our disposal right now we could be putting to use. Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start. To do so efficiently requires a good database solution and marketing automation and filtration tools that incorporate social media intrinsically.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. I was just introduced to you and Scott via twitter. link] links for 2010-09-07 | Glenn Friesen [.] If he’ll be near you, check it out. Appreciate the recommendations of other authors,too.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

And that’s the premise behind Flowtown , one of the most exciting new social media tools I’ve seen in months. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# “We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&#

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JULY 5, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund ) finished up.

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MAY 12, 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 Would You Try It With a Fox? Just my two cents.

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JULY 27, 2010

I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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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. Maybe you will also.

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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. Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?

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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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DECEMBER 29, 2010

Tweet Looking back on an exhilarating 2010, I wanted to take a second to just say thank you. To me, it’s an interesting combination of tools recommendations and bigger picture trend coverage – just what I’m shooting for here. The 39 Social Media Tools I’ll Use Today. No frills, no flourishes. Just thanks.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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AUGUST 24, 2010

It gets spammy on Twitter with requests and DM’s, and then I see posts like this that, while the intent behind it is good (for MaW support), it could be viewed negatively. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

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. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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MAY 4, 2010

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline. How can I help you?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Anonymous This is really interesting, because not only is Twitter its own culture, yet it is changing the marketing culture.

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Marketing Insider Group

MAY 12, 2010

ROI” and “Sales” are the 4 th and 5 th most important metric according to Chief Marketer April 1, 2010 study. Many of us are guilty of falling into the trap of activity-based reporting: I ran 10 campaigns last year, I sponsored 3 industry events, etc. Because it is an easy metric to obtain. This is a quantifiable science.

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JULY 26, 2010

The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites.

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MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. The way Donovan McNabb hates T.O. The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. Comment away!

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Many of the statistics and results are consistent with what we saw last year: 9 out of 10 organizations market with content marketing. As we saw last year, Twitter is the most popular social media channel with content marketers. Twitter: 35% increase. I was surprised at the jump in Twitter AND LinkedIn usage. Consulting.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. Since April, 2010 Western River has collected more than 1,100 of these customer stories.

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JUNE 24, 2010

Go onto Twitter and bitch about Dish Network. Next, go onto Twitter and bitch about AT&T. Do you ever see him talking about insurance on Twitter? He talks to people about riding his bike to work, the ladies in his office, events going on in South Portland, stuff like that. Go onto Twitter and talk @ people.

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JULY 21, 2010

You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system.

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APRIL 20, 2010

I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Even if we talk about exact keyword-phrase the reality is a little bit different then keyword tools statistics. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. The statistical similarity shocks me. 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. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. The only thing that’s really certain, is that eventually the online tools will change. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. Stelzner on Vimeo.

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MAY 5, 2010

Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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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. How can I help you?

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JUNE 3, 2010

How coincidental that these two events are such perfect contrasts, and happened within days of each other… [link] Marcel Dezentjé 'What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce' Over 'met de billen bloot gaan' – [link] [link] Mike Stenger Abso-freakin-lutely Jay! And they can’t get just two little words right.

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