Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty. There’s an optimal time of day and day of week to tweet.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). Put another way, Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users. 19% seek customer support.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? We also find Facebook fan pages that try to explain product features (wrong again, as it’s unlikely that non-customers are going to fan your page, thus talking about features is preaching to the converted).

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Convince & Convert

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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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This blog draws on the heritage of my Forrester research. Disclaimer The views expressed on this blog are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer, Xerox Global Services, nor those of my former one, Forrester Research. 2) PR and TV are popular for building brand but trade shows and email raise awareness best.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. Bonus: My list of social media monitoring tools that I collect to share with others and test myself. 1 [link] #Tools #SocialMedia [link] Josh Lysne Hey Katie, great post.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

A 2010 study by Forrester research found that online viewing now equals that of TV viewing. Use Social Media for extended reach – Sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn are great outlets for extending your carefully-crafted public relations’ messages. However, the quickly expanding net also provides challenges.

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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. Nearly 85 percent of B2B decision makers are online and using social media to help in their decision making, according to Forrester Research estimates.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Will send you a ping.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

If 2009 was the year many marketers puzzled over, poked at and pondered incorporating social media into their marketing mix, 2010 was the year of diving in. Facebook added more than 200 million users last year, and Twitter more than doubled in size, adding 115 million. Should social media be under the overall purvue of marketing or PR?

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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. Facebook Insights. Twitter for B2B Marketing - MI6 Marketing Agency , November 18, 2010 Author: Chris Herbert.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), Facebook is the world’s most visited social media brand with 54% of the worlds internet population visiting the brand.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. It doesn’t have the advanced functionality of Tweetdeck (such as cross-posting to Facebook), but it’s so easy-to-use that it’s my favorite Twitter app.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

March 2010. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing for March 2010. We’ve hit a new low: The shittiest social media marketing plan ever - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , March 10, 2010 A local news and media company is getting into the social media consulting business. Best of B2B Marketing. You heard me right.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

MAY 3, 2010

April 2010. Five Big Shifts in Social Media Marketing - Webbiquity , April 19, 2010 Social media reflects a larger trend toward buyer empowerment that has changed not only the practice but the underlying philosophies of marketing over the past several years. Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff this month in the world of B2B Marketing.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 2, 2010

A B2B Marketer’s Guide to Great Facebook Pages from HubSpot (29 pages). Though Facebook is generally more effective for b2c marketers than on the b2b side (as even this report notes), there are nevertheless b2b companies standing out from the crowd by getting results through Facebook. How are they doing it?

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. It doesn’t have the advanced functionality of Tweetdeck (such as cross-posting to Facebook), but it’s so easy-to-use that it’s my favorite Twitter app.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The Techcrunch acquisition dispels those myths 2 days ago « People on the Move in the Social Business Industry: Sept 21, 2010 Upcoming Research Teaser: What do Employers Want in a Corporate Social Media Strategist? This, could, overtime go away as we’re seeing Facebook snuggle up to payment systems like Paypal in recent quarters.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

71% of companies now have a presence on Facebook. Dan Nelms dives into a Comscore report which found that although Facebook engagement is increasing (the average time spent on the site per user per month increased from 4.6 Twitter, Facebook And LinkedIn: Age, Ethnicity And Gender Of The Major Social Networks [STUDY] by All Twitter.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Data junkies, stats addicts, web trivia buffs rejoice — here are a deluge of social media, search and other marketing research facts and figures from 50 articles and blog posts published so far in 2010. Senior marketing execs see their companies moving to social media in 2010 by The Viral Garden.

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Convince & Convert

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. And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

August 12th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet We built our own Frankenstein. Facebook is preferred for information about the brand’s activities, and email is preferred for product updates. link] [link] Face to Facebook RT @jaybaer Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble? Interaction.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. Arik is the principal at PR firm ACH Communications, a digital PR consultant, blogger, co-founder of HAPPO, and (along with #Nifty50 award recipient Missy Berggren ) co-founder of the Minnesota Blogger Conference – #mnblogconf. You expand it.”

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