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. On a near-continuous basis, consumers are asking for help making purchasing decisions. 6 things you need 2 incorporate into your social media plan.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? In 2010, almost 50% of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found he… [link] [link] kelvin lee Online Community With Purpose and a Plan [link] [link] Santi Chacon Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads. Gordon I had the pleasure of interviewing Lisa last week for my blog and I hung up the phone thinking “finally.&#

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Search Query Length Signals Intent While there is often more volume for one and two word searches, the longer searches are generally much more specific, indicating consumers that are farther along in their intent to purchase. But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. 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. It’s just more authentic and believable that way.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Websites: To Publish Prices, Or Not To Publish…That Is The Question by Achinta Mitra on June 12, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies , Website Design & Development Do you show prices on your B2B website?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

83% of buyers review only three or fewer pieces of content before making a decision on purchases under $1,000, while 70% of buyers review four or more pieces of content on purchases greater than $10,000. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

It generates Web traffic (via search and social media linkages) and helps remove purchase impediments every day of every month. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers. Smart content creation doesn’t have an expiration date.

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Convince & Convert

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 19, 2010

Creating engaging marketing content is NOT clever wordsmithing B2B marketing content that will truly engage you audience and nurture them until they are ready to make the purchase decision, requires more than just copywriting and/or hiring someone who can put a clever spin on words. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

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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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

This tendency often neglects the other marketing channels that played a role in early stages of the purchase funnel. That was one of the key findings of the “2010 Lead Generation Marketing ROI Study” by the Lenskold Group. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Get the free “Step-by-Step Guide to Website (re)Design” now.

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Convince & Convert

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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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

It must help your customers make the best use of their purchase. 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 Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Extend its life by making your site content shareable via social media, RSS feeds and forward to a colleague. In complex industrial sales, researchers often do not have the authority to make the final purchase decision. Don’t ignore social media’s ability to quickly announce new blog posts, articles, webinars and events.

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Convince & Convert

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. If it is, we’ll include it in Viral Heat.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community. By being helpful and removing friction, you're removing purchase impediments. The bartender approaches, and asks if I’d like to hear the TV.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You are well aware of the fact that the Internet has completely and permanently changed the way industrial buyers purchase technical products and services. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo !

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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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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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

JULY 13, 2010

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. Your digital folks and your traditional PR practitioners need daily inspiration…and you can’t fulfill all of those needs and run a business.

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Convince & Convert

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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Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In cases where the so-called walled garden companies (Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon) are in possession of the data marketers need to evaluate efficacy, marketing attribution and predictive analytics companies often have forged relationships to help their clients penetrate these closed systems. Full Circle Insights. MRP Prelytix.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2010

There is a big difference between what B2B customers say they want and what really drives their purchasing decision. after they surveyed more than 1,200 purchasing decision makers in small, medium, and large companies throughout the United States and Western Europe who are responsible for buying high-tech products and services.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

39% of the people that check email first still use Facebook daily, but their motivation for doing so remains deal-centric. If you want to reach out to your customers who like to dress up in viking garb and sing showtunes on the weekends, social media has now given you that opportunity.

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Convince & Convert

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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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Sometimes it’s essential to step back from everyday marketing tactics to ask the bigger questions: not just “ how do we get more people to `like’ us on Facebook? &# or “what apps should we be adding to our Facebook page?&# but: why do we even have a corporate Facebook page? from MySpace to Facebook).

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Now, I’m not suggesting Foursquare will ever approach Twitter’s level of ubiquity, much less Facebook’s. It’s never going to be Facebook (unless Facebook buys them), but don’t ignore geo-location apps. I’ve personally discovered several restaurants that way). Go for it in the comments.

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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. it’s difficult to get into much detail.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

As my co-author Amber Naslund put it once “with social media, my relationships aren’t bound by geography or circumstance.&# Transitory There’s literally never a dull moment in social media. Facebook’s gyrations alone are enough to keep you on your toes. I have two favorite parts of social media.

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