Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 15, 2010

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. The same dynamic is present on Facebook. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Convince & Convert

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. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

But while social media offers an opportunity to extend the reach of a brand message, it also presents great risks through that extension. The answer is that brands have a compelling need: …to communicate who you are as a brand and what you stand for through social media in a far more consistent, strategic and global way.

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Content Standard

JUNE 12, 2018

The unexpected success of the Vatican’s social media strategy may seem like a miracle. Overall, the Church doesn’t seem like the kind of organization that would flock to Twitter and Instagram as part of a global social media strategy. Behind the Pope’s Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The reason I believe marketers are so confused about social media is because of this paradox. This misses the point, of course, since social media is about customer relationships and not really about the technology at all. Social Media And Your Personal Brand. The reason is context.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

While alterations to search algorithms are helping to bring this to fruition, social media has been the real game-changer, placing the power of relevance distinction in the hands of the consumers. Package for Consumption Observe what types of content social media users are interacting with and where.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 26, 2010

These resources include everything from how to get started, tips for building a social media community and how to calculate key social media metrics – just to name a few. In addition, these social media lessons from Jeremiah Owyang will explore how to establish and calculate key social media metrics.

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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 1, 2010

These resources include everything from how to get started, tips for building a social media community and how to calculate key social media metrics – just to name a few. In addition, these social media lessons from Jeremiah Owyang will explore how to establish and calculate key social media metrics.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Forrester Research shows that from 2009-2014, U.S.

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The Effective Marketer

AUGUST 2, 2010

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Fail at Social Media The challenge of keeping up with the competition in the social media space is not new. The solution, it seems, is far more complicated. United States License.

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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. Or, you could just use Swix, the super slick new social media scoreboard that just works.

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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. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. You might want to test this. • What about you?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Download Michael’s presentation here. All that stuff?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. But as I pondered this connection, I realized that there was a portion of the advertising world that shared a lot of elements with social media – infomercials. The same is true in social media. But, I’m not.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Outstanding research from Tom Webster that debunks some common myths about social media. Social media is growing up fast. No longer a niche plaything of the digerati, social media is firmly entrenched as a societal game changer of historical importance. 9 Surprising New Facts About Social Media in America.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

At the same time, you know that social media has changed the marketing landscape : shouting to prospects with endless email offers may produce leads but you’re worried about the longer term implications to your market. So how do you incorporate social media into the marketing mix? Social media?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2011

Social media is growing up fast. No longer a niche plaything of the digerati, social media is firmly entrenched as a societal game changer of historical importance. Data about how social media really works, who uses it and how, continues to surprise. 9 Surprising New Facts About Social Media in America.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 7, 2011

Social media marketing has progressed from radical new idea to widely adopted practice in a remarkably short period of time. Facebook added more than 150 million new users in 2010. Social efforts will permeate the enterprise. “Social is much bigger than marketing and PR. Social media will become targetable.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

The book is presented in three sections. My favorite is the “Face Game&# whereby every time an employee logs on to the Web, he or she is presented with a photo of another employee, and a list of names. Saw Zappos featured this wkend on tv.

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Convince & Convert

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. I think this book perfectly captures this exhilarating moment in time.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 11, 2011

Here’s an example of strategic social media in action for our client, SunButter. These were the kind of conversations we found when we started listening to people talking about SunButter in 2010. It was a logical next step to create a social media strategy that turned these fans into SunButter advocates.

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Customer Experience Matrix

MARCH 19, 2010

Summary: some published examples of "hard" ROI from social media. As part of the preparation for next Tuesday’s Webinar with 1to1 Media and Neolane (register here ), I poked around for some concrete examples of ROI from social media. Here’s what I found.

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The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Social Media’s Next Victim? And now with social media, there’s no telling who will be the next United to see its market cap hurt because of a blog post or youtube video.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances. link] UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media … | eBook Reviews [.]

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The Effective Marketer

MAY 25, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Webinar Presentations That Suck You are not even 3 minutes into the webinar and you know it: The presentation will suck. but this person can also interject during the presentation to create a dialog.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Social Media? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. For whom is it more important to have a humanizing social media presence?

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 12, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking Presenting Effective Charts Are your impressive charts effective? Sounds simple but often times I see charts presented just because they ‘look nice’ or because they show data. Stop doing charts in Excel.

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markempa

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ann wanted to know how happy the group was with the lead generation results of their social media campaigns. Her question, and too many of her 30-plus responses, illustrated the disconnection between the expectations of marketers who are out on the frontlines every day and marketing gurus proclaiming the wonders of social media.

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markempa

JANUARY 11, 2011

Ann wanted to know how happy the group was with the lead generation results of their social media campaigns. Her question, and too many of her 30-plus responses, illustrated the disconnection between the expectations of marketers who are out on the frontlines every day and marketing gurus proclaiming the wonders of social media.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Tweet Looking back on an exhilarating 2010, I wanted to take a second to just say thank you. There’s a LOT of places you could go to get you social media and digital marketing fix, an d I’m incredibly honored that you choose to spend time here. The 39 Social Media Tools I’ll Use Today.

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Marketing-Gimbal

JANUARY 26, 2010

I gave a presentation at Social Media Arizona yesterday on 10 trends for social media in 2010. 10 Trends For Social Media In 2010 Social Media. Its in the context of marketers and business. Let me know what you think.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. How can we convince our clients that we’re good at social media?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Sure, you can centralize some of your social media chores (great post by Chris Brogan), by using Tweetdeck or Seesmic. For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You run over to check your Twitter account. Then Linkedin.

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Convince & Convert

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. Why ignore it?

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

The Effective Marketer Effectiveness is a discipline and it can be learned Home About the Effective Marketer Books Speaking How to Use Social Media – Lessons from AMA Digital Conference This past Friday (March 6) the AMA Tampa Bay chapter hosted an incredible full day event called the Digital Marketing Conference.

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