Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Some of my favs include: Books – Content Strategy for the Web (Halvorson), Letting Go of the Words (Redish) Networks – The Content Strategy LinkedIn group Blogs – Here's a great list from Catherine Ventura (@catherinventura): [link]. Joining the LinkedIn group now. I actually work at Vertical Measures!

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

If you look at the chart below you will see that searches for “social media manager” (blue line) is growing, while searches for “inbound marketing manager” (red line) and “content marketing manager” (red line) are almost nonexistent. I see similar results when searching job banks like Monster or LinkedIn.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. When I personally want to engage with a company/professional, I typically follow on Twitter, sometimes Facebook at a later date (if I love their content), then ultimately email updates if available. I reserve email subscriptions for those I truly want to receive more from.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Then Linkedin. And More… Although I’m not using it presently, you can also configure your NutshellMail to include Linkedin and MySpace content, as well as updates from the Ning groups of which you are a member. You run over to check your Twitter account. Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Here’s the results for my friend and client Indra Gardiner from Bailey Gardiner in San Diego: Amazing, no?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Facebook is for people you used to know. I know this one isn’t mine.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It’s a boullabaise of advice and observations on social media, viral marketing, and customer experience, with a side order of social media how-to. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

and/or Linkedin Answers, or create a series of helpful YouTube videos ( like Coldwell Banker ). Is today the day you start integrating social media with marketing and customer service? 6 things you need 2 incorporate into your social media plan. All rights reserved.

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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

I know it’s that time of the year that every blogger tries to put out a holiday-themed blog; well this is mine. We will be enhancing our outreach with more influential bloggers and editors. Paid Media. Plan search campaigns within the funnel. Make LinkedIn your personal home page. Happy New Year!

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

One of the best things about social media: we’re all still learning and figuring this thing out. Whether you’re in B2B Marketing, Social Media or any business, the world is getting smaller and great ideas come from all over the globe. . Why Does Social Media Matter. Social media is cost effective.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Yet, Mitch doesn’t see it happening in social media. Some Bloggers respond to the comments and some don’t. I have tremendous respect for blogger that are not too busy to at least acknowledge comments with a simple “thank you.&# I’ve seen some linkedin groups with great discussions. Absolutely not.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Really great content around B2B Marketing again this month. Social Media in B2B Marketing - Survey Results - Everything Technology Marketing , November 16, 2010 The B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn conducted a survey earlier this year to explore the rapidly changing landscape of social media in the context of B2B marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

RT @jaybaer: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] [link] Keith Finnegan RT @jaybaer Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] (Amen to that.) August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

They did, however, instantly create a Linkedin account [link] Albert_Maruggi Jay, what's consistently ranked as the most difficult aspect of implementing new technology? link] jaybaer I desperately want to interview the team and talk about the multiple departments and uncoordinated agencies that resulted in this mess. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? It’s also tough information for bloggers to get who haven’t had the traffic volume that C&C gets.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

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: 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Is Social Conversation a Myth? Maybe I'm crazy, but I think ultimately Linkedin may be in a good position here. All rights reserved.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. To succeed in social media, set aside your marketing plan , October 31, 2010 Forget your marketing PLAN? 0160; Brian Solis , a thought leader on social media and author of Engage! Have I gone MAD?? encourage you to restrain your enthusiasm. It scored 8.6.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. Your LInkedin page. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Your blog, naturally.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. " by @jaybaer [link] [link] Jan Firsching RT @jaybaer: Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

Over ~30 days, there are 24 sessions about everything social media , and because it’s totally virtual, one registration can cover your entire team or company, and you get access to a registrants-only Linkedin group and other networking opportunities. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

However, my preference is for the baby naming approach – selecting key performance indicators (KPI) before a single Tweet is sent, blog post is written, or Linkedin group is christened. This is because social media success is inherently slow , not fast. I’ve worked in both camps, and have seen both succeed.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. True Confession: I Don’t Have a Social Media Strategy - Dianna Huff - B2B MarCom , July 22, 2010 Social media gurus tell you to have a strategy. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. Featured Sources. The following are the top items from featured sources based on social signals. Are you Being Discovered?

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 28, 2012

He or she who knows everybody and everybody knows him or her”) and the sharer (“one who distributes information to the bloggers to journalists through the specialized webzines. Why Now Is The Time To Build Your Personal Brand by B2B Marketing Insider. 29 Social Media Leaps of Faith by Heidi Cohen. You want loyalty?

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. Gowalla For presence-based status updates, I use Gowalla.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Add data collection fields for Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin (at a minimum).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

I've been posting questions to LinkedIn Answers like crazy, curating the answers I receive, and then informing those that provided the best answers that they've been included in a recent post on our blog (they agree to this first; there is a disclaimer in the question). — [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh Great post.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

The drawback is that they are only tracking Twitter and Facebook for now, so if you need to monitor blogs, blog comments, discussion forums, Linkedin or anything else on behalf of your company or clients, you’ll need to gather that data elsewhere. The ease-of-use and Excel format of RowFeeder are big pluses for me. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. I find it to be especially valuable and hassle-free for updating Twitter, Facebook, and LInkedin simultaneously. Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. Gowalla For presence-based status updates, I use Gowalla.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

But for good reasons. I have met so many great people and made so many connections which I wouldn't have made on Facebook or other tools. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 14, 2012

This is Episode 20 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Read on for insights from Katie and our Social Media Stat of the Week ( this week : 47% of B2B companies do not track brand mentions on social media). They surveyed over 1,000 B2B and B2C companies worldwide. Listen Now.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

At Genius.com, we understood relatively early (we announced our gURLs to track traditional and Social Media in July 2009) that while most B2B marketers are engaging in Social Media, very few are actually measuring it. The area of “metrics integration&# is especially interesting. All rights reserved.

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