Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. I recommend answering each question with a dedicated blog post, and a video – at a minimum. Your blog, naturally. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. Answer Man Once you’ve identified your top six questions, answer them.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The classic product marketing approach to social media is treating it like just another broadcast media channel by posting press releases, sharing events, posting videos and expecting to see instant results like you get with other online media like banners, text links and search. FOUND the ROI of Social Media for B2B Marketers!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

There are blogs, forums, quizzes, polls, and sisterhoods (micro communities based on women’s life stages like “caregiver&# or “widow wise&# ). So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

A good example of a company’s CSR successes is Target® with its long-standing commitment to schools and education. Showcase the strides that the company has made for the cause, whether this means funds donated, awareness raised, consumers reached, beneficiaries helped, communities improved, etc.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Taxi Mike is Here to Help During my recent vacation in Canada, I stumbled upon a fantastic example of marketing via helpfulness, from Taxi Mike in Banff, Alberta. It’s Coffee In another example of Canadian excellence in creating marketing success through helpfulness, a Starbucks in Richmond, B.C. It’s a Bird.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

A write up on a blog. That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI. A new product launch. Trade show. New YouTube video that goes viral.

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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. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!)

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

I can't think of many examples of that type of guts on the player side. Possibly a future blog post in that concept. link] jaybaer First time pettifoggery used on this blog. Great analogy. jefflogden You are so right, Jay. link] jaybaer Weird, isn't it? Maybe golf, where people routinely penalize themselves. Look it up.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Social media takes too much time and effort to not use every bit of leverage at your disposal, and creating content and uploading it in just one place is a tragic lack of synergy. Congratulations, and I'm sure this will lead to more… [link] Matt Martin Nice post from @jaybaer on getting your social media story straight.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. Look under “G&# for “glasses.&#

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

› Home › Column › Search › SEO Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website? Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. State Indicator – Turns orange when you’re in that section 2.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 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 “Like&# How I Look In These Jeans?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 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: Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble? For example @shitmydadsays (0 engagement account) – @jetblue and @groupon (low level engagement).

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

I will continue to have the same clients, and perform the same social media strategic planning and coaching services that I do today. The blog will remain the same. link] Karen As a fellow Hoosier and faithful reader of your blog, welcome. Many people have asked us “Why Bloomington? You're going to do great!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? Their support, open ears, and ability to lead by example. Inspired by Jay Baer blog post, “The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life�

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable. Don’t just let your clients post to their Facebook page willy nilly, or write random blog posts whenever they feel that WordPress urge. There’s certainly a methodology for attracting blog readership.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

That’s like finding a better way to punch people in the face&# is one of the more memorable examples of his outlook. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches. UNsettling Stratten has a knack for gaps. The rise of [.]

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Webbiquity

JULY 28, 2010

From there, Evans’ hour-a-day plan is laid out, starting with an exploration of the different forms of social content (blogs, video, podcasting etc.). consumer-generated media, touchpoint analysis, measurement and metrics, planning a campaign (ugh, social media campaign ?), Post on Google Buzz.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. Some of the guest writers blog on occasion at their own sites. None of them blog routinely. Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. His chronicle of an online study group at Ryerson University is a perfect example of the ramifications of widespread interconnectivity that society will be wrestling with into the future.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Take a look at this example Tweet below we used to promote an upcoming webinar. Take a look at an example from a recent webinar that we did here at Marketo. Once the event is over, you can measure buzz with www.hashtracking.com and sum up the best tweets with www.storify.com. After an Event.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Maybe you found this blog from Twitter? Traffic to my blog. Now blogging is another matter!! Hours of blogging per reader is probably 20! : ) Now there's a metric for you! Great blog on Time Suck ! Great blog on Time Suck ! Your Twitter goals may vary. Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

But the problem with email and social media is that too many people are positioning it as an either/or scenario. Several blog posts have foolishly been written about social media “killing&# email. For example, Flowtown’s data on me isn’t particularly accurate, because I use several different email addresses.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

If you make a blog or website, you have to find ways to get people to visit your site, thus affecting your search indexing. This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites. How do you get them to your website or blog? Social media has changed the way we communicate. That’s where the Pitch™ comes in.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Maybe your blog. I’ve been talking a lot about the integration of email and social media , and this is another example of using cross-functional technology to build content creation and deployment synergies. I'm also now using NutshellMail because of your blog! You run over to check your Twitter account.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Having clear language on blogs and websites puts the public on notice about your position vis a vis copyright. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook). The impacts and effects of social media are too broad for that. But now I realize that it’s not.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

We are aggregating vast amounts of data, and in our integration with Facebook for example, we don’t open up everything we get because some of it just isn’t relevant. RK : Measuring social media’s direct impact on sales. Knowing whether to respond to or ignore negative comments on a blog? Customer service?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 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 Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com. Lion Brand Yarn found that their customer outreach strategy drove impressive e-commerce results – those who visited the company’s blog were 41% more likely to buy at the Web site.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I mined my Google Analytics and put together a list of the 25 most popular posts that have ever appeared on this blog , ranked by total number of page views. 1 (Danny Brown) Tagged as: blogging , blogs , content creation , content marketing , Convince and Convert , cotent lessons , headline writing Did you enjoy this blog post?

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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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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 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 Why D.I.S.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. I think Facebook Lite makes Facebook engagement easier – maybe you will too?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 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 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Jonny Stark Wow, quite a few comments on here already!

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