NuSpark Consulting

JUNE 8, 2013

When I am not involved with business development, speaking, and my own social media marketing, I am usually on the computer with some sort of advertising, SEO, social media, or conversion optimization tool. I can also do some long-tail keyword research with it. Open Site Explorer. Buzzstream. Marketing automation doesn’t need to be expensive.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

While this is important for a blog like mine, it’s flat-out critical for e-commerce companies, and others that are blogging for business. But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think. I need to do some serious analysis to see how those 3,126 terms fit together, and dramatically expand my keyword usage.

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Moz

JULY 15, 2020

She told us that “business is like love”. Create for the linkerati (bloggers+journalists) 2. Ask journalists or bloggers if they’d be interested in reading your pieces, but do so before you publish it to take some pressure off. Joy Hawkins — Google My Business: Battling Bad Info & Safeguarding Your Search Strategy.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

RT @MikeCorak: Honored as guest blogger on C&C-RT @jaybaer: 5 Steps to Winning Fans with Content Strategy [link] [link] Abby Thanks for the resources. About a year ago, I wrote a guest post here titled “ Use Online Listening for Competitive Research. I actually work at Vertical Measures!

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Optinmonster

JANUARY 14, 2024

How do you know if you’re spending your time and money on the best digital marketing tools that are going to boost your revenues, increase leads and conversions, and keep business booming? SEMrush SEMrush is a comprehensive digital marketing toolkit widely used for SEO, PPC, content marketing, and social media analytics.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. We’re Making Progress Together As I see it, the recipe for improving the world through collaboration has three steps: 1.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

A subscriber-centric, unified view of email + social connectivity is what we need to move social out of the experimental phase and into true business integration — including (perhaps especially) at the enterprise business level. It looks like the predictions of email and social being two sides of the same coin are coming true.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

' I still see a huge value for a business to provide personal one-on-one customer service by maintaining a list of client thru e-mail marketing. You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. (For Great article!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Many businesses are past the point of asking the “should we be on Facebook&# question. There are five main approaches to using Facebook for businesses. It will change the way you think about Facebook for business. If it’s not now, it will be soon (see my post tomorrow for more on that).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. Tagging contacts in your CRM system requires nothing more sophisticated than one or two multi-select lists on your contact record. Look here for some clues [link] Do your homework – start here [link] – social CRM is not Advertising 1.0 and hope for a.02

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Last night while reading the story, it occurred to me that many small business decision-makers are like Sam- saying no to social media, without even being sure why. For small business, the costs of social involvement are dwafted by the potential benefit, yet the psychology of stubbornness remains. Social Media With A Mouse?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

And of course, I’d never share your email address (frankly, I don’t even know where to find it without help from my assistant, Jess ) Thanks as always for your tremendous support of me and my work here at Convince & Convert , and elsewhere. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

That being said, the “transition&# will likely go on for some time, meaning there's still quite a bit of business to be had and money to be made in mobile apps. The decision to go with a web or native app comes down to what makes the most sense for the business so there is no right answer to this one.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The faux testimonials on the back of the book are priceless, including: “This book is the greatest business book in the world, besides mine.&# - Author who only gives testimonials for people who give him one in return Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Having a social media policy is considered an enforcement action by the FTC, which can be important if you are sued for misleading or unsubstantiated claims on a blog or by a blogger.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 14, 2013

Hiring inbound marketers is a fairly new priority for businesses as they stray from traditional marketing to more inbound-driven, web-based tactics. What's better than a blogger for a dog supply-selling ecommerce site? A blogger with four poodles at a dog supply-selling ecommerce site! 2) Blogger/Blog Manager. Definitely!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Features being considered for inclusion in new releases include CRM integration; deep analysis of customers’ social graph and content they’ve produced (keyword analysis of your Tweets, for example); and even semi-automated social media response mechanisms.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

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

MAY 4, 2010

Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? For example, the markers for a jump to cloud computing for a declining retail company are quite different than the markers for a growing startup to embrace a business intelligence application. Absolutely. Great question.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). I'm am always grateful (and somewhat amazed) that people want to take time out of their incredibly busy existence to read my stuff. link] Social Business Bank Option 1. No question! link] Warren Fick Wow.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 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: Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches? I love your quotes and they are spot on!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. link] Jim Weldon 6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations: Now, marketing is the center of American business. because … [link] [link] Greg de Lima RT @greggvm: You bet.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Indeed, I use Twitter for all of the reasons above (especially to meet new people), but for me and my business, I have two core, measurable goals. For us, it has helped expand our consulting business, which is a real measure. By far and away it has been our best means of getting our story out, and capturing business.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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

MAY 25, 2010

What other aspects of the marketing services business are likely to grow like that? This focus on specificity rather than generality applies to business development, too. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Get Your Foot in the Door Selling One Service. Embrace Math.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

The Revolution is Coming I don’t think I’ve announced it publicly yet, but the final title of the new book from Amber and me (coming in February, 2011) is: The Now Revolution: 7 Moves to Transform Your Business with Speed, Smarts and Social Media Many, many thanks to everyone who voted on possible titles, and provided suggestions.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

I must say, that has to be the BEST business card idea I've ever seen. Just got my copy in the mail. link] Vishal Joshi RT @SMBConsultant: Staggering Social Media Insights »The Best of Twitter 20 eBook »Very Generous @jaybaer »[link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already? Does that drive business to you? How Does This Help You? Spread the net.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” Digging deeper into the failure, many times it is because the business did not understand who is doing what. The who is doing what piece of the puzzle. Who’s Doing What?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Businesses will surely veer between the two given the way their focus shifts. I do think though that every communicative act has to be rooted in some kind of strategy within the business.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# websitetraffic Call to Action is a great way of practicable business blogging, but it must be conducted in a very subtle manner. websitetraffic Call to Action is a great way of practicable business blogging, but it must be conducted in a very subtle manner.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. It’s entirely possible she is a Mass Influencer. Let’s break this down. Good stuff.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

If you use Wufoo to power your forms, you can hook up Flowtown to investigate, score, and sort your form submissions, and then alert you based on custom business rules. Sounds like it could really help businesses out in the social media realm. Let’s say you have a white paper for download on your site.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

From a business standpoint, it’s brilliant. 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: Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Basics Tying Together Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

And once the system was set up and the business rules determined, the company spends almost no time managing the program. But after that, Western River spends a few minutes a day on oversight and interaction, freeing up the rest of their time to actually run their core business. said Brandon Lake, Vice President of Western River.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

He writes in a breezy, accessible, invigorating style that makes Delivering Happiness the rare business book that is also a genuine page turner. The book concludes with a few pages about the science of happiness, and how personal and business happiness can be inextricably linked. Great story!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

None of that is impacted in the slightest by whether you’re selling to consumers or other businesses. B2B seems to be harder as businesses aren’t seen as ‘people’…which is weird as the last time I checked, most businesses are made up of people. Happy Christmas and New Year.-=

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