Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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Writing on the Web

APRIL 4, 2011

I asked Laura Carlson to share with you here some important perspectives on content marketing. Advances in graphic design and technology leave no excuse for not having vibrant, captivating content. With all of these advancements for content marketing, it’s about time we shred the white paper.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. The Content You Want, via the Channel You Choose The future of integrated communications is in consumer choice and personalized preference centers. (For

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 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 Would You Try It With a Fox?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

First, that our default state as a species is to create and share and collaborate, and we are just now moving back toward normalcy, aided by the vast increase in content creation and sharing mechanisms. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And, you need to start unifying your content strategy across all channels. 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. LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg. Here’s how it works: 1.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

3 must-read articles about social media (plus a bonus from the Convince & Convert vault) Sent twice per week (usually Monday and Friday) Sent at 1pm pacific time 3-2-1: it’s the greatest newsletter in the history of social media newsletters.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Smart, optimized content. And guess what?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. and hope for a.02

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Instead of a series of self-contained initiatives, build yourself a content ladder.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 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 It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Unfortunately, the same lack of content leverage applies to photographs as well. Why isn’t the Manifesto it’s own tab? Your Web site. At a minimum.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 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 Facebook Success Summit – 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook (..)

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

Looking forward to some great new content since I get tired of listening to that Jay guy all the time anyway! link] Ankit Bathija Waiting for the awesome posts lined up. link] Jack Smith Damn, one of these days I am going to make this list! link] jaybaer Write one up Jack! I'll be taking some time off to move in August.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

More from Convince and Convert Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Convince and Convert Recommends From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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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

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 ). Two is very graphical no personality (you need personality, I don't on my blog where it's not about me but the content). but a right-hand location on content sites. 2 many words I guess? link] Adam Q.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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. All the content shown in each email is clickable. Subscribers then receive a digest of all the content posted to the fan page.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

For example, an organization that would have spent $5M over ten years on a traditional ERP or CRM application (bought from an on-premise vendor) may spend $1M on a SaaS alternative such as Workday or salesforce.com. Great question. The ROI of many Enterprise 2.0 technologies can be relatively easily derived.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

“ Your Content Stinks! Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, I’d love for you to vote for my other two panels while you’re in the mood. “ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 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 Twitter Addiction Paying Off June 17th, 2010 |Written (..)

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

The more content pointing to your site from sites with authority the better. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. The story collection form doesn’t require a manifesto, video clip, haiku or any other content hijinks. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

I'm impressed with the quality as well as the frequency of your solid content. A must read w/ fantastic insight [link] topsy_top20k_en Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook: I’m very proud to launch my new ebook that chroni… [link] joncombridges This looks great! Will tweet and FB now.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 16, 2013

From prolific bloggers, to social media strategists, to revered marketing publications, there are a lot of distinct voices discussing the latest trends and relaying their unique perspectives about inbound marketing. Porterfield has roughly 70,000 followers for a reason: She''s well-versed in the ways of wooing them with great content.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. They may not realize that personality and function come first.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Again with the blogging, make sure your blogger or bloggers want to do it, if they are forced into it, you won’t get your posts on time. Who is responsible for adding content? You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6 million followers, and it becomes a national incident in minutes. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

link] #bgsd [link] Forge Communications You want killer content on digital? link] #bgsd [link] Doug Braun Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your Agency Services: [link] (by Jay Baer) [link] Laura Scholz RT @sixstringsnc: Want killer content on digital?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works (check it out) [link] [link] Meltwater Buzz RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] A Social Media Scoreboard That Works – [link] (via @jaybaer & @philsimon) #fb [link] Kim Brame RT @upwardaction: Great tool!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Company launches a media content destination for women. You're one of the original Connected Agencies [link] Brand Narrative This is interesting. link] [link] Katherine M. 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

MAY 13, 2010

I love your quotes and they are spot on!

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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

MAY 27, 2010

Since then, Bulbstorm has run several more Idea Challenges promotions for Tornados, with a success level that’s pretty astounding.

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