Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. Todd Defren and Dell have both shared excellent examples to build from. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed. Know the limitations and the extent here.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

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JUNE 17, 2010

60 Certainly, there are many other factors that contribute to number of followers, and I’m not saying this is in any way a metric judging how influential a person is on Twitter, just how efficient their Twitter usage might be. Had it connected me with many people I'll never meet in person? Gary Vaynerchuk has a FPT of 39.26.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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. Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. This, I'll try.

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MAY 5, 2010

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

I’m sure that there are many of you who have heard (or perhaps personally believe) something similar. For example, if you’re searching “ how to know if you need an ac repair company ,” you most likely wouldn’t find this type of content on a corporate website. Links Let’s be real. White papers?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.” BTW, this post is a working example of content curation. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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APRIL 1, 2010

link] Chris Hall Jay as a lifelong T-wolves fan (the team’s life not mine), and a person involved in social media I have to say, awesome! But I wasn’t the only person doing this, and by no means was I doing it any more than anybody else in the community. As always – great piece Jay.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

The email is well-designed, personalized, and compelling. Remember, the first step in social media effectiveness shouldn’t be building an empire of half-baked, free-standing social outposts, but rather determining had to add social frosting to your existing marketing cake. How are you integrating social media into other programs?

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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. While demonstrating the company’s commitment to education, Target also created a local solution to a national issue by personally connecting with parents through a timely and innovative social media campaign.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Personally, I love that you have all of the essentials in the car… the family, pets…and the wine! What a great example to set for your children. I was struck by what a great example & experience you're providing for your children. I'm connected with quite a few Indiana bloggers and they are all terrific.

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JUNE 22, 2010

The only problem I've encountered is the trepidation associated with personal blogs. Right now we are shying away from use of personal pronouns in order to maintain a more formal business tone. It doesn't seem to hamper traffic, but I do wonder how a blog can grow in its readership if the personal connection isn't there.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

While the merits of this particular implementation of Facebook-fueled connectivity can be debated, it’s a good example of the increasing frequency and intensity of “friend&# involvement we’re going to see in the next 12-18 months. How Much Friendship Do We Need? We sure as hell don’t lack for information at this point.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. 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. This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites.

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Carnegie’s principles: You can make someone want to do what you want them to by seeing the situation from the other person’s point of view. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. I don't know why, but that has always stuck with me.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we develop a sustainable, ongoing social media strategy that will turn customers into advocates over the long haul? How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? Everyone, ultimately, is as ‘bad’ as each other when it comes to SM. Does that make sense?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. that social media is not just for “kids.&# It’s about humanization.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

On Twitter for example, if you’re tweeting about your company’s new product, you’re engaged in a customer gain event. If there's a crisis, for example, they're going to be out there broadcasting their crisis management blogs but also reacting to customer issues. Man, you are good, my friend.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I maintain that as Facebook continues to tie together the real-time Web with the open graph, Twitter usage will inexorably shift from person to person connectivity, to customer to company connectivity. For example @shitmydadsays (0 engagement account) – @jetblue and @groupon (low level engagement).

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Some Bloggers respond to the comments and some don’t. Those that do have comments, usually have no further comment from the person who left a comment in the first place. The problem is not that people are too infatuated with their “personal brands&# and refuse to engage meaningfully. That’s not a conversation.

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MAY 11, 2010

Back in those days, face-to-face networking at business events was really the most effective way to make the connections needed to get a chance to propose your product/service to the right person and it sometimes took dozens of events before the opportunity presented itself. Maybe you guys have other examples where that is not so.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here’s the distribution of number of words in each of these headlines: 5 word headline = 2 posts in top 25 6 word headline = 3 posts in top 25 7 word headline = 8 posts in top 25 8 word headline = 9 posts in top 25 9 word headline = 0 10 word headline = 4 posts in top 25 Clearly, I write longer headlines than many other social media bloggers.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I was using you as a great example of a blog with focus and intent during my panel discussion, and this comment from you showed up on my phone at the exact same time. I was using you as a great example of a blog with focus and intent during my panel discussion, and this comment from you showed up on my phone at the exact same time.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I looked at Meltwater Buzz a couple of months back and thought it offered a better platform than Radian6 (which is a good option in itself and often used as the industry example). What I mean is that California for example always shows up with the most posts. Historical data seemed more robust as well.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Let’s look at a few examples of companies that have done this successfully: Yelp’s Elite Squad: Yelp operates a social networking, user review, and local search website for members to post reviews and get user feedback on local businesses and restaurants. Are Gardening Forums social media?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The best example I’ve ever seen of this is from a company called ThinkGeek , which prides itself on carrying the most robust collection of unique, thought-provoking products with the biggest nerd appeal on the planet. But the best example I’ve seen is on their Facebook page, where one fan posted an update on their wall — in BINARY CODE.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2015

You already know a social media plan can really help you share your content and connect with your audience. In fact, a solid social media plan helps us at CoSchedule get 31.5 So how can you actually build a social media plan that works for you? 8% plan to use videos. 5% plan to use infographics.

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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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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Certainly in this era where people actively seek information that is pertinent for their needs, questions or buying journey, personalized and valuable content is crucial. People are now curating lists of the most influential bloggers by Klout score. Oracle’s Updated Social Media Policy - Paul Gillin , November 24, 2010 Dated 11/22/10.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. MySpace adopted that spirit of personal scrapbooking, and let its members commit unspeakable crimes against HTML, fonts, color schemes, and animation. Best sentence ever!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. See an example at the bottom of this post (the little squares that animate when you put your cursor over them).

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

High bounce rate — is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entry page. For example, fill out a form to download a white paper, register for a webinar, submit an order etc. For example, the search term “industrial valves” yields 238,000 pages in Google.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

I haven’t seen a recent study on the number of email accounts the average person has, but I’m guessing it’s declined slightly–aside from we crazy online/social marketers who have accounts for every purpose. It lets them know that there's a real person associated with the account. Why is this? Great post.

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MAY 19, 2010

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