Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I’m constantly referring back to Forrester’s POST methodology when planning campaigns. For those who are not familiar with it, Forrester’s POST methodology is People (audience), Objectives, Strategy & Technology (tools & tactics). Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Combined with their above average income and above average education, Twitter users’ propensity to interact with brands make them a huge potential source for Mass Influencers (although Forrester’s research says Facebook is a better pool ). I'm trying to quote Forrester here somewhere. 19% seek customer support.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Love the slides, worksheet and Forrester tool. Love the slides, worksheet and Forrester tool. Love the slides, worksheet and Forrester tool. Thanks for sharing this stuff Jay.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

On the surface it seems there are more successful B2C social media examples than B2B, but online seems to be where its at if youre looking to market to those B2B decision makers. Nearly 85 percent of B2B decision makers are online and using social media to help in their decision making, according to Forrester Research estimates.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

[link] [link] Hot In Marketing 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – C. link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success.

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Will send you a ping.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Check out this post from @ktvan on choosing the right one [link] [link] B2B Online Marketing Very informative! It is very economical for a smaller PR agency or large (from $9.99 Social Media Monitoring Tools – How to Pick The Right One [link] #Tools #SocialMedia [link] martin s. I have to say that I am impressed so far.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. Is Your Online Marketing Strategy All Tweet and No Meat? Forrester: B2B Marketers Need To Keep Up With Business Technology Buyers On Social Media by Forrester Research. by HubSpot.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 9, 2012

In just a few short years, Twitter has transformed from an odd little sort of public IM service where people posted what they just ate for lunch or what their cat was doing at the moment into one of the big four social networks and a significant channel for news, PR & marketing, politics and more. Twitter for B2B Marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Sheesh, you are busy.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

This is geekier than even most search marketers will go, but can supply valuable insights. SEO Basics: 6 Tips for Google Webmaster Tools by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. Alex Cristache details five common SEO mistakes bloggers make that cause their sites to fare more poorly than necessary in search engine rankings.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Every Thursday night Jeremy Victor and a group of B2B marketers hold a B2B Twitter Chat session. People are now curating lists of the most influential bloggers by Klout score. While still a workhorse for b-to-b companies, e-mail marketing is getting increasingly stiff competition for mind share from social networks such as [.].

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), 70% of bloggers are organically talking about brands on their blog, and 38% of them post brand or product reviews.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

APRIL 5, 2010

Marketing Like the Big Boys—Facebook for Small Business - Content Marketing Today , March 29, 2010 A Quick Guide to Getting Started with Facebook for small business. B2B Online Marketers Focus on Lead Gen - eMarketer , March 4, 2010 Lead generation for B2B Marketing. Blog links are valuable for SEO.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Sheesh, you are busy.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 22, 2009

You don’t have to hire a PR agency to kiss the arses of the editors any more. Check… Read more… Doug Kessler | December 15th, 2008 | 3 comments Five Basic Social Theories of Online PR Roger , our web wonderwall, posted a terrific article on the essentials of Online PR. Your department.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

briankissel OpenID is currently being used by Google, Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, Flickr, Blogger, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, NTT Docomo, Yahoo Japan, Mixi, Hyves, and others. [link] My response was that a proper "Social Sign On" vendor should broker and manage all of those IDs and more so the website owner doesn't have to.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 6, 2011

Note: This post, a joint effort between Cheryl Burgess and me, originally appeared on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog last month. Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. Blogger for Huffington Post and @op_editorial , Marketer, Do-Gooder, Master Surfer! According to Tom Grant , Ph.D,

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S. 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. Im Jay Baer.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Facebook pages that use the words “collaboration&# or “blogger&# have on average three times as many fans as pages about SEO or optimization. But for 2010, 74% planned to increase their use of email marketing and 68% planned larger expenditures for social media. B2B marketing on social networks is expected to grow 43.3%

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This research raises two interesting questions: - Forrester published research earlier this year that said Facebook users (rather than Twitter users) were the source of much of the New Influencer population. Twitter for customer service, retention, support and even marketing, offers the lion's share of benefits to brands.

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