Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. You have to work on a pilot program – maybe even in secret – to show social media’s impact on customer satisfaction.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Find keywords and search phrases to include in these four places: Google Analytics (or whatever Web site analytics program you’re using) Look at your keywords report to find phrases that are driving traffic to your site.

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Paid Content Ad Building Branding Brand Identity 143

Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs. find out – [link] [link] Heasley and Partners Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Social Media Webinar Metrics Media Marketing & Strategy 117

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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Second, if you’re going to invest in a bunch of social media outposts, even if you don’t have a clear social media strategy , you should take every opportunity to link them together. The videos aren’t annotated to drive traffic to Facebook. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook.

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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. Thank you to everyone who reads Convince & Convert. Second, huge thanks to Joe and his team for the honor.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community. They get “Customer Service&# big time without selling anything, marketing anything or for their own advancement.

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Social Media Media Paid Search Agency CAN-SPAM 128

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Go beyond the obvious and use customer service metrics, social connectivity of customers, and Web traffic patterns as measures that matter. Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can study your Web analytics, and see which pages get the most traffic, and what questions are likely to be in prospects’ minds when they are on those pages. Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media strategists should help to do just that – build strategy – but I believe execution, especially blogger relations, needs to become part of overall media relations. I might add; Social Media can be managed by a junior marketing person. Tyler Excellent post.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Every good social media plan STARTS with a solid marketing strategy but social media efforts are sub-optimized if a company is too wedded to long-term plans and can’t respond to sales opportunities happening RIGHT NOW in front of their noses. This one is creating moderate traffic. future growth of social media.

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B2B Marketing Enterprise Management Planning Work Management 40

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

RowFeeder is the first business to be spawned from the buzzed about new tech incubator Untitled Startup – a “transparent startup&# in Seattle that even publishes their website traffic live on their home page. link] Komputery Sometimes I think, that people doesn`t work, but still analysing statistic, google analytics etc.

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Work Management 119

Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

And now, people are getting multiple email accounts (free via gmail and yahoo) in order to better manage their traffic. Email helps them boost traffic and stave off user attrition. None of the other media can do that, so it is still relevant and complete privacy is a hard thing to do as Facebook has found out. link] Jeffrey K.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

The opportunities, mishaps with technology viruses, popular gadgets and such all create a rapid opportunity path to jump on that popularity, host a video or post on a trending issue and gain traffic. Active listening required. Now if only I could figure out how to target the concept of tech support. Great stuff.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Lifetime statistics, cross-posting, multiple accounts, etc. Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# Tracking Google Analytics No surprise, this is my primary statistical source for Convince & Convert.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

These are some great numbers, and by great I mean they actually tell a story, I'm sick of statistics for statistics sake. Second, twitter is like an online billboard, a quick hit that drives traffic to the places I can really talk to customers in depth, such as a website or even a FB page. I love statistics like this.

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Twitter CRM Business Paid Search Agency 145

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I a short period of a month, he abandoned the outreach campaign because, although it started to build traffic to his site, it didn't result in a huge increase in sales. He has a very small start up consumer product company – has a FB page, a Twitter profile and hired me to do some outreach work.

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 159