markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

A number of bloggers I know have become or are in the process of becoming published authors after starting a blog. A number of bloggers I know have become or are in the process of becoming published authors after starting a blog. 3: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation B2B Sales Generation B2B Thought Leadership 120

markempa

JULY 5, 2007

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. 3: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

Lead Generation 120

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Covering location -based services, Q&A platforms, platforms for press, and microblogging services, this guide will help you get a handle on how to start using them successfully. Marketing Takeaway: Keep up with the latest marketing trends to maintain a competitive edge. Initiate incentivized word-of-mouth contests.

Inbound Marketing 28

Inbound Marketing Social Marketing Planning Work Management 28

markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. On the other side, Ive heard numerous speakers and bloggers declare e-mail marketing dead. That’s simply not true. That’s simply not true.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Relevance Resources B2B Marketing 120

Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Buy your own product.

Social Media 148

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

So clients ignoring social channels and networks need to realize that traditional venues will continue to lose ground and their products and services will be left behind if they don't do as you've suggest and try those 'green eggs' [link] cheryl andonian RT @jaybaer: Would You Try It With a Fox?

Paid Search Agency 121

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markempa

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. 3: Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Leads Lead Marketing Qualified Leads 120

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

The ModernaDesign website makes no mention of App development as a service. I'd like to apologize beforehand for what will likely appear to be a lack of focus. From what I gather, Mr. Dennis is a html-centric web designer. This makes me wonder if Bob has any firsthand experience developing mobile, native apps.

Social Media 113

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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! And, I particularly like you thoughts on precluding the need for 'opt-in.' Great article!

Social Media 114

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Stratten writes: &# The space between the best services, often what a new customer receives and the worst experience is what I call the Experience Gap. I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? link] Social Media and The No-Brainer Customer Service Equation [.]

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Peer-to-peer 115

Online Marketing Institute

MAY 26, 2010

He suggests that brand awareness is the new measuring stick of a successful marketing campaign and says that only the first set of eyeballs are the ones you pay for—everything after that is word of mouth. Blogger outreach A key component to many, if not most, social media campaigns are blogger outreach programs.

Social Media 40

Social Media Advertising Channels Media Blogger 40

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer.

Social Media 127

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markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. RSS is still bleeding edge especially for non-bloggers. Bloggers over-hype RSS. RSS is still bleeding edge especially for non-bloggers.

RSS 120

RSS Salesforce.com Lead Generation Sales Leads 120

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. Is today the day you start integrating social media with marketing and customer service? Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

Conference 115

Conference Organization Paid Search Agency PR 115

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.

Social Media 153

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. Sales reps from traditional PR distribution services were even quoted as saying, “there’s a reason it’s free.&# – implying that it doesn’t perform well. Their magic?

Social Media 115

Social Media SEO Marketing Websites PR 115

Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

After all, why would they even be coming to your Web site unless they had questions about your product or service? I would also make a point to solicit input from customer service and sales teams, as they have more day-to-day interaction with fence-sitters. Yes, your prospective customers are confused and uncertain. To be entertained?

FAQ 137

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] Clinton Bonner Another #SXSW Accelerator company, this time covered by @jaybaer [link] –> @NutshellMail [link] 451 Heat New Email Service NutshellMail Simplifies Social Media [link] Would you use this service? This, I'll try.

Social Media 115

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Online Marketing Institute

APRIL 4, 2011

Remember this: with a company blog strategy, the organization owns (and controls) the content and discussion (assuming the organization isnt using a hosted solution like Blogger or a WordPress hosted blog). Support customer service and/or sales initiatives in the field. Simple word of mouth at/around the office.

SEO 40

SEO SEM Effectiveness Enterprise Management 40

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Collaboration with customers, suppliers, and other value chain partners is viewed as having the most significant impact on time-to-market performance. The mouvement that is likely to flame out is the ‘entire movement’ is continuing to do things the old way with the new toys imo. You can also try it for free.

Social Media 123

Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 123

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

Paid Content 133

Paid Content CRM Paid Search Agency Social Media 133

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. You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when. If you have a Twitter account, set up a CoTweet account to help manage interactions, and define who is responsible for interaction.

Social Media 140

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics.

Paid Search Agency 122

Paid Search Agency Social Media PR Advertising Agencies 122

Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. They really know the product, service, and benefits. population.

Social Media 147

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing. Otherwise, good luck.

Social Media 121

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. .&# And Now For Something Completely Different But here’s where it gets interesting. In addition to being Chief Jane of JaneNation, Lisa is also the Cultural Strategist for St.

Social Media 125

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# reading this article makes me feel the need to change my blog service, be better. This is really really helpful, especially for an aspiring blogger like me. They may not realize that personality and function come first. 5 ways to fix it.

Social Media 119

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

There's “bad&# advertisements and “bad&# uses of social media as well… Maybe you'd call it human marketing or even personality marketing, but the concept is really simple. Consumers learn to trust a human, and then they trust the info the human delivers on a product or service. Any thoughts?

Social Media 121

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

Released today (I was given a free, preview copy), Delivering Happiness chronicles the rise of Zappos from a half-baked notion to multi-billion dollar pinnacle of high touch customer service. The book is presented in three sections.

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

For now, the service is free, so if you’re interested, sign up soon. Mr. Lake told me that beta customers are likely to receive a discount when Swix switches over to a monthly fee service. They’ve only been around approximately 8 weeks, and they already have thousands of customers. I’m a big fan of these guys.

Social Media 117

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 117

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. But, if one of your followers tweets and asks you to solve a customer service problem, and you answer back, you’re engaged in a customer retention event.

Social Media 117

Social Media Webinar Metrics Media Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

By transparent, I mean keep it real and no lip service. Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Its really very helpful for one providing social media marketing services. Thanks for sharing. Im Jay Baer.

Social Media 137

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 137

Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Will send you a ping.

Analytics 40

Analytics Top of Funnel Research Webinar Metrics 40

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

I will continue to have the same clients, and perform the same social media strategic planning and coaching services that I do today. I'm connected with quite a few Indiana bloggers and they are all terrific. Interesting to hear your reaction to AZ vs. IN bloggers. The blog will remain the same. link] jaybaer Thanks so much.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 115

Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

At the end of the day, I guess it's another service and it boils down to the question – what do I tell and share about myself? link] (Facebook, friendships, and voyeurism) [link] David Goldie Interesting cross between physical and online marketing, through Facebook and Diesel. Interesting times, for sure.

Social Media 133

Social Media Media Curation Webinar Metrics 133

Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Geek Squad makes its living providing technology configuration and repair services, via BestBuy stores everywhere. They aren’t trying to sell you services – at least not at that point – they are being helpful. link] Tim Burrows You should check out what the Toronto Police – Traffic Services Unit is doing to remove the friction.

Social Media 128

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency CAN-SPAM 128

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Choose a reputable email service provider (ESP). JPM Accelerated Services-associated defendants were fined $5.9 In other words, bloggers who make an endorsement are required to disclose their connection with the seller of the product or service. Always disclose relationships with partners and co-marketing partners.

Paid Content 28

Paid Content Privacy Policies Advertising Agencies Telemarketing 28