Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

white paper from @jaybaer and @chrisbaggott [link] #blog #smm [link] arikhanson Bloggers: Does your blog have a long tail? new white paper from me and @chrisbaggott) – [link] /via @jaybaer [link] jeffespo RT @arikhanson: Bloggers: Does your blog have a long tail?

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JUNE 29, 2010

More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. We’re Making Progress Together As I see it, the recipe for improving the world through collaboration has three steps: 1.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp.

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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

MARCH 4, 2010

This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. What’s the Point?

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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? Just my two cents.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? You spell the difference between quick hit message distribution mentality and deploying social media as a brand relationship building tool. Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

And that’s the premise behind Flowtown , one of the most exciting new social media tools I’ve seen in months. “We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&# But, the current system is just the beginning. Ethan [link] Josh Lysne Hey Jay, great post.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! a vote for integration) [link] [link] Josh Shua Peters RT @jaybaer: Why is your email and social media being handled by different people? (a a vote for integration) [link] [link] Sumo Group Great article Jay – as always.

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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.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 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 UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing September 7th, 2010 |Written (..)

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] (this tool is a big time-saver) [link] Akash Sharma RT @jaybaer Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] (this tool is a big time-saver) [link] Jeff Tucker I too set up NutShellMail and even added a tab for it on one of our Facebook fan pages.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

They're bots and goofballs who followed you using one of the tools you alluded to. First of all, half of those followers you (not you in particular, you being anyone) are including aren't real followers. There are just so many different ways people use Twitter that make it tough to use FPT.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 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 Social Media’s Internal Impact – An Interview with (..)

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

For every vote you cast for the keynote at South by Southwest featuring me and Amber Naslund , we’ll donate $1 of our book advance to Make-A-Wish Foundation ®.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

link] Don Ronlund Helpfulness might be your most effective sales tool. *5 When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Helpfulness = great marketing success.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. One thing that’s excited me is socialmention.com It’s unbelievable the amount of data they give you and the ultra-targeting you can do with a free search tool.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

People use Twitter and FB and other social media sites to provide word of mouth advertising whether it be negative or positive, it is some time of feedback of a product. Anonymous This is really interesting, because not only is Twitter its own culture, yet it is changing the marketing culture.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We have many good tools at our disposal right now we could be putting to use. To do so efficiently requires a good database solution and marketing automation and filtration tools that incorporate social media intrinsically. then who is responsible for innovationsupport of info and tool, e. I have seen this part kill a.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. .&#

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 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 Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter (..)

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 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 Co-op SEO and the Future of Websites July 26th, 2010 |Written (..)

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. I like your “monitor and respond to all&# thought — this is more of a public relations model than a marketing model, especially if we dispense with the concept of “impressions&# in favor of “contacts.&#

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 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 Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing (..)

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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. There are tons of free and paid tools out there that help you to monitor the conversations taking place. You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Thus, they have a built in “Events&# tool where you can plug in anything out of the ordinary, and that occurrence will show up in your integrated Swix reporting. RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] (check it out) [link] Scott Bauman RT @tamadear Very, very cool and useful tool. A new product launch.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 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 Tying Together Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility (..)

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

I love your quotes and they are spot on!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# I am going to look into your specific suggestions of using “popular posts&# , “similar posts&# and “sexy bookmarks&# as tools to get visitors to return more frequently than they do now. Most of your blog readers have no idea who you are.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez is CEO of Klout , a provider of influence metrics that is being incorporated into a variety of social media tools (including CoTweet , a client of mine) Jay Baer : What’s changed in the last two years or so with regard to access to influencer information? JB : Will these tools ever truly benefit the small business?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I believe Social media delivers new communications tools. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. Everything that’s transpiring around us is actually improving the existing foundation for our business, from service to marketing to product development to sales to executive management, and everything in between. Thanks for sharing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 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 The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing August 19th, 2010 (..)

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

The Science of Cities We used the online filtering tool Find Your Spot to narrow down our relocation options. And heck, you still manage to bring a really neat looking tool to your readers' attention amidst all that chaos. I'm connected with quite a few Indiana bloggers and they are all terrific. Are you going to SF?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 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 What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce June 3rd, 2010 |Written (..)

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