Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

One of our favorites is Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (another great book is I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew- you think YOU have problems? Dr. Seuss has a brilliant knack for illustrating life’s great lessons in his books, so I get as much from the books as my son does. I can recite that book by heart.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 22, 2006

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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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 ®. We’ll have Facebook page and other promotional stuff about the book online soon – including pre-ordering capabilities. “ Your Content Stinks!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

This is the overarching theme of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s new book Delivering Happiness, a Path to Passion, Profits, and Purpose. The book is presented in three sections. He writes in a breezy, accessible, invigorating style that makes Delivering Happiness the rare business book that is also a genuine page turner.

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markempa

JANUARY 24, 2007

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading! Now what do you do?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund ) finished up. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up for your email updates when you send one out, that person will receive it in almost every case. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right? Very helpful post, Jay.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

Sometime around next February (in time for SXSW), you’ll be able to hold in your hands, ponder on your Kindle, show off on your iPad, and maybe even listen on your headphones to a new book from me and my pal Amber Naslund. Plus, it’s like the personal trainer scenario. Huge thanks to Scott Stratten for the connection.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Because the real advantage email has over social is data. Great article! How can I help you?

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markempa

NOVEMBER 15, 2005

B2B Lead Generation Blog About Free Resources Get FREE Updates Instantly Get A FREE Chapter from my book. FREE E-Book 8 Critical success factors for lead generation Just tell us where to send your FREE updates Subscribe in a reader Podcast Feed Subscribe via iTunes Recognition Thanks for Reading!

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Tell me in the comments who influenced you and why, and you could win a copy of the uber-classic book “ How to Win Friends and Influence People. 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. 10 books are up for grabs.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

link] sadie harris 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media [link] [link] sadie harris 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media [link] [link] Social Tech Book RT @jaybaer: 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media [link] [link] nateriggs Hey – I knew both of those guys! I'd buy a book from him.

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SnapApp

APRIL 4, 2018

You have an expected close date, and are actively working with the person to get it done. . . At Jostle, marketing owns the lead until they book a demo so our primary measures of success are # of demos booked and the percentage of those that convert directly to an opportunity. in person meetings, phone calls) often close deals.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting. They like it. They’re pretty good at it. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. Two is very graphical no personality (you need personality, I don't on my blog where it's not about me but the content). I also picked 3 because there was no 4. 2 many words I guess?

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In most sales funnel presentations you’ll see a chart similar to the one above, but we think it’s actually easier to understand the sales funnel when you don’t use the buzz words for each stage. Pay Per Click Campaigns Pay-Per-Click (PPC) campaigns allow you to pay websites for sharing your advertisement.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. You can call it ButterCRM Frosting for all I care. link] Ian Greenleigh Great post, Kevin.

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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. The more email addresses a person uses across the social Web, the less ideal the results. Isn’t that worth the 5 cents per contact that Flowtown charges?

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Convince & Convert

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. Thanks for sharing this Jay.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. I'm taking some of your suggestions above and tailoring to what I *think* will work best for my personal needs. However, I found the default content excessive and the reaction of fans not favorable. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. The more one company shares their pitch, the more views it has, the more backlinks it provides, and so on.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. My book (and my work) grows far richer for this dialogue. My book (and my work) grows far richer for this dialogue. My book (and my work) grows far richer for this dialogue. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

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. Listening is the first step. Of course, that's another post.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

The email is well-designed, personalized, and compelling. So much so, that 49% of recipients take the time to write about their experiences on a website form Western River provides. How to use customer-generated content to increase sales. How can I help you?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Covering social media business strategy and personal power. I state my company’s primary functions in the first sentence of my current role, so that people can see what I’m bringing to the table alongside my own personal skills. They recommend that you only connect with people you know well personally. Newsletters.

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JULY 21, 2010

If you look at all these, these aren't social media lawsuits per se, but rather about content, licensing and the responsibility a person burdens. I don't know the full extent to each piece, but would love a legal expert to take these on and help us out in the social media space. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

[link] Eric_Hoffman I'm game, even if my game is a bit weak…in the month of March, for my personal blog, I saw a whopping 29 different search terms used to get to my content and for the work blog that I help to maintain we saw 190 different search terms used to get to that content. link] [link] Jamie Favreau Thanks for the lesson.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Instead of relying on Amazon or Netflix’s algorithm to tell you what book or movie you might enjoy, you can rely on the opinions of your friends. But, as Facebook continues to grow like John Candy at an all-night buffet, the number of possible connections for each person multiplies correspondingly. Social curation at work.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Buzz Mkt Turismo RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Buzz Mkt Turismo RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? Maybe that will one day happen to social media.we

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a major consideration for us, given how much I travel (and how much I’ll likely travel in the next couple years after The Now Revolution – my forthcoming book with Amber Naslund – is published in February). Personally, I love that you have all of the essentials in the car… the family, pets…and the wine!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

What do you think of this approach? Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. How can I help you?

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Single Grain

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Add in all the news outlets, company blogs, personal blog journals, school articles, online magazines…and this number rises even more to push your content back from the eyeballs you’re looking to win. Generally, beta readers are people you share a manuscript with to get a second opinion before you publish a book.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(. How can I help you?

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Marketers Can Buy Buzz by MediaPost Online Spin Max Kalehoff of Clickable presents some interesting findings on the (highly positive) correlation between media spending and word-of-mouth "buzz." Organic SEO vs. PPC? Neither is right or wrong, but they are both part of a complex communications and customer landscape."

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Hey, your positive feedback on my personal blog was extremely encouraging… can you take a look at my newly formed company's blog as well? Man, you are good, my friend. I'd love your thoughts. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews.

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