Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there. And it’s free.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

To add a new twist to a thorny problem, I read a very interesting quote from Avinash Kaushik, the man who literally wrote the book on Web Analytics 2.0 , he said, “Engagement is not a metric, it’s an excuse.” Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to add Google Analytics to your Facebook Fan Page from the Social Media Examiner.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. You would be entirely wrong.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As Jacob Morgan does a nice job with this, promoting his book, events, and other resources on the right side of his excellent blog. I will give it a try – and not abuse the RSS feeds.

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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. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The background pattern in #2 reminds me of the album cover from Tommy by the Who – overall, a decent effort but it will always play second fiddle to Quadraphenia in my book. I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? I voted for option 2.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. Fink) Twitter Comment As always, great stuff. Sessions start October 5.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&# Two of my friends were too.

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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. Sarah Barnes Spot on.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Social Media? Somehow, thousands of B2B companies seem to have come to the conclusion that because they aren’t being mentioned 65 times per hour on Twitter, that social media doesn’t matter to them, or their customers.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Codify Listening & Engagement I still maintain that when the dust settles, we’ll all realize that social media is much better for customer retention than for customer acquisition. But that requires agencies to get beyond “setting up&# a Twitter account or other one-and-done services of dubious strategic value. (If

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

I mean it in a 2010, gothic cool sort-of-way in which vampires are smart, sexy, bankable characters who can’t be killed and are making boatloads of cash for the people who channel them into books, TV shows & movies. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. services like Twitter, Pownce & Jaiku. October 2007.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc. Hope that helps!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. I find Kindle to be easier and better as a book device.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. I advocate participating in Twitter, and I’ve certainly grown my own audience via that channel, and it should be part of almost every company or business professional’s social media tool kit.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. It’s a good choice for agencies, too.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. I’ve been wondering whether the Open Graph API will yield an explosion in Facebook-powered satellite applications (like the 2,000+ Twitter add-ons that all seems to start with “tw…&# ). .

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] He points out that at some level, we are all beholden to some stakeholder if we are doing business on the net: domain registrars, hosting providers, WP.com, Tumbr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I agree and I'll share my own take on the fact that Facebook and Twitter is still rented land. Will it start an “Unlike&# trend?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] He points out that at some level, we are all beholden to some stakeholder if we are doing business on the net: domain registrars, hosting providers, WP.com, Tumbr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. I agree and I'll share my own take on the fact that Facebook and Twitter is still rented land. Will it start an “Unlike&# trend?

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Twitter Tweetdeck I use Tweetdeck for serious twitter sessions. It’s a good choice for agencies, too.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced less by the grand, sweeping programs that take old marketing and put a fresh coat of social paint on them. How can I help you?

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