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MAY 5, 2010

Blog Modern B2B Marketing Twitter jonmiller2. In 2010, the pendulum will begin to swing back to investments in brand, buzz, and awareness – but instead of mass advertising, marketers will invest more in smart ways to build brand such as social media, search engine optimization, and content marketing. Jon Miller.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? That depends upon how many other people/brands they are following, and how often they check Twitter. Social media connectivity is digital bumper stickering.

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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?

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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

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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. All of this is happening to companies (maybe yours) every minute of every day. If a consumer emails a company, we’ve trained them to expect a response in a day or so.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics. I was just introduced to you and Scott via twitter. A tall order, to be certain.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Twitter is even narrower at 36% – 46%.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

arikhanson [link] Mike Cassidy RT @jaybaer: I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends [link] honored to be in such great company! link] Hot In Marketing I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends | Convince & Convert News | Social Media Consulting – Convince & C. Thomas for five days. How can I help you?

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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. Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? How Will You Be Human?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below. Maybe you will also.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Mike Cassidy made me (and a lot of other people) think differently about the intersection of social media strategy , and business objectives. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious.

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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? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? Social Media? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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Webbiquity

JULY 28, 2010

At roughly 340 pages of text plus another 42 pages of worksheets, this is a meaty book, but the end result of following Dave’s hour-a-day guide is a solidly justified, strategic social media marketing plan. consumer-generated media, touchpoint analysis, measurement and metrics, planning a campaign (ugh, social media campaign ?),

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Twitter is for people you want to know. (I You must fight social media fire with social media water. It’s not viral unless it is.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

It gets spammy on Twitter with requests and DM’s, and then I see posts like this that, while the intent behind it is good (for MaW support), it could be viewed negatively. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Each of the 27,000 companies that use the service had the same goal – to share their pitch. The more one company shares their pitch, the more views it has, the more backlinks it provides, and so on. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. We hear how twitter and the other SM tools will help to get you on top, blah, blah but that only happens so few times. Blogging is a commitment to yourself and anyone reading.

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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? Swix also plans to publish its own API so that third-parties can push and pull Swix data into other applications.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. million followers on Twitter? But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 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 Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Package for Consumption Observe what types of content social media users are interacting with and where. prepare TV review content about HDTVs for twitter and blog comment distribution). Very helpful as our company moves forward with our plan for Social Media. – Thanks Mike! How can I help you?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Testimonials are a huge part of the infomercial world, as they are for effective social media. Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. Go onto Twitter and bitch about Dish Network.

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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. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off. Let’s say you have a white paper for download on your site.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

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. JB : How are companies incorporating influence metrics into their marketing? Should companies treat customers differently?

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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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