Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? This presentation: “Why Before How: The Keys to Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps&# also formed the basis for my recent MarketingProfs Webinar. That would be two strategies, not one.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

There are a few straightforward social media strategies that companies should implement to highlight their commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) to help build their social media shield and gain supporters. Don’t be Shy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

And that reality of the flooded inbox is very evident from steadily dropping response rates of only 1% to 3% range for traditional email marketing. The old email marketing strategy of batch and blast or spray and pray is no longer effective. However, there’s no denying the low cost of email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? But those differences are at the tactics layer, not the strategy layer. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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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?

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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. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine. What other social media fallacies do you have? You are indeed the perfect case study. Leave a comment please.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle by Achinta Mitra on September 3, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Integrated Industrial Marketing These days it is popular to say “Content is marketing currency.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You should spend considerable amount of time in planning your strategy for effective lead scoring. Social media among IT and business buyers of technology rose 50% over last year and finally pushed to majority status; 55% said they use social media as part of the technology buying process in 2009 versus just 37% in 2008.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 22, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website The Distribution Trap – How Innovations Become Commodities by Achinta Mitra on April 22, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Strategies , Sales Strategies I read an eye-opening article by Andrew R. The interview is split over four videos.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

If you are interested we formalised this approach as an overarching digital marketing strategy when we set up our agency in the UK. Although not an agency, I think as someone with a markteting practice, I agree it is very important to stay alert to the changing climate in communications and provide depth to our strategies.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches. 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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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Depending on the stage of the prospect, your content needs to: Move them from ignorance to awareness – define the problem and make your target audience aware of generic solutions and the benefits of your offerings. Move them from awareness to inquiry – get the prospect to sign up for a webinar.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

That was the good news part of the study. The bad news — more than a quarter (27%) have no specific strategy for customer engagement, and more than a third (34%) feel their companies do only a fair or poor job engaging their audiences. Marketers are getting in their own way when it comes to drafting their engagement strategies.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Build a library of various content assets such as published articles, white papers, online demos, webinars, videos, technical specifications, datasheets, case studies and customer testimonials. Another advantage of using social media is increasing your “likeability quotient.” The same holds true for video white papers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. applications like Facebook, Twitter, Skype, etc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

Use case studies to demonstrate tangible results. 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 It is all about the customer and not you and your company.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Second, if you’re going to invest in a bunch of social media outposts, even if you don’t have a clear social media strategy , you should take every opportunity to link them together. Jay, do you think this is a result of a lack of strategy, leadership, or clarity on the objectives? Sorry to the T-Wolves.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 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 Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Lion Brand Yarn found that their customer outreach strategy drove impressive e-commerce results – those who visited the company’s blog were 41% more likely to buy at the Web site. She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

No stack of case studies or conference road trips will do it, either. If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. But the job of arm twisting and education can’t come from outside.

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SalesIntel

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Structure and strategy play an integral role in SaaS lead generation. For example, a customer at the awareness stage may benefit from blog posts or case studies regarding relevant challenges to their business. While this strategy may improve your retention rate, it often comes at the cost of customer satisfaction. .

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

jmctigue Jay, you're dead-on (not head-on) about removing friction as the key to new marketing strategy, but at some point we need to expand our reach to find new customers, no? Sounds like a great case study. Sounds like a great case study. Isn't that where promotional campaigns serve a purpose?

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Scoop.it

APRIL 20, 2023

From boosting awareness to building trust to converting prospects, content marketing is a powerful business strategy no brand can afford to ignore. If you’re ready to improve your content marketing plan this year, but you’re not sure where to start, read on for eight of our top tips! Ready to revamp your content marketing strategy?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 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 Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 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 Why D.I.S.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

As you craft your content strategy, think about how your solutions can fit with what your ideal patient or buyer is seeking. Case studies of successes. e-newsletters. Social media posting. Creating an integrated media plan and calendar is essential. Targeted text messaging.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 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 Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

The tools of social media always change. And that’s why your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic. The next time you start thinking too hard about your Twitter “strategy&# remember MySpace. I think Myspace is a great case study but I don’t think FB has learned from the mistakes.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

We can see other companies taking advantage of Social Media; but, we are still trying to find the best way to develop more meaningful relationships as we integrate social media strategies into our own marketing mix – [link] The key to the process is “willingness.&# Thanks again, mate!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The graveyard of digital marketing is littered with the bones and business cards of those that dove in head-first with high expectations, no strategy, and no plan for testing and optimization of results. Early in my online career I did a lot of website strategy and online advertising. Or that a lot more people were now online.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

When they wake up, 59% of consumers check their email account before anything else online, according to new research from ExactTarget (disclosure: client) , in a sweeping survey of 400+ Americans. 39% of the people that check email first still use Facebook daily, but their motivation for doing so remains deal-centric.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 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 Are You Ready for the Opportunity Economy?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Content Strategy and the Dying Art of Execution - Junta 42 , November 4, 2010 Don’t get me wrong, content marketing strategy is critical to the success of a content marketing project. Not having a content strategy is like playing baseball without the bases (envision people running everywhere.not a pretty site). What is it?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

True Confession: I Don’t Have a Social Media Strategy - Dianna Huff - B2B MarCom , July 22, 2010 Social media gurus tell you to have a strategy. 8220;Not having a strategy&# was the #1 marketing mistake people listed on the survey Mac McIntosh and I did (the upcoming e-book will list the other nine).

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 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 Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Why Are Companies Not Valuing Judgment As A Critical Element The More Things Change, The More Things Change Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Im Jay Baer.

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