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?&# Imported a 4th address – get a picture of Bruce Lee informing me something has gone horribly wrong.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In Needs Awareness and Research phases, the first two stages of the industrial buy cycle (see my earlier post Deconstructing the Four Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle ) your prospects and customers use a variety of online content to find solutions to their current problems and needs.

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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. trying to get at information, oops scratch that b. then getting the information out.

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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. I’ll be back in a couple weeks.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 29, 2009

Together we listed our best practices on how to make both social media and email marketing work hand-in-hand. This will also help prevent there from being gaps in your overall marketing strategy or conflicting information in different marketing messages.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’m not talking about a cosmetic facelift but turning it into a marketing powerhouse as you position your company for the recovery. Optimize, optimize, optimize : That’s the golden rule of online marketing as is location, location, location in real estate. Sometimes you need help with a specific marketing challenge.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

There have been many studies done over the years that indicate that price information is the very reason why most B2B buyers visit a vendor’s website. The results from three separate studies confirm this: 61% of engineers surveyed indicated pricing information as one of the primary reasons to visit a vendor’s website.

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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. That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media. But, it's not all conversational.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 26, 2010

Here are some stats, results and recommendations that I found very useful: In the Needs Awareness and Research stages, buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, Webinars, e-newsletters, search engines and [vertical search engines like] GlobalSpec. There are plenty of charts and graphs too.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Informative how-to blog posts? For more information, visit Vizions SEO Blog. Unless they’re mentioned in the news, do they really have interesting content that you – as a blogger/journalist - would want to link to? What do people like to link to? White papers? Case studies? Follow Mark on Vizion Interactive at @vizionweb.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Did your content creator (photographer, writer, designer) give you permission to post their work on Facebook or YouTube and hand over their control to Mark Zuckerberg? Did you catch that part about being transferable and sub-licensable? Will they pursue you?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Your prospects are at different stages of their decision making process when they visit your site.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

The more detailed and specific information you can provide with the least number of search queries or clicks, the better will be the user experience. The shelf life of your content is pretty short because new information is generated very quickly on the Internet. While social media marketing may be cheap, it is not free.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. Those who lack the knowledge of providing useful information or how/what to provide? Those who lack the knowledge of providing useful information or how/what to provide? Those who lack the knowledge of providing useful information or how/what to provide?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Haven’t you?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. The only thing that’s really certain, is that eventually the online tools will change. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Here are my top five industrial marketing lessons: Lesson #1: Save them time Most engineers, especially design engineers are already overloaded with work. Anything you can do to help them find the right information quicker will score big with engineers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%. Consequently, look to your Facebook fans, or use of the new Facebook “like&# feature as a marker for Mass Influence. (It

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook, of course. Ironically, Facebook itself started as humble website. But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife.

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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? – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] Aussie_Sheila Great post! Thanks for providing information that is not just general chat on the subject.-= Thanks for sharing the very useful information with the rest of us.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates. and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention. Content from your competitors?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). Put another way, Twitter users are 3 times more likely to follow brands than Facebook users. 19% seek customer support.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

However, to be successful in your online marketing, you must come up with fresh and interesting content regularly. Studies have shown that people retain information quicker and longer when you engage their visual senses. If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

markwilliamschaefer I would add that for commerce-oriented blogs, it would also be possible to track clicks back to a commerce-related part of a website for product information, registration, etc. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

I searched Wikipedia for information but couldn’t find an exact definition. Instead, I found something on Media Curation, which I thought was close enough: Media Curation is the emerging trend toward creating media content using a mix of machine and human resources. So curated content is not something new.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” The Facebook page was a failure because they were not engaging their audience, they were just collecting names. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

It generates Web traffic (via search and social media linkages) and helps remove purchase impediments every day of every month. It’s an information annuity that can’t be replicated elsewhere. RT @jaybaer: Why Content Marketing Matters To Me And Should To You [link] [link] John Lane content marketing = information annuity.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

In re-reading each of these interviews multiple times to create this compilation, the information and insights conveyed in a short format are exceptional. Thank you so very much to each of the Twitter 20 participants, who gave so freely of their time and their knowledge in the true spirit of social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 30, 2010

With a majority of marketing efforts going digital, that means even more content is needed. Not just any content, but ideas, information and expertise they find relevant and helpful for answering questions they have about problems they’re trying to solve. Designing content for 1X use is wasteful.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way. I’m constantly referring back to Forrester’s POST methodology when planning campaigns.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Even though the widespread adoption of social media in industrial marketing has been slower than general B2B and B2C marketing, it has had a serious impact on industrial sales, especially on the traditional role of the outside sales rep. They prefer to consume information at their convenience and in their preferred format.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? Whilst my site is very simple it was built from the outset to focus on the words brand, branding and more recently, social media. marierowley thank you for your great information.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

You’re thinking that I’m… [link] #marketing [link] Santi Chacon 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. With Social Media, take a look at Chris Brogan. He doesn't just spew endless bits of information about his product (books, etc.). They do that for real, right? Relationships.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. Create and deliver useful information such as white papers, industry research and trends and how-to guides for selecting the right solution provider. How can you accomplish all that? What has worked for you?

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