Biznology

JANUARY 17, 2012

No matter how much money you spend on a graphic designer, a social media expert, and a community manager, you may very well not find the kind of success you want and expect from your investment in social media and social networks such as Facebook , Twitter , Google +, YouTube , and Pinterest.

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markempa

AUGUST 29, 2007

Thats a question I know a lot of very busy B2B marketers ask themselves which is why I found Tessa Wegerts ClickZ article on " Facebook as a B2B Marketing Tool " interesting. But I’ve heard the audience demographic of the Facebook is now moving from being focused on college kids to becoming a place for adults. Why or why not?

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Social Networks Lead Generation Network Marketing B2B Marketing 120

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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Paid Search Agency PR Advertising Agencies Word of Mouth 116

Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie.

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Social Media Paid Content Media Advertising Agencies 153

Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Could I get you to reply to the people who like you and your company on Facebook if we can demonstrate that it strengthens your brand recognition? link] #ConvinceandConvert [link] Face to Facebook RT @jaybaer Would You Try It With a Fox? We measure it (personally and professionally) quantitatively not qualitatively.

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Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies CAN-SPAM PR 121

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Then you dash to Facebook to see what’s going on there. Handy Facebook Reminders It’s pretty tough to find a credible excuse for missing people’s birthdays on Facebook. NutshellMail saves you from being labeled an ingrate by reminding you of all the birthdays of your Facebook friends this week.

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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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Twitter Paid Content Paid Search Agency PR 125

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients? How can we make a viral video that gets thousands of views?

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PR Social Media Paid Content Media 160

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Paid Search Agency 127

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

“ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here. We’ll have Facebook page and other promotional stuff about the book online soon – including pre-ordering capabilities. But until then, I can’t not participate as some sort of personal protest. “ Your Content Stinks!

Paid Search Agency 111

Paid Search Agency PR Advertising Agencies Word of Mouth 111

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. link] awnpromo Once again, a very compelling arguement for using Facebook!

Social Media 114

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month. 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: Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Ask your customers directly.

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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 148

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.

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Paid Search Agency Blogger Advertising Agencies PR 117

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. link] Ian Greenleigh Great post, Kevin. Have you tried out Flowtown? link] Henry Great post.

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Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 123

Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Either way, it would make me double-check how I have the privacy settings set for photos on my Facebook page. The last thing I need is a dressing room photo of me modeling Diesel brand fat pants hitting the public News Feed on Facebook. But the default view will be the opinions of your Facebook friends.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Post it to your Facebook page. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog. It’s just more authentic and believable that way. Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Your LInkedin page. Your blog, naturally. Put it on YouTube of course.

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FAQ Top of Funnel Paid Search Agency Social Media 137

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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Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. That’s what we’ve dubbed, “Co-op SEO.&#

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. 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.

Paid Search Agency 122

Paid Search Agency Social Media PR Advertising Agencies 122

Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

Social Media 137

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 137

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). 2 many words I guess? I also picked 3 because there was no 4.

Paid Search Agency 109

Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics PR Advertising Agencies 109

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.

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Paid Content CRM Paid Search Agency Social Media 133

Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. .&# And Now For Something Completely Different But here’s where it gets interesting. In addition to being Chief Jane of JaneNation, Lisa is also the Cultural Strategist for St. What do you think of this approach?

Social Media 125

Social Media Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Media 125

Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

There's “bad&# advertisements and “bad&# uses of social media as well… Maybe you'd call it human marketing or even personality marketing, but the concept is really simple. He was personable and funny, a real likable guy. If you can type a sentence, you can relate to people on Twitter and Facebook.

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Social Media Paid Content Media Webinar Metrics 121

Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right? JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right? We see blogging both as community building and as a function of being a web based business.

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Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Blogger 130

Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. The Timberwolves on Facebook page has no mention of a manifesto, not even a link on the Info tab. They need to snap up that Facebook name pronto. Your Web site.

Social Media 120

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 120

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

The email is well-designed, personalized, and compelling. Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. said Brandon Lake, Vice President of Western River.

Social Media 140

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 140

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? We're starting to drill down on targeted terms for the work blog, but I'm pretty much using my personal blog as a test platform right now.

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Long Tail Marketing Blogger Paper Content 117

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

We also find Facebook fan pages that try to explain product features (wrong again, as it’s unlikely that non-customers are going to fan your page, thus talking about features is preaching to the converted). Thanks, Jay for reminding us to extent our flexibility (dammit, I need a new word…) beyond the Twittersphere.

Social Media 117

Social Media Webinar Metrics Media Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

In the first section, Hsieh recounts his personal story, including his early childhood and nascent entrepreneurial adventures, including a misguided effort at worm farming. The word-for-word reprinting of Hsieh’s emails to employees regarding the Amazon acquisition are also priceless.

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

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?

Paid Content 136

Paid Content Facebook Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies 136

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2012

It also sets a weird standard of what you should be doing as a marketer or a customer service person, because it’s kind of setting this weird precedent of a grand gesture that, you’re correct, does not scale and is not sort of the normal day- to-day that people quite frankly want or expect. Eric : Well said. It’s like no.

Paid Search Agency 115

Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Work Management Enterprise Management 115

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Theres also the case of Digital Word of Mouth , of course. Interestingly, when asked to compare the effectiveness of the top social media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIN, & Facebook to Business Blogging, the respondents revealed that they generated the most leads and sales from blogging. Do what works, not whats easy.

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B2B Thought Leadership Thought Leadership Cost per Lead RSS 40

Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. The metrics available on Facebook are in many ways better than you can get from Google Analytics. Companies are starting to think of Facebook as a natural piece of the conversion funnel, not just as a free-standing silo. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

Social Media 134

Social Media Media Paid Search Agency Video Marketing 134

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. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Leave a comment please.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

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. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. I also recommend it on the iPad. Alright, your turn.

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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’ve played with social media at a personal level and now it’s time to take it up a notch. I’ve played with social media at a personal level and now it’s time to take it up a notch.

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