Hinge Marketing

APRIL 20, 2016

More than 20 years ago, Phillip Kotler, recognized by many as the father of marketing, warned that “information middlemen providers (“metamediaries”) would emerge on the Internet and assemble and offer evaluations of different suppliers for a small charge.”. Since then, the marketing mix has changed radically and grown in complexity.

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Schubert B2B

JANUARY 2, 2018

Twitter launched 11 years ago, LinkedIn 14 years ago, Facebook 13 years ago — and you know what? Companies across the globe continue to use social media as a vital part of their marketing strategy — creating content to connect and engage their audience. And AR is already gaining popularity in the consumer market.

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Schubert B2B

OCTOBER 31, 2017

User-generated content posts are essentially free, word-of-mouth referrals — AKA the best kind of referrals. If a customer is willing to publicize that they use your product on Twitter or Facebook and show their friends and followers, that speaks volumes for your brand. in Marketing. Why it Works.

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Biznology

JANUARY 17, 2012

I always tell clients that it is no longer enough to be beautiful when it comes to marketing online. The Internet has flattened the market, allowing anyone to eat your lunch, so just ringing the dinner bell after you launch your social media presence is not going to work as well as you expect. Image via Wikipedia.

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Schubert B2B

OCTOBER 31, 2017

User-generated content posts are essentially free, word-of-mouth referrals — AKA the best kind of referrals. If a customer is willing to publicize that they use your product on Twitter or Facebook and show their friends and followers, that speaks volumes for your brand. in Marketing. Why it Works.

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Biznology

JUNE 24, 2015

Word-of-mouth advertising is more powerful than ever because of online platforms like social media and consumer review sites. Today’s consumers like to seek out businesses on social media and have their questions answered and concerns alleviated in almost real time. Can posting on social media sites lead to direct sales? Yes, it can.

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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. Perhaps 3-5% of the time (on average) they will. Very, very few.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Despite Facebook’s apparent addiction to public relations missteps and half-baked schemes, they still keep chugging along, taking over the world one “like&# button at a time. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Facebook Success Summit – 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook | Speaking Engagements | Social Media Consulting.

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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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Biznology

JANUARY 29, 2013

People are spending the money and devoting the resources required to create compelling and engaging social media posts, not only just on Facebook but also on LinkedIn , Twitter , Pinterest , and even Google+. Think of it as Twitter-development. I am so impressed by how well brands are messaging these days.

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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. She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics.

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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. It’s a Bird.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients?

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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? You'll like it.&#

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. It will pay off.

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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

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

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

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. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, I’d love for you to vote for my other two panels while you’re in the mood.

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Hubspot

MAY 11, 2010

All of this by spending no money on advertising and having no prior marketing experience. In such a crowded market place, how did they do it? The lessons below were summarized from this great presentation on Dropbox's growth and word-of-mouth success. This growth was due to word-of-mouth buzz about their product.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Bravo, Clay. – [link] [link] Mads Kristensen Definately a book for intense consumption. Thanks for that!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design. Embrace Math.

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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

MAY 13, 2010

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Twitter is for people you want to know. (I Social media isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive. (I I use this a lot. Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

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. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

million followers on Twitter? But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. The reality is, there’s never been a level playing field.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging.

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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. John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. It’s on JaneNation.

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Contently

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mat Zucker is co-lead of the global marketing practice at Prophet, and has helped brands including Johnson & Johnson and CIT Group launch their first podcasts. He also produces two award-winning shows: Cidiot , about moving from the city to the country; and Rising , conversations with marketing leaders on the way up, with Direct Agents.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

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. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. Very helpful post, Jay. Blogging is a commitment to yourself and anyone reading.

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