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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. It’s not viral unless it is. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Linkedin is for people you know. Facebook is for people you used to know.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I would look at increase in positive social mentions, increase in social conversations indicating purchase intent, actual purchases from defined influencers (if the database and transaction funnel permits that level of tracking), website behavior indicating purchase intent on the part of influencers.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Help clients take their message to consumers directly, impacting purchase intent by providing truly helpful information at the right time in the buying cycle. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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99 B2B Marketing Statistics to Back Your Bets

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Leads developed through employee social marketing convert 7X more frequently than other leads. Earned media (press, word of mouth, peer-to-peer referrals) drive 4X the brand lift of paid media (Bazaar Voice, 2019). 20-50% of purchasing decisions are driven by peer-to-peer marketing (McKinsey, 2019).

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Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

Convince & Convert

Driving purchase intent through kinship. Driving purchase intent through kinship. [link] jaybaer Spectacular comment Judy. Thank you. It's not a unicorn, it's a horse. And you're right that ultimately it's about humanization. Big companies acting small again. link] jaybaer Spectacular comment Judy.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

That’s what attracted me to online marketing initially, and why I made the jump to that career in the mid-90s. The tracking online (including social media) far outpaces what I had at my disposal when I was doing traditional marketing. Kinship creates purchase intent. You can’t get half elected.