Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

In his piercing new bo… [link] [link] Jim Alexander Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World [link] via @jaybaer [link] Santi Chacon Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World: My TIVO hates Clay Shirky. – [link] [link] Mads Kristensen Definately a book for intense consumption.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Won’t we soon see forms that ask us to choose one or all of these contact methods: Email newsletter Blog (via RSS or email) Twitter Facebook Remember, social media is an ingredient, not an entree. But, isn’t “following&# and “fanning&# just a new version of “opting in&# ? Don't be alarmed.

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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. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). link] Tin Hang Liu RT @jaybaer Please Help Me Pick a New Look For My Blog [link] #SMM [link] Adam Sherk Looks like the polling is fairly split right now, which I guess shows that you've got three good variations.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Online Marketing Blog TopRank’s internet marketing blog on the intersection of digital PR, social and search engine marketing. There is no editorial calendar or story board in place with 99% of blogs. This is true with regular media relations, so why do it with bloggers? Please don’t. Don’t overdo it.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? A write up on a blog. Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

But I tried to offer some hope during a May presentation in Shanghai to the Worldcom Public Relations Group , the world’s leading network of independently owned public relations firms: My 7 Best Practices for Social Media Tool Adoption: Understand your assessment context before you begin.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 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: Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Great list, looks a lot like the discovery we do prior to content planning.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Then this is the blog post for you. I’ve forwarded your blog to him. Cheers! -= Park Howell´s last blog. I’ve forwarded your blog to him. Cheers! -= Park Howell´s last blog. Are you ready to add some “Why&# to your “How&# ? So, giving you all the cred., Thanks for sharing.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Don’t just let your clients post to their Facebook page willy nilly, or write random blog posts whenever they feel that WordPress urge. There’s certainly a methodology for attracting blog readership. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) Hope that helps!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. Some of the guest writers blog on occasion at their own sites. None of them blog routinely. RSS subscriptions are up. Nobody else is that eager to wear the thorny blogging crown. You would be entirely wrong.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. ADVERTISEMENT. ); ); ); Home » Blogs » B2B. Post Comment / Discuss This Blog - Info/Rules. Advertising and Public Relations. Booth-related Services. ); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

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. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Maybe your blog. Like RSS for your relationships NutshellMail sends you a highly customizable email digest (from 1 to 24 times per day) of what’s happening in your social media spheres, so you can browse and get up to speed quickly, without having to visit several different destinations or fire up your iPhone’s social apps.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Maybe you found this blog from Twitter? Traffic to my blog. Now blogging is another matter!! Hours of blogging per reader is probably 20! : ) Now there's a metric for you! Great blog on Time Suck ! Great blog on Time Suck ! Your Twitter goals may vary. Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%.

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Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2012

RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. 2008 FOLIO Award Winners. com What it does: Gathers, tracks, analyzes and reports on what people are saying about a brand, on blogs and through comments and posts on social media sites. blog comments powered by Disqus. Advertising and Public Relations. Careers Home.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

Home > Blog > Business Financing > Bank Financing > Blog article: I drew pictures at a sales meeting, and it worked. StartupNation Blogs. July 11th, 2008. I made a public promise on this week’s telechat with Dan Roam , author of The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Be Your Own White Knight I know this blog is called Convince & Convert, and originally I thought that was a perfect description for the social media and real-time business revolution. And the guarantee that you will fail at some point is too iron-clad for you to pull up stakes the first time someone posts a negative comment on your blog.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. I think Facebook Lite makes Facebook engagement easier – maybe you will too?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

I want to share a list of tactics and approaches I’ve used/experimented with at this blog to attract from 40,000-250,000 organic visitors monthly and more than 8,500 RSS/email readers. This is in the hopes of inspiring some new ideas to help your blog or your client’s blog.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

I would never, ever, ever write this blog post on my iPad (although people that bought the external keyboard for it might disagree). The virtual keyboard is barely better than the iPhone, and you still cannot touch type. You can’t save or store files. There’s no USB port. Or CD drive. Or ability to run two programs at once.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. As for email, it’s been declared dead by more pundits, journalists, and entrepreneurs than I care to count. October 2007. March 2009.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I think twitter is more of a heavily curated rss reader/feeder rather than a portal, and I suspect that presenting twitter to new users as more of a friendly way to use rss that as a way to push conversation with strangers would help quite a bit. link] unruh ann has a point – it's all about the content.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 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 You’re Invited to the Socialpalooza March 22nd, 2010 |Written (..)

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more. Help Shape the Future of the Real-Time Web Gilbert is considering adding several other features to today’s admittedly basic version of Kurrently.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

You can sign up for email updates, subscribe via RSS or follow me on Twitter. Oct, 2010 at 1:22 pm blog post: Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups [link] #startup #b2b #prodmgmt Neil Oliver Reply 13. Oct, 2010 at 6:27 pm Blog post Metrics for B2B startups [link] #prodmgmt #b2b #startup Foundora Reply 13. Rymatech Reply 13.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

The trick with websites is the never-ending need to feed the monster, through search optimization, public relations, banner ads, skywriting, or whatever other means you’ve devised to let people know that your site is out there and worthy of attention. If You Can’t Beat Em, Should You Join Em? And I still feel that way.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

The trick with websites is the never-ending need to feed the monster, through search optimization, public relations, banner ads, skywriting, or whatever other means you’ve devised to let people know that your site is out there and worthy of attention. If You Can’t Beat Em, Should You Join Em? And I still feel that way.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. I think Facebook Lite makes Facebook engagement easier – maybe you will too?

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Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Home How it works Solutions Customers Company Free Trial Blog Get updates via email: What is ReadyContacts? Whether they come from form fills, landing pages, rss subscriptions, webinar registrations or downloads, these are now regarded as some of the most qualified and actionable kinds of leads that can be generated.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Blogging appeared passé as many individuals opted for microblogging, investing in the art of the short form. On Facebook this month, the average user created 90 pieces of content and contributed to the more than 30 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) If pouring, it is half full.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

As search becomes ever more interconnected, and websites begin to routinely change dynamically based on your search and browser history, your ability to create and optimize individualized pieces of content (blog post, photo, video, tweet, status update, podcast, PDF, presentation) reaches critical importance. Companion blog post.

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