Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As a very basic guideline, every content syndication lead should receive immediate, automated e-mail follow-up upon being imported into your CRM system. Sewell is president of Spear Marketing Group and a B2B marketing veteran with more than two decades experience in direct marketing, demand generation, and lead management.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

(The faux testimonials on the back of the book are priceless, including: “This book is the greatest business book in the world, besides mine.&# - Author who only gives testimonials for people who give him one in return Stratten’s rant against direct marketing – “People still teach courses on how to cold-call better!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Follow/fan/friend is just opt-in – and all you've done is agreed to be sent direct marketing. Those two areas are a lot more interesting than the devolution of Social Media into direct marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Just good ol' direct marketing principles, describe my problem like you know me and get me to trust you. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Yep I see the connection with Social Media. Thanks for the great video. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Because online advertising began as a direct marketing tool that was highly focused on tracking, marketers may assume that because digital media is 'digital' it should be easy to see the exact impact of every dollar spent in increased sales volume. All rights reserved.

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