Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. At the same time, word of mouth marketing IS important, and effective. population.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

In targeting your content and reaching out for coverage from bloggers, tweeters, etc… David, Scribnia [link] Bret Simmons rt @jaybaer Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush – [link] [link] Tink Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush [link] [link] jaybaer I agree – and thanks for the comment.

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JULY 14, 2010

Most of us don't look in our GA stats daily either way. Most of us don't look in our GA stats daily either way. Most of us don't look in our GA stats daily either way. Most of us don't look in our GA stats daily either way. Then we nudge them, whenever something interesting happens. That means: a.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? As a blogger, I receive misplaced pitches for the most part from agencies in Calif and New York who don't know me from a hole in the wall, and have never taken the time (clearly) to read the blog or get to know me.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. Great B2B Marketing Stats (in a GREAT format!) , June 13, 2010. June 7, 2010.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here’s the distribution of number of words in each of these headlines: 5 word headline = 2 posts in top 25 6 word headline = 3 posts in top 25 7 word headline = 8 posts in top 25 8 word headline = 9 posts in top 25 9 word headline = 0 10 word headline = 4 posts in top 25 Clearly, I write longer headlines than many other social media bloggers.

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MAY 20, 2010

Coca-Cola just took me on a free trip to Shanghai with 22 other bloggers from Australia and Asia. link] Martin Seibert We are creating a social media metrics application at [link] that will centralize all your web stats in one place. link] [link] Famous Bloggers RT @jaybaer: Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

And 75% of the people who log into Facebook do nothing (unless they are social gaming) I get that from the stats page. Its not because people are shunning brands. Its because they don’t see their posts! For every 2 logins there is only 1 action. Assuming people never do more than one action (update, like, fan etc). All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Between the pre-set bots, and the humanoids who decide to act like 'bots RT anything if the right blog (or blogger) curates it … I unfortunately think the #'s would be huge. Because, unlike newspapers or bloggers or ‘friends,’ gravity has no agenda of its own. Thanks so much for posting these stats.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

briankissel OpenID is currently being used by Google, Yahoo, AOL, MySpace, Flickr, Blogger, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, NTT Docomo, Yahoo Japan, Mixi, Hyves, and others. [link] My response was that a proper "Social Sign On" vendor should broker and manage all of those IDs and more so the website owner doesn't have to.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. WordPress The WordPress iPhone app is slick.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

RT @PaulaMBHall: (@mdonati) / (@jaybaer) You're Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy [link] [link] Rosanna Tarsiero You're Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy – [link] — I know a couple of wedding bloggers who could learn a lesson or two about this! Kim Kraynak Great post Jay! I really think that you nailed it on the head with that.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. WordPress The WordPress iPhone app is slick.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Look forward to more on this subject from you this summer. Great work (as always)!

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MARCH 2, 2010

At Genius.com, we understood relatively early (we announced our gURLs to track traditional and Social Media in July 2009) that while most B2B marketers are engaging in Social Media, very few are actually measuring it. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

link] Dukky Interesting stats here: RT @jaybaer: Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble? Why is Twitter worth it… it is one of the best ways around to listen to your customers, to pick up trends early, to intercept complaints and resolve them in ways that cause terrific word of mouth wins. link] The answer is YES!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I'm amazed that so many people and small businesses (80%, according to a recent stat that I read) have done little to nothing with social media precisely because it takes time. Do people really think that you can get SM religion one day and your customers/fans will all be singing your praises the next? philsimonsystems Great post, Jay.

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