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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

But, let’s say he’s only generated 20 million views. If not then people need to take a deeper look at his claims and ask some serious questions. link] jaybaer You raise a fair point. I have found Scott to be exceptionally ethical in every way. Does that really impact the value or validity of what he’s teaching?

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JUNE 17, 2010

The Followers Per Tweet Equation Certainly, you can generate a ton of Twitter followers using any number of schemes, tricks, and other false economies. Assuming, however, that you are not using some sort of @ptbarnum system to generate thousands of followers). Over the past 30 days, it was approximately 10%. Followers per tweet.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

But, in short, here is where this notion that the App Store is going off the rails is pretty baseless: – 280 million apps were downloaded from the App Store in December alone, generating $250 million in revenue. (I In December, that meant $175 million in revenue to developers. All rights reserved.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

We believe – perhaps falsely – that with our combined readership we could generate a lot of votes regardless. We absolutely realize it could be interpreted as if we’re trying to “buy&# votes with Make-A-Wish Foundation as the conduit. But that’s not the intention at all. All rights reserved.

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MAY 13, 2010

Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper. 18 social media quotes jay baer View more presentations from Jay Baer. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That seems short-sighted and workable only for very small companies with a minimum of online chatter about them. And of course product improvement ideas are important. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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MARCH 25, 2010

For example, you can determine in an instant what the cost and return per view is for a YouTube video you spent $5000 on to generate 25,000 views. That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. Funneling traffic from the blog to some other Web destination (typically a corporate site or lead form) is the prime objective. All rights reserved.

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APRIL 15, 2010

It generates Web traffic (via search and social media linkages) and helps remove purchase impediments every day of every month. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers. Smart content creation doesn’t have an expiration date. Yes, bills need to get paid.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Customer Relationship Management Marketing can generate new opportunities, repeat business and most of all, additional revenue. Many companies fail to utilize their own client base for revenue generating opportunities. Whether large or small, each and every business is dependent upon their customer relationship strategy.

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JULY 6, 2010

From raising awareness, to connecting with consumers in the way they want to engage and fostering positive action, leveraging CSR in the social media world can strengthen consumer trust and loyalty, encourage followers (and their friends) to take action and participate, and put a halo over the brand that dives in. All rights reserved.

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APRIL 20, 2010

link] email writing My readers used 411 different search terms to generate over 510 visits (i'm rather small)… [link] jakejordan Do you search with 3+ words in Google? The best thing to do is find the phrase , start the blog , then wait and optimize for the real search keywords… At least that is my opinion.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I look forward to getting past the basic questions of application of social media for B2B and starting to focus on things like lead generation and social CRM as we move forward in 2010.-= However, I am still seeing only anecdotal evidence that social media is good for B2B lead generation. Kipp Bodnar´s last blog.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] Weekly Links: August 23, 2009 | UpYourSocial [.] Elf Name Generator =-. Elf Name Generator =-. Elf Name Generator =-. You’re a non-profit hoping to take your social media engagement to the next level? Think out a policy and develop a strategy! [.] Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [.]

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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. population. 16% of consumers drove 80% of the impressions.

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APRIL 6, 2010

You’ll be amazed at how many content-creation ideas this simple exercise can generate. What shows up in these search results? How much photo and video content appears? Content from your competitors? Understand Your Frequency Schema The key to a content ladder is organizing your rungs. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Too often, the humanization part gets overlooked in an effort to create a “user-generated video contest widget that we’ll launch on Facebook with support from Ustream.&# January 27, 2009 Posted by John Furrier in Technology. Social media is the email marketing of our web 2.0 strategy) [.]

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AUGUST 18, 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: 4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Jonny Stark Wow, quite a few comments on here already!

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MARCH 30, 2011

Curation brings brands and customers together : elevating brand visibility/buzz (76 percent) and lead generation (48 percent) were also top objectives. Marcus Reply Nick Stamoulis Posted March 30, 2011 at 4:00 pm | Permalink Content is an important aspect of any marketing strategy. The key is that it needs to be relevant and engaging.

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JULY 14, 2010

On the other hand the future is one where social media has transformed the organization as it embraces user generated content as a tool to understand the voice of the customer and become more customer-centric. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. I was joined by Joe Pulizzi from Junta42 , Ann Handley from MarketingProfs , and Brad Kleinman from Online Marketing Connect. Extra resources are important. All rights reserved.

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OCTOBER 1, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus About Jeremiah Owyang SF, Silicon Valley Industry Analyst Altimeter Group Columnist for Forbes CMO Network Client Disclosure Policy Categories Advertising Advocacy Aggregation Altimeter Analysis Analyst API Asia Augmented Reality Blogger Dinner Book Review Career Case Study Challenges Citizen Journalism CMO Collaboration (..)

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Keyword Volume and Analysis – Comparative data across multiple terms Influencer Report – Who is talking about you that has disproportionate online influence? There’s a bonus feature that automatically selects winners of online contests, via random number generator. All rights reserved.

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JUNE 11, 2010

People think the sense of entitlement in the younger generation is a problem. (I I think that this country and the world is full of as Tony Robbins says–Urgency Junkies. And now with the transparency of the web it's become overwhelming as everyone tries to keep up and one up. But I believe the real epidemic is Instant Gratification.

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JULY 22, 2010

Does More Than Test the Social Waters: Like all long term relationships, building real connections with customers requires a certain level of commitment, and each of the three businesses above are clearly willing make the investment. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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JUNE 3, 2010

It seemed that creating and editing these beastly things would always be a complex and expensive task until the arrival of the first online form generators, of which Wufoo was one. Which leaves us with a huge question: who owns the data generated by visitors to these “sites&# ? Ok, I’ll knock it off.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Without that passion internally, there's no chance of generating the spark between brand and audience. [link] (via @jaybaer) susanbaier … which brings up a nice point about ensuring that your employees are fanatically enthused about what your company does. link] Promotional Products Great post Susan! All rights reserved.

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JUNE 15, 2010

If you have a contact us form, an online lead generation form, an email newsletter sign-up, or a shopping cart, why are you still only asking for name, address, and email address? Ask Perhaps the most obvious way of finding out where your customers are hanging out in social media is unfortunately the least utilized.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Setting up multiple iPods on an iMac or PC was never easy either until later generations. USB and external memory slots = giving up a little control. randygiusto yeah, interesting non-multi-user experience. I hadn't thought of that. link] Dan Birlew Thanks dude. All rights reserved.

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JULY 13, 2010

(And, they WILL walk out the door, since most agencies realize they at least need “skin in the game” and are actively recruiting) Damages Other Employees: You have an obligation to help the next generation become the very best professionals they can be. Don’t cheat them of that opportunity. (Oh, All rights reserved.

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JUNE 8, 2010

I suppose if we said generate leads by listening it may have an impact instead of listening to conversations to find new opportunities. I suppose if we said generate leads by listening it may have an impact instead of listening to conversations to find new opportunities. SuzanneVara [link] Suzanne Vara Listen. All rights reserved.

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APRIL 22, 2010

You’ll perhaps remember that “social media&# was originally coined to reference user-generated content. Problematically, however, the “social media&# moniker is now also used to describe a great many things, similar only in that they are online, and involve some form of interaction between customer and company.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The premise is that it takes a “wizened older generation” with a broad scale of knowledge and experience to form good judgment. Judgment and Wisdom Are Not the Same A column by The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan entitled Youth Has Outlived Its Usefulness, focused on good judgment. I disagree. All rights reserved.

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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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JUNE 23, 2010

What is the next generation of crowdsourcing? The 3 C’s of Next Generation Crowdsourcing: Co-Creation, Constant, and Control Co-Creation There are people out there that love your product. Next-generation crowdsourcing always recognizes effort via reward, social status, and incentives that are meaningful to the user.

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APRIL 7, 2010

If connecting with customers via mobile (Foursquare or otherwise) generates word of mouth that brings customers through the door, businesses will use it. That's like saying you don't want to use Twitter when you first sign up, because nobody is following you. Maybe not as soon as I'd like, but it will happen. All rights reserved.

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JUNE 28, 2010

The same person doing strategy, content development, responding to consumer feedback on the fly, reporting and analysis on multiple clients in potentially wildly different industries/verticals across, potentially, multiple disciplines of online marketing (search, social, display, email).

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