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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

His “Pull and Stay&# advice; segmenting customers into barrels; platforming; social currency, and other concepts are instantly applicable to real world marketing challenges fitting a wide variety of circumstances. link] links for 2010-09-07 | Glenn Friesen [.] UNsettling Stratten has a knack for gaps.

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JULY 27, 2010

Whether it’s blog posts, video blogs, Powerpoint presentations, podcasts, haiku, or graffiti art, practice makes the production process easier. While I was away, Convince & Convert featured 11 guest blog posts from friends, clients, and colleagues. Second, this circumstance raises an important question: Are You Growing Your Voices?

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MAY 13, 2010

Not sure who came up with it originally) Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer. You must fight social media fire with social media water. 18 social media quotes jay baer View more presentations from Jay Baer.

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JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. Download Michael’s presentation here. Michael did talk about 2257 and FTC disclosure in his presentation so if you click through on that link you will read more there. All that stuff?

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MARCH 3, 2010

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. I’d be happy to share my slide presentation with you, too).

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. This presentation: “Why Before How: The Keys to Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps&# also formed the basis for my recent MarketingProfs Webinar. Sessions start October 5. Thanks Jason!

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? In 2010, almost 50% of small businesses will include “follow us” links in their e-mails, and about 44% will include share options in their messages. See charts below).

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. Or, you could just use Swix, the super slick new social media scoreboard that just works.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And More… Although I’m not using it presently, you can also configure your NutshellMail to include Linkedin and MySpace content, as well as updates from the Ning groups of which you are a member. Plus, event invites, and photos in which you’re tagged.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

We converted several of their PowerPoint files into online Flash presentations to highlight the primary benefits and features of their software suite. The client uses their in-house resources to regularly update the site content without spending more money on our professional marketing services. Take a quick poll.

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MARCH 4, 2010

For more on advanced blogging, please see my post and slide presentation: 11 Must-Dos for the Serious Blogger. But, to ensure you aren’t disheartened in the meantime, select success metrics that are appropriate for your goals.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 5, 2010

Ardath Albee, CEO of Marketing Interactions, Inc. said it best when she wrote, “Passive reading of your content is not going to help online marketing initiatives shorten buying cycles or increase customer acquisition and revenues.” Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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JUNE 22, 2010

That's where I think you hit the nail on the head in your second paragraph: social media has tremendous “potential&#. Social media is still evolving and until a solid few years of research can prove that there is definite ROI in utilizing company-wide social media plan, most companies will still consider it only a fad.

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MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter.

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MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. Today, that initial contact can be created over a few hours using social media.

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JUNE 7, 2010

The book is presented in three sections. My favorite is the “Face Game&# whereby every time an employee logs on to the Web, he or she is presented with a photo of another employee, and a list of names. He was very passionate about happiness and creating a culture to support the vision.

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JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. The Power of the Unexpected The genius of infomercials (and to a lesser degree, home shopping channels), is that they present to you products that you didn’t know you needed, because you didn’t know they existed. But, I’m not.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? The final piece of the content curation puzzle was an article by Lee Odden of TopRank Online Marketing blog. Hmmm…not very satisfying. Maybe it’s my M.A.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Lesson #3: Features are the benefits Your online marketing content may consist of images, videos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, white papers and pre-recorded webinars. It is always a good idea to serve up your marketing content in different formats but your text is the key component.

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FEBRUARY 23, 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 Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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APRIL 6, 2010

I recommend using a mixture of your Top 25 phrases and some that are highly relevant to your business, but perhaps aren’t sending as much traffic as you’d like at present. Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain.

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APRIL 15, 2010

Kodak (and thousands of other companies) are writing blogs, taking photos, uploading videos, making presentations and creating all sorts of other content. Because content is the most efficient form of marketing available. Now, Kodak is creating their own content that looks and feels quite similar.

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APRIL 1, 2010

I must have used the Edelam WalMart 'Flog' example 30 times in presentations and workshops! link] Glen Walker RT @jaybaer: Get Your Social Media Story Straight [link] (great piece on the importance of followup, too) [link] ??? As always – a great piece Jay.

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JULY 14, 2010

Those results will not change without a concerted effort to engage in social media. Throughout life it drives us crazy when people talk about us when we’re not around – here we have an opportunity to be present. Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

We were on a WebEx with a client and their PR firm, they were so called social media gurus. So they were giving their SM plan which included Flickr as the main strategy, when a MSN messager notification pops up from one of the presenters when we asked where the Twitter part of the plan was.

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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2010

In today's post we collected some great visualizations of social media concepts including monitoring and content distribution. 22 Amazing Social Media Graphics 1. Social Media Participation Chart by Oversocialized 2. Social Media ROI by Intersection Consulting 3. Social Media Plan: Basic Guide by thefreshpeel 4.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

j Jason Baer Tom - Really interesting presentation. Everyone believes that good social media outreach will increase sales. j Jason Baer Tom - Really interesting presentation. j Jason Baer Tom - Really interesting presentation. Everyone believes that good social media outreach will increase sales. strategy) [.]

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. Due to the content discovery constraints of social media sources such as Twitter, the timeframe to access historical data could be significantly less than 6 months. RT @jaybaer: Not sure which social media tools to use?

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JUNE 11, 2010

Wisely improve the present, it is nike dunk low thine. Kurrently Revolutionizes Real-Time Search With Twitter + Facebook Results Syx58168 The dunk sb world is a comedy to those who thinks, a tragedy to those nike dunks who feels.Look not mournfully into the nike dunk high past, it comes not back again. newrulesofinvesting congrats, Jay!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. 50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , October 5, 2010 While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Don’t spam!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. The survey generated over 270 responses from B2B marketers - and the results are in! There better be. Why not use it?

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Convince & Convert

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. Most of the rest are from spring 2010 or earlier.

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MARCH 22, 2010

I believe this will be the most comprehensive, useful collection of Webinars (education in your jammies rules) ever compiled about social media. (if link] Zack Wow, list of heavy hitter presenters… you're in good company. No pressure, eh? alexasamuels LOL, make sure you get your commission – I was convinced to sign up.

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JUNE 15, 2010

All of your customers on Facebook are presented to you, and you should be able to become their “friends” with a single click. You know – speaking of social anthropology – we're making it very easy for the historians and anthropologists of the year 3000 to understand the year 2010. The way you present it, makes sense.

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JULY 8, 2010

I mean it in a 2010, gothic cool sort-of-way in which vampires are smart, sexy, bankable characters who can’t be killed and are making boatloads of cash for the people who channel them into books, TV shows & movies. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE! Email is a vampire. October 2009. So is email immortal? Rohrs Thanks!

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JULY 22, 2010

According to a recent Social Media and Online PR Report from Econsultancy , 86% of companies surveyed planned to spend more on social media marketing in 2010, but only 25% say they have gained “real, tangible value&# from the medium.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? The Keynote presentation app is very slick. I've been thinking about making it my conference travel/presentation device. Would it work with a i-pen or something like that? Thanks for your post… [link] jaybaer For a 1:1 it could be amazing.

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