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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Biznology

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I can’t tell you how many of my blog posts were directly inspired by morning emails from Godin and Brogan. Each newsletter, even if it’s “just” a blog-to-email newsletter, needs to be insightful, germane to the subject, and valuable. “Who would want to share my press release to social media?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system.

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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.

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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. Isn't social media about 2-way communication? That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

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. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? A write up on a blog. A new product launch. Trade show.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

A B2B blog is the perfect online tool to accomplish that. If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? I say you need both.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

› Home › Column › Search › SEO Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website? Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients.

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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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Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others. Only later would they initiate conversations and, eventually, provide tools to help their friends spread the word.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Consumers are using social media (especially Twitter) as a 1-800 line, and agencies should be helping their clients answer the social telephone by setting up listening posts and protocols, and trying marketing to customer service in real-time. There’s certainly a methodology for attracting blog readership. Between bit.ly

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. 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: Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

However, to be successful with social media, you have to provide real value and that usually comes from great content. Paul Dunay in his blog post, “4 C’s of B2B Marketing” has defined this very nicely. Instead of buying print ads in trade journals, they create their own blog and build an active community around it.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 9, 2010

That is unfortunate because Marketing Automation software is a very useful tool and in my opinion, a necessity these days. I found a good answer to that in a comment by Mike Gospe on a blog post at leadsloth.com where he wrote, “But when it comes to marketing automation, I recommend caution. I would take this a little further.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. You can read his entire blog post here. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

They are combining video, audio and sophisticated tracking tools to deliver email campaigns with highly customized messages that engage prospects in their preferred format and measure interactions beyond just open and click-thru rates and well into website behavior. According to SirrusDecisions research, the B2B buyer receives 20.3

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 6, 2010

I have come across two tools for helping you dig deeper and create marketing content that focuses on benefits over features. The first tool is the Product Analysis Worksheet from the book Personal Selling: An Interactive Approach by Ronald Marks, Ph.D., I found this one from Michael Fortin’s blog.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Maybe your blog. For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results. Then Linkedin.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

That’s unfortunate because when a webinar is done right, it can be a very powerful tool to educate and engage your audience. Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? One can dedicate an entire site to SEO because it is such a wide and deep online marketing topic.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website 7 Strategies for Using Content to Market Industrial Products by Achinta Mitra on May 14, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog I am a big fan of Content Marketing or as some people like to refer to it as Inbound Marketing.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? RESEARCH Even before I open up my trusty word processor, I head over to Google’s Keyword Tool.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

The content doesn’t have to be dull text; it could be a blog with posts written by in-house experts, “how-to” videos or white papers that position your company as a “thought leader” within the industry. Follow these essential rules of a website redesign and you’ll truly create a powerful sales and marketing tool.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 29, 2010

It is not just a matter of measuring better ROI metrics or using the tools of marketing automation du jour. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. Search This Site Browse Industrial Marketing Topics B2B E-Mail Marketing B2B Lead Generation B2B Marketing Collateral B2B Marketing Videos B2B Media Planning Content Marketing Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Digital marketing, social media and the constant pressure to cut costs have radically changed this traditional industrial sales model. I read a blog post by Robert Lesser of Acquiring Minds where he talks about the ways that digital marketing has changed complex B2B sales. Kerry O’Malley´s last blog.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert.

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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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NuSpark Consulting

JANUARY 3, 2015

I know it’s that time of the year that every blogger tries to put out a holiday-themed blog; well this is mine. The multitude of tools, platforms, and techniques can be overwhelming at times. The multitude of tools, platforms, and techniques can be overwhelming at times. Paid Media. Content Marketing. Get to it! .

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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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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert.

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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. Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps The More Things Change, The More Things Change philsimonsystems Pretty neat tool. that’s a big deal.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I advocate participating in Twitter, and I’ve certainly grown my own audience via that channel, and it should be part of almost every company or business professional’s social media tool kit. Retweet-style sharing tools? Tagging people with @ within status updates? Posting to Twitter directly from Facebook?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

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