Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. To continue invigorating your content, you have to always be recruiting new voices. They like it.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Since the Indium Corporation has so many accomplished technologists who perform basic and applied research, as well as many individuals who are active with customer applications in the field, I knew I had the content. My real challenge was getting my staff to warm to the concept of being a blogger.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. In today’s post, it’s my pleasure to share some content relevance tips I’ve learned along the way. Easy – you listen!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. I certainly do not support the Draconian position that somehow social networks threaten email’s existence as a marketing channel. That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media. It’s no contest.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

As a social media tool that is called the “YouTube of slide presentations&# , doesn’t this sound like something you need to add to your B2B social media strategy? SlideShare is an online content hosting service where users can upload and share presentations, documents, and videos. Leveraging SlideShare Content.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 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 It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Unfortunately, the same lack of content leverage applies to photographs as well. Why isn’t the Manifesto it’s own tab? Your Web site.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Smart, optimized content. And guess what?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Meanwhile, if your social media team and your email team are not the same people, you need to start thinking about how to merge them, pronto. And, you need to start unifying your content strategy across all channels. LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. A better approach is to create a content ecosystem that allows you to repurpose and cascade your best information. Instead of a series of self-contained initiatives, build yourself a content ladder.

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DivvyHQ

MARCH 9, 2017

Like most digital mediums, before blogging was deemed an essential content marketing tactic, it was primarily a hobby. As a content marketer myself, I know that best practices should regularly be examined and challenged. Whether you’re a B2B or B2C content marketer, you’ve likely struggled with growing your blog’s audience.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Tagging contacts in your CRM system requires nothing more sophisticated than one or two multi-select lists on your contact record.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

3 must-read articles about social media (plus a bonus from the Convince & Convert vault) Sent twice per week (usually Monday and Friday) Sent at 1pm pacific time 3-2-1: it’s the greatest newsletter in the history of social media newsletters.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 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 Would You Try It With a Fox?

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Convince & Convert

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. All the content shown in each email is clickable. Subscribers then receive a digest of all the content posted to the fan page.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg. Your LInkedin page.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

The more content pointing to your site from sites with authority the better. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. Transparency is a brand currency on the social web.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“We want to give SMB a complete tool to allow them to move the needle on the 20% of social media that matters.&# Not Perfect, But Useful As with any data-harvesting service, Flowtown results aren’t bullet-proof.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 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 Facebook Success Summit – 22 Sessions on Everything Facebook (..)

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

More from Convince and Convert Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Convince and Convert Recommends From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

Looking forward to some great new content since I get tired of listening to that Jay guy all the time anyway! link] Ankit Bathija Waiting for the awesome posts lined up. link] Jack Smith Damn, one of these days I am going to make this list! link] jaybaer Write one up Jack! I'll be taking some time off to move in August.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. So at the end of the day, it's projects or people I can point to, as evidence that it's worked, no so much a number figure, however you want to dice it.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Two is very graphical no personality (you need personality, I don't on my blog where it's not about me but the content). but a right-hand location on content sites. 2 many words I guess? link] Adam Q.

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Optinmonster

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Email Subject Line Templates For marketers, email subject lines are just as important as headlines for other content. Related Content: Email Subject Line Statistics To Help You Maximize Your Open Rates 6. And we’ve focused on resources you can easily adapt for your own use, not just examples.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. They may not realize that personality and function come first.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. Company launches a media content destination for women. So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

For example, an organization that would have spent $5M over ten years on a traditional ERP or CRM application (bought from an on-premise vendor) may spend $1M on a SaaS alternative such as Workday or salesforce.com. Great question. The ROI of many Enterprise 2.0 technologies can be relatively easily derived.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

“ Your Content Stinks! Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, I’d love for you to vote for my other two panels while you’re in the mood. “ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. The story collection form doesn’t require a manifesto, video clip, haiku or any other content hijinks. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog.

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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. That’s a good starter list for Mass Influencers.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

It can get complex depending on the size of your social media program, but here are some tips to help make sure you’re managing social operations appropriately: If you are blogging, create an editorial calendar. Who is responsible for adding content? You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

A must read w/ fantastic insight [link] topsy_top20k_en Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook: I’m very proud to launch my new ebook that chroni… [link] joncombridges This looks great! I'm impressed with the quality as well as the frequency of your solid content. Will tweet and FB now.

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