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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accelerate agency

MAY 24, 2023

While word-of-mouth referrals and positive reviews are excellent ways of getting people to search for your website, they’re not enough to keep you in that coveted place: page one of the search results. For instance, if you notice the bounce rate on a particular landing page is high, perhaps the content on that page needs a refresh.

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accelerate agency

MAY 24, 2021

While word-of-mouth referrals and positive reviews are excellent ways of getting people to search for your website, they’re not enough to keep you in that coveted place: page one of search results. For instance, if you notice the bounce rate on a certain landing page is high, perhaps the content on there needs a refresh?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And, you need to start unifying your content strategy across all channels. When I personally want to engage with a company/professional, I typically follow on Twitter, sometimes Facebook at a later date (if I love their content), then ultimately email updates if available. LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

First, that our default state as a species is to create and share and collaborate, and we are just now moving back toward normalcy, aided by the vast increase in content creation and sharing mechanisms. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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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

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

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. When you find a pattern, create content to address it. This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Ask your customers directly.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. The Content You Want, via the Channel You Choose The future of integrated communications is in consumer choice and personalized preference centers. (For

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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

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). 2 many words I guess? but a right-hand location on content sites.

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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

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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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 26, 2010

He suggests that brand awareness is the new measuring stick of a successful marketing campaign and says that only the first set of eyeballs are the ones you pay for—everything after that is word of mouth. Blogger outreach A key component to many, if not most, social media campaigns are blogger outreach programs.

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

by Glenn Friesen – read the full story where this content was originally published, at UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Co… Share and [.] link] Rosemary O’Neill This one sounds intriguing…I’m always into people with panache.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

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. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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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. At a minimum.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Features being considered for inclusion in new releases include CRM integration; deep analysis of customers’ social graph and content they’ve produced (keyword analysis of your Tweets, for example); and even semi-automated social media response mechanisms.

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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

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

MAY 4, 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 Social Media’s Internal Impact – An Interview with (..)

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 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 Twitter Addiction Paying Off June 17th, 2010 |Written (..)

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6 million followers, and it becomes a national incident in minutes. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more.

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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

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. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already?

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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

MARCH 10, 2010

I'm impressed with the quality as well as the frequency of your solid content. 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! Will tweet and FB now.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. Customers don’t need more messages. In fact, they are increasingly resistant to them.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

link] #bgsd [link] Forge Communications You want killer content on digital? link] #bgsd [link] Doug Braun Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your Agency Services: [link] (by Jay Baer) [link] Laura Scholz RT @sixstringsnc: Want killer content on digital? If you missed it, read the recap.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Again with the blogging, make sure your blogger or bloggers want to do it, if they are forced into it, you won’t get your posts on time. Who is responsible for adding content? You don’t need to know the what, just the who and when. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Company launches a media content destination for women. You're one of the original Connected Agencies [link] Brand Narrative This is interesting. link] [link] Katherine M. Gordon I had the pleasure of interviewing Lisa last week for my blog and I hung up the phone thinking “finally.&#

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

I love your quotes and they are spot on!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Since then, Bulbstorm has run several more Idea Challenges promotions for Tornados, with a success level that’s pretty astounding.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 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 A Social Media Scoreboard That Works March 25th, 2010 |Written (..)

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