Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey revealed 81% of US-based social marketers consider influencer marketing an essential part of their social media strategy. To make this process faster and easier, use social media analytics platforms like Sprout Social to automatically track engagement rates for you.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2011

It’s easy to get caught up in the buzz, and the hype, around social media. I’ve been working with many B2B companies to help them figure out when and how to use social media in their business. 4) Find intent to purchase – You’re probably interested in how these great social media conversations can help you find leads.

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markempa

MAY 25, 2005

« Velocity of Lead Follow-Up Is Critical To Winning the Complex Sale | Main | B2B Lead Generation Blog Nominated for MarketingSherpas 2005 Readers Choice Blog Awards » How to leverage word of mouth for more leads I liked this post by Joe Cullinane, author of 21st Century Selling , over at his WOMP blog. Be visable.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It can generate a buzz around your product and get people to notice it. Publish Relevant Content to Generate Buzz If the product or feature that you are launching is the hero of your business, publishing supporting content is the hype man it needs. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have millions of daily users.

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markempa

MARCH 30, 2005

« New PDF Tracking Gives Us Pause | Main | Podcast: Landing Pages for Lead Generation » Word of Mouth Marketing relies on reputation not branding The premise of my post is that B2B marketing and B2C marketing are different. Word of mouth is all about our reputation. Word of mouth is all about our reputation.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 4, 2012

But it only appears to have been achieved with little or no marketing effort because their fame and fortune was won through word-of-mouth marketing. This means getting your product marketing team, support staff, and engineers involved with your word-of-mouth marketing campaigns. Build a Very Close Social Media Community.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Businesses striving to bring in that lucrative ROI with social media often fall into trap of thinking that the more followers you have the more success your social campaigns will have. How to Make the Most of Your Social Media Marketing with Less. Therefore, marketing to all your social media followers in the same way is ineffective.

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Marketing Craftmanship

APRIL 29, 2013

Despite the buzz regarding social media, that channel also falls short in terms of engagement. If your firm’s traditional and social media marketing tactics do not serve as catalysts to drive Face-to-Face discussions and Word-of-Mouth referrals, then their “cost-effectiveness” can never be measured on a meaningful basis.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Social media connectivity is digital bumper stickering. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Hubspot

AUGUST 16, 2018

Commonly abbreviated to PR, public relations defines how a company communicates with people. Media: Owned vs. Paid vs. Earned. Public relations can be split into three categories: owned, paid, and earned media. Your PR strategy should be using all three. Owned Media. Owned media can range from: Social media posts.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 9, 2007

Seana Mulcahy at MediaPost recently wrote a piece about using social media and other tools to build word-of-mouth promotion online. There are a number of online tools and methods to spread word of mouth online, but a key one is interactive PR. That's online word of mouth.

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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. I’ll continue publishing the Social Media Messenger after a short hiatus.

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markempa

JUNE 8, 2007

« 10 Lead Generation (Prospecting) Tips for Sales People | Main | The Physics of Trigger Events for Lead Generation » Podcast: The New Rules of Marketing & PR Interview with David Meerman Scott Before the Internet and social media tools, companies could only communicate through the filter of advertising or media ink placed by a PR firm.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Social media doesn’t create negativity, it uncovers it.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social Media is Email Without the Database Because social communication feels more authentic and timely in most cases, email marketers must fully embrace testing, personalization and optimization to boost relevancy for recipients. Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Why Content Marketing Matters To Me And Should To You [link] Howie at Sky Pulse Media This is what Sky Pulse Media is built on. link] [link] Hot In Marketing 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – C.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Sorry Works Contrast that with the guts and class (and good crisis management sense, despite having zero PR counsel) shown by umpire Jim Joyce in the immediate aftermath of his blown call, robbing Armando Galarraga of a rare perfect game. A coven of PR practitioners. And they can’t get just two little words right.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy. Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. It’s called Comtex , and every big PR wire service uses it to bolster their numbers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wrote a post a while ago called Social Media Excellence and a Side of Fries about the importance of people to McDonald’s) As you might expect, UnMarketing is not your typical marketing and business book. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics.

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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Foremost, we need a way to convert with whom we interact in social media into real prospects.

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Webbiquity

JULY 28, 2010

Despite its airy title, Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day by Dave Evans is anything but a lightweight treatment of this topic. At roughly 340 pages of text plus another 42 pages of worksheets, this is a meaty book, but the end result of following Dave’s hour-a-day guide is a solidly justified, strategic social media marketing plan.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

While alterations to search algorithms are helping to bring this to fruition, social media has been the real game-changer, placing the power of relevance distinction in the hands of the consumers. All you need is a keyword research tool and access to about any social media monitoring tool to listen and improve your content creation efforts.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 19, 2017

Social media ROI is no different. In order to figure out the real value of social media in your organization, you have to think as much about relational as you do about transactional. It’s not that a transactional approach to social media ROI is completely irrelevant. What’s the value of a Like? It’s very relevant.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Take a look at the company’s philanthropic endeavors and cause-related initiatives, especially in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Don’t be Shy.

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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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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Is CSR nothing more than a PR gimmick designed to boost a company’s brand or public image? Socially responsible companies generate positive buzz by word-of-mouth marketing and earn the authentic trust and respect of their audience. 71% of U.S.

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Lenny's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

PR can work, but rarely does. The very first community we got word of mouth in was the ex-Zynga product managers who had gone on to build their own companies. Get press Three startups I looked at had meaningful success with early PR. Normally PR is a terrible channel. That’s why they work.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 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: Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Basics Tying Together Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

It punches a hole in the theory that social media and content creation success has to be a huge time commitment. As I’ve written several times, the people in your company responsible for email, and the people responsible for social media should be the same people. How are you integrating social media into other programs?

Social Media 140

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

But the problem with email and social media is that too many people are positioning it as an either/or scenario. Several blog posts have foolishly been written about social media “killing&# email. Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. million followers on Twitter? million followers on Twitter? What would you do?

Social Media 147

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 147

Convince & Convert

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. Also, thank you to the supremely talented Tzeyee Goh, who designed this eBook.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. But as I pondered this connection, I realized that there was a portion of the advertising world that shared a lot of elements with social media – infomercials. The same is true in social media. Your social media strategy should do this too.

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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. A Policy of Protection While speaking recently to a room full of ad agency folks, I asked the audience if they had a social media policy in place for their staff. You have to train employees too.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Is CSR nothing more than a PR gimmick designed to boost a company’s brand or public image? Socially responsible companies generate positive buzz by word-of-mouth marketing and earn the authentic trust and respect of their audience. 71% of U.S.

Ethics 130

Ethics Lead Ranking Resource Management Paid Search Agency 130