markempa

AUGUST 24, 2007

« Off topic: Response to meme - 8 Random Things About Me | Main | B2B Marketing and lead generation via Social networking » Closed Loop Marketing Isnt Software I recently spoke with a reader who was struggling with his closed loop marketing process. Im sharing part of our conversation so that other readers may benefit.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Great article!

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markempa

AUGUST 30, 2007

Critical Success Factor #9 Effectiveness 8 Critical Success Factors for Lead Generation 2.0 Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up for your email updates when you send one out, that person will receive it in almost every case. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Navy. • Paul Bove – Social Media Strategist/Web Developer at Air Force Public Affairs Agency. • Mike Boehmer – Senior Public Relations Specialist at Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. • Sonny Gill – Online Marketing and Social Media Strategist at DeVry University. Post on Google Buzz.

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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. Overall helpful, but would love a more extensive post on this subject.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp.

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markempa

MAY 25, 2005

Leverage Your Social Network. Leverage Your Social Network. Cullinane suggests the following to generate leads by harnessing the Word-Of-Mouth Process: Leverage The Influentials (aka Industry Experts ) Become a Recognized Expert - act like a thought leader. Be visable. Link: WOMP: WOMP Your Way to Qualified Sales Leads.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. Everyone, ultimately, is as ‘bad’ as each other when it comes to SM.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

60 Certainly, there are many other factors that contribute to number of followers, and I’m not saying this is in any way a metric judging how influential a person is on Twitter, just how efficient their Twitter usage might be. Had it connected me with many people I'll never meet in person? Gary Vaynerchuk has a FPT of 39.26.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

>> Would You Try It With a Fox [link] [link] jeff_molander They're saying no because “social media&# itself is a juvenile term being used to describe what is, thus far, a novelty in every sense. Social media has never been driven by function and purpose. It's mostly based on buzz and mass popularity.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

IBM Social Computing Guidelines. Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. Below are the current and official "IBM Social Computing Guidelines," which continue to evolve as new technologies and social networking tools become available. And write in the first person.

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markempa

MARCH 30, 2007

Other sources of names or lists: Trade associations Trade shows Trade conferences Standard Rate and Data Service ( SRDS ) Public libraries like HillSearch.org New social networking tools or community based contact information sharing tools such as Spoke , LinkedIn and Jigsaw.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

Veredict: If you are new to social networks, community building, etc. For those that already use social media sites personally and just want to take it to the next level and include their business in the social media space, the presentation is a starting point, but it only tells you some of the basics.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. Transparency is a brand currency on the social web. That’s what we’ve dubbed, “Co-op SEO.&#

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting. They like it. They’re pretty good at it.

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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. It's like any other social network, right? population).

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. And Now For Something Completely Different But here’s where it gets interesting.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] (this tool is a big time-saver) [link] Akash Sharma RT @jaybaer Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] (this tool is a big time-saver) [link] Jeff Tucker I too set up NutShellMail and even added a tab for it on one of our Facebook fan pages.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Another person tweeted a link to a blog which turned out, much to my chagrin, to be a post asking for votes rather than a vote about the subject. But until then, I can’t not participate as some sort of personal protest. I guess it’s all transparent, so it’s not really “bad.&# link] jaybaer I know.

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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. You can call it ButterCRM Frosting for all I care. link] Ian Greenleigh Great post, Kevin.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person.

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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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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 3, 2023

In most sales funnel presentations you’ll see a chart similar to the one above, but we think it’s actually easier to understand the sales funnel when you don’t use the buzz words for each stage. Social Networking and Publishing Consumers today rely on their social networks to find advice, referrals, and reviews.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right? JG You know that tattoo says Leslie from the person's perspective right? We see blogging both as community building and as a function of being a web based business.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. Two is very graphical no personality (you need personality, I don't on my blog where it's not about me but the content). I also picked 3 because there was no 4. 2 many words I guess?

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Don’t use traditional media relations tactics with bloggers, but rather, make an effort to connect with them individually. Ask them what they want and provide personalized pitches and story ideas that clearly indicate you’ve made an effort to understand what they write about. Keep it small, relevant and personal.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

But, as Facebook continues to grow like John Candy at an all-night buffet, the number of possible connections for each person multiplies correspondingly. While it's obviously not as public as a social network, it seems that the mindset is, “I trust their opinions, I'll ask them a question.&#

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. It’s about having a strategy for making your company or organization more like a person and less like a machine.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Back in those days, face-to-face networking at business events was really the most effective way to make the connections needed to get a chance to propose your product/service to the right person and it sometimes took dozens of events before the opportunity presented itself. Listening is the first step.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Buzz Mkt Turismo RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? link] La cultura corporativa es clave en el éxito de una campaña #SMM [link] Buzz Mkt Turismo RT @tcreativo: ¿Crees o no crees en #SocialMedia? Maybe that will one day happen to social media.we

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

There's “bad&# advertisements and “bad&# uses of social media as well… Maybe you'd call it human marketing or even personality marketing, but the concept is really simple. One of the local Twitterati here had Chris Brogan up to Maine for a social media conference, and I caught it on UStream.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Don’t assume that the person that gave you one star on a Yelp review is some sort of carnival freak outlier. Good stuff.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Virtual events have received a lot of attention recently as an effective way to communicate with your audiences without the costs associated with an in-person event. Proponents state that social networking technology can help promote similar interactions in a virtual environment.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

link] Chris Hall Jay as a lifelong T-wolves fan (the team’s life not mine), and a person involved in social media I have to say, awesome! But I wasn’t the only person doing this, and by no means was I doing it any more than anybody else in the community. Too many cooks can spoil the dinner. (PS

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? We're starting to drill down on targeted terms for the work blog, but I'm pretty much using my personal blog as a test platform right now.

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