Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 26, 2010

His 4C’s are: Content – the creation of a steady stream of engaging content Connection – connecting with the audience you wish to attract Communication – communicating with them in an ongoing conversation Conversion – and then converting them at the illusive moment of need What is content marketing?

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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. But, it's not all conversational. That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Marketing gurus tend to talk about opt-in pages, sign up forms, calls to action and interactive squeeze pages to boost your click through and conversion rates. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

You can’t surround the conversation with value and branding. Dale Underwood of B2B Conversions Now has a step-by-step procedure for this on his blog. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I will spare Jay’s blog the list of the 70 videos we did, outside of YouTube, since most of them were made before YouTube existed. link] and you can “independently verify&# the 80,000+ views so far in the past 10 days since uploading it since this one is hosted on YouTube.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

While conversion may be the ultimate goal, building trust, increasing awareness, improving the company’s reputation, expertise and credibility and encouraging social sharing are all worthy content marketing goals too. The big hurdle they face is in engaging and converting readers into prospects, leads and ultimately customers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

The most simplistic approach to evaluating customer engagement is to measure conversion rates. 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

JULY 20, 2010

As the conversation gets more serious, ad-hoc sales materials created by the sales team take over and do most of the heavy lifting. Instead of engaging the prospect in a meaningful conversation and discovering their real business issues, we resort to “Here’s what it is. Here’s what it does.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

How do you engage engineers and technical buyers on your website and build deeper relationships and achieve higher conversion rates? Select the best social media outlets depending on where your target audience hangs out and use them for starting your conversation.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

And if not the trap, it is a lure that is an essential part of the path to the seven touches towards conversion. Be sure to spread broadly across quite a few social networks and sharing platforms — and spend the time and resources to do it right — before choosing your favorites. Who would’ve known?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. We don’t need sCRM for social media anymore than we needed pCRM for phones, or eCRM for e-mail.

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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. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. Companies are starting to think of Facebook as a natural piece of the conversion funnel, not just as a free-standing silo. I get the online conversation philosophy but even a phone can be considered a conversation tool.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

and/or Linkedin Answers, or create a series of helpful YouTube videos ( like Coldwell Banker ). Is today the day you start integrating social media with marketing and customer service? 6 things you need 2 incorporate into your social media plan.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Easy, One Time Set-up To build your Swix success metrics (which they call “pods&# ), you just log-in to your various social outposts or hubs, and agree to a data exchange. New YouTube video that goes viral. Trade show.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. At the very least those companies are engaged in the conversation and have a strong awareness of the perceptions of their brand. Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The Facebook page has a not-too-shabby 13,000+ fans, but most of the YouTube videos have just a few dozen views. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook. The team has a lot of photographs on Facebook (and also some on Flickr).

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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Single Grain

APRIL 18, 2022

Setting up conversion tracking. All these tasks are complex and time-consuming for most companies, which is why it makes sense to hire a paid social media advertising firm. They can handle these tasks for every social platform, such as: Facebook. Get My Free Paid Social Media Plan .

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Are you treating social media like a checklist? A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Put it on YouTube of course. The Youtube response from Taylor Guitars to the whole “United Breaks Guitars&# imbroglio is perfect. Post it to your Facebook page. Your LInkedin page. Your blog, naturally.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Podcasts vs. YouTube. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 30, 2019

First things first: you need to figure out what you want out of social media at large. Maybe it’s more social-savvy customers. Either way, remember that social media planning is a marathon, not a sprint. Sample Social Media Goals for 2019. Social media channels are built as networks.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates. and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention. Take your top keywords (including your company name, product name, etc.) What shows up in these search results? Content from your competitors?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. There’s nobody that feels worse than I do.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. I try to add value, have conversations, RT good info, and occasionally promote an event or blog of my own. They aren’t trying to sell you more insurance – at least not at that point – they are being helpful.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Have you looked at any tools that allow local users to speak on behalf of the businesses social media channels but then give an overview to the home office to watch all activities? That is only a one way target…what about the fans being able to submit content to a local conversation with other local people to see?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

ThinkGeek has a robust involvement in social media, with over 68,000 followers on Twitter , 50,000 fans on Facebook and over 11,000 subscribers to their channel on YouTube , which features company-posted videos demonstrating items like their proximity-meter t-shirts and fake-blood-filled, realistically gummy heart for Valentine’s Day.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

You already know a social media plan can really help you share your content and connect with your audience. In fact, a solid social media plan helps us at CoSchedule get 31.5 So how can you actually build a social media plan that works for you? 8% plan to use videos.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Low conversion rate — is the percent of site visitors who take a desired and measurable action. Drive traffic to these landing pages and your bounce rates will decline and conversion rate will climb. High bounce rate — is the percentage of single-page visits or visits in which the person left your site from the entry page.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

It was much easier when the company steered the conversation. But Consumers Like New Media We (the consumer) like these “emerging&# types of marketing mediums better than the old ones. It gives us the ability to steer the conversation — and we like that. We go looking for it when we want it, and we expect to find it.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

A single tweet, YouTube video, or blog post can be the spark that sets off a firestorm of controversy. Opportunities Via Context Musician Dave Carroll has been widely lauded for his “ United Breaks Guitars &# YouTube video that has now been seen more than 8.5 450,000 views on YouTube, and counting.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Some companies (such as Domino's which I also wrote about here: [link] ) have gotten better at acting like they are all of those buzz words like transparent, human, conversational, engaging, etc. You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&#

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’m planning to write a full post about it soon, but the real genius of Swix is that it allows you to easily create a unified scoreboard of all your key social media metrics like blog traffic, subscribers, Facebook fans, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers, and much more. link] Mark Levy Great list Jay.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Although I'd be looking at my YouTube and Facebook search optimization right about now, too. Facebook, YouTube, Search, etc are all entrance points and are all of changing value depending on purpose of campaign. I can carry my persona across multiple sites and that persona ties back to a social network site.

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