Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Tweet Forrester Research recently released a 2010 update to its Social Technographics® data that analyzes the social behaviors of global Internet users. consumers engaged in certain social behaviors actually went down, not up. Is this the long-promised social media backlash? Overall, social media usage among U.S.

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2015

Site Optimization : This includes copy rewriting, internal linking, keyword research, Google Analytics/ and Google/Bing Webmaster Tools integration, integration of Sitemaps, structured data, title and description rewriting and organization, image ALT tag development, site submission, and content recommendation development strategies, etc.

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LeadSquared

JULY 4, 2013

That is where social bookmarking sites come into play. Social bookmarking is simply “bookmarking” a page online. Social bookmarking sites allows its users to tag or save the link of a website so you could share or go back to it later. StumbleUpon is one of the more interesting social booking sites online.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 7, 2010

One of the challenges in measuring the ROI of social media marketing is that the use of social networking and social sharing tools isn’t confined to the marketing group. Social media is being used in multiple functions across the enterprise, from product development (e.g. Share this on Bebo. Share this on Facebook.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 9, 2010

If your small to midsized business is struggling with questions about how to create an effective social media strategy, use social media tools most effectively, make the best use of your time on social media, generate results or other related issues, mark your calendar for this upcoming one-day social media and online marketing event.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

With Social Media Marketing: Strategies for Engaging in Facebook, Twitter & Other Social Media , the inimitable Liana “Li&# Evans has provided the definitive handbook for social media marketers. Don’t automatically assume they use the most popular social networks.

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Webbiquity

MARCH 15, 2010

Despite the widespread adoption of social media in the marketing mix, many companies still use this medium less than effectively. Giving short shrift to social media activities now, because it may not have an immediate impact on the bottom line, is short sighted. Share this on del.icio.us. Post this on Diigo. Share this on Mixx.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

At a recent BlogWell event I got a chance to hear Robert Raines from Chevron present his Social Media program and how he reports their activity into the Boardroom. It all starts with the Pulse Report that Chevron had produced by Edelman (their PR firm) using their Alterian’s SM2 social media monitoring tool. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The grandmotherly maxim, “The good Lord gave you two ears but only one mouth for a reason&# applies to social interactions in general, but is nowhere more critical than in social media marketing. Without this information, the company’s social media pronouncements appear off-topic, unsolicited and out of touch.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2009

At a recent ANA conference I was interviewing Brian Wallace VP of Digital Marketing and Media for RIM when I heard him say “2 years from now- if I still have a Director of Social Media – I should be fired!&# Said differently how do we make social part of the very DNA of the firm? Why is measuring Lead Gen in Social Media so hard?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 18, 2010

So I ran across some interesting stats last week when I picked up a tweet from Jeff Bullas on the 15 essential social media facts and figures for B2B Marketing. I don’t know how you feel but I certainly feel like everything I read about Social Media is the same old thing just a rehash of something else I read before. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2009

2009 was the year Social hit its tipping point and from here on out we will never be able to go backward. So my prediction is that next year you will see Social Media start infecting all areas of the company in making them more social not just the Marketing and Communications departments. Tags: Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2009

2009 was the year Social hit its tipping point and from here on out we will never be able to go backward. So my prediction is that next year you will see Social Media start infecting all areas of the company in making them more social not just the Marketing and Communications departments. Tags: Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 27, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 11, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. What’s your Social Media diet? Tweet This!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 9, 2011

Let’s focus on how to build backlinks other people use to point attention toward your website via blogs, articles, social media sites, and so on. The reason is that most powerhouse social media sites like Facebook and YouTube put a small piece of code called ‘the no follow’ tag into most areas of their site. Instead, ignore it.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? If you blow up the chart you can see that Social Media as a percentage of your overall interactive spend has grown from 13 percent of budget to 14 percent of budget for B2B Technology Marketers. What’s your Social Media diet?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly than you can keep up with. There are several types of conversations that you can encounter out on the social web anything from a complaint to a compliment to what I like to call the Expressed Need. Related posts: Why is measuring Lead Gen in Social Media so hard?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

With more than 70 million monthly users, Pinterest is easily one of the largest and fastest-growing social networks around. In fact, Pinterest users boast the highest average checkout value of all social media referral shoppers , and Pinterest-referred users spend an average of 70% more than their non-pinning counterpart (highlight to tweet).

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Writing on the Web

JULY 29, 2010

Social proof is such a strong trigger for online action, it’s good to know what works best for your Web content marketing strategies. Related posts: Phony Testimonials and Dumb Social Proof. Social Writing: Don’t ignore networking sites. Social Networking Online: How to find out what you need to know.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JUNE 2, 2009

Summary: marketing vendors offer several types of social media applications. But none truly automates social media management, which is what's ultimately needed. Social media is this month’s Trend of the Year. But no one knows how best to use it, which has led to a wide range of offerings under the social media label.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 8, 2010

With all of the hype surrounding social media, knowing how to dip your toe in the water without falling into the deep end of the social media pool can be challenging. And how do you optimize the time you spend with social media sites? Social media is in the press every day. Guest post by Kim Albee. Should you participate?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 25, 2010

Late last year, I sat in on a couple of social media marketing webinars from two of the best: Rick Burnes , Marketing Manager at HubSpot , and Chris Abraham of Abraham Harrison , along with Sally Falkow of Expansion Plus. Here are some of the key takeaways on using social media effectively. Revver was recommended for video sharing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. It combines a few things you might have read about into one new concept around social media – the 4 P’s of Social Media marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I quickly asked my social network if it was worth it and I got a unanimous YES back from my Twitter and Facebook connections. There is a customer service lesson in here for all B2C and B2B Marketers – this is the type of support customers are expecting today on the social web. So I decided to give it a try. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

But focusing on the Extrovert angle for a second, I began to wonder if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Share this on Linkedin. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 21, 2010

When it comes to Social Media data the same holds up to a point! There is clearly a spectrum of Social Media data that can be collected by any listening platform like a Radian6 or a Networked Insights. Moving up the chart from monitoring into analytics is where you see higher value from all that monitoring of your social data.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 9, 2010

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

I get a few blank stares at times when I talk about social media technologies with friends and colleagues but I’m starting to win people over day by day. I see blogging as a way of connecting many of the dots in social media - let me focus on a recent story to show you what I mean. How am I doing this? With real stories!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 6, 2010

Imagine a world where B2B Marketers could target specific decision makers in specific companies using Social Media ads. Tags: Advertising Facebook Interactive Marketing Lead Generation Pay Per Click Social Media. Think that sounds like the future years from now? Think again – it happened to me last week! Tweet This!

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

A multitude of online social filters were developed over the last 15 years to address our perennial information overload curse. From Google's page rank, we went all the way to tag clouds, social bookmarking, Twitter trending topics and Gmail's Priority Inbox , trying to find ways to make what matters float to the top.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. But wait, social media hasn’t been around that long! Just 4 People doing Social Media?

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

many people pause to think about what they’re thankful for: family, friends, TiVo, the Yankees not winning the World Series… I’m thankful for all of those things too of course, but also for the development and growth of social media. Now, social media tools like Facebook and LinkedIn make it easy and (usually) non-awkward.

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Smashmouth Marketing

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

What if I had my browser setup so when I wake up in the AM all my daily tasks for maintaining my social media prowess were just lined up waiting for me to get my coffee? A while back, I read an article by Chris Brogan that discussed 19 chores we could each do daily to help us maintain an online presence. I'm in good company! Leave a comment.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. Of course, there’s more to (successful) blogger outreach than just pitching, and there’s more to the new practice of social PR than just blogger outreach. Will Traditional, Social Media Blend? by MediaPost Marketing Daily Commentary.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

In the last post we covered how to create a Social Media Lead Flow. There is a growing number of listening platforms devoted to Social Media – everything from highly customized services that are managed for you, to free tools you can manage yourself. But what if you don’t have a listening platform? Share this on Linkedin.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Marketing Sherpa last week released its 2010 Social Media Marketing Benchmark report. The report’s authors begin by noting that: “An important transition in the use of social media for marketing purposes is taking place. Though the full report runs $400, much interesting data can be gleaned from the free executive summary.

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