Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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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

MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

But that only helps if you’re online and “in the flow.&# For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. And it’s free.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

RSS subscriptions are up. 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. You would be entirely wrong. Instead, traffic here on Convince & Convert is actually UP since I went on vacation. Visits are up. Page views are up. They like it.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

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. Because the real advantage email has over social is data. Great article!

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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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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

The only problem I've encountered is the trepidation associated with personal blogs. Right now we are shying away from use of personal pronouns in order to maintain a more formal business tone. It doesn't seem to hamper traffic, but I do wonder how a blog can grow in its readership if the personal connection isn't there.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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. BTW, Jason, I am in awe of the way you answer everyone personally. young) PR and marketing types with little experience.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

[link] Jimmykellyart (Jimmy Kelly) Twitter Comment RT @barneydavey: RT @jaybaer Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] kathysacks (Kathy Sacks) Twitter Comment RT@jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. I have subscribed to your rss feed as well.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Check out this post from @ktvan on choosing the right one [link] [link] B2B Online Marketing Very informative!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

My business today has assembled an array of expertise and networked with people and businesses so I can offer help in all areas of marketing and advertising. 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

MARCH 16, 2010

The lack of integrated metrics on Twitter may not be a big deal for personal users, but for corporations looking to embed Twitter into an integrated social CRM approach, it’s a gaping hole that is currently being patched by inefficient, home grown workarounds. link] unruh ann has a point – it's all about the content. corporations?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Note that nearly 40% of all subscribers to this blog are via email, not RSS. I definitely need to check out some of those.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

If you have two people use the device with different iTunes accounts, you can't update or change apps that one person installed without their iTunes password. If you have two people use the device with different iTunes accounts, you can't update or change apps that one person installed without their iTunes password.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. Note that nearly 40% of all subscribers to this blog are via email, not RSS. I definitely need to check out some of those.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. In the case of this blog, you'll see the top level “like&# in the top right corner by the RSS icon. subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Awhile

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AUGUST 3, 2010

link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. In the case of this blog, you'll see the top level “like&# in the top right corner by the RSS icon. subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Awhile

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development Unless you’ve been on a very long sabbatical from industrial and manufacturing marketing, you very well know that your website should be the hub of your online marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 28, 2010

I see this as being most useful to the person managing the blog – especially those with multiple authors. Which in theory, we should be using every time we create a new web page for a client (and which, honestly, could be repurposed fairly simply to apply to social media outpost content pieces). The problem is bandwidth.

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