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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. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer.

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Single Grain

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Promotional planning is becoming more and more necessary for big as well as small businesses around the world. A promotional plan highlights key elements of a company’s strategy and creates a roadmap of future tasks in a way that’s more likely to achieve business goals. Book My Free Marketing Consultation. Online marketing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 15, 2010

I am referring to updating, maintaining and sometimes marketing their industrial websites. My opinion is somewhat biased because I am an industrial and B2B marketing consultant. I make my living providing marketing services including designing and marketing industrial websites. Is that a good thing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

She has focused on identifying the problem and providing a 5-step solution to shorten the buy cycle. In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. I have summarized here my takeaways on her five steps. What is the key to shortening the buy cycle?

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Single Grain

JULY 6, 2023

You can elevate your business to new heights with a stellar promotional plan. From identifying your target market to choosing a catchy promotion name, from selecting an effective promotion type to deciding on key messages and promotional products, we’ll journey through the creation of a powerful promotional plan.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Single Grain

JANUARY 31, 2020

The power of paid media extends far beyond the scope of organic reach. Different companies rely on different tools to analyze their media spending, but you should preferably pick one or two of the best (depending what your tasks are). So what are the best paid media tools? Here are the top 17 tools available on the market.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

My friend Amber Naslund writes a lot of the need to “ manage up &# in social media—making sure the folks doing the work are communicating effectively to the C-Suite. Organizations evaluated, bought, and deployed software that everyone was supposed to use. How do you see the parallels with technology adoption?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. And once the system was set up and the business rules determined, the company spends almost no time managing the program.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

About a year ago, I wrote a guest post here titled “ Use Online Listening for Competitive Research. The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Now, the rules are changing, and noteworthy, quality content is the future of online marketing success.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. Are you working with a team or collaborating with a client? •

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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.

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Buffer

MARCH 13, 2018

In speaking with thousands of marketers and businesses over the past several years, we’ve learned that marketing has an incredible potential to impact people’s lives. We as marketers are benefiting society at large ! But marketing skills and career growth don’t come easy in a field that moves at the speed of light.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. Says Lisa Beatty, “We want to bring women into the conversation, but also into the solution. It’s on JaneNation. Is this the future of agencies?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. A tall order, to be certain.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

However, in this example, Service Experts has the forum to provide this type of content (a blog), and it also has the ability to actually rank for these types of phrases. Don’t you think that it makes sense for Service Experts to be exposed to people searching for this?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If you fall in love with tools, you’ll constantly be changing directions, with no real plan to guide your way. link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] rlseymann (Rebecca Seymann) Twitter Comment Really enjoyed this presentation: 7 steps to creating a social media strategic plan. They always do. Yahoo, too.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

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. Sales reps from traditional PR distribution services were even quoted as saying, “there’s a reason it’s free.&# – implying that it doesn’t perform well.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. The Voice of the People Sure, infomercials include a lot of patter from the host (and his trusty sidekick, the otherwise-out-of-work-former-TV-hostess). What do you say?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

“The mainstream gaming market will always be native. I don't disagree that web apps may be the future, but given how many kinks need to be worked out (infrastructure for one) it simply is not ready for prime time. It’s generally easier for marketers to garner excitement for a native app, though this will change over time.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

You often are buying in part because of the service and personnel of the company in question. For whom is it more important to have a humanizing social media presence? A B2B software company, or Skittles? There’s only one precursor to successful social media adoption, and that’s believing that it will work.

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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. The most efficient way to do this today is online. By transparent, I mean keep it real and no lip service.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

When it comes to creating a social media strategy , there is one, often overlooked piece of the puzzle that falls through the cracks. I work with clients to create communication plans and digital strategies that usually include some form of social media. The who is doing what piece of the puzzle.

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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. Follow/fan/friend is just opt-in – and all you've done is agreed to be sent direct marketing.

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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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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

And of course, I’d never share your email address (frankly, I don’t even know where to find it without help from my assistant, Jess ) Thanks as always for your tremendous support of me and my work here at Convince & Convert , and elsewhere. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You can also manage your customization preferences by clicking links in the email, so visiting the NutshellMail Web site isn’t needed after initial sign-up. Ill see if this cadence works. I'm taking some of your suggestions above and tailoring to what I *think* will work best for my personal needs. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

After all, why would they even be coming to your Web site unless they had questions about your product or service? Here’s how it works: 1. I would also make a point to solicit input from customer service and sales teams, as they have more day-to-day interaction with fence-sitters. To be entertained? I think not.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Chris Brogan started with zero posts and zero readers.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer challenges big and small, if we’d just watch less TV and commit to participating in something other than our own mental decay. Who we are. Who we want to be.

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