Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. It’s not viral unless it is. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Linkedin is for people you know. Twitter is for people you want to know.

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APRIL 28, 2010

I would look at increase in positive social mentions, increase in social conversations indicating purchase intent, actual purchases from defined influencers (if the database and transaction funnel permits that level of tracking), website behavior indicating purchase intent on the part of influencers.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation. Help clients take their message to consumers directly, impacting purchase intent by providing truly helpful information at the right time in the buying cycle. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Driving purchase intent through kinship. That's why we need to break social media into components – to focus on what parts of it are important to a particular company. Driving purchase intent through kinship. [link] jaybaer Spectacular comment Judy. Thank you. It's not a unicorn, it's a horse.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

That’s what attracted me to online marketing initially, and why I made the jump to that career in the mid-90s. The tracking online (including social media) far outpaces what I had at my disposal when I was doing traditional marketing. Kinship creates purchase intent.

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