SmartBug Media

MAY 15, 2020

In order to create effective marketing, nonprofit organizational teams must find creative and innovative ways to enhance their marketing and stand apart from for-profit businesses and like-minded organizations. A national digital marketing company, SmartBug understands the importance of a digital footprint.

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Hinge Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Social media has entered the workplace faster than many companies have been prepared to handle. This reluctance is further highlighted by these data points regarding overall online marketing: Most management consulting firms generate less than 20% of leads online. Custom-Build Your Social Media Strategy.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 24, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? This long time staple has become the Rodney “No Respect&# Dangerfield of B2B and industrial marketing. Are those predictions a little premature?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? That depends upon how many other people/brands they are following, and how often they check Twitter. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Have Digital Marketing and Social Media Killed the Industrial Sales Job? And digital marketing and social media are as disruptive as they come. Every disruptive technology is known to cause major upheavals in any industry.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Undoubtedly, your marketing team uses a variety of mediums to execute your marketing messages on a daily basis. Those mediums — including social media, email, and paid advertising — are part of what's called a business's media mix, a process that can be helpful for businesses that need a little organization.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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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

MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. How Does Your Audience Use Social Media? Because tools will change.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2010

3 must-read articles about social media (plus a bonus from the Convince & Convert vault) Sent twice per week (usually Monday and Friday) Sent at 1pm pacific time 3-2-1: it’s the greatest newsletter in the history of social media newsletters. The price is right, and if you hate them, you can bail out at any time.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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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. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!).

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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.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. All the while you’re feeling like you’re playing catch-up, that something awesome may have happened, and you missed it because you weren’t online. Sure, you can centralize some of your social media chores (great post by Chris Brogan), by using Tweetdeck or Seesmic.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox?

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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 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. But as I pondered this connection, I realized that there was a portion of the advertising world that shared a lot of elements with social media – infomercials.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. 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. It’s no contest.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

The book includes several compelling examples of groups creating and maintaining impressive online collaborations, without a profit motive in sight. In a sea of “me too&# books about social media, Cognitive Surplus stands out as about so much more. Who we are. Who we want to be.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. Amber presented a smashing summary at the recent SocialFresh Charlotte. You’ve got my vote!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Do You “Like&# How I Look In These Jeans?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy. 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. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. First, figure out how you’re going to be social, and then worry about how you’re going to do social. Stelzner on Vimeo.

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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. You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. million followers on Twitter? million followers on Twitter? The reality is, there’s never been a level playing field.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Swix Adds Facebook Tracking Speaking of Facebook, our friends at Swix , the incredibly nifty Canadian social media tracking and reporting service, have managed to wade through the ever-shifting tides and add Facebook fan page metrics. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here.

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