Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging. Now, the rules are changing, and noteworthy, quality content is the future of online marketing success.

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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

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

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. It punches a hole in the theory that social media and content creation success has to be a huge time commitment.

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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? I’ve read several articles about the impending death of email marketing because of the steady decline in open and click-through rates (CTR). The first study done by AWeber (aff.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

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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. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. This presentation: “Why Before How: The Keys to Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps&# also formed the basis for my recent MarketingProfs Webinar. Because tools will change.

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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. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel.

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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. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.

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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. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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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. You might want to test this. • What about you?

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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

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

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. Great article Jay!

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wrote a post a while ago called Social Media Excellence and a Side of Fries about the importance of people to McDonald’s) As you might expect, UnMarketing is not your typical marketing and business book. link] UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media … | eBook Reviews [.]

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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. Transparency is a brand currency on the social web. That’s where the Pitch™ comes in.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Joyce then faced the media (which is not required by MLB rules), and tearfully said: “This isn’t a big call, this is a history call. link] [link] Elise Duplin What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce | PR 2.0 | Social Media Consulting – Convince &Convert [link]. And I kicked the shit out of it.

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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. Also, thank you to the supremely talented Tzeyee Goh, who designed this eBook.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

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. 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.

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JUNE 7, 2010

link] [link] Hot In Marketing Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] LoriBurke I want to win this book too. Saw Zappos featured this wkend on tv. Great story!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

But the problem with email and social media is that too many people are positioning it as an either/or scenario. Several blog posts have foolishly been written about social media “killing&# email. Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Social Media? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. For whom is it more important to have a humanizing social media presence?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

RT @jaybaer: 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Social Media Mktg. RT @jaybaer: 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Social Media Mktg. That would be a fun discussion, right?

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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

APRIL 13, 2010

While it pre-dates the Internet (and commercial air travel, ATMs, competitive eating, Red Bull and a lot of other stuff we take for granted), its core premise serves as the foundation for social media effectiveness. Robert Kiyosaki awoke the inner entrepreneur in me and his book and words lead to my venture into internet marketing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

I will continue to have the same clients, and perform the same social media strategic planning and coaching services that I do today. In social media, and in life you have to embrace a simple concept: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained. But for now, I want greener, quieter pastures with suffocating humidity.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. Consistency and Leverage I didn’t start out looking to slam the Timberwolves’ social media program. Yep, that’ll get fans in the seats. Your Web site.

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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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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. First, figure out how you’re going to be social, and then worry about how you’re going to do social. Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Stelzner on Vimeo.

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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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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2010

Social media marketing has a lot of moving parts and processes which make it hard to get up to speed. This challenge is only compounded by the ever-changing nature of the market, in which new applications and opportunities arise daily. 22 Amazing Social Media Graphics 1. Social Media Process v.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. How can we convince our clients that we’re good at social media?

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