Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2024

Influencer marketing has grown beyond getting a viral moment. It has become a core element of marketing and sales strategies. Our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey revealed 81% of US-based social marketers consider influencer marketing an essential part of their social media strategy.

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The Marketing Blender

JULY 19, 2022

How To Build A B2B Marketing Funnel. When you’re in the business of marketing B2B products or services, it’s crucial to create a B2B marketing funnel that will guide potential customers through the buying process. However, if you’re a B2B digital marketer, then you know that the customer journey is not always linear.

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Lenny's Newsletter

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. PR can work, but rarely does. The very first community we got word of mouth in was the ex-Zynga product managers who had gone on to build their own companies. That’s why they work.

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Optinmonster

DECEMBER 21, 2023

If you answered yes to both of these questions, you’ll benefit from learning how to do pre-launch marketing. Drawing up a pre-launch marketing plan can help you attract customers to your brand-new business even before the actual launch day. You first need a pre-launch marketing strategy to introduce a new product successfully.

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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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markempa

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Call for speakers: MarketingSherpa’s B2B Marketing Summit 5 dials to tune in your lead generation process Recent Comments Copyright This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Ive often talked about how marketers can reuse content for lead nurturing. You can apply this concept to your existing e-newsletter.

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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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Valasys

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The straightforward ramifications of content marketing include attracting & engaging the prospects along with the sales cycles & ultimately driving sales conversions. At least, this is what the marketers think of in first place & this is where the majority of the marketers align their focus on. billion in 2015 to $4.0

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Content Standard

MAY 18, 2018

It’s strange to think, as accustomed as we are to social media, that it has only been around for about two decades. But it’s also strange to realize that many elements that underpin these platforms—the importance of word of mouth, the power of influencer marketing—are actually quite old. And there it was.

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Strategic-IC

APRIL 6, 2022

We’re just good B2B Marketers and ABMers. This is the challenge of Dark Social and the Dark Funnel [more on which is which later]. And with the rise and diversity of social media, that ‘darkness’ is a growing issue for attribution-hungry marketers looking for light. Word of mouth. What is Dark Social?

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Outgrow

MARCH 2, 2021

Your A-Z Guide on E-Commerce Marketing [Strategies+Case Studies]. Marketing is an important aspect for any business looking to achieve consistent and continuing success. Keeping up with all these new strategies, like e-commerce marketing, can be daunting sometimes. E-commerce marketing is a tactic that is easier than it sounds.

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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

JULY 31, 2012

You never see people talk about competitors on social networks, and on marketing blogs. Marketers obsess about their competitors, messaging, and corresponding market share. That’s why we talk about competitors a great deal in Marketing in the Round. Is word of mouth positive or negative?

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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

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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Chris Koch

JANUARY 22, 2010

I wish I could say that social media leads to sales. So when we think about social media ROI, we need to make a leap of faith. To make ourselves feel a little more comfortable with this idea, we may need to categorize social media with something whose hazy ROI we’re more familiar and comfortable with: PR. I really do.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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. It’s a Bird.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. 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

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.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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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

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. 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.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Sorry Works Contrast that with the guts and class (and good crisis management sense, despite having zero PR counsel) shown by umpire Jim Joyce in the immediate aftermath of his blown call, robbing Armando Galarraga of a rare perfect game. A coven of PR practitioners. And they can’t get just two little words right.

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Convert

JANUARY 16, 2023

Olipop ’s success from direct response influencer marketing leads audiences to a website that is primed to sell. But let’s not forget about the new trend in direct response marketing — livestreams aka the new infomercial. Gerrid Smith , Chief Marketing Officer, Joy Organics. Take a look at these: Source.

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Marketing Craftmanship

JUNE 19, 2015

More importantly, the experience provided some valuable insights about “making the short list” that continue to have direct application to our B2B marketing business. Making the short list” in B2B marketing means that your firm has been chosen by a prospective client as a candidate for an assignment.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Sure, you can centralize some of your social media chores (great post by Chris Brogan), by using Tweetdeck or Seesmic. For normal humans that check social media a couple times a day, NutshellMail may become your new favorite social companion. You run over to check your Twitter account. Then Linkedin. Maybe your blog.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline.

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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 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

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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