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JULY 26, 2010

He’s a former journalist turned PR guy and straight shooter at New Media Cowboy. 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. Little did they know, the model was well beyond their pay grade.

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AUGUST 2, 2010

More from Convince and Convert You Are Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy Taking Consumer Reviews Viral with Facebook Are you spending enough on digital marketing? Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users.

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JULY 5, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics.

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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? How can I help you?

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JULY 27, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6 And is that appropriate? Probably not, but maybe.

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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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AUGUST 24, 2010

It gets spammy on Twitter with requests and DM’s, and then I see posts like this that, while the intent behind it is good (for MaW support), it could be viewed negatively. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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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? Pissing off Google.&#

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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. Maybe you will also.

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JUNE 29, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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MAY 4, 2010

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. How can I help you?

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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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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MAY 13, 2010

Twitter is for people you want to know. (I Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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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. Sarah Barnes Spot on.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

“Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

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. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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Hubspot

JUNE 8, 2010

Social media and inbound marketing can drive powerful connections and awareness; however, to have part of their budget allocated for online marketing resources, B2B marketers need to be able to demonstrate a clear ROI. And for most B2B marketing departments, ROI comes down to one major metric: leads.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Leaving the etiquette alone for now, our focus is how marketers need to approach our targets. Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start. However, for marketers, a social media address is insufficient to manage that channel. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Hubspot

MAY 24, 2017

However, if you can consistently produce great content on a regular basis, that's enough to dominate the online marketing realm. Unfortunately, about 70% of marketers still lack an integrated or consistent content strategy , based on research from Altimeter. Bottom line, you need to bring your community into your marketing.

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MAY 5, 2010

Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. link] Marcelo Bacchi Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads. link] (The @janenation case study) [link] Jane Nation RT @Mixpo: RT @jaybaer Is this the future of ad agencies?

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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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MARCH 4, 2010

We hear how twitter and the other SM tools will help to get you on top, blah, blah but that only happens so few times. All the best, Ed twitter: @fanfoundry [link] Deepak Dutta "How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging ", [link] [link] davinabrewer Like ed ranked them below, I don't think they are exclusive.

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JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. This whitewater rafting place has the customers doing all the marketing work with time investment on Twitter, etc.,

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JULY 21, 2010

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? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Read the fine print.

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APRIL 28, 2010

million followers on Twitter? But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Look to Facebook Somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the finding in the Forrester study that 62% of influential impressions from Mass Influencers took place on Facebook, with Twitter just 10%.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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JUNE 24, 2010

Go onto Twitter and bitch about Dish Network. Next, go onto Twitter and bitch about AT&T. Do you ever see him talking about insurance on Twitter? Businesses on Twitter should just read some Harvey MacKay books. Go onto Twitter and talk @ people. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. Bob sells insurance.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Twitter is even narrower at 36% – 46%. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. (I’m Comment away!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Especially in comparison to many other communication programs like traditional PR, TV advertising, outdoor advertising and others, social media actually offers pretty solid metrics. It’s not hard, it’s complicated.

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MAY 11, 2010

At the end of the day, however, a great product and great customer service is still what will keep your clients coming back despite the notion by some social media gurus (certainly not Mr. Baer) that positive word of mouth (or “buzz&# ) was created by social media.

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