Convince & Convert

MAY 17, 2013

This week: From ExactTarget , a free white paper called “ 3 Truths Every CMO Needs to Know About Social Media and the Customer Experience “ From Expion , a case study about how H&R Block mobilized 90,000 tax professionals in social media using Expion to guide their activity. The RSS feed is: [link].

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Social Media Media Viral Marketing Skype 162

Hubspot

MARCH 31, 2020

Here's how you can set yourself up for success with contests on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. Facebook is the most widely used social media platform , so running a contest on Facebook makes sense. How to Run a Contest on Twitter. Follow the Pinterest brand guidelines and terms of service.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Rules Guidelines 101

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 17, 2011

An interesting report released from Pew Internet Research about the use of location-based services among adults found that only 28% of American adult cell phone owners use services such as maps or recommendations based on their location. I don’t mean read your RSS feed or scour your Twitter stream. Listen Offline.

Social Media 150

Social Media Media RSS Work Management 150

NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

How to Use Twitter’s Lead Generation Cards to Actually Generate Leads. On August 28, 2013, Twitter officially rolled out their new Lead Generation Card. This card is available to any company with a Twitter Ads account. Keep Using Twitter Outside of Your Lead Generation Card. Be a Twitter Personality, Not an Organization.

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Lead Generation Twitter Generation Leads 100

Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2013

Twitter is on its way to becoming something entirely different. This isn’t a new phenomenon, as Twitter’s first incarnation as short form narcissism gave more than a kernel of truth to the old complaint among non-users that “they didn’t want to know what people had for lunch.” Twitter as a Ratings Service.

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Twitter Digg RSS Television marketing 167

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Managing your social media workflow in the constant chatter of Tweets, Likes and Direct Messages can be tough. A social media manager’s work is never done and it seems like a new task gets added to your checklist every week. It is important to note that there is no shortcut of value in social media marketing.

Social Media 74

Social Media Optimization Media RSS 74

Savanta

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Social media has become a bit of an obsession for me. It all began with a study Circle Research conducted for B2B Marketing late in 2011 to establish the ‘state of the nation’ in B2B social media. The result is a Klout score that shows the quality of a social media personality on a scale of 1 – 100.

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Twitter Brand Identity Branding B2B 120

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Social Media 120

Convince & Convert

MAY 10, 2013

This week: From ExactTarget , a free white paper called “ 3 Truths Every CMO Needs to Know About Social Media and the Customer Experience “ From Expion , a case study about how H&R Block mobilized 90,000 tax professionals in social media using Expion to guide their activity. The RSS feed is: [link].

Social Media 143

Social Media Activities Media Skype 143

Convince & Convert

MAY 3, 2013

Beth Dockins , Director of Customer Service for Scott’s Miracle-Gro , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss Scotts approach to social media customer service, social media “tribes”, and how the Scotts brand has evolved to becoming an informational and educational company for lawn and garden owners.

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Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Skype 132

seo.co

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sure, Facebook-ing and micro-blogging with Twitter are hot, but a lot of people still prefer the meatier stuff that only blogging can deliver. There are also plugins to integrate your social media efforts into your blogging. Preparing your blog for RSS. Most blogging platforms have a built-in RSS feature.

Paid Content 117

Paid Content Traffic RSS Blogger 117

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ultimately, as Olivier Blanchard has pointed out repeatedly , social media marketing has to demonstrate an ROI (though he acknowledges the questions have to be made more specific). But it’s crucial to the social media ROI debate to recognize that “R” is an end-of-the-process measure. Social media/network-referred traffic.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Biznology

JUNE 25, 2013

I believe that all social media marketing campaigns should probably start with foraging (as I discussed last week) — but as you grow, you need to evolve, especially if you need to bring home more and more food. Even more, the content-creation for content marketing can trend-surf as well.

Social Media 80

Social Media Social Marketing Media Planning 80

Binary Demand

JUNE 27, 2023

B2B lead generation refers to identifying, attracting, and converting potential business customers or leads for a company’s products or services. Besides, finding companies interested in your services is connected to identifying potential clients in lead generation. Using customized emails to push content is another effective strategy.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B2B Sales Ideal Customer Profiles 115

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.

Social Media 167

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 167

Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

I get a few blank stares at times when I talk about social media technologies with friends and colleagues but I’m starting to win people over day by day. Twitter: Maximize Your Travel In the past, I had blogged about why I use Twitter so it’s exciting for me to provide a success story for Twitter. Beautiful day!

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Social Media Web 2.0 Media Blogger 100

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.

Social Media 151

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 151

Ambal's Amusings

AUGUST 19, 2009

Is your time spent on social media networks worth your investment? When using social tools for marketing purposes, you need to provide metrics that will justify your efforts. Key performance indicators, more commonly known as KPIs, are essential to any social media strategies. Setting Up Key Performance Indicators.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media RSS Statistics 100

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

This is Episode 30 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. This episode features Eric Schwartzman , online social media training provider, entrepreneur and the best-selling co-author of Social Marketing to the Business Customer. The RSS feed is: [link]. Listen Now.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media API Twitter 115

Webbiquity

AUGUST 9, 2010

While there are unquestionably many ways that social media marketing results can be measured , the debate rages on as to whether it’s truly possible to quantify the ROI from these activities. Some experts contend that because social media activity is rich in metrics , you can and should be measuring ROI constantly.

Social Media 100

Social Media Social Marketing Media Marketing Analytics Tools 100

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. Any factors you look for or service you use that I didn’t mention?

Social Media 157

Social Media Media Paid Content Work Management 157

Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Here are some tips to help you uncover the transactional or informational rough edges that you can smooth using the sandpaper of good, relevant content: Ask your customer service team. Call your own customer service department. You just first have to find your customers’ pain points. Buy your own product.

Social Media 150

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 150

Biznology

APRIL 18, 2017

Magic in the form of Shel Holtz , godfather of Digital PR and Social Media Communications, asking me to join him on his globally-popular communications podcast, For Immediate Release (FIR). The only reason this occurred to me is because I went back in time to when I was a Twitter baby, via my experience on Mastodon.

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Advertising Agencies Public Relations PR Web 2.0 145

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Summary: Social Agency’s Spredfast helps marketers schedule social media campaigns the same way they schedule paid advertising. If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others.

Social Media 120

Social Media Paid Content Enterprise Management Work Management 120

NuSpark Consulting

OCTOBER 24, 2011

They do their own research online, and then contact vendors and service providers when they’re ready to talk price. These are primarily online pull tactics (including inbound marketing, content marketing, SEO and social media). With social media, buyers can reach out to colleagues, experts, peers, etc.

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Management Cold Calling Peer-to-peer 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2009

In a blog post last week, Dell revealed that it has generated more than $2 million in revenue from @DellOutlet, one of its many Twitter sites. Late last year, there were some headlines about Dell crossing the $1 million mark via Twitter and it’s only gotten bigger since then. Tags: social media Lead Generation.

Social Media 100

Social Media ROI Media Lead Gen 100

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.

Social Media 122

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 122

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.

Social Media 100

Social Media ROI Lead Ranking RSS 100

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

A few years ago, blogging and social media were separate. Social media was short-form, personal, and spontaneous. Some people predicted that social media would replace blogging because of declining attention spans. Now blogging and social media not only amicably coexist; they complement each other.

Social Media 48

Social Media Media B2B Thought Leadership RSS 48

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.

Social Media 114

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Paid Search Agency 114

Biznology

DECEMBER 4, 2012

At the end of the day, none of us own anything we do on Facebook, Twitter , Pinterest, Google +. Social media and its social networks may feel like a home to some of us, but they’re really just private public spaces, similar to coffee shops, the Politics & Prose reading area, or the conference or ballroom at the Rosslyn Marriott.

Social Media 80

Social Media Paid Search Agency CMS Development Advertising Agencies 80

LeadSloth

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I will be speaking about Marketing Automation features, the marketing technology ecosystem, and the impact of Social Media. Social Media. When talking about Social Media, most people immediately think of Twitter or Facebook. Lead Generation. Lead Nurturing. Lead Intelligence.

Marketing Automation Services 100

Marketing Automation Services Social Media Marketing Automation Social Marketing 100

markempa

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Still not convinced that you should delve into social media? Maybe you think there’s no way to measure social media’s success. Here’s a case study that MarketingSherpa released earlier this month that follows one company through its social media adventure.     Created a LinkedIn group.

Lead Generation 120

Lead Generation Social Media Generation Webinar Metrics 120

Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 16, 2009

Summary: Alterian's purchase of Techrigy marks the first integration of serious social media management with marketing automation. Marketing automation vendor Alterian yesterday announced its acquisition of social media monitoring company Techrigy. microblogs (Twitter, Friendfeed , etc.), Others are sure to follow.

Marketing Management 120

Marketing Management Acquisitions Social Media Marketing Automation Services 120

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.

Social Media 117

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 117

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. Consequently, I have two recommendations.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 120

Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2011

Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Promote events through social media? Cool Social Media Tools. Don’t want to follow Twitterers who aren’t following you?

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Social Media Tools Buzz Media 100