Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Awareness, Sales, or Loyalty? The elevator pitch is dead. Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? What’s the Point? What type of program is this? What’s Your Relationship with Your Audience? What does your audience know about you today?

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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. This 40-something Florida Mom found he… [link] [link] I Marketing Exposed Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads.

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JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. link] [link] WebPro360 And, it's not just about businesses 'tooting' their own horn. Great thoughts, Laura!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally.

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APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? People who… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life: Who Influenced You?All Who influenced you, and why?

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. population.

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MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. These services are in many ways would Twitter was originally, with another layer of loyalty and rewards built in.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

This resonates with me, since I've been saying for a while now, “Stripped down to its essentials, new media marketing is about participating in the conversations that will go on with or without us.&# There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM. There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. 9 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Location Based Services by Social Media B2B. by B2B Lead Roundtable Blog. The B2B Social Media Landscape: a portrait by Beyond. ** 5 STARS. What should I monitor for? What to do?

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 27, 2020

Which means marketers who don’t stay up to date may have a tougher time getting their content in front of their audience’s eyeballs. 2004 – 2009: Facebook was born in 2004, but its newsfeed didn’t show up until 2006. Well, according to our data : B2B brand posts perform best between 9am and 2pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

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APRIL 14, 2010

It’s about marketing sideways , not marketing head-on. Or do you think that reputation through relationships is enough to expand your market? jmctigue Jay, you're dead-on (not head-on) about removing friction as the key to new marketing strategy, but at some point we need to expand our reach to find new customers, no?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

And though a website used primarily by young people to post embarrassing pictures of themselves and by older people to share cute pictures of their progeny would seem an odd venue for selling after-shave or enterprise software, both b2c and b2b marketers have embraced the platform in droves simply due to its incredible scale and reach.

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JULY 22, 2010

She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com. However, if a firm focuses on building brand loyalty with a small subset of customers, they may find that it has an exponential impact.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

February 25th, 2010 |Written By: Susan Baier | View Comments Tweet Guest post from Susan Baier, a 20-year marketing strategy veteran with an MBA in Entrepreneurship. Her company Audience Audit provides strategic marketing support and audience segmentation research that helps organizations understand their customers better.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. This has happened before online. Proposals are written. Resources deployed. Stuff gets built.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Social Campaigns & Apps (social media marketing) In this approach, you’re using contests, promotions, offers, and self-contained applications and widgets to promote your company or product. Most blogging, video content, Slideshare presentations, Squidoo lenses and content marketing of that type fits into this category.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? link] Wissensauslese RT @jaybaer: The Truth About the iPad: Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was inv… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Truth About the iPad: Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was invented?

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MARCH 16, 2010

According to these numbers, the audience using Twitter actually declined from August to December, 2009 (during the same period, Facebook went from 250 million to 350 million members). Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter. I'm not even going to try.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Note: This post, a joint effort between Cheryl Burgess and me, originally appeared on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog last month. This should be a wake-up call for companies’ content on pursuing outbound marketing initiatives. Since 2009, we have seen revolutionary wars and unspeakable natural disasters. million tweets per day.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Working Together to Remove Money From Your Pocket What used to be content intended for all end-users to access the same way is now possibly just a piece of the marketing puzzle to properly equip cross-brand, cross-vertical collaboration and integration. We’re willing accomplices in our own marketing funnel.

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APRIL 7, 2010

There are three primary benefits: awareness via virality and social proof; loyalty and rewards; and market research. So they have unsolved technical glitches that restrain growth and market penetration. Funny though, last night I wrote up a handful of ideas for marketing your small business on Foursquare.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 23, 2010

Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department. Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Yet, it seems to be a stagnant mode of gathering feedback.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By way of comparison, that’s approximately the same size as the Asian American population, and you certainly don’t see the media coverage, software development, conferences, and general hullabaloo about marketing to Asians. Can you imagine an “Illinois Marketing for Dummies&# book? We built our own Frankenstein.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You and your compadres in your organization need to perform a serious audit of how you’re spending every minute of every day (especially in the marketing and customer service arenas). Consider your fans – your advocates – your 1%ers – your volunteer marketing army. The same is true of social media.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Telling compelling stories as a B2B software company isn’t always easy–trust us, we know. Square, founded in 2009 by Jim McKelvey and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, was born of necessity: McKelvey is a glass artist who was losing four-figure sales because he couldn’t accept credit cards.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 16, 2010

And exceptional businesses are realizing tangible, meaningful outcomes using social media & mobile marketing. Create Demand, Not Messages Success with “social” marketing is becoming less about creating desire, positive sentiment or aspiration among customers. Whether B2B or B2C, customers are buying based on what they need.

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