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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Features being considered for inclusion in new releases include CRM integration; deep analysis of customers’ social graph and content they’ve produced (keyword analysis of your Tweets, for example); and even semi-automated social media response mechanisms. Just a thought. link] Michael A. Im Jay Baer.

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JUNE 10, 2010

I first heard about him when he was 15 in 2006 and he captured the attention of some huge blogs because of his analysis of their posts. As long as there’s a healthy balance in their activities, I don’t see a problem. | SocialBeta June 25, 2010 at 1:54 am How Young is Too Young? It was a creative and brilliant idea. (If

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Competitive analysis: How does your brand stack up to the competition? • Note that although various tools might measure this data, it’s inclusion is dependent on the data being available on each mention so in most cases only a subset of the total mentions are counted in this type of analysis. First – What are the objectives?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 12, 2010

For example, one of my Friendster aliases is Times Square. Extracurricular programs combine summer programs, vacations, and related activities. The value to me (although I don’t know if a lot of people are actively doing it) is the ability for me to vote on what you think is applicable to you. I couldn’t help it. (By

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MARCH 12, 2009

You are missing out on tremendous opportunity for growth and performance of competitive analysis. Reply BarbaraKB March 12, 2009 at 10:32 am Good analysis, Tamar. I have seen these programs work but I sometimes wonder if it’s worth all the effort considering the possible fall-out, as seen in your example.

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MARCH 25, 2010

For example, you can determine in an instant what the cost and return per view is for a YouTube video you spent $5000 on to generate 25,000 views. jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Im Jay Baer.

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JULY 22, 2010

Let’s look at a few examples of companies that have done this successfully: Yelp’s Elite Squad: Yelp operates a social networking, user review, and local search website for members to post reviews and get user feedback on local businesses and restaurants. Are Gardening Forums social media?

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APRIL 7, 2010

What great examples of businesses doing this well do you have? After those and if I’m sitting around waiting for someone (for example) I’ll turn to FourSquare. I’m starting to hear a lot of smart people scoff at these services, primarily along these lines “Why do I care where someone is eating for lunch?

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JULY 8, 2008

To succeed, they need to do the following well: Data analysis Provides holistic strategies to clients Training, presenting, and research Relationship-building and networking Outreach to online users and bloggers A social media marketer’s job never ends. For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. There are some elements of Disqus I don’t like, especially that it doesn’t always play nice with other plug-ins, but it does make commenting easier and faster for most of you who already have a Disqus account.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. Mommyblogs are a great example of thriving personal blogs; they take you behind the scenes into the life as a parent. If something is newsworthy, the blogger turns that into an opportunity to give a detailed analysis into the story.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many social media software packages (great ebook analysis of them here) can provide highly detailed reports on the impact of social media programs. Amber [link] Deb Robison Great post and I especially appreciate the viral example and the need for participating with authenticity. I would add (maybe not a separate item, but incorporated?)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The best example I’ve ever seen of this is from a company called ThinkGeek , which prides itself on carrying the most robust collection of unique, thought-provoking products with the biggest nerd appeal on the planet. But the best example I’ve seen is on their Facebook page, where one fan posted an update on their wall — in BINARY CODE.

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JULY 23, 2010

10 Facebook pages that are exploding in popularity – great examples of successful pages. Simple co-citation analysis and link prospecting – a process for finding link prospects for a linkable asset using simple, targeted, hostname-only co-citation analysis. Link Building. Photography / Digital Art.

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MAY 20, 2010

For example, data that shows that in comparison to last month, 15% more people went to your product pricing page after first visiting your Facebook page is a far superior KPI to number of Facebook “likes&#. All of these are diagnostic metrics (great post about that by the outrageously smart Christoper S. link] re social media.

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JUNE 8, 2010

link] (from @JayBaer) [link] David Spinks Great advise with helpful examples: Are You Ready for the Opportunity Economy? Your trio of categories and the clear examples are very helpful… this is another keeper, thanks a heap, Jay. Awesome stuff Jay — I love the way you bring real examples to social media. Great stuff.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

Sphinn: In Depth Traffic Analysis and Advice (Blogging Fingers): Matt Jones takes a look at Sphinn in its early beta stages and gives a lot of interesting feedback. For example, Rule #1 is “Thou Shalt Be Honest.&# 10 Brilliant Examples of LinkBait (WebGeek): Scott Allen shows how tools are great linkbait.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Over the next few months, I received multiple invites to various groups on Facebook and messages imploring me to participate in activities in which I had no interest. SEOmoz PRO : SEOmoz PRO features a rich library of informative guides, a myriad of tools, and a strong active and close-knit community.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Good humor mixed in with a solid analysis, Jay. Even though the actual numbers show that over 25% of the whole population is supposedly actively using Facebook, you don't have ANY local support, the list of most popular local pages is completely flooded with spam/scam pages (no matter how often we have reported them).

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Good humor mixed in with a solid analysis, Jay. Even though the actual numbers show that over 25% of the whole population is supposedly actively using Facebook, you don't have ANY local support, the list of most popular local pages is completely flooded with spam/scam pages (no matter how often we have reported them).

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FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Before going out and hiring any social media “consultants,&# assume that there is already someone within your organization who is actively using social media and who is very passionate about it. For example, it’d be difficult for someone to get on Twitter and pretend to me because I’ve already been out there.

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MARCH 2, 2010

Try to figure out what your Facebook fan page’s impact is on your number of Twitter followers, for example. ExactTarget bought @cotweet "Why the social business evolution starts today" (my analysis) [link] [link] Lauren Fernandez RT @jaybaer: Wow! Rohrs RT @jaybaer: Wow! Rohrs RT @jaybaer: Wow! Rohrs RT @jaybaer: Wow!

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2011

The huge growth of online sites like Youtube, Twitter and Facebook, which have the potential to give anyone a large audience are a great example of this in action. This same desire is why there are over 100 million active blogs out there, each with authors trying to connect to the bigger whole.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Online SEO Tools: The Ultimate Collection : At Search Engine Journal, Ann Smarty has compiled a list of the most valuable tools to perform SEO analysis. Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. You can even download it but you have to go to his post to get it. What is the ROI for Social Media?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

I really, really, really hope someone at Facebook starts listening and takes this advice because otherwise business activity will plateau and then plummet and they’ll be out of luck. I’m currently running a Twitter and YouTube contest, for example. You have money and you have the troops ready and waiting. And a week?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

As I wrote about yesterday in “ 7 Reasons Not to Put All Your Eggs in the Twitter Basket &# as your number of Twitter followers grows, the percentage of those followers that care about your current activity plummets. link] Ryan McCormack Hi Jay, Thanks for the thought-provoking analysis. I wish I had been able to meet you!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Judging from your active history on Digg, it is apparent that you are very aware what constitutes a violation. If he’s going to be the one who sets an example here, we’re going to follow in his lead. In the final analysis, what in the world do you stand to gain from this Herculean effort? The reality is that Kevin R.

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