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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

link] Social Business Bank Option 1. What a great, active fan base ! 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. No question! link] Warren Fick Wow. It makes your head look confined.

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MAY 27, 2010

Flowtown Just Keeps on Getting Better Flowtown , the uber-awesome social anthropology tool that allows you to enter customers’ email addresses, and find out where they’re active on the social Web, has rolled out an amazing new integration with Wufo0 – the easy-to-use online form builder.

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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. One way to build a following and keep them involved is by deploying a fun, creative way for supporters to participate and share with online friends.

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MARCH 25, 2010

But this looks very cool and if they're able to resolve the Facebook page thing it would be awesome and something I'd definitely use.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Myspace also. link] Jexep (Jeep) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: 7 steps to creating a social media strategic plan. Because tools will change. They always do. Yahoo, too. What’s Your Pitch?

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JULY 15, 2010

As Jay preaches, social media is not about collecting names, it is about activating your fans. It can get complex depending on the size of your social media program, but here are some tips to help make sure you’re managing social operations appropriately: If you are blogging, create an editorial calendar.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. When creating and promoting social content, include specific, relevant keywords and search phrases wherever possible. What do you think? Worth a try? GREAT INFO!

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APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. In the team’s defense, they do have a nicely executed Events tab, and the Wall seems to be pretty active, with a variety of contests for fans. But then it gets even worse.

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Sure, “listening&# is the most oft-cited path to social success, but if the “Mass Influencers&# aren’t talking about your company, you could have Dumbo ears, and it won’t make a bit of difference.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? Of course, there are a ton of outstanding PR firms doing excellent work in social media, including all the folks I have the great privilege to work with every day here at Convince & Convert.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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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? link] Scott R.

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JULY 14, 2010

Years ago, they were created over time through news stories and ad placements and customer activity. 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.&#

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

“Twitter users talking about marketing and brands far exceeds the usage on the other social networks,&# said Tom Webster , the VP of Strategy & Marketing at Edison (and the study author), when I interviewed him for this post. The huge gap between awareness (87%) and active, monthly usage (7%) was shocking.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

More from Convince and Convert The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Should Facebook Dominate Your Social Media Strategy 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website Convince and Convert Recommends How to Introduce Social Media to Your Business (Danny Brown) Social Media Marketing… Simplified (The Arkayne Blog) Alexandra Kirsch and the Perfect (..)

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Now you know that person is active on those social outposts. Gmail Stalking Twitter, Facebook and other social outposts have incorporated functionality that allows you to see whether your Gmail contacts are using the services, and invite them to connect with you.

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FEBRUARY 25, 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 Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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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. While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully.

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JULY 13, 2010

Every single person in a public relations firm should: 1) understand the impact of social media and 2) be able to activate that marketing potential for their clients. They are still stuck in the old paradigm of interruption marketing. I don’t believe in a “digital divide.” Don’t cheat them of that opportunity. Good stuff.

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MAY 20, 2010

Get your cross-functional social media team together, and agree on reasonable success metrics before you get started in social media. If you’re already active, but there are people on your team that cannot (without looking it up) name your key success metrics, and from where they’re derived, call a KPI meeting today.

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MARCH 18, 2010

I don’t want to poach or poorly paraphrase anyone else’s content, so here’s what I wrote in Letters to the C-Suite: To The Executive Team: I realize everyone is telling you social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Isn’t our Facebook page just a post-modern email newsletter?

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JUNE 3, 2010

He writes for marketing blog The Zest , loves talking marketing strategy and is suspicious of helicopters. Of these trends, the biggest is the embedding of services into online infrastructure, because the line of demarcation between your website and our social networks is going to get very fuzzy over the next few years.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Second, the social media tools and destinations will inevitably change, but considering 83% of online Americans are active in social media, and there are 425 million people with Facebook accounts, I think we’re past the lava lamp stage. Social CRM The new telephone. Social CRM The new telephone.

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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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JUNE 8, 2010

The ability of companies to win hearts and minds through contextually appropriate, just in time marketing is the hallmark of the Opportunity Economy, and it has never been healthier. That type of rifle shot, competitive marketing would be unthinkable in the “real world&# , but it happens every minute of every day on Foursquare.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Objective Marketer This power-user Twitter app is the preferred vehicle for Guy Kawasaki. I use Objective Marketer for all of my in-advance Tweets, and when I want to engage in some headline and/or time of day testing. Disclosure: Objective Marketer gave me a free account) Note: There are thousands of Twitter apps (literally).

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform. Then, you could pull the results into a Google Reader for an automatic and permanent archive of activity. link] jaybaer Great tip Ike.

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JUNE 30, 2010

One of the greatest benefits in the emergence of social media communication and marketing is that now every consumer has a voice that can be heard. It's not like the “old days&# where TV/radios advertisements and marketing campaigns had to appeal to broadly defined targets markets.

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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? Interaction.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook’s user base or Lindsay Lohan’s court appearances, it’s tough to keep up. Social Media Marketing Tips, Tactics and Guides. Building Social Bookmarking Networks 101 by Search Engine Journal.

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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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MARCH 2, 2010

At Genius.com, we understood relatively early (we announced our gURLs to track traditional and Social Media in July 2009) that while most B2B marketers are engaging in Social Media, very few are actually measuring it.

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APRIL 7, 2010

There are three primary benefits: awareness via virality and social proof; loyalty and rewards; and market research. Recently, I had the good fortune of hosting the weekly #socialmedia chat (Tuesdays 9am Pacific) where social media types congregate on Twitter and answer three questions posed by the host.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

Facebook is a great tool for marketing your business , but only if you use it correctly. Still, it puts Facebook ahead of MySpace. That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. Here’s my request of these individuals: Use your real name. Only your name. Sorry, there are eleventy billion SEOs on Facebook.

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