Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

The tsunami of data being created, collected and parsed every second of every day now makes influence identification instantaneous, and possible from the comfort of your desk chair. 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.

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JULY 5, 2010

I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund ) finished up. I’ll be back in a couple weeks.

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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JULY 28, 2010

link] [link] duane forrester Alltop RSS – 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Matt McDougall 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Mktg Success. What colors tend to influence rooms? Great list, looks a lot like the discovery we do prior to content planning. Painting business?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Find a tweet your competitor sent, and see how many times it was retweeted, by whom, which among them are influencers, etc. I’ve moved from Tweetmeme to Topsy on my embedded tweeting, due to improved metrics, and Topsy’s competitive intelligence capabilities are impressive.

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