Convince & Convert

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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Kikolani

JULY 16, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, Blog World confirmed, and a farewell video from the Old Spice man on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Blogs I Follow – this is the best way to organize your commenting strategy, Alltop style. Making Money Online / Online Marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

As each year passes, blog marketing techniques evolve. If you’re a business, you may have the luxury of hiring an awesome Internet Marketing Company to keep up with the trends, but as individuals managing a blog for as a hobby or for profit, it’s up to you to not only maintain that blog but keep up with ways to increase traffic.

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Convince & Convert

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. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

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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