Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

Jay Baer has said on this very blog that he believes every company will have a social component within 2 years, and Amber Naslund has written persuasively about the dangers of requiring case study “proof&# before getting involved. And that’s just it. You Just Might Like It Sam I Am. All rights reserved.

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JULY 28, 2010

Total cost of this incredibly helpful marketing effort is very low, and Mike even offsets that by including ads from sponsors! This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer. Mike you are a helpful marketing genius.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

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. Be Committed to CSR As mentioned, it’s critical to be transparent when it comes to a company’s CSR program, especially when harnessing social networking platforms.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

That content helps the company with SEO, and also builds a real-time, living FAQ of customer testimonials and insights. As Brian Solis has written about a lot, social optimization needs to be simple. It turns advocates into volunteer marketers. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog. It makes sharing simple.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is hard False.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

So regardless of how you use Twitter, you need to factor into the equation the cost of lost followers, and a need to continue to acquire new followers. link] Tim Underwood Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? – [link] [link] Merry Ann Moore Very useful for getting clarity: Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

I totally agree that repurposing content across social networking platforms is a necessity, and that saying what you mean and meaning what you say across every channel is very important. I also think that there is a lot of potential in the often overlooked message board communities that existed well before both Facebook and Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Maybe it has to do with the size of the item or big ticket item (cost). That’s a good starter list for Mass Influencers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. Last week I receive a canned response from them telling me to look at their FAQ page (which I already knew offered no assistance).

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

We looked at criteria like size (under 100,000 people), college town, good schools, access to health care, cost of living, etc. The Science of Cities We used the online filtering tool Find Your Spot to narrow down our relocation options. and the site produced a list of candidate cities for our consideration. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well. Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well. RT @jaybaer: Not sure which social media tools to use?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

We Are Not Alone Serving as the organization’s advocate for adopting social media can be a test of passion and commitment. With the low/no cost of entry, it does cost time – your time. Personally, I have had to serve in the positions of jester, leper, and pariah in my efforts to have others adopt social media strategies.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Jonny Stark Wow, quite a few comments on here already!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

link] [link] Jen Grant You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] by @jaybaer (who in my opinion is worth 10x more than the cost here #justsayin) [link] Skip Bensley RT @jaybaer: Wow. Tickets are going fast , Social Media Success Summit. 297 gets you 24 killer social media Webinars. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

Building Long Term Relationships While it’s true that the web has made building individual relationships cheaper and easier than it used to be, this doesn’t mean that businesses can necessarily expect to build deep connections with their entire customer base; in many cases, this is neither feasible nor cost effective.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

A recent feature on CIO.com on “ 10 of World’s Strangest Social Networks &# gets it all wrong. Somebody’s “strange&# social network is someone else’s potentially thriving customer community. " by @jaybaer [link] – Are you missing the *right* social networks?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

Though I'd also argue that it can be done at such low cost vs. mass media that brands should be willing to get busy and figure out meaning at the same time, and not use measurement challenges as reasons not to engage.) And yes – social media should offer the email newsletter.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

One keyword and up to 500 posts (Twitter or Facebook mentions) per month is free, making it a potential zero cost solution for very small businesses. Pricing is quite reasonable for RowFeeder. Beyond that, pricing increases based on number of keywords and posts in $5 increments. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class. The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Total cost? 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media [link] [link] Erik J.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It's not that because of social media, trust has gone down. It's that sometime during the last few years, we've started to consider lying acceptable and that's been done at the cost of decreased trust. I now trust a few of my friends more than ever, but I don't confuse my friends with my Facebook friends.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 8, 2011

Searchability improved, trees were saved and shipping costs plummeted. It ideally should include: • The primary media contact’s name and contact information (including social network profile links). FAQs (real ones, that real media people would care about). based on division, product line, purpose etc.)

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Sprout Social

APRIL 6, 2023

This automation can significantly lower time constraints while reducing customer service costs, so you can focus on optimizing your strategy. Additionally, your chat conversations will differ based on the pages, networks and channels your programs live on. Here are some examples of brands using chatbots in a B2B and B2C environment.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

check it out – [link] [link] Vernon Towne Cinema RT @vernongirl: 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] 5 Rockets, Inc. I can carry my persona across multiple sites and that persona ties back to a social network site.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

check it out – [link] [link] Vernon Towne Cinema RT @vernongirl: 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] 5 Rockets, Inc. I can carry my persona across multiple sites and that persona ties back to a social network site.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A really nice layout doesn’t have to cost a lot, but shows you’re more than a social media dabbler. Passports are accounts on other social networks and social media platforms. Twitter.com is a must if you have a social media audience. But most people who want to develop a personal brand do.

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Convince & Convert

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. The area of “metrics integration&# is especially interesting.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2010

What I’m curious to know is how they leverage the cost of someone who spends 3 hours there using the network and only buys a cup of coffee. link] [link] Gregg Morris #LocationBased social networks w/value. link] [link] Roger Smith RT @greggvm: #LocationBased social networks w/value.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yet… (Danny Brown) Tagged as: critical thinking , Guest Posts , judgment , noemi pollack , PR , public relations , rfps Did you enjoy this blog post? August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Not bad considering the haircut only costs $15.00. Not bad considering the haircut only costs $15.00. Not bad considering the haircut only costs $15.00. When I checkin to your business, I just put your business top-of-mind to how many people… and at what cost to you? Yet another testimonial for them.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It would be nice to see a bloggers only social network. It can be a huge time sink if you let it. It also makes us overly narciscistic as well as voyueristic ( they sort of play off each other). In moderation it’s fine. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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