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APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? That depends upon how many other people/brands they are following, and how often they check Twitter. Perhaps 3-5% of the time (on average) they will. Very, very few.

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MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design. Embrace Math.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system. Also, since you’re in the process of fixing up your blog I wanted to remind you that Mofuse is not doing justice to your mobile site – [link] I tried switching to Disqus but had lots of trouble importing my comments from WordPress, did you have any trouble with that?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Internet , Marketing > 11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands 11 Common Mistakes That People Make With Their Personal Brands by Tamar Weinberg on October 7, 2010 Share This is a guest post from James Adams. Any advice?

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AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!).

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AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Im Jay Baer. How can I help you?

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JUNE 22, 2010

Never Heard Of It This is of course a situation that is most acute in B2B, where White Horse found that 60% of companies either have low executive interest in social media, or have modest interest but a lack of education. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. Social Media?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. Adding a Twitter field to your contact records is only a start.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics.

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JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Im Jay Baer.

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JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. It will pay off.

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MAY 12, 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 Would You Try It With a Fox? You'll like it.&#

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FEBRUARY 11, 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 Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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MARCH 10, 2010

The Best of Twitter 20 From the forward: I’m sitting in a ballroom in Indianapolis in September, 2008 watching Joseph Jaffe give a masterful presentation on social media transforming corporations, when I come upon the idea to interview him on Twitter. You can download it free below. Maybe you will also.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, I’d love for you to vote for my other two panels while you’re in the mood.

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JUNE 29, 2010

link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con. link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You run over to check your Twitter account. Twitter Without the Hassle Want to know who has signed up to follow you on Twitter today? You can even include Twitter searches in your feed, enabling you to use NutshellMail the same way you’d use TweetBeep, or an RSS feed of Twitter search results.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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MAY 4, 2010

Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin.

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MAY 13, 2010

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Twitter is for people you want to know. (I Social media isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive. (I I use this a lot. Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals.

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JULY 26, 2010

The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. Someone searches for you, they’ll find your Twitter profile or Facebook brand page. This is another example of why you need accounts on these sites.

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JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging.

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JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. But, I’m not.

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MAY 27, 2010

Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? includes slides and worksheet) [link to post] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] DMurrow (Dave Murrow) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: Develop a social media strategy in 7 steps. Sessions start October 5.

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MARCH 4, 2010

We hear how twitter and the other SM tools will help to get you on top, blah, blah but that only happens so few times. Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. Very helpful post, Jay. Blogging is a commitment to yourself and anyone reading.

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MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. It’s on JaneNation.

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FEBRUARY 23, 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 Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Like last year, I enlisted in help from my followers on Twitter, many of whom gave me some great posts to add to this list.

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APRIL 28, 2010

million followers on Twitter? 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. The reality is, there’s never been a level playing field.

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JULY 21, 2010

You can find her on Twitter or, if you’re lucky, behind a rolling pin making a fresh pie. Have you read the Terms link provided by Facebook, Twitter or YouTube? Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Read the fine print.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. Twitter is Ubiquitous Like Terrell Owens, Carrie Underwood, and Coke Zero, Twitter is almost universally on the radar of Americans.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time? Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Presto, a pretty graph in about 3 seconds flat.

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