Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Look here for some clues [link] Do your homework – start here [link] – social CRM is not Advertising 1.0

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Podcasts vs. YouTube.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 14, 2013

I started connecting the dots between the early adopters of Twitter and my LinkedIn network and seeing that instead of just building a bunch of connections I was able to follow the real time activities of my friends and prospects/customers through their social streams. B2B Sales Motivation (@salesquote) January 14, 2013. . Drucker. —

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Email is the king of re-engagement… it’s why Facebook and Twitter utilize email to engage their audiences. If I subscribe to an email – I have the intent of re-engaging with your brand. Email is the king of re-engagement… it’s why Facebook and Twitter utilize email to engage their audiences.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 29, 2012

If you want to neatly measure social media ROI, give your customers and fans a clear assignment with tracked clicks and post-click landing pages and forms. Drive Social Media ROI with Content Marketing. Even The Social Media ROI Cookbook includes little discussion into social’s critical role in loyalty and retention.

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Oktopost

JULY 27, 2021

If you’ve ever gone searching for information on the internet about a product you were interested in buying, you’ve replicated one of the critical parts of the B2B customer purchasing journey. Of B2B buyers surveyed, 77% say they won’t even speak with a salesperson until they’ve done their own purchasing research.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Other than signing book deals, the favorite sport of the social media punditry these days seems to be bashing Klout. The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. But most social media types aren’t Paul Gillin.

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Convince & Convert

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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Koka Sexton

MARCH 2, 2011

After joining and getting waist deep in building strategies around engaging our customers and prospects using social media, a few things became very clear to me. We have a video of the Social Selling Primer here. Why does social media matter to sales people? Social media marketing grew 50% in 2010 to $1.2

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Convince & Convert

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.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

[link] Laura Click Are You Growing Enough Voices – a great post about utilizing guest bloggers from @jaybaer: [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh Jay- Inviting, commissioning and curating content that expands the relevance of your blog to its readers is the part of engagement that's not talked about enough, IMO. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Caching content in the app provides for an experience that is both faster and more visually engaging. A few things that will keep the app stores humming along for awhile: *The lack of high speed mobile access is a key impediment to the transition and I don’t see that changing in the near-term for the vast majority of users.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. They are either memorable, instructive, or both (hopefully). August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

Long and expensive consulting engagements often missed their mark. On mid-1990s projects, for example, typically organizations defined hundreds of requirements and went through protracted RFP processes in search of the best software and system integrator. This was essentially the subject of my first book. With Enterprise 2.0,

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost. Just a thought.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Un #CaseStudy de una empresa de aventuras [link] [link] Elena RoBe Artículo interesante: El malentendido de las redes sociales [link] [link] robertwheatley And therein lies the great lesson: being helpful and human. Engaging people in their passions all helps make the business more meaningful. Allowing for and creating communities.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Develop Rules of Engagement The only way to succeed in a world where marketing is a waterfall, not a lake, is to have codified rules for how you’re going to handle social media circumstances. Who’s listening?

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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. However, statistics show that such use of social media is still not widely utilized by most companies.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

On Twitter for example, if you’re tweeting about your company’s new product, you’re engaged in a customer gain event. But, if one of your followers tweets and asks you to solve a customer service problem, and you answer back, you’re engaged in a customer retention event.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

I'm not sure you can separate content from community anymore, as Google seems to be looking more and more at engagement (comments, linkbacks, time on site) to determine the value of content. After your webinar yesterday my department spent an hour or so asking ourselves, “What IS the goal of our blog?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I am new at blogging, but tend to notice that I get many more comments when I include an engaging headline that gets people interested in the topic. If we've been following your blog, we've got that figured out because we are familiar with the Convince and Convert “from&# name. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. Now that’s engagement that goes WAAAAY past just clicking the “like&# button. agencies, you should be experimenting with this too). I’m bummed I missed that one.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

People who have educated, inspired, engaged, supported us. link] Lee Riley The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life #li [link] [link] Yael Davidowitz-Neu As always, I enjoy your perspective on how the principles of building brand loyalty/customer engagement remain the same despite significant changes in technology. All of us have influences.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. John & Partners can have conversations with major brands that perhaps wouldn’t put the mid-sized agency on their radar otherwise. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

The Facebook page was a failure because they were not engaging their audience, they were just collecting names. As Jay preaches, social media is not about collecting names, it is about activating your fans. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement. That can only happen if you know who is doing what.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 6, 2017

Social customer relationship management (CRM) was being written about as a distinct product category as far back as 2008, but market interest really began to take off the following year. How does social CRM differ from traditional CRM? Market interest has remained fairly strong since then. 1) Infusionsoft. .

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Not in a “here’s our FAQ&# way, but in a vigorous, social media way. For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. Is there no place for old-fashioned “selling&# using social media? Remember the cold call?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

When a current customer wants to stay engaged with the brand, to learn about new products on the horizon and other updates, what’s going to turn them from a customer to an advocate? Smart, optimized content. Smart, optimized content.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. I believe Twitter will ultimately be the way that we interact with brands, and will power the social CRM movement. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Social is an Ingredient, not an Entree Help clients find ways to add social components to existing marketing (print, outdoor, broadcast, direct mail, email, search, live events) – rather than viewing social media as a freestanding silo.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we optimize and improve our existing social media programs? Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web? But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? Which leads me to what I think is a huge miss by most sports franchises, including the Twolves: the message boarders.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. If your audience skews older, you may not want to engage in a lot of “make a video&# contests, since that segment indexes low on the “Creator&# scale. in social media?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

A safety net CTA gives visitors a way to remain engaged even if they're not ready to convert (whatever that may be). I'd suggest minimizing the sharing features at the bottom of the post to a few core staples, then SMACKING them in the head with a very clear CTA illustrating the reasons why they should come back again.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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? But if you’re engaged in a social media program in an effort to go “viral&# you’re not really engaged in social media at all.

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