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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. Sound off in the comments, and maybe we’ll put together another post with great examples.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If you’re not willing to listen to what your customers are telling you, when they are clearly using social media (especially Twitter) as the new 1-800 number, then you have a problem with your corporate culture that social media can’t fix.

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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. A blog can serve many functions, depending on whether or not the blog is the business (revenue stream) or a tool (for commerce, community, etc.). Blogging is a commitment to yourself and anyone reading.

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MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. The only thing that’s really certain, is that eventually the online tools will change. If you have a tools-focused strategy, you don’t really have a strategy.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Because of the specificity, it’s much easier to achieve a top 10 search engine ranking for long tail searches, and higher rankings = higher conversions. The Long Tail of a Blog – In Action Last month on Convince & Convert , 6,243 incredibly discerning folks visited from some sort of search engine query.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. How much can you afford to spend on the tool? • What about you?

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JULY 28, 2010

If you have a search engine on your website, look at a report that shows what people type into that box. Make sure you’re not just shopping who you think your competitors are, but also who Google says your competitors are, based on search engine results. link] Don Ronlund Helpfulness might be your most effective sales tool. *5

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MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time.

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MAY 25, 2010

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APRIL 1, 2010

However, the photos in each location appear to be different, and the file names on Flickr are straight from the camera (tough to rank in search engines when your photo is named “CIMG1537″). Consistency and Leverage I didn’t start out looking to slam the Timberwolves’ social media program.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Unless you happen to catch lightning in a bottle (#4), the incremental page views stemming from people linking to these posts or finding them on search engines adds up. I may run a similar analysis and rank my top posts by page views coming from search engines. The appetite for tools content is huge. Search does matter.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

But, fortunately there are some pretty sweet tools out there to help me find the right people to engage in conversation. But, fortunately there are some pretty sweet tools out there to help me find the right people to engage in conversation. Using social media to acquire customers is like using email to acquire customers.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

gave up their search engine duties in U.S. The tools of social media always change. And that’s why your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic. “Your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic.&# Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform.

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DECEMBER 4, 2012

How can you measure (or can you measure) social media ROI ? Find the answers to those questions and many more here in almost two dozen of the best social media guides, tips, tools, insights and rants of 2012. Social Media Marketing Guides and Tips. 12 Essential Social Media Cheat Sheets by Mashable.

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MAY 19, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments.

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APRIL 22, 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 Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

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JUNE 3, 2010

I think what'll likely happen is publishers will work out some kind of data-sharing deal with Facebook – the promise of increased, pervasive social sharing activity on their sites is too attractive to pass up. It will be slow, and it will be messy, though.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Befor… [link] [link] Alyssa G I agree with your perspective on the iPad being the ultimate content consumption tool – and for that reason, I think it will be a great device for education, particularly for college students. It's a perfect tool for that and much less expensive than any alternatives in that space.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. I don't see FB rendering the web site obsolete as much as a myriad of well integrated social tools replacing the traditional web site. Facebook is seriously becoming a powerhouse tool though. It is a tool. And a search engine of it's own.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. I don't see FB rendering the web site obsolete as much as a myriad of well integrated social tools replacing the traditional web site. Facebook is seriously becoming a powerhouse tool though. It is a tool. And a search engine of it's own.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 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 Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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AUGUST 25, 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 Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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APRIL 27, 2010

Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? I'm presenting at a leadership conference (of engineers) this weekend and one of the points I will try to make is that “Information isn't boring by accident. link] jaybaer Preach it to those engineers Jon! Thanks for sharing.

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