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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s lengthy and often inconsistent approval process. Also, $0.30

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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. Event attendees often ask me if I have them written down, and I never have, until now.

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JULY 5, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The B2B prospect hanging out on Facebook Sunday night behaves differently and has different information needs than the same person reading e-mail on Monday morning. Be a Hunter, Not a Gatherer Now, more than ever you have to know the psychographic and demographic profile of your potential customers.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

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JULY 27, 2010

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JULY 28, 2010

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. Not too different than this guy I met at an AZIMA event who was just freely sharing his hard earned knowledge. Have them document EVERY question they receive. link] Meryl K.

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MAY 12, 2010

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JULY 26, 2010

Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. Unlike your blog, which is on an island, the Pitch is mobile and travels around to all the places you need it to – email, social networks, search engines, etc.,

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Plus, event invites, and photos in which you’re tagged. The email also can be configured to show you all new friend requests, status updates from pages that you’re a fan of, as well as photos, videos and links from your friends. This, I'll try.

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JUNE 29, 2010

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AUGUST 24, 2010

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MAY 4, 2010

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We've also found that event planners use Flowtown to can get a quick and accurate snapshot re: demographics for their sponsors. link] ethan Hi Jay, Thank you for the review. that you're pumped about Flowtown As you alluded, got some really wicked add-ons / features coming out soon, so stay tuned!

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

link] Rituparn 6 Req Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and Events | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] ericboggs Interesting content, Jay. Despite the cold you were terrific! And thanks for the shout out on the blog. That Twitter widget is cool.

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JULY 20, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. It's like any other social network, right? population).

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MARCH 25, 2010

Events & ROI The Swix team understands that to understand social media’s true impact, you must track over a lengthy period, while simultaneously accounting for external factors that could skew results disproportionately. You’ll be able to easier understand how these events drive social success using Swix.

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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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APRIL 13, 2010

That experience made me explore different industries, which lead me to B2B PR. That experience made me explore different industries, which lead me to B2B PR. At one particular event, after several unsuccessful attempts at getting anyone to meet with me, I stopped at the bar for a drink. link] Paige Holden Great question.

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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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MAY 5, 2010

With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. Unbelievable turnout (more than 260) for a first-time event, and tremendous kudos to Fred Von Graf , who organized it practically solo. Social Media 101 Explained by the Best Fishing Analogy EVER =-.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts.

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JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. People are sharing photos, ideas, writings and video. All that stuff? Ad Chickadee ?

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MARCH 10, 2010

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MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. If someone fills out the form to download the document, and they have a large following on Twitter (as determined by an instant Flowtown look-up), you can automatically send and email to your PR team to follow up with that individual.

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JUNE 24, 2010

He talks to people about riding his bike to work, the ladies in his office, events going on in South Portland, stuff like that. We have a local guy in our Maine crowd, @OBobME. Bob sells insurance. Do you ever see him talking about insurance on Twitter?

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Thanks for your help!

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APRIL 15, 2010

is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy 4 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps [link] Jeremy Victor Jay, Congrats – I completely understand your feeling of affirmation as that is exactly the way I felt about [link] making the Junta42 at #24.

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APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? Also, if you have a blog, would you be willing to leave a comment with the number of search terms people used to get to your blog last month?

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MARCH 23, 2010

If you have complementary resources like an Ebook, email newsletter, events or otherwise, make sure those are easy for first-time visitors to find as well. Jacob Morgan does a nice job with this, promoting his book, events, and other resources on the right side of his excellent blog. That would be a fun discussion, right?

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JUNE 3, 2010

How coincidental that these two events are such perfect contrasts, and happened within days of each other… [link] Marcel Dezentjé 'What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce' Over 'met de billen bloot gaan' – [link] [link] Mike Stenger Abso-freakin-lutely Jay!

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JUNE 2, 2010

While it's obviously not as public as a social network, it seems that the mindset is, “I trust their opinions, I'll ask them a question.&# link] bob nunn Diesel Jeans lets you a dressing room camera to see if your social network 'like' you in those pants.

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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%. Take your email lists, and use Flowtown to determine who within your customer base has a Facebook account. Sore spot with us PR types.)

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