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JUNE 17, 2010

Certainly, it’s not a comprehensive influence formula like Klout , or other Twitter-influence arbiters ( interesting study this week from Sysomos ), but it’s easy to calculate, and I think it makes sense. Convince & Convert [link] #marketing #b2b [link] Evan E. Numbers can both have value and be deceptive.

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. population.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? As a business owner your goal needs to be having no gap at all, optimizing every point of contact with your customer.&# A tall order, to be certain. He’s on the road now on the UnMarketing book tour of 30+ cities.

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APRIL 13, 2010

All of us have influences. Tell me in the comments who influenced you and why, and you could win a copy of the uber-classic book “ How to Win Friends and Influence People. Sounds like the playbook for successful brand/customer relationships on the social Web, does it not? Who influenced you, and why?

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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. They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person.

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JULY 5, 2010

I’ll be back in a couple weeks.

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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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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

It’s challenging to get the metrics really needed to measure social media ROI primarily because social media is much more like public relations than it is like direct marketing or search engine advertising. It can influence your prospects to buy from you, but doesn’t normally lead straight to a purchase.

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MAY 13, 2010

Bowen RT @jaybaer: 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] Socially Influence RT @jaybaer: 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] TweepTips 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] Lee Johnson ??? All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 24, 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: Tying Together Social Media and Corporate Social Responsibility 5 Steps to Winning Fans with Content Strategy Are You Ready for the Opportunity Economy? Now that it is so easy for Joe Q.

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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. What do you think of this approach?

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JULY 20, 2010

While alterations to search algorithms are helping to bring this to fruition, social media has been the real game-changer, placing the power of relevance distinction in the hands of the consumers. This allows (mandates, even) the cream to naturally rise to the top. All rights reserved.

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Thus, one of the first questions I recommend you ask about your social program is whether it’s true mission is to gain customers, or retain the ones you have. If you’re trying to gain customers, your social program is more about content creation, influencer identification, and virality.

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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. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

This week’s show is on Little Bird , the influencer identification and connections platform. Which people and which tweets and which influencers and which topics are of importance to your business? Little Bird helps you tap into the people, companies, and content on Twitter that are influencing the direction of your business.

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MARCH 25, 2010

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JUNE 24, 2010

But, I'm n… [link] [link] Rinforside web 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media #socialmedia [link] [link] Onit Marketing Never bought a shamwow? Here’s your chance to get to know it and learn about 3 ways it can influence your social media! All rights reserved.

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JULY 28, 2010

RT @jaybaer: 5 Simple Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Gold: [link] [link] Foundora 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness – [link] By @jaybaer [link] Deirdre Reid, CAE 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Marketing Greatness (by @jaybaer) [link] [link] Jack Scharff How can b2b apply? What colors tend to influence rooms?

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MAY 25, 2010

Which Are You Providing I see 17 online marketing services that small and medium agencies (especially PR-focused firms) could credibly offer clients, if they made the effort to build competency: Search Taxonomy Analysis Search Opportunity Audits Search Engine Optimization (not super duper hard core SEO, but intermediate level) Blogger Outreach Influencer (..)

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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? ” — B2B PR Sense Blog. 1) Infusionsoft. . 1) Infusionsoft.

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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. I recommend answering each question with a dedicated blog post, and a video – at a minimum.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Remember however, that many factors influence popularity at the individual content piece level. Don’t make assumptions – test them. Vary time of day, day of week, phrasing, link placement, and other options, and thoroughly document your results. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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JULY 22, 2010

While the willingness to invest indicates that businesses recognize the potential to develop deeper connections with their consumers in the social sphere, many are still uncertain as to how to best join the conversation.

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JULY 14, 2010

[link] #sm [link] Richard Becker Best Fresh Content Pick: Social Media is the Servant of Strategy, Not the Master [link] by @membershipjedi [link] Martin Seibert I definitely like your approach and I fully agree, that strategy comes first and social media and tracking follow. al definitely should influence strategy though.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? Another couple of points that readers may want to consider in the second section would be the ability to sort content by influence, engagement, comment count, followers etc… Often helps to surface the posts/tweets that may need the most attention first.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Do you have influence or a bunch of followers? =-. Do you have influence or a bunch of followers? =-. Do you have influence or a bunch of followers? =-. link] Social Media Strategy | Afrinnovator.com [.] link] Crushing the Myth of B2B Social Media [.] in social media? Jamie Favreau´s last blog.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. I especially like your last point — if social media has changed anything, it's changed the definition of influence. What do you think? Frank_Strong This is a great post Jay.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The top two social networks for B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies are LinkedIn and Twitter. Others are barely active, or use Twitter as a broadcast platform rather than a social network; they follow back only a minuscule portion of their followers and rarely engage in conversations. Followers: 15,408.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? What content lessons do you take away from these results?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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APRIL 14, 2010

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 4, 2012

How can marketers make more productive use of their time on social networking sites? How can you make sure your company’s social media policy doesn’t run afoul of employment law? How your brand is abusing social networks by iMedia Connection. ** 5 STARS.

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JULY 8, 2010

Shameless Plus – For more insights on what influences email deliverability, check out our Letters to the C-Suite: Getting Serious About Permission & Deliverability). In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. Why is this? link] Jeffrey K.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Keyword Volume and Analysis – Comparative data across multiple terms Influencer Report – Who is talking about you that has disproportionate online influence? Excellent Social Archive Capabilities But given that RowFeeder is intended for the data warrior, my favorite feature is the spreadsheet capture of all mentions.

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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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