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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I’ll have to look into the new Exact Target tool. My clients are currently set up with Constant Contact which has been trying to add more social tools- but not quite cohesive yet. And, you need to start unifying your content strategy across all channels.

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MAY 4, 2010

There is of course relentless chatter about social media ROI and success metrics. Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious. The ROI of many Enterprise 2.0 For other technologies, the ROI is a bit tougher to quantify. In short, collaboration and adoption need to go up and down, not just side to side.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

3 must-read articles about social media (plus a bonus from the Convince & Convert vault) Sent twice per week (usually Monday and Friday) Sent at 1pm pacific time 3-2-1: it’s the greatest newsletter in the history of social media newsletters. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. You’ll be able to easier understand how these events drive social success using Swix.

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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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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?

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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

More from Convince and Convert Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble Why Social CRM Needs to Be Less About the Social and More About the Customers The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Convince and Convert Recommends From Twitter to Blog – #FollowFriday Vol. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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JUNE 17, 2010

They're bots and goofballs who followed you using one of the tools you alluded to. Convince & Convert [link] #marketing #b2b [link] Assurance RT @ldiomede RT @jaybaer: Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off? Convince & Convert [link] #marketing #b2b [link] Evan E. Roberts @njmirolo Always fun!

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JULY 5, 2010

I’m on vacation in the great white north for a couple weeks, trying to spend a little time with the family and get The Now Revolution (my new book with Amber Naslund ) finished up.

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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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JULY 27, 2010

I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing.

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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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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As my friend Jeff Rohrs from ExactTarget (client) says: “How can social media kill email, when you have to have an email address to belong to a social media site?&# And that’s the premise behind Flowtown , one of the most exciting new social media tools I’ve seen in months. I just gave Flowtown a spin.

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MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. Sounds like it could really help businesses out in the social media realm.

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FEBRUARY 15, 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 Social Media and Email – More Alike than Different February (..)

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AUGUST 24, 2010

For every vote you cast for the keynote at South by Southwest featuring me and Amber Naslund , we’ll donate $1 of our book advance to Make-A-Wish Foundation ®. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] [link] Bogdan Donisan New post: Randy Kemp: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] ( [link] ) topsy_top20k RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail: Keeping tabs on your social media connec… [link] #marketing [link] Focus Communications interesting. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

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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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system. We’re working on tweaking the subscription center at the top a bit, too.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline.

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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?

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JUNE 29, 2010

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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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MAY 13, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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JULY 26, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I believe Social media delivers new communications tools. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. Everything that’s transpiring around us is actually improving the existing foundation for our business, from service to marketing to product development to sales to executive management, and everything in between. Thanks for sharing.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

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

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Because tools will change. If you fall in love with tools, you’ll constantly be changing directions, with no real plan to guide your way. They always do. Yahoo, too. Myspace also.

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MARCH 10, 2010

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

Even if we talk about exact keyword-phrase the reality is a little bit different then keyword tools statistics. Even if we talk about exact keyword-phrase the reality is a little bit different then keyword tools statistics. link] online guitar lessons It is hard to predict keyword phrases on which one should focus when creating a blog.

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JULY 28, 2010

link] Don Ronlund Helpfulness might be your most effective sales tool. *5 b2b #rentention [link] Jerry Freeman 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into #Marketing Greatness [link] RT @jaybaer Nice List. 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness* [link] RT @jaybaer: [link] Maark Find and show how you can be helpful.

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