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| Page 1 of 2 | Previous | Next | CONVERSIONATION NOVEMBER 27, 2012 The Big Content Marketing Fail: How Much Content Do You Need? This blog post tells some personal stories and takes you a bit back in time. In fact, I could shout similar things today: ‘don’t think that putting some high-profile mavens after a password-protected blog equals community marketing’. Blog Content marketing content marketingSo, if you care about your budget and your customers read this. However, everyone overlooked content. | CONVERSIONATION JULY 3, 2011 Social Media Metrics: Jim Sterne on why, what and how to measure Blog Connected marketing Social CRM Social media marketing Jim Sterne social media metrics social media ROI web analyticsIn his book ‘Social Media Metrics’, Jim Sterne says: “The Internet has always been a social medium”. And he’s right where he writes that the Internet is the first many-to-many communication channel. The Internet is nothing more than a [.]. | | | | | | | CONVERSIONATION MAY 22, 2011 Content Marketing: What Content People Share And Why They Do It In decreasing order of importance, Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies found, people mostly share news about a family member or friends (81%), family pictures or video (80%), funny videos (63%), coupons/discount (54%) and news articles and blog posts (53%). It’s also clear that consumers want compelling and relevant promotions and that there are several reasons to focus more on content marketing in general and blog marketing specifically. Why do people share content? We seldom talk about what it is. Nor about the complexity of what makes it get shared. | CONVERSIONATION SEPTEMBER 25, 2011 Blogging and Content Marketing: Results Versus Personality A corporate blog has a purpose. So, it’s obvious you want to get results with your blog. However, the rules and best practices of efficient blogging should not undermine vision and personality. Blogging is a balancing act. Blogging Content marketing blogging content marketingIn fact, it can serve several purposes. Content is produced by people for people, with a focus on [.]. | CONVERSIONATION FEBRUARY 3, 2013 Social Business Failure Is a Choice: Speaking a Common Language Blog Social Business Gartner Mark McDonald Michael Brito social businessWe are warned. Gartner predicts 80% of social business efforts will not achieve intended benefits through 2015. There is a problem with that prediction and the perception it creates. In practice, social business is a huge Babylonian confusion. What benefits do we intend to achieve? How do we track success? No one cares. | CONVERSIONATION JUNE 1, 2011 What You Really Must Know To Succeed in Social Media Marketing From forums to blogs: online conversations are happening since years and the success of [.]. Blog Connected marketing Social media marketing social media marketingSocial media and networks have been part of many internet users’s life for the last six to seven years, with services popping up and falling down at an astonishing pace. And, yet, social media marketing is still a very “hot topic. | | | | | | | | | -
CONVERSIONATION | SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2012 Defining Social Business: a Call for Clarity and Collaboration Last week I stumbled upon a blog post by Gerardo A. Finally, because this initiative might be the spark for a multi-disciplinary group blog or community and it the end, that’s where value can be created. The rest of this – long – blog post looks at 1) how we define social business , and 2) what business functions and processes are affected. In next blog posts, I will focus on 1) why the term social business is misleading 2) why your business will never be entirely social (yes, you read that right) and 3) why tests to gauge how social your business is, really don’t matter. MORE >> -
CONVERSIONATION | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2011 Content Marketing As A Process: Three Rules Before Starting Blog Blogging Content marketing Conversion Opinion AIDAS content marketing conversion customer life cycle customer-centricity lead management metrics ROIContent marketing is defined as a marketing technique. However, it’s also a process that it is very connected – and thus should be aligned – with several marketing purposes and business processes. Note that the definition of content marketing as a technique should not make you focus too much on the content itself. To succeed, [.]. MORE >> -
CONVERSIONATION | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2012 Social Business: Four Real-Life Truths about Collaboration The 3 U’s apply to collaboration as well – source: Nicola Millard (Scribd) I haven’t been blogging a lot in recent months. wrote a blog post about it for the BT Let’s Talk blog which you can read here (thanks to Molly Flat of ’1000 heads’, for picking it up for a blog post on trust in her ‘ spotlight on social triggers ‘ series). Blog Social Business collaboration Molly Flat Nicola Millard social business the collaboration paradoxSome facts and data. Social business is all about people, integration (the silos, remember?) MORE >> -
CONVERSIONATION | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2011 Brian Solis on Digital Darwinism and Customer-Centricity Blog Connected marketing Customer-centricity Interview Social media marketing Brian Solis customer-centricity Digital Darwinism new consumerism The End of Business As UsualAs you probably know, Brian Solis published a new book a while back, called ‘The End of Business as Usual’. Since it’s an ideal time to catch up with my reading before going underground for the end of the year, I asked Brian some questions that are related to the ideas he develops in it. [.]. MORE >> -
CONVERSIONATION | WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2012 Altimeter Report: the Convergence of Paid, Owned and Earned Media If you haven’t, you might be new in marketing or might have missed phenomena such as blogging and forums in the nineties. Blog Marketing strategy Opinion Research Altimeter Group Chris Silva converged media earned media Jeremiah Owyang Jessica Groopman owned media paid media Rebecca LiebCo-author Rebecca Lieb By now, you probably know what paid, owned and earned media are. You probably also know that the number of media and channels has been growing for years now, often at adoption speeds we never witnessed before. Easy, although media proliferation made it look harder. MORE >> -
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