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JUNE 24, 2010

link] sadie harris 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media [link] [link] sadie harris 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media [link] [link] Social Tech Book RT @jaybaer: 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media [link] [link] nateriggs Hey – I knew both of those guys! I'd buy a book from him.

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APRIL 13, 2010

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. 10 books are up for grabs. Robert Kiyosaki awoke the inner entrepreneur in me and his book and words lead to my venture into internet marketing. Dale Carnegie Wisdom 2.0

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OCTOBER 19, 2008

Bring one of the above books and float some of your ideas. Get Leadership Buy-in – Find someone, anyone, above you who can be your advocate. Start small by getting that person to buy in to what you’re trying to do. Mobilizing Generation 2.0 is a nother book which I really liked. Lunch with the boss?

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 15, 2010

Apparently 100+ local and regional newspapers vanished last year: “The advent of free newspapers, the emergence of 24-hour television news and the popularisation of online and mobile platforms have all contributed to a far more volatile and unstable environment for news organisations.” blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners:

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tom Webster theorizes this may be due to Twitter’s functional similarity to text messaging, as several studies have shown Black Americans use the mobile Web at rates roughly double that to non-Hispanic Whites. johnheaney The other important takeaway was the proportion of Twitter users (85%) who access the web from mobile devices.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Isolate Mobile Users The same way that a wallet chain indicate the owner loves Kings of Leon, mobile Internet use is a definitive marker for Mass Influentials. online population access the Internet from a mobile device. The next time you send an email, I would absolutely run a report showing opens and clicks by mobile device.

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JULY 26, 2010

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., That’s where the Pitch™ comes in. It enables a brand to share their story in it’s entirety and with context. Why Am I sharing This? Im Jay Baer. How can I help you?

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MAY 25, 2010

I bought a dozen pair, found shoes-vip website selling shoes best, where I can buy cheap Nike Shox Shoes , and is still original. here suggest to you if you want to buy genuine nike shox shoes you can buy from nike shoes Web site! How can I help you?

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Combine that with location and mobile data, and you get real-time smart agents that tell you whom you should approach in a restaurant to buy a drink. Hope the book writing is going well! We're in the final edits of the book now, so I can't complain about that at all. JF : Hyper-targeting. I appreciate the comment.

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JULY 28, 2010

.&# Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. I appreciate that.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. SEO Book): Peter Da Vanzo gives a good beginner’s guide for how to get into SEO for your new website. She has some great comparisons.

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Ari Herzog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While many bloggers prefer to stick with their native comments system, whether it’s WordPress, Blogger or any other of the popular platforms, others are preferring to use third-party systems like Disqus , IntenseDebate and Livefyre , amongst others. Easier buy-in for commenters. Native Comments. image: iandavid. Got Community?

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AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a major consideration for us, given how much I travel (and how much I’ll likely travel in the next couple years after The Now Revolution – my forthcoming book with Amber Naslund – is published in February). A Kenyan expression and the title of one of my favorite Anne Lamott books.) Fully virtual, fully mobile.

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MAY 26, 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: Are You Growing Enough Voices Content Lessons Learned From 25 Popular Blog Posts Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? Im Jay Baer. How can I help you?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

finally shut down Geocities last year, a decade after buying it for $3.5 Mobile is Critical MySpace was slow to adopt mobile technology, and the lack of MySpace in your pocket was part of what killed them. Further, mobile users actually spend more time on Facebook, not less. Historical footnote: Yahoo! Im Jay Baer.

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APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. I find Kindle to be easier and better as a book device. What is it?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. There are some elements of Disqus I don’t like, especially that it doesn’t always play nice with other plug-ins, but it does make commenting easier and faster for most of you who already have a Disqus account.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Buy something, get something. The EA Mobile Human Tetris project takes you to a Facebook application where everyone participates in a game of Tetris. For example, running a store that sells both books and video games and I’d like to run a conversation on books, and one on video games. Way too oldschool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Tim is the author of The Four Hour Workweek , a bestseller about the mobile lifestyle. His book has been the topic of conversation just about everywhere , and for good reason. Give images, people buy on an (animal) impulse. - People buy cars depending on things that help them, make them make economies, answer a need.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it). For example an article with “10 Reasons You Should Buy Travel Insurance&# is almost never going to go viral, it’s not surprising, shocking, interesting or in any way sticky. It’s not about any of the tools.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Who better to help me buy a flat screen TV than the employee who sees 100 customers a week? On of the keys to success we are seeing is that companies stop being faceless and start freeing their humans they gain a ton of credibility. Edelman said that “employees are 5 times more credible than CEO bloggers&# And it makes sense right?

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MARCH 16, 2010

Growth Is Slowing The true size of the Twitter audience is a bit tricky to pin down because 55% of its users do so via third party and mobile applications. Functionally, everything Twitter does, Facebook does just as well, with the exception of mobile usage. I don't want to play Mafia Wars, buy a cartoon pig or anything else.

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MARCH 2, 2010

It is Mobile on the radar? link] Sherrod Dine RT @Avinio: ExactTarget Buys CoTweet – Why The Social Business Evolution Starts Today (big news) [link] Via @jaybaer [link] Buzzuka ExactTarget Buys CoTweet – Why The Social Business Evolution Starts Today (big news) [link] (via @jaybaer) [link] Beth Harte RT @abarcelos: YES!

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APRIL 7, 2010

Arm your manager with a mobile device and an email alert system: For the final question of the #socialmedia chat, we talked about tips for businesses looking to take advantage of Foursquare. It’s never going to be Facebook (unless Facebook buys them), but don’t ignore geo-location apps. Go for it in the comments.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Starbucks is not only offering free Wi-Fi in all stores come this fall, but also unveiling their Starbucks Digital Network that all in-store web and mobile users will have the opportunity to enjoy (it’s a partnership with Yahoo!). Your choice to buy a beer and/or play social games. For each Grande Mocha you buy we’ll give.25

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. Seth Godin Seth Godin is the bestselling author of numerous books, including his latest, Linchpin. Ryan : …and keep doing it.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The ability to make or consume social media from an array of mobile devices increases the convenience factor (and the pressure on my wi-fi router) immensely. That’s the premise of my new book with Amber Naslund , “The Now Revolution: 7 Moves to Transform Your Business with Speed, Smarts & Social Media.&#

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JUNE 23, 2010

As the ability to deliver these tasks via mobile meshes with geo-location technologies and intelligent advertising, this ‘C’ of the three C’s will truly blossom and become powerful for the brands that get it right. Now, take this a step further, you buy a new car once every 3 – 6 years, but how often do you buy a cup of coffee and a bagel?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

Social Media Marketing: How to Win Friends and Influence People : Sound like a famous book you’ve read? The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps : David Mihm attended a conference and shared the top takeaways. Digg Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed Identi.ca If not, perhaps you need to adjust your pitch.

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JUNE 16, 2010

And exceptional businesses are realizing tangible, meaningful outcomes using social media & mobile marketing. Whether B2B or B2C, customers are buying based on what they need. It simply “ turned up the volume &# with social and mobile tools — allowing customers to take utility to new heights.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 21, 2009

Furthermore, with Twitter’s portability on mobile phones, the misinformation that any participatory media can and will create becomes more omnipresent. According to Yahoo, in the course of a five-minute search on Face book Monday afternoon, the number of “group&# Web pages dedicated to the new flu jumped from 15 to 108.

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