Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

The tsunami of data being created, collected and parsed every second of every day now makes influence identification instantaneous, and possible from the comfort of your desk chair. Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining.

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Proactive Report

JANUARY 10, 2011

Mark Evans wrote this week in the Sysomos blog. This little book predicted exactly how what we now call social media would evolve, and how corporations would react. They can identify the right bloggers and other influencers for you to talk to and even reach out to them to start the relationship. They can build the blog for you.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? To be fair, I’ve only included those I’ve actually used (Radian6, Sysomos, Spiral 16) or tested (Meltwater, SM2). How can your brand participate in this space most effectively? Second – Are there any special types of information you’ll need?

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Convince & Convert

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. So, I’ve started to look at followers per tweet as a metric that focuses on the efficiency of time spent.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. Research these potential influencers to get a handle on their credibility.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 9, 2010

In fact, if you’re a marketer, online influencers generally agree that getting free products to review is great, but the trump card is the authenticity and transparency something experiential offers. And the online influencers recognized that for what it was: transparent and authentic.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Christina Warren tells b2b marketers how to use Twitter effectively, find their “social voice,&# efficiently monitor industry developments through social media, expand their influence and more in this excellent post. A quick list of eight leading monitoring tools, from Alterian and Radian6 to UberVU and Sysomos.

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