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Connection: Social Media’s Special Gift

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When the Cluetrain Manifesto was published in 1999, it signaled a paradigm shift: markets are conversations. Today, the online space and affordability of web hosting and domain names has helped create billions of conversations about your brand, your industry, and critical key players in your space. What are your goals of social media?

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Marketers believe the highest consumer priorities on social media are insights for buying decisions (59%) and customer service (58%). Social CRM is still confusing. Only 16% of companies say they currently have a social CRM system in place. SEO drives traffic, but email drives conversions.

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Co-op SEO and the Future of Websites | Guest Posts | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. “I can publish search engine optimized pitches for free, really?&# It’s the power of the users, the crowd, that makes the engine rev. How Does This Help You?

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Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail | Blogging and Content Creation.

Convince & Convert

Which is closer to buying, a consumer searching for “flat panel TV&# or a consumer searching for “26 inch 720p flat panel TV.&# ? Because of the specificity, it’s much easier to achieve a top 10 search engine ranking for long tail searches, and higher rankings = higher conversions.

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Is Your Twitter Addiction Paying Off

Convince & Convert

Maybe you use Twitter to see what’s going on (the real-time search engine approach). But, for about 99.999999% of the world, Twitter usage is not an end, it’s a means to an end. Your Twitter goals may vary. Maybe you use Twitter to learn about something in which you’re interested. ( 53% of Twitter users never tweet ).

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Sound off in the comments, and maybe we’ll put together another post with great examples.

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6 Required Competencies for Social Organizations | Conferences and.

Convince & Convert

If you’re not willing to listen to what your customers are telling you, when they are clearly using social media (especially Twitter) as the new 1-800 number, then you have a problem with your corporate culture that social media can’t fix.

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