Mindjumpers

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All marketing and communication professionals have been welcome to submit their work. And the jury has got plenty of social media work to evaluate – from all continents and 21 countries. Best Social CRM. Among the finalist we find social media work done for large brands like IKEA, Coca Cola and Toyota.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 12, 2011

It addresses the need to drive organizational change in an effort to shift employee behavior, communicate more effectively across job functions and geographies and tear down organizational silos. Another example is when marketing departments in other countries want to create a Facebook fan page specifically for their geography.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Leaving the etiquette alone for now, our focus is how marketers need to approach our targets.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2011

When the Cluetrain Manifesto was published in 1999, it signaled a paradigm shift: markets are conversations. Given my observations, both in the “canned response&# department and the company’s engagement with other customers and prospects, they’ve got it all wrong. What’s your social media policy?

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SocialFish

OCTOBER 1, 2010

The Attention Stream: Keeping Your Market Engaged in a Constant Stream of Content… (ClickZ). How To Be The Jack Bauer Of Your Company (Adam Singer). Offline-to-Online-to-Offline: Lessons Learned in Building a Custom Community Platform (Frogloop). Marketing and IT share a common fear (Scott Brinker). Scott Brinker).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 31, 2012

What better way to reverse engineer Facebook and take the best of it and improve/incorporate it into Google + than to buy a company (Wildfire) that has under-the-hood access and Facebook favored nation status? Interestingly, Webtrends for big sites cost back then about what Vitrue and Buddy cost today.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar.

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Pixlee

OCTOBER 18, 2021

These five simple tricks for using influencer marketing can work even if your influencer strategy is brand new – and can help boost your influencer marketing efforts beyond the hottest shopping days of the year. With Pixlee’s social CRM, you can also easily manage relationships and measure campaign impacts all in one place. .

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer. “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. link] Michael A.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Wonderful community-building strategy! Wonderful community-building strategy! Thomas for five days.

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Community building Social CRM Consultant Posterous 116

Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 31, 2010

Sections To Read Home Main Page Community - Social Media Network Online Who will benefit from this blog? Tying this invaluable data into a CRM solution generates sales leads, ideas for product direction and strengthens a company's image and brand. Unported License. Unported License.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 21, 2012

A few weeks ago I tasked the team to pay closer attention to the community we have developed on Twitter. The goal was to see if being more engaged with our community would drive more fans and followers. In fact companies that think that numbers are the most important metric, miss the point of what social media is all about.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

More recently, numerous writers including Olivier Blanchard , Neil Glassman and Mark Schaefer have tried to make the case that social media ROI is real, can be measured, and must be measured. The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. What should they promote? Here are 20 ideas.

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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. Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted. It’s on JaneNation.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. A tall order, to be certain.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

I’ll be talking about brand community strategy and how to activate your audience. More from Convince and Convert You Are Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy Taking Consumer Reviews Viral with Facebook Are you spending enough on digital marketing?

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Facebook Social CRM Consultant MySpace 121

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Because the real advantage email has over social is data. But, it's not all conversational.

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Social Media Strategy Social CRM Newsletter 114

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 10, 2012

As marketers try to determine appropriate resourcing, one of the big measurement and accountability challenges faced by social media is the anonymity inherent in most social data. But in almost every case, the evidence that social media “works” is based on aggregate, anonymous data.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. All of this is happening to companies (maybe yours) every minute of every day. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. We see blogging both as community building and as a function of being a web based business. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Metrics Strategy How To Tourism 130

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

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. Note to readers: all of these companies are Convince & Convert clients. It turns advocates into volunteer marketers. That’s it.

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Social Media Strategy Tourism Social CRM 140

Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. 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. Maybe you found this blog from Twitter?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

I feel like the other guy in the story- will you try social media if I give you some great case studies? Could I get you to reply to the people who like you and your company on Facebook if we can demonstrate that it strengthens your brand recognition? link] #SMM [link] Doktor Marketing Would You Try It With a Fox? He LOVES them.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Chris Brogan started with zero posts and zero readers.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. One other thing that I would toss out there…in our community of Social Media, marketing, etc.,

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

“The mainstream gaming market will always be native. It’s generally easier for marketers to garner excitement for a native app, though this will change over time. link] blur Marketing [link] Is It Curtains for the App Store? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

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.

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Convince & Convert

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. Yet before a crisis erupts, no matter what the root of the issue, companies should cushion themselves by leveraging the good work they’re already doing. Don’t be Shy.

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