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JUNE 10, 2012

But in almost every case, the evidence that social media “works” is based on aggregate, anonymous data. Instead, the software titans bought the ability to combine social behavior with their existing database and CRM suites to create a true end-to-end social CRM solution. The New Social CRM Big Three.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

To best develop thriving, mutually beneficial relationships with your customers, think of your social communication and email communication programs as two rungs on a content ladder. That's what I mean when I say uni-directional social media. But, it's not all conversational.

Social Media 114

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. Through a blog, marketers become publishers, providing their audience with relevant and valuable content. Publishing has historically relied on advertising, or sponsorships, to pay for content production. Promote your “evergreen&# content and assets.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals. and/or Linkedin Answers, or create a series of helpful YouTube videos ( like Coldwell Banker ). Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

Compete 116

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds.

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JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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MAY 26, 2010

Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter.

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MARCH 25, 2010

Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Easy, One Time Set-up To build your Swix success metrics (which they call “pods&# ), you just log-in to your various social outposts or hubs, and agree to a data exchange. New YouTube video that goes viral. Trade show.

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MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(. Need to … noodle on it a bit.

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JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Really, Jay? How can you not know how to care?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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JULY 14, 2010

There is no question social media does an organization good, just persevere and know there is a vibrant community there to support your work. Now, Google creates perceptions and it is our job to engage the communities and instill what perceptions we want seen. The challenges and chances of facebook, twitter, YouTube et.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I’ve asserted that B2B social media tactics vary from B2C, in that they are typically rooted in consumer education and thought leadership, and thus require deeper layers of interaction. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Podcasts vs. YouTube. This chart shows usage of five major social outposts by organization type.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The word “viral” should be replaced in all conversations with the word “valuable” I know it sounds funny, but wouldn’t you rather have your content “go valuable on Twitter?” Help them understand that there are ways they can listen to their community, leverage feedback, and improve their business.

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APRIL 14, 2010

But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

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Social Media Strategy YouTube LinkedIn 135

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MAY 17, 2012

Crowdbooster is a social analytics platform that looks at your tweets and Facebook posts and offers suggestions for when to post, who to interact with, and what your audience cares about. It also highlights which messages are working best so that you can learn and prepare better content from your results. Includes a CRM system.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Another couple of points that readers may want to consider in the second section would be the ability to sort content by influence, engagement, comment count, followers etc… Often helps to surface the posts/tweets that may need the most attention first. And of course thanks for including Radian6.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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MARCH 17, 2011

There are so many possible answers the words “social media consultant&# have lost all descriptive value. Eventually, companies will look to hire consultants for specific skills like social CRM, blogger outreach, content marketing, etc. Integrate, Don’t Disintegrate.

Advertising 119

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Social Media Campaigns Don’t Match When Consumers Are Online by Spin Sucks. The brilliant Gini Dietrich reports on research showing that marketers commonly choose the wrong time of day to post and engage on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as well as to send emails. 12 Essential Social Media Cheat Sheets by Mashable.

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MAY 19, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Why D.I.S.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

If you want to know what content you should maybe consider retweeting because it’s of interest to your audience, Little Bird can give you that answer as well. Little Bird helps you tap into the people, companies, and content on Twitter that are influencing the direction of your business. Marshall: Exactly. Marshall: Sure can.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Ready for the Opportunity Economy?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Apture is a handy plug-in that finds photos, videos, links and related content that you can embed or link to within your posts with a single click. Content Creation Cameras For still photos, I typically use my iPhone 3GS or Panasonic Lumix TZ5. Mobile access to the social Web is a virtual requirement to do it well.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. A digital marketing success story.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. Now, the move is toward “social objects&# which are invariably smaller, more directed pieces of content. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. A digital marketing success story.

Facebook 167

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

kahuna7 Jay, I don't normally comment on your posts (which I should) but I find myself redistributing your posts to my sphere of influence quite often because of how great your content has been now for about the last year. You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&#

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I believe Kurrently has the potential to make Facebook a much larger player in the social CRM world, as companies can now instantly see just how much they are being mentioned on that platform. It’s also now pulling Youtube and a few other spots it looks like. As Gilbert pointed out, our own intersection is a good example.

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MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

A regularly updated Fan Page brings greater awareness Community Page : What if you love something but you have no direct affiliation with the product/service, can’t find the official page, and worse, discover the page doesn’t even exist? Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook’s user base or Lindsay Lohan’s court appearances, it’s tough to keep up. HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace by Mashable. The “No Duhs” of Social Media by Social Media Bits.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s a benefit, not a drawback that (despite what others might proclaim) there is no social media playbook that can taken off the shelf and executed in rote fashion for all companies. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube. That’s why I love social media. THAT makes me happy.

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APRIL 7, 2010

It has natural constraints on where and when you would use it to create content – just as Yelp does. Although ironically, I wouldn't exactly hold up Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay, or YouTube as fantastic customer service examples either. I was not aware of the acute Blackberry problems. That is troubling.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Lots of social media lessons here. Content Marketing. Lots of social media lessons here. Content Marketing. Humanization. Storytelling. Volunteer Marketers. I could write a whole book around the Randy experience. Hmmmm, maybe an eBook? link] jaybaer Yes Angela. Humanization. Storytelling. Volunteer Marketers.

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