Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. And great example about the eyeglasses.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

9 Social Networks Your Business Should Be Using by Likeable Media. Beyond the obvious (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube), Cara Friedman makes the case for adding social networks like Flickr , Tumblr and Meetup to your social media marketing mix. Social Media Case Studies. Social Media and SEO.

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 8, 2010

We talk often about what department should lead social media, how to get leadership buy-in for social media, or what technology should be used, and while those are important discussions to have, you should be focused on identifying WHO should be leading the social media initiatives. Who leads the social media initiatives then?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI. For example, you can determine in an instant what the cost and return per view is for a YouTube video you spent $5000 on to generate 25,000 views.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

Reem Abeidoh , Social Media Strategist : A social media marketer provides strategic online recommendations based on the client’s business goals and intensive research. Rebecca Kelley , Search Marketing and Social Media Consultant : A social media marketer needs to be an active participant in the social media sphere.

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Justin Levy

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Developing an online presence through social networks, a blog, and a video blog. As our online presence became stronger and we developed a more engaged community, we began to rank for prime keywords that we targeted as being important for our restaurant to drive business through search results.

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Diva Marketing Blog

MARCH 25, 2011

Social media moves so quickly that no one person holds all the answers, knowledge or even the questions. In this series, Just one Crowd Sourced Question , I reach out to my social networks and ask folks to share just 1 tip on a social media issue. . Take an interest in the community you are building online.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. The contrast in social media is stark: to build a community, we shouldn't ask who we can reach with what message, but rather, who are our fans right now and how do they talk about us. Does that make sense?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

For example, they use a green background on Twitter, black background on their YouTube channels and maybe red on their Facebook fan page landing tabs. You can promote your social media profiles by integrating offline media. For example, I’ll put “I tweet. Measurement Audit What part of my social activities do I measure?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Sexy Bookmarks Plug-in My friend Michael Stelzner from Social Media Examiner (where I guest post monthly), turned me on to this excellent plug-in that improves upon the social sharing user interface. See an example at the bottom of this post (the little squares that animate when you put your cursor over them).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

Some of the sites I recommend for educational materials include: Free Sphinn : Sphinn is an Internet Marketing social news site. Users submit timely news articles to Sphinn, and the community votes up the best stories to appear on the front page. comprehensive social media marketing training there is.

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Marketing How To SEO Training 240

Convince & Convert

JUNE 21, 2012

This is Episode 21 of the Social Pros Podcast : Real People Doing Real Work in Social Media. Read on for insights from Joe and our Social Media Stat of the Week ( this week : only 33% of people on social networking sites follow a company or a brand on social media sites). Listen Now. The RSS feed is: [link].

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

Matt Silverman steps through the process of creating cool custom backgrounds for popular social media sites, with easy-to-follow instructions and rich example illustrations. What is Social Media Optimization and Why Should I Care? 30 Tips: The Productivity Guide of Social Media by WebStudio 13. by Kuno Creative.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter success requires an understanding of the unique rhythms and cadences of the community, and a give first, get later mentality that is a bit counterintuitive at first. I think point 5 is a great one, and applies to many social networks – the more 'friends' you have, the more unmanageable it becomes.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

If you can afford it, buy professional listening tools, like Radian6 or others in that category. Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Passports are accounts on other social networks and social media platforms. Your community knows more than you.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 9, 2012

Manage all of your social media accounts from a single login on your iPhone? Make more productive use of your time on social networking sites? Find tools to do all of the above and much more in this collection of helpful business, online and social media tools, apps and reviews. Back up your Gmail account? ShortStack.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 14, 2012

Just because it’s on a social network doesn’t mean it’s not advertising. Jay : Yeah, and I would say in fact, in most companies if you are of a requisite size, the people who are handling your social media advertising, Facebook ads, etc., Katie : I think Twitter’s a pretty good example of this.

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