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JUNE 17, 2010

Maybe you use Twitter to see what’s going on (the real-time search engine approach). 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. Your Twitter goals may vary.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Also, I think another viable category for blogging for reputation, or to establish a voice of authority. Also, I think another viable category for blogging for reputation, or to establish a voice of authority. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. What do you think? What do you think?

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MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off. I’m psyched about the Kurrently search engine ).

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Regarding comments about the search box location, I'm used to a left or central location on search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.), 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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JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# If you have a search engine on your website, look at a report that shows what people type into that box. Try to return something to your own company.

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APRIL 20, 2010

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. The Long Tail of a Blog – In Action Last month on Convince & Convert , 6,243 incredibly discerning folks visited from some sort of search engine query.

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MAY 25, 2010

link] Shane Jacob Like this post from @jaybaer nice advice on addin online marketing to an agency's services [link] [link] Shane Jacob Like this post from @jaybaer nice advice on addin online marketing to an agency's services [link] [link] Patrick Reyes The digital eco system can be applied to large companies too!

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MAY 26, 2010

Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. 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.

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MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

However, the photos in each location appear to be different, and the file names on Flickr are straight from the camera (tough to rank in search engines when your photo is named “CIMG1537″). Consistency and Leverage I didn’t start out looking to slam the Timberwolves’ social media program.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

On-going monitoring: What are people saying about your brand and how can you use that information to either repair your reputation or identify opportunities? Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. That said there are some options.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? (co-authored

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

gave up their search engine duties in U.S. Don’t Sell Too Early Many of the missteps that contributed to MySpace’s decay were based on the company not moving beyond its core proposition. In 2006, you have a veritable ATM machine, with companies begging you to put banner ads on your site.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Kurrently is a new, free real-time search engine that combines results from Twitter and Facebook in a simple, blazing fast format. 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.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Problematically, however, the “social media&# moniker is now also used to describe a great many things, similar only in that they are online, and involve some form of interaction between customer and company. Social PR & Influencer Outreach Using social connectivity to introduce your company or products to influencers.

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MAY 19, 2010

It was much easier when the company steered the conversation. This means the best kinds of marketing content need to be findable by Google (and the others), properly tagged, and optimized for search engines. However, that Facebook profile update is not inherently discoverable by search engines — creating a weakness for that tool.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. If the standard unit of publication becomes something other than the page, but rather smaller social objects like status updates and photos being published and ranked in real-time, Google’s role in that equation is diminished. Build a website. Keep it updated.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Make your content at least semi-friendly for search engines. If the standard unit of publication becomes something other than the page, but rather smaller social objects like status updates and photos being published and ranked in real-time, Google’s role in that equation is diminished. Build a website. Keep it updated.

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JUNE 3, 2010

Over time, some of the more web-savvy companies started offering online forms as a way to send them an email – now users didn’t even have to log into Hotmail to send a message! Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. It will be slow, and it will be messy, though.

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APRIL 8, 2010

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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. Due to embedding of tweets, people scanning tweets but not actually having an account, and tweets being picked up by search engines, 23% of consumers read tweets at least monthly. But yet so many companies are using Twitter as a post-modern headline news service.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Authority Labs By far my favorite tool for tracking search engine positioning, Authority Labs shows you at a glance whether you’re #4 or #40 in Google, Bing and Yahoo!

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Here’s a modest contribution to help with that effort; more than six dozen of the best, most bookmark-able articles and blog posts about social media tactics, tools and strategies written so far this year, by leading writers like John Jantsch , Lori Dicker , Lee Odden , Lisa Barone , Jay Baer and many more.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

Carefully crafting and leading the consumer experience in-store and virtually, has earned the company trust and admirable loyalty. In 1999, Yahoo had 67% of the search engine market. link] jaybaer It’s a risk that a lot of successful companies run. If you were Starbucks, how would you take advantage of this new network?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

This is a page you can use that is publicly available (for the world to see and find via search engines) to help your customers find you. I mean, if they are SEO experts, why are they not bringing in search engine traffic? Companies are clearly clueless, but once educated, they refuse to conform. i wish it still existed!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

So I spent the better part of January looking at every social media listening, monitoring, analytics, intelligence and insights firm I could get my hands on. Collective Intellect – They started out as a “listening engine” but they are now positioning themselves as a “text monitoring and analytics leader”. SENTIMENT BASED ANALYTICS.

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APRIL 27, 2010

But what makes Randy exemplary is a simple lesson that every company should reconsider – he relishes the description. We have a new biscotti, terrific with coffee or Bailey’s and coffee, from a company ironically owned by Interbev, the European brewers that purchased Anheuser-Busch, which is based here in St.

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