Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Mom Project’s Maternityship® program provides companies with coverage for resource gaps created by parental leave. Manage up to five social profiles. Scale engagement with tasking and social CRM tools. Manage up to 10 social profiles. 89 per user/month billed annually (or $99 month-to-month). Professional .

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Social Email Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2010

People use social media. Companies as well. Despite discussions concerning the ROI of social media marketing and many questions regarding the how, what and when, it remains a fact that social media marketing exists and work, whether we debate it or not. Increasingly. Those are facts.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Incidentally, for the brand managers and agencies reading this — if your favorite company took two hours to answer the phone when you called, how would you feel about them? But this is not a bad thing, nor is social necessarily negative ROI. Social media is easy for companies that produce soft drinks and TV shows.

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SocialFish

APRIL 1, 2011

It’s Time to Call the Social CRM Bluff (Full Frontal ROI). Data: How the Advanced Corporations Spend on Social Business (A Glimpse Into the Future) (Jeremiah Owyang). The Art of Social. Things Companies Don’t Want to Hear about Social Media (Sysomos). 10 tips for social media introverts (SBOSM).

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. Just 4% of marketers said their companies were “very effective” at measuring social marketing in 2012. Social CRM is still confusing.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Since I started at InsideView in 2010 the goal has been to put a dent in the sales ecosystem around the company and the product. Up to recently my mission was to do this through social media. The ROI of Social Media. I wanted to share what a social marketing machine looks like from a 10,000 foot level.

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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. Look here for some clues [link] Do your homework – start here [link] – social CRM is not Advertising 1.0

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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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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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Net-Savvy Executive

MARCH 15, 2011

Judging from the way people are talking about it, social media analysis is segmenting into at least three subspecialties. Whatever the utility of any one approach, companies need a complete set of tools, so let's keep these emerging specializations in context. But wait, there's more!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. You’ll be able to easier understand how these events drive social success using Swix. link] jaybaer Yes indeed.

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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. The New Social CRM Big Three.

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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? Will you embrace Twitter if I can show you ROI? 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? And guess what? He LOVES them.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? I’ve even left the stat breakdown public so you can see all the views are organic, not off-shored to get views (like some video companies have done). A tall order, to be certain. If he’ll be near you, check it out.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

arikhanson [link] Mike Cassidy RT @jaybaer: I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends [link] honored to be in such great company! link] Hot In Marketing I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends | Convince & Convert News | Social Media Consulting – Convince & C. Thomas for five days.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Too often, we try to wield these case studies as a crude evidentiary weapon, trying to persuade ourselves or our superiors that our belief system around social media, social business, social CRM and all that jazz is in fact correct. But in almost every case, you’re bringing a knife to a gunfight. On what basis?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

But, if email marketers don’t actually use the data they have at their disposal to increase message relevancy, then the email versus social debate become more viable. Unify Your Team The first step is for companies to devise a coordinated strategy that uses email and social communication synergistically. Im Jay Baer.

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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. If a consumer emails a company, we’ve trained them to expect a response in a day or so.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 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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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 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. An interesting little related aside.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Mike Cassidy made me (and a lot of other people) think differently about the intersection of social media strategy , and business objectives. 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

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Is that due to the natural progression of success (all big companies are eventually vilified) or a fundamental shift in Apple's brand promise as ultra hip and very convenient? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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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. It’s not viral unless it is.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 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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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.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 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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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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Convince & Convert

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. These are exciting times at Bulb HQ!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 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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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Each of the 27,000 companies that use the service had the same goal – to share their pitch. The more one company shares their pitch, the more views it has, the more backlinks it provides, and so on. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 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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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

[link] Ayman Rakha Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail: [link] [link] MyCrowd.ca RT @AymanRakha – Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail: [link] [link] Doug Braun This sounds very useful. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. I'm going to try it!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. The variation may come in how social media is used, not which social media are used.

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