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MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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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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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I'd suggest that you move the search box somewhere below the navigation– maybe above the RSS feed option on the right? 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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MARCH 25, 2010

Swix aggregates as many as 100+ of your social media metrics, and presents them in a unified, visually digestible fashion that will be the darling of any Excel hater. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? Need to see the increase in Twitter followers over time?

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MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. Consequently, I have two recommendations. Great post!

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Social Media Strategy Consultant RSS 120

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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.&# Try to return something to your own company. 5 excellent points that a company can (should!) 5 excellent points that a company can (should!)

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 151

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MARCH 3, 2010

Help clients tie search success to social media through wise keyword analysis, multi-media optimization and ongoing link acquisition. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. Learn the Science of Social Like any other online marketing program, social media is widely measurable – and testable.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? Social media is about people, not logos. If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy. If you’re a big company, how can you act small again? Social media strategy consulting details here. What’s the Point?

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Conference 167

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JULY 8, 2010

Seth Godin predicted that RSS would kill email. Well, it’s certainly weathered the wooden stakes of pundits and the introduction of IM, RSS, Skype, MySpace, Facebook & Twitter quite well. In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. October 2007.

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RSS Research B2B Consultant 129

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) Hope that helps! Joseph | RepuMetrix Inc.

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MARCH 22, 2010

I believe this will be the most comprehensive, useful collection of Webinars (education in your jammies rules) ever compiled about social media. link] Zack Wow, list of heavy hitter presenters… you're in good company. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. No pressure, eh?

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Price Social CRM Social Media Consultant 108

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. Post originally written for Social Media Examiner – modified today for this version). Don’t get me wrong. I love Twitter. It enriches my life every day.

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Social Media Strategy Foursquare Social CRM 125

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AUGUST 3, 2010

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. A company rang me recently to say that Google black listed them. Build a website.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

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. A company rang me recently to say that Google black listed them. Build a website.

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APRIL 8, 2010

When I'm clearing emails or reading (RSS, web, ReadItLater, etc.), I totally get the point of the iPad as a way to make casually web browsing, social networking, and ebook-reading simpler and trendier, but in no way are these things “computers&#. And MiFi is soooo much better than USB dongle. RevShark Great post Jay.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me. Disclaimer: I tweet and blog for the company.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Tweetdeck 167

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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. What neither of them seems to have is an RSS feed for results, which would be the Holy Grail of Facebook open-graph API monitoring.

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Social Media Strategy Engineering Social CRM 165

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JUNE 28, 2010

You cannot just show up to the party and create your 10 podcasts, and not think about what keywords apply, what the psychology of the people using those keywords is, and how your company can fulfill those needs. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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