Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. . • How much time will you be able to allocate to this project?

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JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. But as I pondered this connection, I realized that there was a portion of the advertising world that shared a lot of elements with social media – infomercials.

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Josh S Peters

APRIL 22, 2010

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » How an internet marketer is like a MMA fighter How an internet marketer is like a MMA fighter Written on April 22, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 2 Comments - Leave a comment!

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Convince & Convert

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. Absolutely.

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JUNE 3, 2010

link] [link] Elise Duplin What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce | PR 2.0 | Social Media Consulting – Convince &Convert [link]. I think the banks/financial institutions should be included in your comparison. RT @intersection1: RT @jaybaer: The power of "I'm Sorry." 2 little word mean so much.

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Josh S Peters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » The ZizZazz incident The ZizZazz incident Written on September 2, 2009 by Josh Peters in Social Media 2 Comments - Leave a comment! Everything. Thank you for the comment.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Search Engine Optimization , Social Media > The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks? The Great Social Media Traffic Debate: Niche or General Networks?

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 19, 2009

In comparison, Twitter comes in at 14% and Facebook at 9%. LinkedIn can definitely drive traffic for a website but you as a marketer must have a good communication with the followers in your LinkedIn groups so that they will know that you are really professional and willing to discuss and answer their questions.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

In comparison, here’s another anomaly (for its time). Really, the biggest unfortunate investment of social media is that it’s often a thankless job. If you don’t like it move along… Reply Gerard February 1, 2008 at 11:57 am Tamar, thanks again for an insightful post on social media.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. Also, at my social media speaking engagements hither and yon I’m often asked what tools I use. So, I took a personal inventory and created this overview of the 39 social media tools I use daily.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009.

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The Way of the Web

JULY 22, 2010

Facebook scored 64 out of 100, Myspace scored 63 out of 100, and by comparison Google scored 80 (A drop of 7 points on last year’s score). (h/t The question is whether anyone is surprised: a) That social networks can lead to dissatisfaction? Interestingly, Wikipedia topped the Social Media category with a score of 77.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

During my 15 years of Web site strategy and usability work (before I got all social media on you) I very much tried to live by the two-click rule (discover the most common questions customers have about your business, and answer them on your site within two clicks or fewer). Social media makes it possible.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 25, 2008

Twitter is also a tool to get feedback, to network, to take notes, to market your product, to communicate with customers, to set up meetings, and to find prospects — among other things. It’s just mixed with other stories, but in comparison to Twitter, it’s not as noisy. Definitely not.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 22, 2010

She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com. While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully. Please let me know by commenting below!

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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Gov 2.0 – We Need to Get Past the Honeymoon Stage of Our Relationship Sat, Oct 17, 2009 Government 2.0 I’m one of the leads for our social media/Government 2.0

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Convince & Convert

MAY 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 Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. The bottom line is that you need to EXPECT to fail in social media.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

After using both closely, the comparison to Twitter shouldn’t even be the case. When it comes to a basis of comparison, nested conversations are probably the only aspect of Plurk that has brought it much success (save for the lack of downtime, though it does suffer some quirks here and there). and social media sphere.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 11, 2010

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. Word of mouth, referral, viral and connected marketing have been around for a long time. Word of mouth, referral, viral and connected marketing have been around for a long time. But with the arrival of social media their strength has increased even more.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

She told me she worked in Internet Marketing, which I was quite excited to hear given that there was no marketing discipline taught at all in our alma mater. With Internet Marketing, there are many ways to go, from affiliate marketing to SEO to social media to email marketing. What was she doing?

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Josh S Peters

AUGUST 24, 2010

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » Visitors from the Ukraine Visitors from the Ukraine Written on August 24, 2010 by Josh Peters in Social Media 6 Comments - Leave a comment! Matt Blank That's pretty cool.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. Maybe next year, folks!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

It’s time to start thinking about social media the same way. I’m going to write more about my thinking in the area of social segmentation this summer, but for now what do you think? Programs like ThinkGeek ‘s @thinkgeekspam that includes only deals and offers may need to become the rule, not the exception.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Social media relies on the premise that we’ll believe what people tell us more readily than if we were told the same thing by a nameless, faceless company. That’s why brands go to great lengths to humanize themselves on the social Web. The real shift is in how we define friendship.

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Freelance Social Media

JULY 21, 2008

Display and comparison-shopping business was proving particularly weak. mailgloo on The Auto DM drop shipping on Sell Products Online via Facebook Hank Wasiak on Marketing Beyond Traditional Means Meta Log in Entries RSS Comments RSS WordPress.org Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Yet with social media, there’s a perception that it’s easy to score freebies. Social media has introduced incentives to the online space, encouraging others to connect with your business. And unfortunately, social media is at fault for breeding this mentality and causing it to spread.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

I have found this to be a poor comparison. Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? Cool, and a difference-maker, but not 100% transformative. Most of the chatter leading up to the iPad’s release was around how would it perform against standard computing tasks. Would it work with a i-pen or something like that?

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Kikolani

JULY 23, 2010

Cause marketing 101 – marketing partnerships between profit and non-profit organizations. The Klingon guide to online marketing – a perspecive for sci-fi fans. How social are your customers ? Aliens & Avatar – a funny comparison of the similarties between the two films. Link Building.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 7, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > No, You Can’t Automate Social Media! No, You Can’t Automate Social Media! And it doesn’t help for marketing — at least not the social kind.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

Ask Emmanuel Rosen , – whose revised version of Buzz Marketing should be required reading for all communicators. Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? He epitomized calm, preserved life and property, and accepted his insta-fame with grace and aplomb.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 15, 2009

However, the number of SEOs I’ve come across are much fewer and farther between than social media marketers. In fact, I hear the same SEO names every day; I learn of a new “social media expert&# twice a day. Despite this, social media marketing is much more difficult than search engine optimization.

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Justin Levy

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking The Audacity to Win Video Review Written on November 12, 2009 by Justin Levy in books , business , business strategy , community , politics , presidentobama , reviews , social media strategy , video 9 Comments - Leave a comment!

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Justin Levy

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking The Audacity to Win Video Review Written on November 12, 2009 by Justin Levy in books , business , business strategy , community , politics , presidentobama , reviews , social media strategy , video 9 Comments - Leave a comment!

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