Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Social media connectivity is digital bumper stickering. Email is all about actual audience.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Today’s article is a guest post by Dennis Yu, an international speaker and author on search engine marketing and Facebook marketing. Social is a two-way street, not a TV broadcast medium. What happens in your call center will happen on social. But this is not a bad thing, nor is social necessarily negative ROI.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. There are a few sections devoted to the mechanics of Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, and other social media operational specifics.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 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 Would You Try It With a Fox?

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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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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design.

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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. As a consultant, you help organizations walk the tightrope of technology adoption and integration. I play a similar role in the social media arena.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

More from Convince and Convert You Are Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy Taking Consumer Reviews Viral with Facebook Are you spending enough on digital marketing? Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

3 must-read articles about social media (plus a bonus from the Convince & Convert vault) Sent twice per week (usually Monday and Friday) Sent at 1pm pacific time 3-2-1: it’s the greatest newsletter in the history of social media newsletters. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 31, 2012

Google may want to kill the social media management software business in the nest, so Salesforce, Oracle and the other acquirers of the big players don’t get too much of a foothold in the “platform of the future” and social CRM. Jay is the founder of [link] and host of the Social Pros podcast.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Hope your son enjoys hockey camp.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 29, 2012

Drive Social Media ROI with Content Marketing. Social media’s impact on this lead generation is relatively easy to ascertain, especially using social CRM software that ties to web analytics, such as Argyle Social (a Convince & Convert sponsor and what we use), Awareness , or Expion.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Blogging every day doesn’t make you a better thinker or consultant, it makes you faster at WordPress formatting. Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. It will pay off. The comments are yours.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline.

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Twist Image

APRIL 17, 2012

On March 30th, 2012, Marketing Charts published a news item titled, Social Shares Drive 1 in 4 Online Shoppers to Purchase. " The social web turns out to be an engine of word of mouth marketing unlike one we have ever seen before (no big surprise there). A social business is a sharing business. social crm.

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Proactive Report

MARCH 25, 2011

IBM’s sees the need for social media intelligence – they’ve launched new software and created a new consulting practice dedicated to the emerging category of “Smarter Commerce,&# which focuses on helping companies swiftly adapt to rising customer demands in today’s digitally transformed marketplace.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Bravo, Clay. Thanks for that! link] < possibly. 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. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 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. I think PitchEngine has the potential to change the way we publish – maybe even the way we think of our blogs and websites. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. Because the real advantage email has over social is data. It’s no contest.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? Roberts @njmirolo Always fun!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive. (I 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. I use this a lot. It’s not viral unless it is.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 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 Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Net-Savvy Executive

MARCH 30, 2011

The Radian6 deal says a lot about interest in social CRM, or the integration of social media monitoring and customer relationship management. Converseon blurs the lines that divide research, creative marketing, and management consulting services. Nobody else does the one-stop social media shop like they do.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, I’d love for you to vote for my other two panels while you’re in the mood.

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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.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. If someone fills out the form to download the document, and they have a large following on Twitter (as determined by an instant Flowtown look-up), you can automatically send and email to your PR team to follow up with that individual.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. It’s on JaneNation. Is this the future of agencies?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

A recent presentation at the PRSA Counselors Academy, by Michael Lasky , Partner and Chair of the Public Relations Law Practice at the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in NY, provided a wake up call to those in attendance about how the law is slowly creeping into the social landscape and why responsible marketers had better pay attention.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

To help you figure all this out, you might want to download my free social media strategy worksheet. Social Media Strategy Worksheet from Jay Baer at Convince and Convert As a social media consultant, I specialize in helping companies create and implement social media strategy.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

link] Lisa Alvey Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20 eBook – [link] (via @jaybaer) <–cool stuff! Download it: [link] [link] dzimmerman RT @MarketingProfs: Have you scored a copy of @jaybaer's Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of Twitter 20?

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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. link] [link] WebPro360 And, it's not just about businesses 'tooting' their own horn. Great thoughts, Laura!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 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 Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] [link] Bogdan Donisan New post: Randy Kemp: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] ( [link] ) topsy_top20k RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail: Keeping tabs on your social media connec… [link] #marketing [link] Focus Communications interesting. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

new white paper from me and @chrisbaggott) [link] [link] Blu Maya Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail | Blogging and Content Creation | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] Ken Styles RT @jaybaer: Does Your Blog Have a Long Enough Tail?

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