Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

This has enormous implications for social segmentation, content creation, tonality, and appropriate success metrics. Like TV commercials can be muted, users can block you on Twitter or unsubscribe to your emails if you blast your message in their faces without providing useful content or yes, deals.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 23, 2010

nice post about why focus groups don't work: [link] ) Crowdsourcing is a great alternative to focus groups due to the fact that consumers are co-creating the content vs getting asked a series of non-relevant, predetermined questions. Great post! link] Clinton Bonner Thank you Nathan. Im Jay Baer.

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JUNE 28, 2010

On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced more by specific, hyper-relevant pieces of content that your brand creates to get in front of potential purchasers at the contextually-perfect time and place. If someone is looking for “chocolate ice cream&# you need to have content pieces to show up on that radar.

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