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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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MAY 11, 2010

The key is to create meaningful content that answers those questions, and propagate that content throughout the social Web, making a visit to your site unnecessary. I recommend starting with six, because it’s a meaningful amount of content and will address the tip of your question iceberg.

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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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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Your Web site.

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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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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 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. But remember, every successful content creator starts the same way – with no audience, and a blinking cursor.

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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. Easy – you listen!

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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. Wonderful community-building strategy!

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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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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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MAY 10, 2011

More recently, numerous writers including Olivier Blanchard , Neil Glassman and Mark Schaefer have tried to make the case that social media ROI is real, can be measured, and must be measured. The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. Promote white papers / eBooks / reports for lead generation.

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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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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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JUNE 29, 2010

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

“ Your Content Stinks! 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. “ The Black Art of Optimizing Facebook Wall Posts &# can be voted for here.

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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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MAY 4, 2010

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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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JULY 26, 2010

The more content pointing to your site from sites with authority the better. The more content, the better which leads me to the next thing… Social Media Optimization Sites like Facebook and Twitter can help you spread your brand’s net even wider. But what if you’re a big business with lots of SEO already?

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And More… Although I’m not using it presently, you can also configure your NutshellMail to include Linkedin and MySpace content, as well as updates from the Ning groups of which you are a member. All the content shown in each email is clickable. Subscribers then receive a digest of all the content posted to the fan page.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts.

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JULY 21, 2010

The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. Been Caught Stealing Let’s start with content creation and copyright issues. In other words put a copyright, all rights reserved on your content or the bottom of your blog. All that stuff? Read the fine print.

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JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Two is very graphical no personality (you need personality, I don't on my blog where it's not about me but the content). but a right-hand location on content sites. I also think the header should contrast the content area, and I think #1 does that best (option 3 is too much orange, but could be toned down). link] Adam Q.

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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. Testimonials are a huge part of the infomercial world, as they are for effective social media. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. But, I’m not.

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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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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.

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MARCH 25, 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 A Social Media Scoreboard That Works March 25th, 2010 |Written (..)

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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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MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip. Pay attention to your statistics with regard to calls to actions.

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MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Think Different Here’s 6 ways to differentiate agency social media services: 1.

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JULY 15, 2010

Who is responsible for adding content? Who is monitoring social spaces where you don’t currently have outpost? If you are being badgered by someone that continues to post off-topic or negative comments in your space, what is the plan to engage them, and who is going to do it? It might be different people for each task.

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JUNE 7, 2010

This is the overarch… [link] #marketing [link] Jim Weldon Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed: Yes, nice guys can finish first. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] LoriBurke I want to win this book too.

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MAY 26, 2010

Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter.

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