Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 24, 2010

Do you want to connect with prospects, develop conversations, build your brand, construct your mailing list, or generate revenue? At the other end of each and every social media conversation is really a individual just like you. Track and Measure Your Social Media Advertising Efforts. Chris Garrett: Social Bookmarking.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

For example, your company may be mentioned in a tweet or status update that’s something like “Had lunch with my friend from XYZ corp yesterday.&# Tag them on social bookmarking sites. Contribute to the conversation. Focus on being social, and on being an industry resource. Retweet them.

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Direct Marketing Observations

JULY 6, 2010

The reasons could be limited resources, limited time, money or whatever-but you just don’t go and jam a generic social solution into every company just because they want one. Just because a company can set up a Facebook fan page for example- does that mean that it will give them the biggest bang for their efforts? Podcasting.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 3, 2010

I bet this isnt the kind of conversation Ball Memorial was hoping to have when it created its Facebook page, but it happens. That is why it is so important for businesses to develop both proactive and reactive response strategies for their social assets.

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Over the last three days, I’ve spoken to four HUGE brands in America that are considering social media for one project or another, and there are many more out there working on how these tools might integrate into their business needs. Here’s a list of 50 ideas (in no particular order) to help move the conversation along. .

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

10 ways to guarantee more sales and conversions – reassure your buyers before the sale to get more sales. Using your most viewed articles for conversions – how to find them via Google Analytics and take advantage of the traffic. Social Media / Social Networking. Making Money Online / Online Marketing.

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Kikolani

JUNE 15, 2010

Examples of such changes includes migrating a blog’s commenting system from one platform to another, or adding a new plugin that changes the way that posts are entered into the system. Or, you can even include direct links to the post on social sites or add your preferred tweet text in the group. Anchor Text 1. Anchor Text 2.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 2, 2011

This month’s featured piece just went live today and is part of the 2011 Conversion-Fest Blogging Contest. Let’s look at some examples of ways you can give away free products to help you make money. What’s at stake in this blogging contest? My must have piece of techie gear for Blog World Expo, traveling, and photography!

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I think, at least initially, its a good way to keep fresh conversations going; particularly if you are a business new to the social sphere, you should consider each new follow an opportunity to create engagement. For example, from SocialOomph, you can also schedule Tweets, even bulk upload them.

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Kikolani

APRIL 9, 2010

5 conversion rate optimization tips for bloggers. 8 ways for businesses to use social media. 33 examples of high speed drop photography. 45 spendid examples of reflection photography. Social bookmarks for WordPress.com blogs. Blogging / Writing. 6 things to do before publishing your first blog post.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

That is why social media marketing is not a quick process—it takes time to nurture relationships into conversations and create those solid, trusted connections…these real conversations lead to real relationships,and those trusted relationships lead to referrals and sales. Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.).

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Here’s an example:  Send your own ElfYourself eCards Elf YOURself, and Tweet them to me (now that you can!) And Elf Yourself has made uploading photos easier this year,adding an option to upload photos directly from your Facebook account. Doesn’tget any easier than that!

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Firebelly

JUNE 24, 2010

Of course, there are a few drawbacks to consider beforeyou launch a social network around your brand. For one, an increasing number ofthese “free social network” websites have stopped being, well, free.   Ning, for example, announced last monththat it will be phasing out its free users, and Grou.ps

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Firebelly

MAY 20, 2010

" Below is an example of a profile photo directing people to a desired tab that we created for a client during a sweepstakes they were running:   I realize it's a bit hard to read at this size, but the top half of the graphic is dedicated to their promotion and under the pinata, it says "Click the Sweepstakes tab to enter.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Fine tune your marketing and PR to focus in on what people are interested in Take the information to the operations side of the house - customer service, R&D - and change the things that are being discussed (make things better for example) The opportunity is for PR people to lead the way that business is done.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

For example, imagine writing content on “link building” and mentioning a few products which streamlines your entire process. Let’s look at the five most important content marketing metrics to keep an eye on and how they can help double your conversions. Desired Results.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This occurrence is further proof that social media is hereto stay. Some people may still not understand the full impact or the best wayto use social media outlets, but it’s officially a part of our culture. What other examples have you found of the amazing socialimpact of social media? As always, please share!

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Kikolani

JANUARY 29, 2010

40 examples of typography inspired in web design. And today, I woke up to congratulatory tweets because I was voted in the Top 10 Social Media Blogs list with other social media experts such as Mashable , Jay Baer , and Amber Naslund. What is a good starting budget for an online business ? Graphic / Web Design.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2009

For example, check out the very popular site colourlovers. Here are my top 5 reasons that I would recommend WordPress any day of the week: WordPress can make websites that don’t look like blogs. This is a very big misconception. Many people always assume that if you are using WordPress as a CMS that it has to be a blog. This is very untrue.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

There is some stuff coming out around "Personal Learning Environments" for example, take a look at: ePortfolio Model and the Concept Diagram for Personal Learning Landscape. For example, if you look at the diagram from the post I cited above: Jeremy has a good model of the likely elements along the bottom. where the "."

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

A handy way to supplement your email contact list with information about those prospects from the most popular social networks. Check dozens of popular social networking and social bookmarking websites to see if the username or vanity url you want to use is still available. JustUnfollow.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 26, 2009

But at the same time the same rules that apply to real life conversations also apply to Twitter. However, Tweets like "I'm enjoying the best steak I've ever had at Fogo de Chao" results in conversation. #1, 2-Social Media-There are all sorts of new studies, techniques, applications, etc. coming out daily.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

UPDATE -- Check out comments for some GREAT examples of this weeks challenge. After several frustrating minutes of conversation, I ultimately gave up. Whats intriguing about using social bookmarks (in my case, del.icio.us) to create an online portfolio is that it makes it much easier for me to update on a regular basis.

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Josh S Peters

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

The second big advantage is in the social aspect, people share info, products, and more with their friends and family, so having a good presence online will help increase your visibility. Before you start a Social Media Awareness Campaign Listen and then… Set. After you’ve found these people join their conversations.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. .&# On June 29th, 2008, Jumping into the conversation? I spent a long time in a very large brand.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 16, 2008

Written French, for example, is expected to conform to the rules set out by the Acadamie Francaise. Blogs tend to have a more formal written structure (and those who use it educationally often require a formal tone to the writing) and is much less socially bound (such as a social network like Facebook). The problem with web 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

OK as far as it goes, but so NOT getting to the real opportunities.Blogs are a conversation between the blogger and him/herself (a form of reflection) and between the blogger and his/her readers. Liveblogging forced me to listen more carefully to the presenters and the conversations that took place. September 30, 2008 | Permalink. |.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

His second point got me me thinking about what I’m going to write about now – in what ways can the government use social media to make a difference in their day, TODAY? What are those things that they can do with very little effort where they can start see the value in social media?

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Saying It Social

MAY 1, 2010

After you’ve published your blog, you should post it on your Facebook Business Page , tweet it on Twitter , share it on LinkedIn , bookmark it on social bookmarking sites, and post it on document sharing sites. Remember, social networking is about a two-way conversation. Keep it up!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

It’s about building relationships, spending time on the networks, and having regular conversations with the people you want to connect with who you will value for more than just helping move the needle and getting to the bottom line. Small businesses can’t always follow by example, unfortunately.

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ProBlogger

MAY 30, 2011

This went on, and on, and on—to commenting, social bookmarking, PPC, email marketing, and back to content. Even worse, when anyone would search for him, they would find a dozen different half-finished social media profiles and pages. .&# Social media is king. It didn’t go viral , so he moved on to SEO.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 27, 2008

Let the Social Media Traffic Quality Analysis Begin In order to answer the question of whether niche social media drives higher quality traffic, two social networks were chosen for analysis — one generic and one niche. Would Be interesting to see and filter out areas for example US and Non-US traffic.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

Complete your social network and forum profiles. If you participate on any social media network, social bookmarking site, community, or forum, you will want to make sure that you have a link to your blog on that website in your profile. See the first paragraph of this post as an example. For example….

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

To view bookmarks tagged with a specific keyword, type in: [link]. To view bookmarks tagged with two or more keywords, type in: [link]. So for example, if I wanted to look for sites about organization and GTD, I would type in: [link]. An example for all you productivity junkies might be “tag:gtd&#. Newsmasher.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 6, 2011

Examples of four common actions that you can sell: sales: work out how you can sell their stuff directly within a matter of clicks. high-quality website visitors (defined by a conversion or engagement). Conversions. analytics, PostRank, Twitter, social bookmarking websites, and so on. How can you make money?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 10, 2008

Founded by four ex-Googlers, FriendFeed allows you to subscribe to your friends’ updates across 35 social networks and to stay up to date with the content they’re discovering and sharing across the web. It’s also a conversation medium. FriendFeed isn’t just an aggregator, though.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 29, 2012

For example, a news release may be written, search-optimized and then distributed through wire service like Marketwire or PRWeb. But it may also be sent to specific journalists and bloggers, who need to be followed up with, shared socially, and have any questions or comments responded to. How many conversions?

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