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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. " Meet the Three Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing: [link] [link] C.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Option 2: Dig the pattern more, and OK with your orange aura, but that little white cutout between your fingers where your hands meet your face… methinks that needs some orange too. Option 1: Dig how the left hand graphic fades into the image in the coffee shop, but don't dig that particular left-hand design. Incredible.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

We're just up the road in Indy and I look forward to meeting you once your family is settled. I even went to a #DCPRFlacks meet up when I was there and met up with someone else. Let me know when you're down for a game, and we'll meet at Nick's for Sink the Biz. Bloomington is an exceptional place. Very cool town.

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APRIL 20, 2010

Because of the specificity, it’s much easier to achieve a top 10 search engine ranking for long tail searches, and higher rankings = higher conversions. More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse?

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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. Social media is by definition slow.

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MAY 25, 2010

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JUNE 2, 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: 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Is Social Conversation a Myth? link] Social Media Nuggets Do You “Like” How I Look In These Jeans?

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APRIL 13, 2010

At one particular event, after several unsuccessful attempts at getting anyone to meet with me, I stopped at the bar for a drink. I told him, “No matter what I do, I never get anyone to meet with me or want to buy from me&#. I recognized a fellow who I'd bumped into before at other events.

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JULY 28, 2010

I refer to it with my clients as adding value to the conversation. Social media is much to noisy for people to pay attention to obvious self promotion. Understanding customers behavior and providing services accordingly will be able to meet their needs so closely.

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JUNE 22, 2010

In their efforts to avoid fads or invest resources into areas they do not understand, CEOs will operate from the mindset that if it remains untouched they or their organization is off the social media grid. That can be no further from the truth — the conversation is occurring and they're essentially not at the table.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Using your analogy of a party, eventually you would meet someone (a stranger or probably someone you barely knew). It is definitely nice to meet new friends on a blog site. My theory is to making them stay is to build relationship with your visitors. I think it works everywhere, in real life or in the internet.

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MAY 20, 2010

Premature Calculation The problem with the pet naming approach is that you end up having the “is this working&# conversation when the social media program is already in operation, which forces you to conduct statistical gerrymandering to determine which measures are relevant. Bring a copy of Twilight to the meeting if you want.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Our social media activities live in our customer retention sphere, not customer acquisition – because the minute it’s in customer acquisition, it changes the nature of the conversation.” Within moments of my customer support conversation, the ThinkGeek Twitter feed was connected to my conversation with William.

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APRIL 22, 2010

Second, the social media tools and destinations will inevitably change, but considering 83% of online Americans are active in social media, and there are 425 million people with Facebook accounts, I think we’re past the lava lamp stage. In either event, your job in this circumstance is to create conversation.

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JUNE 11, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

No results at the next staff meeting = it didn’t work. A realistic campaign/project goals, aligned with the organization’s overriding mission and objectives (my hot button) MUST be a part of the package when selling social media efforts. I’d love to see an ebook on “social media conversations and realities&#.

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MARCH 18, 2010

That said, you kind of lose me with a disavowal of social media to meet potential customers for your brand. First off, there are more ways to engage in social media with a new brand than fanning a FB page, but I know you know that, too.

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. Sometimes I am meeting with clients on confidential work. I love Twitter. It enriches my life every day. I hope it sticks around for a long, long time. No nefarious reason.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Instead of having pieces of paper or needing a meeting room with a projector, how would it fit into a one on one meeting with your client and a PowerPoint? Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? Would it work with a i-pen or something like that?

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MARCH 9, 2010

It’s About Engagement, Not Eyeballs I worry that by focusing so much on the Big 4, we start to look at social media through the prism of audience size, which is a vestige of the old marketing. Remember, social media is about meeting your customers in their house, on their terms, and working together. Awesome post.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And in most cases, we’re willing converts, with Facebook’s ease-of-use and Twitter’s immediacy replacing letter writing and meeting up for lunch. The pervasive time crunch that blankets us all has forced us to curtail face-to-face relationships in exchange for digital interaction.

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JULY 13, 2010

Such great ideas here, and I appreciate how you've translated each idea into actions that can actually help PR pros meet real new business and client goals. Thanks for the great read. Rachel Kay @rachelakay [link] Nancy Marshall Good thoughts here! Thanks for the insights.

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JUNE 8, 2010

I suppose if we said generate leads by listening it may have an impact instead of listening to conversations to find new opportunities. I suppose if we said generate leads by listening it may have an impact instead of listening to conversations to find new opportunities. SuzanneVara [link] Suzanne Vara Listen.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

In my world, marketing and customer service go hand in hand – the moving industry gets a pretty bad rap, so a lot of my social media outreach is directed around advice and customer service issues. I would love to meet Amy in real life and see what kind of person she is.

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JUNE 30, 2010

We're starting work for a client who is a naturally gregarious person and who has built his business around live meetings and local clubs centered around his specialty. link] Jen McGahan Jay, this is good. And thanks for the graphic. He takes to Facebook like a duck in water. link] Jen McGahan Jay, this is good.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Looking forward to meeting you at Coastal Social. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. Will it start an “Unlike&# trend?

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Looking forward to meeting you at Coastal Social. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. Will it start an “Unlike&# trend?

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Relevant experience always matters, as does specific industry knowledge, followed by creativity, a sense of a “safe choice” based on an agency’s reputation within the PR industry and, of course, actual public relations skill. Donald Trump gets it right on The Apprentice, when he demands critical thinking on the spot.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

The concept was based off a tangible book that incoming freshmen were given each year so that they can meet their classmates. and its restricted access, people had no need to use any other names on the Mark Zuckerberg-created social network. .&# That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Isn’t that what social is all about? link] Wendy Keneipp I like social media because of articles like this, Jay. It’s like sitting down and having a real conversation with someone – a person – and not a corporation with all of the corporate speak and protocol that must be followed. Building relationships.

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APRIL 7, 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: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? I met many great people from it and hope to meet many more. Ignore 4sq at your peril [link].

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JULY 9, 2010

I thought that was great as it was, but what made it better was that both companies made a point of doing something in person for all their chosen influencers (a small tweet up with just the Klout people and then a big Virgin party where we actually got to meet Richard Branson).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

So I spent the better part of January looking at every social media listening, monitoring, analytics, intelligence and insights firm I could get my hands on. Disclaimer – these are my opinions formed by my conversations with these firms). Which sounded like Social CRM meets Systems Integration company to me.

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APRIL 27, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I suspect we’ll start seeing much more of this parallel programming to meet the needs of advanced practitioners. Check-ins were plentiful (as evidenced by the many thousands of people noting that they had been at the airport), and sessions describing how businesses can take advantage of local social were numerous.

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