Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Taxi Mike is Here to Help During my recent vacation in Canada, I stumbled upon a fantastic example of marketing via helpfulness, from Taxi Mike in Banff, Alberta. Total cost of this incredibly helpful marketing effort is very low, and Mike even offsets that by including ads from sponsors! Mike you are a helpful marketing genius.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

So, obviously the key players, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and MySpace made it onto the list of networks that they researched. We also did screencasts, and then we also did phonecasts as well, so screen captures of mobile apps. I mean, there are so many examples of this. It’s exciting, man. Jay : Yeah.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Share the 10OFF discount code for everyone, for example. There’s a cost to this, though. The EA Mobile Human Tetris project takes you to a Facebook application where everyone participates in a game of Tetris. Hootsuite , for example, has multiple tabs that highlight their social involvement elsewhere on the web.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 30, 2008

On the other hand, Plurk is really new, and thus, Twitter wins on followers (and the fact that mobile access — via SMS — totally owns), so the Plurk discussions (for now) are at a minimum. I am starting to use Plurk more with the mobile interface, though it isn’t 100%.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

We looked at criteria like size (under 100,000 people), college town, good schools, access to health care, cost of living, etc. What a great example to set for your children. I was struck by what a great example & experience you're providing for your children. Fully virtual, fully mobile.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The article has examples of how social media worked too. The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. Laser (Web Strategist): There are two (of many) approaches you can take in your social media strategy.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

74% and 73% of the Inc 500 use Facebook and LinkedIn respectively, and the study concluded: “Fewer [companies] are using blogging, message/bulletin boards, online video, podcasting and MySpace. More companies are using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, downloadable mobile apps, texting and Foursquare.”.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

He also gave a simple example of how to measure Social Media ROI: What you really want to know when measuring Social Media ROI is how much money each incoming warm lead is worth. Here’s a great example: Many Yelp reviews are taken down within a few days of being posted. Put them to good use! Ever wonder why?

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Communities Twitter Web 2.0 ROI 237

The Way of the Web

OCTOBER 7, 2011

It makes for interesting reading – the relationship between Robin Miller and David Arculus for example. I also took the chance to start playing with social media – we quickly had a Myspace page and Flickr group up and running, to be joined by Facebook and Twitter. site, as captured by the Wayback Machine Internet Archive.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 8, 2008

These scenarios come to fruition in spontaneous communities, on social networks, and other self-service tools – all thanks to the availability of low cost technology and access to the world wide web. For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Andrew Worob provides an excellent, thoughtful list of responses to common social media objections such as “we don’t have the resources,&# can’t justify the costs, or executives don’t believe their audience is using social media. Twitter is adding 300,000 new users per day, and 80% of Twitter use is on mobile devices.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

For example, if Starbucks buys a “sponsored story&# ad, the status of a user’s friends who check into or “like&# Starbucks will run twice: once in the user’s news feed, and again as a paid ad for Starbucks. Doesn’t it call to mind the Flickr-Virgin Mobile brouhaha from a few years ago? You read that right.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

Mobile internet activity is different, however, with the dominant share of time (42%) spent on email, and just 11% on social media. Social Media 3Q Update: Who Uses Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, & MySpace? 80% of Twitter use is on mobile devices. percent just a year earlier—a 43 percent increase. 40 percent of U.S.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 10, 2023

When Janet was in sixth grade, she was inspired by Ashley Quall – the 14-year-old who created her website that offered HTML tutorials and Myspace layouts. “So I made my first mobile laptop case with contact paper. “I didn't know anything about shipping or supply chain or even cost of goods.

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ProBlogger

MAY 24, 2015

While searching for visualizations, you can organize your results in a number of different ways, for example, by visualizations that are currently trending or by most commented or most viewed visualizations. In this example, “AdWords” is the content area of interest. Manage it all through mobile applications. RSS integration.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 21, 2010

Here are some examples of popular avatars in the social media space: It is up to you whether you want to use an ‘avatar’ style picture like this or a picture of your face. Dragos is a great example of someone who knows exactly what the StumbleUpon audience wants — just check out the post titles in his sidebar. Want proof?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

Arm your manager with a mobile device and an email alert system: For the final question of the #socialmedia chat, we talked about tips for businesses looking to take advantage of Foursquare. What great examples of businesses doing this well do you have? Go for it in the comments.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2010

Starbucks is not only offering free Wi-Fi in all stores come this fall, but also unveiling their Starbucks Digital Network that all in-store web and mobile users will have the opportunity to enjoy (it’s a partnership with Yahoo!). And that example is just scratching the surface. Why would Starbucks need their own digital network?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. Peter is also the founder of Gizmodo, Joystiq, hackaday, and Engadget Mobile. One example is Mint and the insights they offer via their blog.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace by Mashable. Matt Silverman steps through the process of creating cool custom backgrounds for popular social media sites, with easy-to-follow instructions and rich example illustrations. 57 Social Media Policy Examples and Resources by Social Media Today.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 2, 2010

Try to figure out what your Facebook fan page’s impact is on your number of Twitter followers, for example. It is Mobile on the radar? Social is obviously going to be a huge part moving forward, and I believe mobile will as well. link] caitlinmc RT @jaybaer Wow! can i have my time back for reading the fourth?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

How Much Money is a Top Google Ranking Worth to Your Business : Aaron Wall discusses the cost of that #1 link backing up the data with some hard research. A List of Social Media Marketing Examples : Peter Kim has an exhaustive list of companies engaging in social media. Is your company on the list? Hey, I hear you.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

The ability to make or consume social media from an array of mobile devices increases the convenience factor (and the pressure on my wi-fi router) immensely. I don’t share the exact same stuff on Twitter that I do on Facebook, for example. Life is so boring under those conditions. Thanks for the great comment.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 16, 2010

And exceptional businesses are realizing tangible, meaningful outcomes using social media & mobile marketing. Whole Foods does this similarly with its mobile application when it suggests meals/shopping lists based on health needs — and even suggests meals for ingredients you already have.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Almost one-third of all Facebook posts are created from mobile devices. • Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn) and which are declining (MySpace – there’s a shock, Friendster, Ning and Hi5) as well as sharing details about the demographics of several top social networks (e.g. ” At least something is bipartisan. .”

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