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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. Between hosting and implementation, there is no doubt that there are substanial costs involved. Also, $0.30

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MARCH 29, 2022

Quora is, of course, a social question-and-answer website launched in 2010. It’s a part search engine and part social networking site that can help you build a dedicated and loyal online following. Getting called out for errors can damage your reputation on the platform. Quora Marketing FAQ- Your Questions Answered! #1-

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JUNE 17, 2010

But at what cost? link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. I look at it a little differently. If you spent all day, every day on Twitter you could certainly amass quite a following. Numbers can both have value and be deceptive.

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MAY 12, 2010

Jay Baer has said on this very blog that he believes every company will have a social component within 2 years, and Amber Naslund has written persuasively about the dangers of requiring case study “proof&# before getting involved. And that’s just it. You Just Might Like It Sam I Am.

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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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MARCH 25, 2010

That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

You can’t sell ideas, and unless companies of all sizes can figure out how to assign real or at least believable revenue or cost reductions to social media, this entire movement is going to flame out in 18 months. link] Mark Tamis Not at all Jay – I fully support the use of CRM platforms & datamining and analysis.

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JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

That content helps the company with SEO, and also builds a real-time, living FAQ of customer testimonials and insights. As Brian Solis has written about a lot, social optimization needs to be simple. It turns advocates into volunteer marketers. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog. It makes sharing simple.

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JULY 28, 2010

Total cost of this incredibly helpful marketing effort is very low, and Mike even offsets that by including ads from sponsors! This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Thanks for the link back to the social FAQ – I'd lost the link during my busy summer. Mike you are a helpful marketing genius.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

On-going monitoring: What are people saying about your brand and how can you use that information to either repair your reputation or identify opportunities? Certainly on the cost side, with the multiple licenses, it came out far better, and the UI seemed a lot more intuitive as well. Historical data seemed more robust as well.

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APRIL 1, 2010

I totally agree that repurposing content across social networking platforms is a necessity, and that saying what you mean and meaning what you say across every channel is very important. I also think that there is a lot of potential in the often overlooked message board communities that existed well before both Facebook and Twitter.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Facebook’s goal to be the social network of choice for all was a lofty one, but I gotta hand it to you, Facebook — it was a big deal, and let’s be honest here, it made lots of sense. Last week I receive a canned response from them telling me to look at their FAQ page (which I already knew offered no assistance).

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AUGUST 26, 2010

To date, customers of RowFeeder have either been interested in monitoring social media campaigns (tracking hashtags, Twitter replies, etc.); or engaged in brand reputation management, often on a weekly basis. “We think we’re ideal for companies needing that next level of insight into online conversation,&# he said.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

So regardless of how you use Twitter, you need to factor into the equation the cost of lost followers, and a need to continue to acquire new followers. link] Tim Underwood Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive? And of course, how many followers will become customers.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. Please note that Jay’s post only covers a snapshot of the findings.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Maybe it has to do with the size of the item or big ticket item (cost). That’s a good starter list for Mass Influencers.

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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. The Science of Cities We used the online filtering tool Find Your Spot to narrow down our relocation options. and the site produced a list of candidate cities for our consideration.

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JULY 14, 2010

We Are Not Alone Serving as the organization’s advocate for adopting social media can be a test of passion and commitment. With the low/no cost of entry, it does cost time – your time. Personally, I have had to serve in the positions of jester, leper, and pariah in my efforts to have others adopt social media strategies.

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MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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AUGUST 18, 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 Steps to Drive Sales with a Social FAQ 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say The 3 Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing Jonny Stark Wow, quite a few comments on here already!

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MARCH 22, 2010

link] [link] Jen Grant You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] by @jaybaer (who in my opinion is worth 10x more than the cost here #justsayin) [link] Skip Bensley RT @jaybaer: Wow. Tickets are going fast , Social Media Success Summit. 297 gets you 24 killer social media Webinars.

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JULY 22, 2010

Building Long Term Relationships While it’s true that the web has made building individual relationships cheaper and easier than it used to be, this doesn’t mean that businesses can necessarily expect to build deep connections with their entire customer base; in many cases, this is neither feasible nor cost effective.

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent feature on CIO.com on “ 10 of World’s Strangest Social Networks &# gets it all wrong. Somebody’s “strange&# social network is someone else’s potentially thriving customer community. " by @jaybaer [link] – Are you missing the *right* social networks?

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JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this?

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MARCH 18, 2010

Though I'd also argue that it can be done at such low cost vs. mass media that brands should be willing to get busy and figure out meaning at the same time, and not use measurement challenges as reasons not to engage.) And yes – social media should offer the email newsletter.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

More from Convince and Convert The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success Convince and Convert Recommends The Metrics of Social Media (Danny Brown) The HEART of Social Media (Danny Brown) The Real Cost of Social Media (Danny Brown) Tagged as: optimization (..)

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APRIL 8, 2010

The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class. The cost of textbooks and the bulk of carrying a laptop could be replaced by an iPad, without too much lost in the utility of actually having a computer in class.

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JUNE 15, 2010

You provide a list of your customers’ email addresses, and these services figure out how (and who) among your customers are on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin and niche social networks, what their “likes” are, and other important details. Total cost? 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media [link] [link] Erik J.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It's not that because of social media, trust has gone down. It's that sometime during the last few years, we've started to consider lying acceptable and that's been done at the cost of decreased trust. I now trust a few of my friends more than ever, but I don't confuse my friends with my Facebook friends.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

check it out – [link] [link] Vernon Towne Cinema RT @vernongirl: 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] 5 Rockets, Inc. I can carry my persona across multiple sites and that persona ties back to a social network site.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

check it out – [link] [link] Vernon Towne Cinema RT @vernongirl: 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] 5 Rockets, Inc. I can carry my persona across multiple sites and that persona ties back to a social network site.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

What I’m curious to know is how they leverage the cost of someone who spends 3 hours there using the network and only buys a cup of coffee. link] [link] Gregg Morris #LocationBased social networks w/value. link] [link] Roger Smith RT @greggvm: #LocationBased social networks w/value.

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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.

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APRIL 7, 2010

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