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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. As mobile browsers become more powerful, Google and its partners decided to do things their own way. Also, $0.30

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JUNE 30, 2010

5 million activations a month, a focus on mobile first (as said by Eric Schmidt), and working across mobiles and the merging tablet market (in terms of tablets now getting mainstream coverage and adoption post iPad). With Google Me and the rumoured Google Music, perhaps picking up ex-Myspace users is a better first step.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Ideas and product use spread slowly: what was a very popular product in one town was not necessarily popular in another nearby town. Ideas and good products spread faster. Crucially though, people now had a means to cause a fuss if the product was not good giving rise to an important feedback mechanism.

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MAY 29, 2010

Saturday, May 29, 2010 The Social Media Strategist Develop comprehensive social media strategy, leveraging the major social networks (LinkedIn, FaceBook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace), blogs, video, stand-alone social newtorks, social commerce and more. Unported License.

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JUNE 18, 2008

Brightkite: Email and SMS – mobile web is definitely the wave of the future. Making sure your site is not only accessible on mobile phones but can interact with them is extremely important. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca People don’t like to be disconnected.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The internet and technology ownership has changed everything: digital TV, mobile phones, iPods, weblogs, instant messaging, [and] social networking. Previously, to have a mobile phone, you needed a large bank account. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Answers Yahoo!

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JUNE 24, 2010

The Power of the Unexpected The genius of infomercials (and to a lesser degree, home shopping channels), is that they present to you products that you didn’t know you needed, because you didn’t know they existed. Consumers learn to trust a human, and then they trust the info the human delivers on a product or service.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

You will automatically know if you should be on MySpace, Flicker, or restrain yourself to Facebook. Unported License. Infact if you notice once you understand the brand person the way around comes with ease. You will notice that you will be able to clearly select the sites to live and expand on.

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MAY 12, 2010

link] marionguthrie I read a forecast about the huge growth in mobile advertising in just 5 years, by 2015. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Seuss reference is always nice) [link] Brian Bergen RT @jaybaer: Would You Try It With a Fox? Im Jay Baer.

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JULY 26, 2010

Let’s say you’re a small business owner who wants your brand to appear in Google when someone searches for your product or service in your area. Unlike your blog, which is on an island, the Pitch is mobile and travels around to all the places you need it to – email, social networks, search engines, etc., Im Jay Baer.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 41% provide opinions about products/services. Tom Webster theorizes this may be due to Twitter’s functional similarity to text messaging, as several studies have shown Black Americans use the mobile Web at rates roughly double that to non-Hispanic Whites.

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APRIL 28, 2010

In Search of Mass Influencers In a fascinating new Forrester Research study about online peer influence, Augie Ray and Josh Bernoff determine that consumers generated more than 500 billion online impressions about products and services in 2009. online population access the Internet from a mobile device. population. Among influentials?

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AUGUST 10, 2010

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. TA : For Gist, which is based around personal productivity, it’s about only revealing data in a contextually appropriate way.

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JULY 28, 2010

Buy your own product. Then put yourself in their shoes, figure out how they interact with your reps, use your product, all that other good advice you shared. Then put yourself in their shoes, figure out how they interact with your reps, use your product, all that other good advice you shared. As fort he first steps.

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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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AUGUST 11, 2010

Since we moved down here, we've gone through my wife's heart surgery and kidney transplant, me getting fired from two jobs (people in Florida find us NYC types to be very disagreeable – don't know why) and starting my video production company. Fully virtual, fully mobile. link] [link] jaybaer Thanks Linda.

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APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? My first PR job was in consumer product goods and one of our clients was a bagel brand. Alright, your turn. Who influenced you, and why? 10 books are up for grabs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

Promotional products company rushIMPRINT features on its Facebook page a tab of products for sale. Post photos of your service and product offerings and invite your fans to do the same. You’ll learn about their products but you’ll also see a plethora of user-submitted images — complete with cute babies.

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MAY 26, 2010

The struggle, I feel at least, is that post production takes entirely way to long to make a decent, helpful video. The struggle, I feel at least, is that post production takes entirely way to long to make a decent, helpful video. Are people 'getting it'? I agree that video is being underleveraged. Im Jay Baer.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

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. How to Integrate Social Media into Product Marketing (Social Computing Magazine): This is a nice detailed guide on how you can market products via social media.

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JULY 8, 2008

In the many paragraphs that follow, learn from many of the experts and hear what they consider success when using social media to engage with consumers about products and services. social conversation tools (FriendFeed, and maybe you could even lump in Disqus and the like with it). Others aren’t.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media. If you get your product name out among many blogs, eventually, the word gets out. In any marketing campaign, the more you see the product, the more likely you are to be influenced by it, even if you don’t want to be.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

So if you’re spending $200 a day on your Social Media campaign, and let’s say your product is $100 worth per item, let’s say you’re bringing 100 people to the website, and your Google Analytics shows a 15% conversion rate to a warm lead, and a 15% conversion rate of warm leads to paying clients purchasing one item.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. There are some elements of Disqus I don’t like, especially that it doesn’t always play nice with other plug-ins, but it does make commenting easier and faster for most of you who already have a Disqus account.

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MAY 19, 2008

Today, Facebook or MySpace will help you locate lost family or reunite with old friends. Today, nearly all of my high school friends are online, and most of them maintain Facebook or MySpace accounts. to send like it did on Prodigy in the early nineties), but now it can be sent and accessed on mobile devices with the click of a button.

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APRIL 8, 2010

For now, I think it’s a highly mobile DVD player, game machine, Kindle, iPod, email appliance, and Web surfing device. I have not bought an iPad but, from what I have read, the consumption vs. production of content distinction is valid. Thanks very much for your thorough look at this product. What is it? I can wait.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Not all of those people will be relevant in helping me answer my questions about a product. Understands not only the products, but has seen enough customer scenarios to help guide the right match. Well, almost. The Ambient Web connects me to people that I have a relationship with, or once did. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

m Fragmanlar Genel Komedi Magazin Mzik Mobil Oyunlar Son Dakika Spor Teknoloji Uzay Video Yaz?l?m Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Buzz YouTube Tamar Weinberg is a social media enthusiast with a passion for all things tech and productivity. Duymadim.com: Bunudam?

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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!). Why would Starbucks need their own digital network? What’s Next (Potentially)?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

The question was purposely left open-ended; I wasn’t necessarily seeking out attention in the form of a product pitch, despite the fact that many of those asked are prominent bloggers. Marketers should make great products that loyal readers or long-time friends or trusted colleagues choose to tell me about!

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MARCH 2, 2010

My friends at ExactTarget announced a moment ago that they have acquired CoTweet , the leader in enterprise Twitter management, and will be building a social products lab to add tie-ins for Facebook, YouTube, and other elements of the social communication ecosystem. It is Mobile on the radar? link] caitlinmc RT @jaybaer Wow!

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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. Even in a recession, our economic productivity continues to climb. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

An Insider’s Guide to Marketing on Flickr : Rohit Bhargava gives some very detailed tips on how you can use Flickr to successfully market products. The Mother of All SMX Local/Mobile Recaps : David Mihm attended a conference and shared the top takeaways. It is hard to find good social media tips about MySpace.

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JUNE 23, 2010

The 3 C’s of Next Generation Crowdsourcing: Co-Creation, Constant, and Control Co-Creation There are people out there that love your product. There are people out there that currently hate your product because it isn’t giving them what they need. Embrace these people. Embrace these people as well. Im Jay Baer.

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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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