Almost Savvy

JANUARY 12, 2010

One prominent Internet Marketer actually sent me an email *on Christmas Day* selling me more of her stuff…UGH…couldn’t delete that one fast enough! Perhaps it’s your chance to begin teaching Internet Marketing sales etiquette~what a concept! Seriously, there’s a time to sell and a time to back off.

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Almost Savvy

JULY 12, 2010

No, gathering with our friends, sharing news and planning events is not new. Reply Liz Isaacs says: July 14, 2010 at 4:36 pm Also, it should be noted that social media while it’s definitely here to stay and should be an integral part of one’s marketing strategy. It should not be the panacea or alpha-omega of marketing.

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Almost Savvy

APRIL 6, 2010

Whether it is to market our business, persuade a client or vendor, motivate an audience or capture the attention of potential employers, influence is important. Learning how best to communicate and influence others is no different. Don’t we all hope to influence others in some way?

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 28, 2008

They understood their audience, showed that they have a sense of humor about themselves and successfully turned that uh-oh moment into an viral marketing opportunity.? Mighty impressive!

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Almost Savvy

AUGUST 28, 2008

They understood their audience, showed that they have a sense of humor about themselves and successfully turned that uh-oh moment into an viral marketing opportunity.? Mighty impressive!

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Jim is a super-smart marketing mastermind and is also the brains behind The Tech News Blog and The Ideas Blog. Quick Internet marketing tip! There goes my reputation. Re Twitter, I know it can be a great marketing tool but actually I decided to use it primarily to connect with some great women- and I have!

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Almost Savvy

MAY 3, 2009

yet powerful platform to build a brand, control one’s online reputation?and Just check it out: [link] I also blog myself about marketing (click my name above) and then I have a personal travel blog which I don’t update too often. and are aligned with an overall business plan; others are primarily social or just for fun.

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Almost Savvy

JANUARY 2, 2009

Following the time when Mom’s praise was enough and prior to today, there was also a time,when customer testimonials printed on marketing brochures were all the evidence we needed to know you were the bee’s knees. Gone is the generic praise and the quotes from sources we were unable to contact.

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Almost Savvy

JULY 24, 2009

Enter TrueTwit , which markets itself as the “Validation Service for Twitter.&# What began as an irritating trend, has now become an overwhelming distraction causing great frustration among Twitter users, even driving some to leave the platform favoring other places to network and share.

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Almost Savvy

JANUARY 3, 2009

WOW Wish I had known before the last [link] #TCR so we could have told more tweeps I will give a copy of “Twitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online&# so you can add that as a prize for one of your listeners. – and that’s helping me a lot too!

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer. “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. link] ethan Hi Jay, Thank you for the review.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

A true network is people who know us and people we trust with our reputation. Choose people you would bet your reputation on — people who share your standards and have similar goals. When I was younger I was up for the big events, for meeting and greeting lots of movers and shakers. Build relationships not an address book.

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Almost Savvy

APRIL 12, 2009

Social Media – A Tool in Your Marketing/Business Plan Reply Irene Koehler says: November 7, 2009 at 2:28 pm Excellent, Andrea! On the brighter side, you’ve managed to turn this very unfortunate event into a learning experience for the rest of us. I appreciate your advice and assistance. Backing up is always a great idea!!!

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Many thanks to Vincent and Digitrad for offering free registration to AlmostSavvy readers to allow you to see for yourself how you might use it to your own best advantage to manage your online reputation and visibility. Also, please email me a geographic place where I can get the CD of networking event pictures to you.

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Almost Savvy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Twitter, like all online activity, will become part of your reputation and brand, whether you like it or not. It can be something simple like “Excited to meet and connect with other architects on Twitter&# or “Have heard so much about integrating Twitter into my marketing plan, just have to give it a try.&#

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Professor Daniel Jutras’ classes begin with him and/or students covering some current events relating to the seminar’s topic. The blogger (Professor Jutras) posts his ideas, occasionally throws in some editorial and takes some light, widget-fed microblogging (the current events some students share).

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 31, 2010

I don’t need to know that you’re at the market, at the gas station, at work or on the train. Essentially, what bothers me about social media apps, though the tide is growing in support of it, is the redundant inclusion of features support by other apps in an effort to become the market leader.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. They used Twitter, so that attendees could tweet and discuss the events with their followers. Then again, not everyone is familiar with net marketing except Net Marketers. Delicious is my favorite one to use for this.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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. I believe it to be the most complete picture yet painted of how marketers are thinking about and deploying social media.

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Almost Savvy

MARCH 1, 2009

I often host networking events designed to connect savvy professionals seeking to build their networks and create opportunities to? Busy networkers like Barbara Bailey , who hands out thousands of buisness cards at events every year, consider them an essential tool which one should never be without. collaborate with one another.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design. Embrace Math.

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Almost Savvy

JULY 15, 2010

If this happened at a live networking event, the conversation would go something like this: “Hi. When we connect with a business peer, we want to feel like more than just a prospect or a member of a target market. Uh…ewww. All I can say is this doesn’t work with me – not in the real world and not online.

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Suggested language you might want to consider including in the invitation: Wonderful to meet you at the marketing conference last week. It is considerate to remind the other person how you know one another and why you would like to connect with them, as opposed to connecting with someone to increase the size of your network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Influencer outreach may possibly be the most powerful outreach tactic that PR practitioners or marketers are laziest about. He’d also have done the outreach personally since I’ve met the guy at social media events. When it comes to social media, social should always be carefully weighted before the marketing is put forth.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Email is all about actual audience. Approximately 25% of the time (on average) they will.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Event attendees often ask me if I have them written down, and I never have, until now. They are either memorable, instructive, or both (hopefully).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Thanks much to Brett and the WebmasterWorld team (Neil, Scott, and the rest of that wonderful bunch) for putting together a great event! Keep it up, see you at the next event. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! You got super lucky!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Social Media > Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing? Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing? This gave rise to regional marketing with the first hints of large scale world-wide marketing.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. I'm really looking forward to this, Jay!

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Josh S Peters

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About eBooks Social Media and Internet Marketing Speaking Twitter Says You Are Here: Home » Social Media » The FINAL word on Social Media ROI The FINAL word on Social Media ROI Written on October 20, 2009 by Josh Peters in Social Media 25 Comments - Leave a comment! The FINAL word on social media ROI is this… sometimes.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. Southwest Airlines has to coordinate its marketing and customer service response, in real-time, create its own content on its blog and Twitter account, while also dealing with the media jackals.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. These posts are not in response to newsworthy events, nor are they displayed in any particular order. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Here’s 2007.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

More from Convince and Convert You Are Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy Taking Consumer Reviews Viral with Facebook Are you spending enough on digital marketing? Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. He believes that common sense should prevail, and that UnMarketing success is rooted in the creation of everyday “wow&# moments.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. It will pay off.

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