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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JULY 21, 2010

A recent presentation at the PRSA Counselors Academy, by Michael Lasky , Partner and Chair of the Public Relations Law Practice at the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in NY, provided a wake up call to those in attendance about how the law is slowly creeping into the social landscape and why responsible marketers had better pay attention.

Social Media 153

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Connector looks at the public friends lists on del.icio.us, Pownce, Digg, Last.fm, and YouTube to see if youre connected there as well. To show how much MyBlogLog loves you, we offer all sorts of ways we can get to know each other: * We start at the basics, a simple FAQ page. Lijit Search. It sure could use some love though!

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MAY 26, 2010

Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location.

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MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. The way Donovan McNabb hates T.O. agencies, you should be experimenting with this too). These are exciting times at Bulb HQ! into their friends' news feeds) and not the brand's wall.

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APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. So, I peeked at YouTube. 213 videos on YouTube , the most recent just five days ago. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook. But then it gets even worse.

Social Media 120

Social Media Content Analysis Sports 120

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JULY 14, 2010

This resonates with me, since I've been saying for a while now, “Stripped down to its essentials, new media marketing is about participating in the conversations that will go on with or without us.&# There is nothing new about social media; it's just modern WoM.

Social Media 134

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention. Seek Content Inspiration Creating successful social media content isn’t just status updates.

Brands 143

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JUNE 3, 2010

I take pride in this job and I kicked the shit out of that call and I took a perfect game away from that kid over there.&# ( see it on YouTube ) But Joyce’s owning of the issue gets even better. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. There’s nobody that feels worse than I do.

Social Media 156

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APRIL 14, 2010

It’s about marketing sideways , not marketing head-on. But yet Geek Squad has a YouTube channel that includes hundreds of videos showing people how to do it themselves. Or do you think that reputation through relationships is enough to expand your market? Isn't that where promotional campaigns serve a purpose?

Social Media 128

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Social Media Monitoring Tools – How to Pick The Right One (..)

Social Media 155

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

Social Media 167

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MARCH 9, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

Social Media 133

Social Media Strategy YouTube LinkedIn 133

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Do You Know Your Customers Enough to be a Social Media Hit?

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Social Media Case Study Strategy Study 117

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MAY 19, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Why D.I.S. Then they can go back to business as usual.

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JUNE 8, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Are You Ready for the Opportunity Economy?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Objective Marketer This power-user Twitter app is the preferred vehicle for Guy Kawasaki. I use Objective Marketer for all of my in-advance Tweets, and when I want to engage in some headline and/or time of day testing. Disclosure: Objective Marketer gave me a free account) Note: There are thousands of Twitter apps (literally).

Social Media 167

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Now, authenticity and acknowledgement of shortcomings is an incredibly effective marketing and communications approach ( see Dominos, as I wrote about here ). You know, kind of like “We are really not a transparent company, but we play one on YouTube.&# It used to be that scandalous lies got talked about.

Social Media 119

Social Media Strategy Survey Social CRM 119

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

Facebook 167

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Pattern recognition is available almost instantly, and companies can capitalize on just-in-time marketing and social CRM opportunities like never before. Either way, the implications for Kurrently and the real-time Web are profound. As Gilbert pointed out, our own intersection is a good example.

Social Media 164

Social Media Strategy Engineering Social CRM 164

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Get a YouTube account for video uploading. The occasional YouTube video with you as the star adds to your personal branding immensely, especially if you can manage to look comfortable. Another promotion tool: make videos on YouTube with URL links. It also connects you to other practitioners. Get a del.icio.us Brevity rules.

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Social Media Brands Technorati RSS 280

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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. link] Evo Terra That seems to be the angle Google has taken with Buzz.

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APRIL 7, 2010

There are three primary benefits: awareness via virality and social proof; loyalty and rewards; and market research. So they have unsolved technical glitches that restrain growth and market penetration. link] (from @jaybaer) dannyflamberg FourSquare might have big potential but it has two immediate problems.

Foursquare 150

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

That’s what attracted me to online marketing initially, and why I made the jump to that career in the mid-90s. The tracking online (including social media) far outpaces what I had at my disposal when I was doing traditional marketing. Inevitability Sure, we all talk about Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.

Social Media 153

Social Media Strategy Consultant Social CRM 153

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APRIL 27, 2010

Ask Emmanuel Rosen , – whose revised version of Buzz Marketing should be required reading for all communicators. Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? link] Sounds like Randy should be in marketing! link] Sounds like Randy should be in marketing!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Twitter for Business Even Worth the Trouble?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

The problem is that Twitter didn’t try to market itself as a private platform. Sometimes you can post YouTube video links on the fan page wall and have the small video screen box appear, and sometimes, it appears as a black link. One day I tried to post a YouTube link on a wall, and it took 5 times before it posted right.

Facebook 277

Facebook Issues MySpace Privacy 277

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 30, 2010

Infraction #1 : Digg’s FAQ (Submitting Section, Question #3) says that duplicate submissions are bannable violations. Digg is controlling what goes on and off their site meticulously for no other reason than maintaining their market share and milking the cash cow. And you know why it’s working? And no, I do not read digg.

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