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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. “The mainstream gaming market will always be native. link] blur Marketing [link] Is It Curtains for the App Store? Also, $0.30

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. It’s no contest.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And More… Although I’m not using it presently, you can also configure your NutshellMail to include Linkedin and MySpace content, as well as updates from the Ning groups of which you are a member. Plus, event invites, and photos in which you’re tagged. This, I'll try. This, I'll try. what do you do?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form.

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JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Chris Brogan started with zero posts and zero readers.

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JUNE 17, 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: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? Roberts @njmirolo Always fun!

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MAY 12, 2010

link] #SMM [link] Doktor Marketing Would You Try It With a Fox? Holding a semi-annual niche affiliate marketing conference, it is quite common for me to find folks who want nothing to do with social media. marketing [link] Lisa Diomede Would You Try It With a Fox? marketing [link] Randy Kemp Would You Try It With a Fox?

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JULY 26, 2010

Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. 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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JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. Not unlike traditional surveys, keyword research and social data mining tools tell a powerful story about the information target audiences want from organizations, on-and-offline.

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JUNE 29, 2010

link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. One other thing that I would toss out there…in our community of Social Media, marketing, etc.,

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MAY 4, 2010

link] [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin. link] [link] Hot In Technology Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Thanks for your help!

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MAY 13, 2010

Social media isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive. (I I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Social media allows big companies to act small again. I use this a lot. It’s not viral unless it is.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. Testimonials are a huge part of the infomercial world, as they are for effective social media. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. But, I’m not.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The debate on Social CRM (sCRM) could easily become a distraction. As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. Leaving the etiquette alone for now, our focus is how marketers need to approach our targets.

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MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. It’s on JaneNation.

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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. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. The Lawyers Are Coming Social networks give people the ability to share incredible volumes of content. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed. All that stuff?

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. It's like any other social network, right? population).

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MARCH 10, 2010

link] [link] Jerry Freeman Have you scored a free copy of @jaybaer's Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of #Twitter 20? Download it: [link] [link] Marketing Cloud RT @jerrykfreeman: Have you scored a free copy of @jaybaer's Staggering Social Media Insights – The Best of #Twitter 20?

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JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Be Committed to CSR As mentioned, it’s critical to be transparent when it comes to a company’s CSR program, especially when harnessing social networking platforms.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Metrics would include the number of times a post is mentioned in other blogs or media, references, RT's, etc. Very helpful post, Jay. "How to Match 10 Key Success #Metrics to Your #Blogging Strategy" by @JayBaer [link] [link] Fiona Friesen Blogging and nobody's lisenting?

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MARCH 25, 2010

I'll be checking this out tonight: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] [link] ATI Attraction Mktg A #SocialMedia Scoreboard That Works [link] [link] Kopano Media RT @BenySchonfeld: No kidding, this is awesome!

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MAY 27, 2010

Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. The More Things Change, The More Things Change | Social Media Marketing | [link] [link] Tena Hartwig great post featuring @bulbstorm! agencies, you should be experimenting with this too). These are exciting times at Bulb HQ!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The 7 Steps to Creating a Social Media Strategy Before you begin, commit to worrying about social media tools last, not first. Myspace also. link] Jexep (Jeep) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: 7 steps to creating a social media strategic plan. Because tools will change. They always do. Yahoo, too. What’s Your Pitch?

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JUNE 2, 2010

This is an excellent marketing and promotional step that will ensure their brand is recognized world wide. While it's obviously not as public as a social network, it seems that the mindset is, “I trust their opinions, I'll ask them a question.&# If Facebook can address those issues satisfactory it would be great.

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APRIL 20, 2010

More from Convince and Convert 5 Ways to be a Social Networking Smash How to Create a Share of Voice Report Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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JUNE 7, 2010

This is the overarch… [link] #marketing [link] Jim Weldon Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed: Yes, nice guys can finish first. link] [link] Hot In Marketing Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert [link] [link] LoriBurke I want to win this book too.

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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. 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.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

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