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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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Oktopost

JULY 27, 2021

Savvy B2B marketers, who know where that research begins – search engines – can capitalize on this by using Search Marketing tactics. . Search marketing allows a business to capture valuable leads from buyers researching a purchase. As a result, having an effective Search Marketing strategy is more important than ever.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Commerce If you have done steps 1 and 2, in the Consideration phase of the Buyer's Journey, you will continue to be relevant i.e. short-listed among candidates to solve the buyer's problem. Metrics would include the number of times a post is mentioned in other blogs or media, references, RT's, etc. Very helpful post, Jay.

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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.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

We’ve been blessed beyond comprehension, and the list of family, mentors, clients, colleagues and pals who have helped us along the way are far too numerous to list. and the site produced a list of candidate cities for our consideration. Arizona has been very, very, very good to us. Herve Good Luck Jay!

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? Of course, there are a ton of outstanding PR firms doing excellent work in social media, including all the folks I have the great privilege to work with every day here at Convince & Convert.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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Convince & Convert

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.

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MARCH 23, 2010

That’s why I recommend the “Similar Posts&# plug-in below, and why I suggest you list recent posts and popular posts prominently on both the right side and bottom of every page. Incidentally, these internal links are also a SEO positive) 4.

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MAY 26, 2010

Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Content creation and content marketing will continue to allow companies to capitalize on the fact that every customer is now a reporter.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. I was joined by Joe Pulizzi from Junta42 , Ann Handley from MarketingProfs , and Brad Kleinman from Online Marketing Connect. That would be interesting to see how similar each list is.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job.

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Socialmedia.biz

JULY 14, 2016

A master roundup of social marketing tools to use on behalf of brands. Target audience: Social marketers, influence marketers, businesses, brands, digital marketers, SEO specialists, entrepreneurs, educators, journalists, Web publishers. OK, now on to tools. BaseCamp 2. I always come back to BaseCamp.

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Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 12, 2010

Yesterday consisted of a killer pitch for a very large SEO project in which the client said afterward that they had never received such a detailed proposal before, and yet… that’s the way all of my proposals are. I was taught well. It’s a good start.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Approximately 10 years after having 67% of the search market, Yahoo! And that’s why your social media strategy must be tools-agnostic. And they never really pushed into the huge Asian market either. link] robertwheatley I think you landed on the most important item in the laundry list when you hit Rupert and the buy-out.

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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.

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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).

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JULY 13, 2010

Every single person in a public relations firm should: 1) understand the impact of social media and 2) be able to activate that marketing potential for their clients. Advertising shops, SEO agencies, email consultants…the list goes on. They are still stuck in the old paradigm of interruption marketing. Good stuff.

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Direct Marketing Observations

DECEMBER 3, 2010

14) This article in July from Wired really touched on a lot of truths in social media that we all know about and in some cases actually do, but don’t admit. Gaming the System: How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine. 24) I absolutely loved this post from April, but I’m partial because of my SEO background.

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JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE!

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JUNE 3, 2010

He writes for marketing blog The Zest , loves talking marketing strategy and is suspicious of helicopters. It caused me to pause (mid-chew), and mentally scroll through a list of examples that fit his assertion that boring information is captivating when it’s humanized in some way.

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JUNE 30, 2010

This has enormous implications for social segmentation, content creation, tonality, and appropriate success metrics. If we’re not using the available data (made even richer by the coming ubiquity of “like&# ) to boost relevancy of our social and email communication, our fans will gravitate toward companies that are.

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Convince & Convert

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.

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent study by Econsultancy called “ The Value of Social Media &# shows that companies are overwhelmingly using the “Big 4″ of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Linkedin for their social media efforts. Remember, social media is about meeting your customers in their house, on their terms, and working together.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook’s user base or Lindsay Lohan’s court appearances, it’s tough to keep up. Social Media Marketing Tips, Tactics and Guides. Building Social Bookmarking Networks 101 by Search Engine Journal.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 7, 2010

There are three primary benefits: awareness via virality and social proof; loyalty and rewards; and market research. Recently, I had the good fortune of hosting the weekly #socialmedia chat (Tuesdays 9am Pacific) where social media types congregate on Twitter and answer three questions posed by the host.

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JUNE 28, 2010

On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced less by the grand, sweeping programs that take old marketing and put a fresh coat of social paint on them. There are two strategic ramifications for this new era of content marketing. Targeted at marketing directors. But, it’s still important.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The fundamental premise of social business is that you are interacting and engaging with customers and prospects on a one to one or one to few basis. You build a volunteer marketing army one soldier at a time, not overnight. And that takes time. Trust takes time. Creating advocacy takes time.

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