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JULY 20, 2010

Very interesting [link] [link] Marie Armand RT @jeanlucr: 5 Steps to Winning Fans on Social Media with Content Strategy. Very interesting [link] [link] Andreas Bolli RT @jeanlucr: 5 Steps to Winning Fans on Social Media with Content Strategy.

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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. People are sharing photos, ideas, writings and video. All that stuff? Ad Chickadee ?

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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. With every such success, however, you must feed the beast or it will get hungry and wander off. You're almost to the point of sale.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. link] francine hardaway Great list, Jason. I’d add: 1)Social media can increase sales.

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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. link] Jenna D.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe. I mined my Google Analytics and put together a list of the 25 most popular posts that have ever appeared on this blog , ranked by total number of page views. That would be interesting to see how similar each list is.

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JULY 28, 2010

Great list, looks a lot like the discovery we do prior to content planning. good advice from @jaybaer on being useful and helpful rather than salesy in social media. link] [link] Saying It Social How do you help your audience?

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter Lists Frenzy =-. link] Maria Reyes-McDavis Thanks for highlighting what many marketers are missing… 1) Social media is so much more than the 5 staples people are sticking to, it’s an entire world on the web where your customer (whether B2B or B2C) could be. Twitter Lists Frenzy =-. Twitter Lists Frenzy =-.

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JULY 14, 2010

These are the lists. These are the lists. These are the lists. These are the lists. That's what we try to do with our “egotracker&# TwentyFeet. From twenty feet above you tell the business man: Look on twitter. These are your follower number. Look on facebook. These are your fan numbers and how they develop.

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MAY 26, 2010

But if your saying Twitter isn't a tool as in a hammer, that you can use to build your SEM, SEO, or PR then I am not following your logic. His 14 things (that's a list) …[link] [link] initial aec @jaybaer has hit the nail on the head when it comes to marketing through social media.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Lauren Fernandez, Radian6 [link] Nikki Stephan Jay – I like that you took this one step further and included the more appropriate questions versus just listing the wrong ones. What do you think?

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’m adding it to my to do list as one I need to answer ASAP.-= I’m adding it to my to do list as one I need to answer ASAP.-= I’m adding it to my to do list as one I need to answer ASAP.-= Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps [.] Clare Swindlehurst´s last blog. Elf Name Generator =-.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Flowtown allows you to take email addresses (like the people subscribed to my newsletter) and determine in which social networks they are active. link] Mark Levy Great list Jay.

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JULY 13, 2010

Advertising shops, SEO agencies, email consultants…the list goes on. I'd add one more reason to your list of why PR firms should avoid siloing digital- it hurts the client, and of course, not keeping the client happy ultimately hurts the firm. attempting to tackle the “new PR&# by integrating social media.

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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. Why is email such a steady producer? Consumer’s who get it, want it.

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MARCH 9, 2010

A recent feature on CIO.com on “ 10 of World’s Strangest Social Networks &# gets it all wrong. Somebody’s “strange&# social network is someone else’s potentially thriving customer community. " by @jaybaer [link] – Are you missing the *right* social networks?

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JUNE 3, 2010

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. About a week ago, I was hungrily feasting on Jay’s post about why info is only boring if we make it that 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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AUGUST 3, 2010

A company rang me recently to say that Google black listed them. Briones R.I.P. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website [link] #sm #smm #sem #scrm #marketing #advertising #seo [link] Ed Borasky 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Convince & Convert [link] [link] G. Build a website.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A company rang me recently to say that Google black listed them. Briones R.I.P. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website [link] #sm #smm #sem #scrm #marketing #advertising #seo [link] Ed Borasky 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Convince & Convert [link] [link] G. Build a website.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

For those who know little if anything about social media (there are more such people than you may realize; some in rather lofty positions at that), John McTigue offers an excellent primer covering the most popular tools, sites and strategies. 30 Tips: The Productivity Guide of Social Media by WebStudio 13.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Some great ideas: from @theblackfin from @mikefraietta from @bradmays In addition to the chat, I also came across this fantastic presentation about Foursquare (note the SEO benefits) from Chuck Reynolds. note that Chuck is the official WordPress and SEO consultant to me here at Convince & Convert.

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JUNE 28, 2010

It's on my reading list for this evening as I enjoy a nice cabernet and hope it doesn't rain. It's on my reading list for this evening as I enjoy a nice cabernet and hope it doesn't rain. You know you'll always be one of my very favorites! I just haven't read it YET. link] Gini Dietrich Oh Jay.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So called social media marketers are lured by the instant spread of their business using social networks and hence they ignore the basics! link] Allen – Personalbrander Social Media Marketing has become one of the essential marketing channel to business of any kind! But the quality is probably going to be lacking.

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