Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

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The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

A couple of years of ago, one could easily identify active users through blogs & discussion forums. Top Blogs Directory – The marketing & social media section in the directory of top Indian blogs. Social media Blogs in India – Prepared by Sampad, this is a list of social media blogs in India.

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Convince & Convert

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. Compendium is a uniquely powerful blogging platform because it creates separate, “compended&# blogs for each keyword. That’s it.

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Convince & Convert

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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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Blekko’s Tools Give Search Marketers Google Alternative by MediaPost Online Media Daily. A social media monitoring tool that tracks your brand and keyword searches across Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Google Buzz, Blogs, and News, and reports results hourly. Social Media Monitoring Tools. Wildfire Social Media Monitor.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” The blog was a failure because posts were not written on a regular basis. There are tons of free and paid tools out there that help you to monitor the conversations taking place.

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Diva Marketing Blog

APRIL 2, 2009

Diva Marketing Talks is a live, internet radio (BlogTalkRadio) show. 1-topic about social media marketing. To help you understand how to participate in the "new" conversation without getting blown-up. Today's Diva Marketing Talks takes a dive into Social Media Communities or social networks. 30-minutes.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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Diva Marketing Blog

APRIL 9, 2009

Diva Marketing Talks is a live, internet radio (BlogTalkRadio) show. 1-topic about social media marketing. To help you understand how to participate in the "new" conversation without getting blown-up. Today's Diva Marketing Talks explores a "new" demographic that is joining the social media conversation.

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Bare Feet Studios

JUNE 9, 2010

We saw the intrinsic value of this real-time, widely distributed conversation and we wanted them to grow into a stable, successful business. Actually a lot of people make money via using Twitter – Guy Kawasaki and Alltop come to mind immediately. I don’t think “everyone&# is the only valuable market proposition.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Unfortunately some marketers use social media outreach as an opportunity to spam influencers. Sending dozens or hundreds of direct messages to people you’ve never interacted with and asking them to share your blog post isn’t outreach. Her Twitter handle includes Sprout, she hosts our Twitter chats and appears on our blog.

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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.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 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 Would You Try It With a Fox?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Maybe your blog. link] [link] Bogdan Donisan New post: Randy Kemp: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] ( [link] ) topsy_top20k RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail: Keeping tabs on your social media connec… [link] #marketing [link] Focus Communications interesting. Then Linkedin.

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Jeff Esposito

JULY 23, 2010

I like it but not addicted, yet; had a great conversation about monitoring services with Jason Mollica and am happy to say that I will officially have my wife back full-time after she takes the bar next week. Social media turf wars: are marketing and PR on a collision course? My weeks are running into one another. Thanks for visiting!

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2012

This affected anyone who used article marketing as a way to build links and drive traffic to their websites, since article networks were hit the hardest , though some—like HubPages— regained their rankings in subsequent updates. always linking to your homepage (as a blog, you should have lots of links built to your blog posts too).

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Convince & Convert

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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Bare Feet Studios

AUGUST 27, 2008

Neenz is now chief evangelist for Alltop. “It’s good that your client sees the value of blogging.&# – Neenz Podcasting Brand Recall and Affinity Edison Research: “Podcast consumers are extremely attractive advertising targets, though difficult to reach via traditional interruption models.&#

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Convince & Convert

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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Writtent Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

75% of marketers don’t have the time to create custom content. MarketingProfs’ Ann Handley shared at the recent Inbound13 marketing conference that she believes effective content curation is a way to enhance a company’s existing strategy. It’s tough to define what AllTop is exactly. Select a Broad Topic. Select a Sub-Category.

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Convince & Convert

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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Kikolani

APRIL 19, 2016

Content marketers have to wear many “hats.” This is a huge job, and it is no wonder that many businesses are abandoning their content marketing programs in favor of just plain old web-based advertising, if they can sustain it on their budgets. You may find that you even enjoy content marketing. Identifying Your Audience.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

And though a website used primarily by young people to post embarrassing pictures of themselves and by older people to share cute pictures of their progeny would seem an odd venue for selling after-shave or enterprise software, both b2c and b2b marketers have embraced the platform in droves simply due to its incredible scale and reach.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Blogs serve as a great way to increase organic traffic and establish the all-important relationship of “know, like, trust” through the provision of free content. If you’re just running a blog, your resources are likely going to be used to generate more subscribers. On-site content + guest blogging = success.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 5, 2016

As noted here previously, content marketing is now ubiquitous, with 93% of all marketers saying they do content marketing. All of those marketers are creating an enormous amount of content, which is making it difficult to stand out and rise above the noise. Image credit: HubSpot. These writers face the same challenge.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In previous posts, I have talked about some of the tactics I’ve learned and used to build a Google-less approach to attracting blog traffic. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. What we want is influential blogs with real readers who will read and engage with your content.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

In previous posts, I have talked about some of the tactics I’ve learned and used to build a Google-less approach to attracting blog traffic. Here’s an example: I published a guest post on Blogging Wizard in April two years ago. What we want is influential blogs with real readers who will read and engage with your content.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 14, 2013

Despite the occasional “death of blogging” pronouncements (often made, ironically, in blog posts), blogs remain the core of a robust social media strategy. more here in 30 of the best business blogging guides and resources of the past year. Why You Want To Be the Last Blog Standing by Outspoken Media.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2016

But contrary to popular belief, this doesn’t require a new blog post every other day. As a matter of fact, you can drastically boost your website’s SEO traffic growth with just a single blog post. When we say quality content, we aren’t talking hastily-written, 100-word blog posts, either. highlight to tweet).

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 31, 2011

As 2011 comes to a close, now is a better time than ever to evaluate your blog, its performance, and most importantly, what you can do to improve your blog in 2012! Now is the time to take action, because your mailing list is the most important aspect of your blog’s long term success. Optimize (or start) your email list.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2010

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Convince & Convert

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 Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media?

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