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MAY 5, 2010

This 40-something Florida Mom found herself undergoing several simultaneous life shifts, and realized that products and the communication about them didn’t resonate with her any longer. “If we’re going to counsel clients on the role of community, and its ability to garner insights, we need to be able to walk the walk.&#

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APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. Eat 10 sandwiches, get the 11th free.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Never Heard Of It This is of course a situation that is most acute in B2B, where White Horse found that 60% of companies either have low executive interest in social media, or have modest interest but a lack of education. If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. This makes no sense.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I wonder how Stratten feels about companies servicing customers differently , based on their online influence? DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] unmarketing Thanks a lot Jay. As a business owner your goal needs to be having no gap at all, optimizing every point of contact with your customer.&#

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FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. Export your email subscriber or customer database to Flowtown, and you’ll know in minutes what percentage of your audience is on Facebook or some other social outpost.

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MAY 13, 2010

Bowen RT @jaybaer: 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] Socially Influence RT @jaybaer: 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] TweepTips 18 Social Media Quotes My Wife Is Sick of Hearing Me Say [link] [link] Lee Johnson ??? All rights reserved.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

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JULY 20, 2010

Sure, digital magic tricks still influence results and always will, but they can no longer do so alone, and the only sure-fire way to win is to supply great content to meet demand. This allows (mandates, even) the cream to naturally rise to the top. Pre-Strategy, Defining Content Demand So how do you figure out what content consumers want?

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FEBRUARY 23, 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 Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Customer to speak his/her mind and influence his/her network, the stakes are much higher to figure out the product/service/message mix that makes them happy and to keep doing it over and over. Though I somewhat disagree with the premise that “social media makes everything about marketing&#. Now that it is so easy for Joe Q.

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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. Online consumers are savvy and being open and communicative is vital to reputation management. Highlight the company’s long-term commitment and that of its supporters and partners.

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JUNE 24, 2010

That mission, to add value to the communities they reach, is the heart beat of social. Here’s your chance to get to know it and learn about 3 ways it can influence your social media! You’re thinking that I’m crazy. The thought also crossed my mind about the pitchman of that era. All rights reserved.

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MARCH 25, 2010

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MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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JULY 28, 2010

RT @jaybaer: 5 Simple Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Gold: [link] [link] Foundora 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness – [link] By @jaybaer [link] Deirdre Reid, CAE 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness into Marketing Greatness (by @jaybaer) [link] [link] Jack Scharff How can b2b apply? What colors tend to influence rooms?

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JULY 22, 2010

To improve performance, firms may benefit from looking at the medium through a broader lens, recognizing that expanding their influence by enabling customers to connect with one another may be as effective, if not more so, than interacting with them directly.

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JULY 14, 2010

There is no question social media does an organization good, just persevere and know there is a vibrant community there to support your work. Now, Google creates perceptions and it is our job to engage the communities and instill what perceptions we want seen. al definitely should influence strategy though.

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MAY 25, 2010

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? Another couple of points that readers may want to consider in the second section would be the ability to sort content by influence, engagement, comment count, followers etc… Often helps to surface the posts/tweets that may need the most attention first.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. I especially like your last point — if social media has changed anything, it's changed the definition of influence. Does that make sense? “Right&# and “Wrong&# is probably too strident.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Remember however, that many factors influence popularity at the individual content piece level. Coming from a communications background, content calendaring (and then on the flip side, tracking metrics back to that content and program calendar) is something I've encountered a lot. Don’t make assumptions – test them.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Too often we see social media strategies that involve putting photos into Flickr, videos into YouTube or the creation of a Facebook application and then never revisiting the environment to engage with the communities around this content.

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MAY 11, 2010

For B2B companies, I suggest adding a short slide presentation that answers each question, and possibly a podcast that answers all six in aggregate. If since young age they receive good influence by person they admire, they would have became great people with great vision about work and determination. All rights reserved.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Do you have influence or a bunch of followers? =-. Do you have influence or a bunch of followers? =-. Do you have influence or a bunch of followers? =-. link] Crushing the Myth of B2B Social Media [.] Jamie Favreau´s last blog. link] Jamie Favreau Thanks for posting this. Jamie Favreau´s last blog.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

How to Create a Share of Voice Report Get Shorty – The Elevator Pitch is Dead Finding Your Mass Influencers Among Your Customers 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Does Your Facebook Page Have a Pulse? All blog owners should do this to see what their community prefers. In others, they are very different.

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APRIL 14, 2010

Then, strategize ways you could make those problems disappear by providing better content (as with Geek Squad), faster response (as with Nationwide), or better access to help (as many companies are doing by launching online customer support communities using Get Satisfaction or other systems). It is all about SERVICE for them.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Combined with their above average income and above average education, Twitter users’ propensity to interact with brands make them a huge potential source for Mass Influencers (although Forrester’s research says Facebook is a better pool ). I wonder if this has to do with the correlation between the black community and musicians.

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AUGUST 31, 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 Social Conversation a Myth?

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APRIL 14, 2010

When dealing with emotions, psychology, anthropology, sociology, among other disciplines, you’re bound to make “mistakes&# as you attempt to understand demographics and communities and learn about who will be receptive to what. It should be about growing the community, not cutting new people off while they learn the ropes.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing , Opinion , Social Media > How to Get an Influencer’s Attention How to Get an Influencer’s Attention by Tamar Weinberg on March 24, 2010 Share Influence is everywhere, but it’s up to you to spot it.

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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?

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JULY 8, 2010

Shameless Plus – For more insights on what influences email deliverability, check out our Letters to the C-Suite: Getting Serious About Permission & Deliverability).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. Research these potential influencers to get a handle on their credibility.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

Keyword Volume and Analysis – Comparative data across multiple terms Influencer Report – Who is talking about you that has disproportionate online influence? There’s a bonus feature that automatically selects winners of online contests, via random number generator. The standard charts and graphs are entirely useful.

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JULY 13, 2010

Why not try spending time commenting in your targets’ community blogs? Find teachers, identify valuable communities, volunteer time to non-profit organizations who need your energy. reading about social media and trying different communities. That’s the essence of a good social media strategy , anyway. Just get started.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

It has become so easy to share, that 'trust' is THE main component of influencers. kahuna7 Jay, I don't normally comment on your posts (which I should) but I find myself redistributing your posts to my sphere of influence quite often because of how great your content has been now for about the last year.

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