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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. She was an extra on Dawson’s Creek and got to meet the whole cast. “ Your Content Stinks! You’ve got my vote!

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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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Convince & Convert

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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FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Option 2: Dig the pattern more, and OK with your orange aura, but that little white cutout between your fingers where your hands meet your face… methinks that needs some orange too.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

We're just up the road in Indy and I look forward to meeting you once your family is settled. I know us Hoosiers in the social media/marketing world are excited to have you in Indiana! I even went to a #DCPRFlacks meet up when I was there and met up with someone else. Bloomington is an exceptional place.

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MARCH 23, 2010

I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# link] Impact PS 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers: How to retain 1st-time visitors to your site [link] [link] Anna Talerico RT @jaybaer: 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Mana Loved the personality comment.

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JUNE 2, 2010

This is an excellent marketing and promotional step that will ensure their brand is recognized world wide. link] (Facebook, friendships, and voyeurism) [link] David Goldie Interesting cross between physical and online marketing, through Facebook and Diesel. If Facebook can address those issues satisfactory it would be great.

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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? People who… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life: Who Influenced You?All Who influenced you, and why? link] Scott R.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Too many companies are “experimenting&# with social media because they feel they have to, not because they want to do so. Unlike every other form of marketing and communication ever devised, you can’t treat social media like taking medicine – something that you do when you have to, and only because someone told you so.

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Convince & Convert

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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Sprout Social

APRIL 28, 2022

These tools might include: Marketing tools (think: social, CRM, email). For example, consider how marketing messaging and creatives for campaigns require multiple steps, stakeholders and approvals. This allows for immediate, timely communication that doesn’t totally interrupt workers or cause needless meetings.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

We have some other craziness planned, too, and we’ll want to bounce ideas off of you, solicit your genius for marketing the book, and all that stuff. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly nike dunk cheap heart. I want to talk to you about marketing and PR, too. Seriously, thank you.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

Yet, Mitch doesn’t see it happening in social media. Some Bloggers respond to the comments and some don’t. I have tremendous respect for blogger that are not too busy to at least acknowledge comments with a simple “thank you.&# He writes: There is not much conversation going on at all.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 2010

If you’re already active, but there are people on your team that cannot (without looking it up) name your key success metrics, and from where they’re derived, call a KPI meeting today. Bring a copy of Twilight to the meeting if you want. link] [link] Doktor Marketing Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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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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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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Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Social PR & Influencer Outreach Using social connectivity to introduce your company or products to influencers. In other cases, they are the new influencers, bloggers and taste-makers. Most blogging, video content, Slideshare presentations, Squidoo lenses and content marketing of that type fits into this category.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. Blogging has reached that point, and now social media is approaching it.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 18, 2010

I don’t want to poach or poorly paraphrase anyone else’s content, so here’s what I wrote in Letters to the C-Suite: To The Executive Team: I realize everyone is telling you social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse? Isn’t our Facebook page just a post-modern email newsletter?

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Convince & Convert

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. Oh, and for those that think that “blogger outreach” counts as social exposure for your staff, don’t kid yourself. I don’t believe in a “digital divide.”

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? Instead of having pieces of paper or needing a meeting room with a projector, how would it fit into a one on one meeting with your client and a PowerPoint? Would it work with a i-pen or something like that?

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And in most cases, we’re willing converts, with Facebook’s ease-of-use and Twitter’s immediacy replacing letter writing and meeting up for lunch. That’s why it’s more important than ever for companies (in social media or otherwise) to embrace the truth. The real shift is in how we define friendship.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter. A new Pew Research study shows only 8% of U.S.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 4, 2010

The public and immediate nature of getting slammed via social is what stings. But, one of greatest benefits of social media is that it puts the shortcomings of your operations department in marketing’s lap, and vice-versa. It is much easier to market things that inspire passion then items with nonchalant users.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

The ability of companies to win hearts and minds through contextually appropriate, just in time marketing is the hallmark of the Opportunity Economy, and it has never been healthier. That type of rifle shot, competitive marketing would be unthinkable in the “real world&# , but it happens every minute of every day on Foursquare.

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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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Convince & Convert

JUNE 30, 2010

One of the greatest benefits in the emergence of social media communication and marketing is that now every consumer has a voice that can be heard. It's not like the “old days&# where TV/radios advertisements and marketing campaigns had to appeal to broadly defined targets markets.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 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.

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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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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

That’s what attracted me to online marketing initially, and why I made the jump to that career in the mid-90s. The tracking online (including social media) far outpaces what I had at my disposal when I was doing traditional marketing. Why do you love social media? I’m with you – I love it!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 9, 2010

An expert in marketing to women, she heads the Media Connections practice, focused on managing brand dialogue via traditional and social media. Time is proving that no matter how much social media changes, the core rules of engagement remain the same. The blogosphere is especially demanding of something “real.”

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

The concept was based off a tangible book that incoming freshmen were given each year so that they can meet their classmates. and its restricted access, people had no need to use any other names on the Mark Zuckerberg-created social network. Facebook is a great tool for marketing your business , but only if you use it correctly.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 27, 2010

Ask Emmanuel Rosen , – whose revised version of Buzz Marketing should be required reading for all communicators. Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? link] Sounds like Randy should be in marketing! link] Sounds like Randy should be in marketing!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I suspect we’ll start seeing much more of this parallel programming to meet the needs of advanced practitioners. Check-ins were plentiful (as evidenced by the many thousands of people noting that they had been at the airport), and sessions describing how businesses can take advantage of local social were numerous. The kismet.

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