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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Speed kills in this environment, and you can’t succumb to endless committee meetings, planning and spreadsheets, when you can win or lose customers every minute of every day. Always Be Marketing Marketing is real-time now, and consumer opinion and search-engine results can change literally in seconds.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

" Meet the Three Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing: [link] [link] C. " Meet the Three Amigos: Email, Blogging, Social Sharing: [link] [link] C. Sound off in the comments, and maybe we’ll put together another post with great examples.

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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 even went to a #DCPRFlacks meet up when I was there and met up with someone else. I'm connected with quite a few Indiana bloggers and they are all terrific. Interesting to hear your reaction to AZ vs. IN bloggers.

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MAY 25, 2010

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MARCH 23, 2010

I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# Using your analogy of a party, eventually you would meet someone (a stranger or probably someone you barely knew). This is really really helpful, especially for an aspiring blogger like me. It is definitely nice to meet new friends on a blog site.

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JUNE 2, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 4 Detective Tricks to Find Your Customers in Social Media Is Social Conversation a Myth? link] Social Media Nuggets Do You “Like” How I Look In These Jeans? link] lettalondon Yes, Diesel!

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APRIL 13, 2010

At one particular event, after several unsuccessful attempts at getting anyone to meet with me, I stopped at the bar for a drink. I told him, “No matter what I do, I never get anyone to meet with me or want to buy from me&#. I recognized a fellow who I'd bumped into before at other events.

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JUNE 22, 2010

Which brings us back to the original point, if 86% of company executives are still not using social media, what does that mean? That their businesses will meet their doom unless they utilize social media immediately? That their businesses will meet their doom unless they utilize social media immediately?

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JULY 28, 2010

Understanding customers behavior and providing services accordingly will be able to meet their needs so closely. 5 Ways to Turn Helpfulness Into Marketing Greatness [link] [link] Sean SEO Marketer It is really important to develop a deep understanding of your customer.

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APRIL 28, 2022

These tools might include: Marketing tools (think: social, CRM, email). This allows for immediate, timely communication that doesn’t totally interrupt workers or cause needless meetings. PR and relationships with bloggers, journalists and media outlets are key for businesses looking to earn some much-needed exposure.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Anonymous Excellent list, and possibly one we should hand out to clients in intial meetings. From a PR angency perspective (I work on the digital team for Porter Novelli), I’d add the myth that social media is a specialist skill. Anonymous Excellent list, and possibly one we should hand out to clients in intial meetings.

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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. Im Jay Baer.

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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] Famous Bloggers RT @jaybaer: Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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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. Social CRM The new telephone. “Social media&# will change customer service more acutely than it will change marketing.

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JUNE 11, 2010

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I work for a small advertising agency that has seen huge results from SEO/SEM and social media. By doing the research, you meet the needs of both the client and customer. It takes a lot of hard work and effort to learn about a client, their target market, location and goals, but pays off in the end.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

No results at the next staff meeting = it didn’t work. A realistic campaign/project goals, aligned with the organization’s overriding mission and objectives (my hot button) MUST be a part of the package when selling social media efforts.

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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. Because, unlike newspapers or bloggers or ‘friends,’ gravity has no agenda of its own. As a result, we have both more and fewer friends than ever.

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APRIL 8, 2010

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 as a marketing and/or presentation device? Would it work with a i-pen or something like that?

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JULY 13, 2010

Oh, and for those that think that “blogger outreach” counts as social exposure for your staff, don’t kid yourself. Such great ideas here, and I appreciate how you've translated each idea into actions that can actually help PR pros meet real new business and client goals. Don’t cheat them of that opportunity. (Oh,

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MARCH 18, 2010

That said, you kind of lose me with a disavowal of social media to meet potential customers for your brand. First off, there are more ways to engage in social media with a new brand than fanning a FB page, but I know you know that, too.

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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. Sometimes I am meeting with clients on confidential work. I love Twitter. It enriches my life every day. I hope it sticks around for a long, long time. No nefarious reason.

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MARCH 9, 2010

It’s About Engagement, Not Eyeballs I worry that by focusing so much on the Big 4, we start to look at social media through the prism of audience size, which is a vestige of the old marketing. Remember, social media is about meeting your customers in their house, on their terms, and working together. Awesome post.

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JUNE 8, 2010

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AUGUST 4, 2010

RT @PaulaMBHall: (@mdonati) / (@jaybaer) You're Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy [link] [link] Rosanna Tarsiero You're Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy – [link] — I know a couple of wedding bloggers who could learn a lesson or two about this! I would love to meet Amy in real life and see what kind of person she is.

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JUNE 30, 2010

We're starting work for a client who is a naturally gregarious person and who has built his business around live meetings and local clubs centered around his specialty. link] Jen McGahan Jay, this is good. And thanks for the graphic. He takes to Facebook like a duck in water. link] Jen McGahan Jay, this is good.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Looking forward to meeting you at Coastal Social. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website" [link] [link] Social Media Guide RT @jaybaer: "R.I.P.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

Looking forward to meeting you at Coastal Social. link] Justin Remember blogs such as thing one can still come to the readers (RSS, Twitter…) There's a great deal of social web functionality built right in. 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website" [link] [link] Social Media Guide RT @jaybaer: "R.I.P.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It’s so much insight and makes it feel like when we meet face-to-face, we’ve already crossed the first hurdle of awkward introductory chit chat. We are what we want to be, at least in the social media realm. Anonymous Not to mention meeting and getting to know your co-author because of those first social media connections.

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JULY 9, 2010

I thought that was great as it was, but what made it better was that both companies made a point of doing something in person for all their chosen influencers (a small tweet up with just the Klout people and then a big Virgin party where we actually got to meet Richard Branson).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Donald Trump gets it right on The Apprentice, when he demands critical thinking on the spot.

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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. .&# That’s what Social CRM systems are trying to solve. It was awful.

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APRIL 7, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? I met many great people from it and hope to meet many more.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

Despite the widespread use of the phrase “social media marketing,&# marketing is not the only business use of social media, as John Jantsch reminds us. Here he outlines five ways that sales can use these tools as well, from social CRM to teaching prospects how to solve business issues.

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APRIL 27, 2010

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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.

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