Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Debbie Gioquindo and Keryl Pesce , co-founders of Happy B h Wines , join the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the powerful story behind their brand’s origins, the crowdsourcing approach that helped their business bloom, and some wacky giveaways that have earned them some well-deserved attention. Listen Now .

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 3, 2012

Most people wrongly assume social enterprise networks are simply Facebook for business. Such platforms as Yammer, Chatter and Jive certainly look and feel similar to Facebook – with a news feed, groups, friends and status updates. How do you derive value from social enterprise apps?

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Rebekah Radice

JUNE 8, 2017

Running a successful Facebook contest for your business doesn’t happen by luck. A well thought-out Facebook contest can help you: Increase engagement. If you want to run your best Facebook contest, here’s your guide! Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth. Higher brand awareness.

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Twist Image

AUGUST 14, 2017

Facebook launched Watch , and many see this as their direct assault on TV and YouTube advertising budgets. This could be Facebook's big video platform. With 2 billion people on the social network, Facebook is soft-launching a "Watch" tab on Facebook in the US to better organize and engage users with video content.

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Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 12, 2010

They decided to go from this… To this… Ouch… Without really knowing the full back story but having a good feel for when major retailers and companies crowdsource new ideas, I think it’s safe to say that Gap really didn’t reach out to its user base to find out what they might think. So what was Gap to do?

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Rebekah Radice

JULY 5, 2018

And that’s what I talk about in episode 20 of the Brand Authority Podcast. Listen in as I share a few ways you can use social media to sell more products, generate revenue, and create a consistent stream of income. Subscribe to Brand Authority Podcast in iTunes. How to Use Social Media to Sell More Products.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 2, 2022

If you’re not an entirely new business, then your brand has already made an impression on your customers. Use Hootsuite Streams to track them across every social network. You’ll want to answer where your brand and your competitors stand in the marketplace. Social media customer service is extremely important.

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Atom Thought

DECEMBER 19, 2009

To start with I have always been very impressed with the idea of using location based targeting with social networks (though I understand that people always may not want to reveal their locations and may be averse to this concept). Related Posts: CrowdSourcing- The New Social Media Mantra to Sell Better! Mobile Marketing!

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Rebekah Radice

JULY 5, 2018

And that’s what I talk about in episode 20 of the Brand Authority Podcast. Listen in as I share a few ways you can use social media to generate revenue and create a consistent stream of income. Subscribe to Brand Authority Podcast in iTunes. How to Use Social Media to Sell More Products. Want to learn more?

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Stay N' Alive

MAY 3, 2011

Each customer has the ability to associate a social networking account, and in doing so they get special benefits. This reduces spammers, and allows you to integrate with the viral nature of social networking sites like Facebook. Needle takes full advantage of these social networking features, too.

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Laurel Papworth

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

I think we are crowdsourcing this unIndustry association in an adhoc movement of anti-marketing anti-PR communities. Copyright – Social Media SAVES your IP from plagiarists is a post from: Laurel Papworth- Social Network Strategy. User generated advertising: Facebook stalker and Social Media consultants (1).

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Social Media Crowdsourcing Social Networking Creative Commons 94

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 2, 2011

It’s a social sharing platform that allows you to either find great content, share it and measure your ability to drive clicks and traffic … or measure the social sharing and links to leave to lead folks back to your own content, even tying that traffic to conversions and sales. Pretty nifty.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce. Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. One of the most well-developed areas of crowdsourcing services on the Internet is graphic design. 22 Comments.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Harnessing the power of the collective (crowdsourcing for social change) is a thread woven throughout Cognitive Surplus , and its viability requires two of Shirky’s assertions to be accurate. More people sharing the stuff that they make (3 billion photos per month uploaded to Facebook) 3. Bravo, Clay.

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The Way of the Web

JUNE 22, 2010

June 22nd, 2010 · View Comments Social networks, blogs and online identities have given rise to a lot of discussion and concerns on the best way to manage how you’re seen by other people (I’m trying to avoid using the words ‘personal brand’). → Could the internet make us all nicer people?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Social Media is really just facilitating what are actually much more natural human interaction behaviors than traditional web was able to support. To me, this is why this isn’t a fad - but genuine change in the customer interaction model (user to user, user to brand and brand to user). Go join that!

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Buffer Social

MAY 13, 2019

There are so many social networks to choose from today : Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest. We’ve spent time digging into the rise of Spotify as a social media platform , used by today’s hottest brands. We’d love to tell you how these brands are doing it. Maybe YouTube? Maybe Reddit?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. Because you see, unlike most communities that are created based on brand affinity, and then conduct market research as an aside (if at all), JaneNation was built to tap into the minds of America’s females.

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Laurel Papworth

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

It drives me nuts how many of my clients are terrified of bloggers and twitterers and do everything in social media (blog, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr) except work with influencers. Tip: Get your influencers in early to get the early lift, then follow up with trickling through social networks to keep the momentum up.

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Crowdsourcing How To Project Communities 111

Hootsuite

MARCH 30, 2020

Social media and healthcare are a powerful combination. Social networks have become an important health resource, and not just for millenials. Nearly 90% of older adults have used social media to seek and share health information. It can be hard to know how to navigate the challenges of social media in healthcare.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Food for thought: recent statistics note that YouTube is the most widely-used social media platform by far. Even if you don’t see YouTube as a traditional social network, there’s no denying the need to nurture your audience if you want long-term engagement. Doing so is a smart move for growing brands, though.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

link] Social Email Guy By the way: nice crowdsourcing / co-creation / collaboration Chris Rogers I initially like #3 best, however, not a big fan of the screened back logo – i.e. if #3 was a bit less busy, it would be my favorite. Your photo was bigger and I am all for brand equity. Thanks for your help! Referencing.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

Thank you so very much to each of the Twitter 20 participants, who gave so freely of their time and their knowledge in the true spirit of social media. I crowdsourced the design using Crowd Spring, and selected Tzeyee and her design over dozens of other contenders. Her design very much adds to the invigorating nature of this book.

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Social Media eBook Strategy Social CRM 117

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 26, 2012

The next evolution in content discovery came with the social revolution. The introduction of social feeds by Facebook, Twitter and other social networks changed the way that people discovered content. We are consuming more and more content from our social feeds.

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Danny WhatMough

JULY 4, 2014

Here’s my weekly round-up of things you need to know and might have missed this last week in the world of digital PR and social media. Facebook’s psychology experiment on its users generated some bad PR for the social network. Facebook interactions are up for media but have remained steady for brands.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 30, 2014

Which social network was fastest to reach 10 million users, and now has 70 million members worldwide? Which social network saw its membership outside the U.S. Which social network hosts 69 of the Interbrand Top 100 Brands, and grabs more ecommerce traffic than Facebook? grow 125% in 2013?

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Marketing Crowdsourcing Social Networking Hubspot 191

Socialmedia.biz

AUGUST 13, 2018

With 27% of the total internet time being spent on social networking platforms, it comes as no surprise that small, medium and large businesses are investing time in improving their online presence for brand positioning, data crowdsourcing, lead generation and customer relationship building opportunities.

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 15, 2011

We’re getting a reasonable amount of people checking out the site regularly, more and more people are registering and posting in the forum , the Facebook page has got 34 Likes so far, and the Twitter account has 25 followers.

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Mindjumpers

APRIL 25, 2012

During the inspiring days in Austin, I also had the chance to meet the co-founder and CEO of Gushcloud, Vincent Ha, for a chat about their new social media marketing platform. Gushcloud is a platform where brands are helped to actively mobilize their target groups across the various social media channels with just a few easy clicks.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

We’ve also expanded the focus of the #Nifty50 this year to include an element of social good—the #Nifty50 Kids project. Although the idea captured the imagination and interest of several brand-name organizations, the timeframe was just too tight this year to line up sponsorship. That will be our top focus for next year.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

For instance, at Sprout we cover topics ranging from Twitter, Facebook, social media analytics and more. Also make sure you’re sharing each post on multiple days and times, and on different social networks. Practice Social Listening. You can even see the exact social network people are coming from.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 19, 2010

Why We Reach For The Spoon Today, we are looking for one thing in the content that we consume online — whether it is high-dollar marketing content created for the Coca Cola Facebook page or just a personal blog post written by our Aunt Sophie — we are looking for VALUE. A Facebook profile update is very shareable.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

The leader of a nonprofit (that is doing great things) asked me for some social media advice. I got sucked into HOURS of consulting to show him the basics of Facebook (he was a tech luddite) and he argued with me for much of it. Why would someone pay money to work my facebook? After I was done, I said “never again!&#

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

It’s an almost magical device that can show incredibly crisp HD video, all the audio you can handle, Web pages, books, online magazines ( Zinio is great on the iPad), newspapers, tweets, Facebook, Linkedin, and just about anything else you’d want to digest. It’s fast, it’s seamless, and it’s enthralling.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 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 Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook?

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Content curation offers a way to repackage and repurpose the work of others to serve the needs of your brand’s audience. A hybrid curation app and social network—grab any content from the web and save it to your own Flipboard magazine. A social network / curation tool for images. Google Review Count: 323.

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