Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

Other instructors include the awesome Mari Smith , Brian Solis , Paul Dunay , my brilliant pal Jeff Widman from BrandGlue , Darren Rowse from ProBlogger , my friend MIke Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner ), and a bunch of other great folks, including a lot of specific case studies (even B2B!). Im Jay Baer.

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Facebook Social CRM Consultant MySpace 121

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Targeting an audience of social media heavyweights that frequently visit New York City is a really useful marketing strategy. It feels really good that they “get&# the social media world and go out of their way to make you feel good for staying at their hotel. Both Pam and Joe talk about the social media/Twitter discount.

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Hotels Social Media Communities Discount 245

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. The examples and mini case studies he presents provide insights that leave you nodding your head and thinking you could adopt the same approaches.

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Review Social Media Social CRM Consultant 115

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. Here’s 2007.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 6, 2010

Social Media Marketing – The Japanese Way – Other cultures and Social Media tend to fascinate me. A Case Study In Launching A Facebook Page – There are a lot of “How To” articles on Facebook pages, but not many offer clear cut reasons why. Nothing major or earth-shattering more nerdy than anything.

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Creative Commons Case Study Disqus Report 26

Justin Levy

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Social Media Marketing in the Restaurant Business Written on December 6, 2009 by Justin Levy in business strategy , caminito , marketing strategy , social media , social media strategy , word-of-mouth 78 Comments - Leave a comment!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. I totally agree that repurposing content across social networking platforms is a necessity, and that saying what you mean and meaning what you say across every channel is very important.

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Social Media Content Analysis Sports 120

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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. Be Committed to CSR As mentioned, it’s critical to be transparent when it comes to a company’s CSR program, especially when harnessing social networking platforms.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog. Very helpful post, Jay. Very helpful post, Jay.

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Metrics Strategy How To Tourism 130

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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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 149

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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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Social Media Case Study Strategy Study 117

Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

If not, I would recommend a section on the importance of social media and what it means for your business. This could include topline stats on the reach of different channels, user profiles and even case studies to show how other companies are using said channels. What To Include In a Social Media Policy (mindjumpers.com) [.]

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Policies Social Media Guidelines Privacy 235

Mindjumpers

AUGUST 25, 2010

If not, I would recommend a section on the importance of social media and what it means for your business. This could include topline stats on the reach of different channels, user profiles and even case studies to show how other companies are using said channels. What To Include In a Social Media Policy (mindjumpers.com) [.]

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Policies Social Media Guidelines Privacy 230

Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

The best – and most effective – social media programs aren’t based on promotions and message distribution. It’s about marketing sideways , not marketing head-on. Or do you think that reputation through relationships is enough to expand your market? Isn't that where promotional campaigns serve a purpose?

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Social Media Consultant Health Care Questions 128

Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

No stack of case studies or conference road trips will do it, either. If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. But the job of arm twisting and education can’t come from outside.

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Social Media B2B Company Consultant 130

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JULY 22, 2010

She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com. While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully.

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Social Media Strategy Influencer Case Study 128

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. What this means is that in reality, B2C and B2B marketers are largely using the same social tactics.

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Social Media B2B Strategy Consultant 147

Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

An Enormous Opportunity The huge (and expanding) reach of social media, and its relatively low cost (at least from a production fees perspective) makes it an incredibly attractive proposition for marketers. Think Different Here’s 6 ways to differentiate agency social media services: 1.

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Social Media Strategy CoTweet CoTweet 121

Freelance Social Media

JUNE 2, 2010

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Is Foursquare everywhere? Also, an impending Foursquare ROI case study by SEO.com should shed more light on the advantages the location-based social networking service could bring.

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Foursquare RSS Case Study WordPress 124

Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 12, 2008

The first thing that I have to tell them is that just because another organization, company, or agency implemented blogs or wikis or whatever else, they won’t necessarily see the same results, especially if they compare themselves to case studies in the private sector. Public networks are both open and closed.

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Gov 2.0 Wiki Policies Consultant 76

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. This kid is awesome.)

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Marketing StumbleUpon SEO Reputation 144

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

link] Jexep (Jeep) Twitter Comment RT @jaybaer: 7 steps to creating a social media strategic plan. link] Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert « Netcrema – creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit [.]

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Conference 167

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Approximately 10 years after having 67% of the search market, Yahoo! We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. BILLION) The attraction of these early social networks wasn’t the connectivity, is was the homesteading.

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MySpace Facebook Social CRM Consultant 136

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

More from Convince and Convert The Key to Social Media Success is Just 2 Letters Should Facebook Dominate Your Social Media Strategy 3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website Convince and Convert Recommends How to Introduce Social Media to Your Business (Danny Brown) Social Media Marketing… Simplified (The Arkayne Blog) Alexandra Kirsch and the Perfect (..)

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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. A recent feature on CIO.com on “ 10 of World’s Strangest Social Networks &# gets it all wrong.

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Social Media Strategy YouTube LinkedIn 133

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MAY 19, 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 Why D.I.S.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

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Products Consultant Price Social Media 267

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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Social Media Consultant Social CRM eBook 120

Convince & Convert

MAY 20, 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: Get Your Social Media Operations Act Together Get Your Social Media Story Straight A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] Innovate AZ Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation?

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Metrics Social Media eBook Social CRM 116

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

link] Go2Mach2 Thanks Jay…Your chart is a good description of how the “process&# of Social Media Marketing should be viewed by most companies. I believe we should all view ourselves as Social Media Toddlers. Case studies are one of the most popular forms of collateral. Customers are people too.

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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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Social Media Foursquare Consultant Airlines 128

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Search Engine Roundtable is an excellent example of a successful unique blog in a saturated market. This blog covers specific topics if and only if there’s discussion in a variety of internet marketing forums. Search marketing? Social media? Smashing Magazine ), among other things. Tips on self-improvement?

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Blogosphere Blogger Comments Tips 278

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

My only questionable tweets are actually about business projects (yes, I am NameCheap’s new marketing consultant as Michelle Greer moves onto bigger and better things ). It’s why Zappos is always the big Twitter brand awareness case study. How does this relate to real life marketing?

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Twitter Sports Microblogging HootSuite 205

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

TLC made many missteps when it came to their social media marketing efforts. Before long, social networks became hugely successful, and savvy marketers realized that they could create accounts on these networks to promote themselves. At that point, I gave up and powered up WordPress. It’s not too late.

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Social Media Foursquare Marketing Flickr 217

Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

In other cases, they are the new influencers, bloggers and taste-makers. Social Campaigns & Apps (social media marketing) In this approach, you’re using contests, promotions, offers, and self-contained applications and widgets to promote your company or product. Social CRM The new telephone.

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Social Media Social CRM Loyalty Web 2.0 128

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

My most popular post on this site — probably by far — was last year’s Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 compilation. Jeremy Schoemaker asked a number of online marketing experts about their definitions of search engine optimization. Scared of Social Media? But “social media marketing expert?&#

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SEO Social Media Marketing Reputation 162

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

Social media, on the other hand, allows you to connect directly with the audience you want to target, on common ground, and build relationships. There are thousands of people who brand themselves as realtors, lawyers, social media gurus, and marketing experts, and very few of them are successful.

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Social Media Brands How To Social Networking 240