Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. I did not work on the Klout campaign.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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. They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2011

You need to focus on how to “be&# social as a company, and worry less about how to “do&# social. This is because social touches do not occur in isolation. I’ve seen a LOT of teeth gnashing lately about online influence , and Klout , and the paucity of clicks that most social updates generate.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

More recently, numerous writers including Olivier Blanchard , Neil Glassman and Mark Schaefer have tried to make the case that social media ROI is real, can be measured, and must be measured. The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. What should they promote? Here are 20 ideas.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Certainly, it’s not a comprehensive influence formula like Klout , or other Twitter-influence arbiters ( interesting study this week from Sysomos ), but it’s easy to calculate, and I think it makes sense. Thanks for comment Kyle. I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

I like the at-a-glance usefulness of this one that shows the people that have tweeted about your company, organized by Klout score (See my post about Klout and online influence mining here). The standard charts and graphs are entirely useful. No problem. The ease-of-use and Excel format of RowFeeder are big pluses for me.

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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. Now, in what seems like decades later (in social media years), transparency and authenticity might well be referred to as “best practices” in any engagement activity.

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