Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. Brand Interaction is a Major Part of Life on Twitter In addition to following brands, Twitter users research and engage with companies. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. million followers on Twitter?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 5, 2010

In fact, you’re likely spotting the shift; instead of companies posting their URLs on television commercials, they’re asking their followers to join them on Facebook. If you are officially representing your company, you’d want to create an Official Page. Give them a reason to want to communicate.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The community of del.icio.us Desktop Shortcut for Delicious. PHS Computer Project Lab » Blog Archive » Delicious Ideas. Delicious: How to Use Social Bookmarking for Collaboration and Branding « Flying Cloud. Continue your discussions at Lifehack Community. Del.icio.us The power of del.icio.us

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Viper Chill

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" Glen, if your company went public I’d buy all the shares! Reply Ebook blogspot says: November 29, 2009 at 11:16 pm I guess you would need some budget for that right? Look forward to the updates.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 1, 2010

Although I don’t have any goals for the size of the community here, I still think it is an interesting metric to monitor. I have never been part of a more awesome community online of people who really want to succeed and help others do the same. Reply Glen says: April 1, 2010 at 11:28 am Thanks Adam!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) I think that is more powerful than targeting by city, state or region.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy. If you’re a big company, how can you act small again? link] Clare Swindlehurst Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? What’s Your Pitch?

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Josh S Peters

AUGUST 17, 2009

For your user name you can have your company name in it to help promote and give instant disclosure of who you represent. When you give to the community they will give back. Social bookmarking sites like Delicious , Digg , StumbleUpon , etc are also great places to submit your content to.

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Viper Chill

MAY 6, 2010

Use Postrank to Find Engaging Posts When I wrote a post about the 28 items in my internet marketing toolbox, I covered a nifty little service called Postrank Analytics which lets you see your most shared blog posts on sites like Digg, Delicious and Twitter. StumbleUpon and delicious. Best of luck with your guest posting marathon!

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Viper Chill

JULY 19, 2010

I use networking as a very broad term which chould include creating connections with bloggers, finding companies who can help you to get your offering out there and utilising other areas of social media to get eyeballs on your creation. This is very popular in the UK. Reply Ankit says: July 19, 2010 at 7:03 pm Another Wonderful Piece Glen.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Annabel is a charismatic social media blogger, writer, and speaker who recently released a great ebook on Successful Blogging in 12 Steps. Her latest posts include Why Companies Need to Free Their Case Studies , Traits of the Perfect Success Story Interviewee , and What’s Missing From This Ad. Follow her @seosmarty on Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

Companies should follow, not lead, their customers across the social Web. Rapleaf is better for larger companies. A major component of answering those questions effectively is understanding in which social outposts your customers are concentrated. Because there really is no benefit in beating your customers to the punch.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 10, 2010

“What are good companies to target? Overall, the questions were basic and I worried that the individual was looking to target companies for clients before actually understanding the nuances of the culture of Internet marketing as a whole. Should I learn a specific skillset?&# I highly recommend you follow his stuff.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 12, 2010

Discussions start from questions, and this is a great way to get a conversation going in your community, especially if you make bold statements on a hot topic. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" I am a skimmer, then a reader!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Reply Todd Mintz July 29, 2010 at 1:40 pm If I think the person is just after free information, I give off a “skunk smell&# sorta vibe…it usually scares them away : ) Though I’m a bit of a sucker for a free meal (if I like the company I’m with)… Reply Tamar Weinberg July 29, 2010 at 1:45 pm LOL, I do hear you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

The point of tracking software isn’t to determine how many tweets were sent mentioning a company, it’s to figure out what those tweets say, and what the business ramifications are. I interviewed Adam Schoenfeld , President and Co-founder of RowFeeder to learn more about the company and its plans.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 16, 2010

Examples of baits are: graphics, eBooks, whitepapers, scripts, website themes, coupon codes, etc. People are following AT&T because they care about AT&T, not about some no-name behind the company. Most retargeting companies utilize ANONYMOUS pixeling. Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Facebook took a major (yet curiously underreported) move in this direction last week, when they enabled companies to publish to Facebook members’ news feeds for anyone that has “liked&# a Web page. I do think there is some validity to that, and it is up to the companies how much control they really want to cede to someone else.

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Hootsuite

JULY 13, 2023

Say you’re a sneaker company, and you set up your competitor’s brand name as a social-listening search. When you’ve compelled someone to fill out a contact form for more info or offered them a free ebook on Home Silversmithing Techniques, you’ve got a chance to add a field that straight-up asks, “Where did you hear about us?”

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I’m the blogger behind problogger.com – a blog, a podcast that you’re listening to, event, job board, and a series of ebooks all designed to help you as a blogger to start a blog, to create great content to grow your audience, and to build some income from that blog. It checks Flickr, Delicious. It’s not just about making money.

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Viper Chill

AUGUST 25, 2010

I had just left a job which for the previous two years saw me working with companies like Nissan, Hewlett Packard and Land Rover as their social media manager. Before you go buying every item, eBook or software package you think you need, ask yourself whether you can work without them. They’re usually long, boring, and ignored.

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Viper Chill

MAY 20, 2010

You can get engaged, married, have kids or any other “goal&# we attach on to having a relationship, but you’re just going to end up lying next to each other and enjoying each others company. Most of the people I spend my time with either own large companies or work for themselves from home. And this is a very nice list.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

I of course like seeing the traffic go up, but I’m more focused on building a community than seeing some nice spikes in my Google Analytics account. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!" who handles things for me.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 19, 2010

In order to get mentions on other blogs then you need to be focusing on being involved in the communities for that industry online and providing the very best content that you can. When most people think about launching a product from their blog they automatically think about creating an eBook. They’re also very easy to create.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 11, 2010

Microsoft Apologizes for Photoshop Trainwreck I don’t recommend ‘outing’ companies but if they’re going to make such silly mistakes then highlighting them can flood your website with traffic. If you enjoyed this post, you can: Save on Delicious Share on Facebook Print > [link] title="Click to send this page to Twitter!"

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Viper Chill

MARCH 22, 2010

With that audience he’s been able to promote eBooks like ‘Zen to Done’ and write a best-selling book on simplicity. Despite making less than 5% of my income through this blog (some of you manage to find my eBook ) I still spend more of my time on this site than any other that I own. Pretty frustrating.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

It’s a great place to drive interactions with your company if your corporate website is rather boring and hard to content manage. Twitter is a great way to bring a personality and voice from your company out in the open. Use Twitter as your company office hours. Special thanks to Neal for putting these videos together.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Giveaway Jesse has agreed to give away two copies of his book (in eBook or paper format — your choice), FBML Essentials , for the best use of FBML for any fan page. I have a couple set up for books that I work for the publishing company. Facebook is growing massively at the moment — is your brand a part of that momentum?

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Viper Chill

OCTOBER 26, 2009

To find out where your audience is hiding, I recommend searching: Google : Try keyphrases such as “top blogs on [niche],&# “[niche] forum,&# “[niche] community&# Facebook : Search using the form on the top right of the site for keywords relating to your market.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Facebook The Facebook Marketing Bible: 24 Ways to Market Your Brand, Company, Product, or Service Inside Facebook (Inside Facebook): Justin Smith shows how Facebook includes a variety of channels that spread the word in a very in-depth blog post. Unlike their eBook (aff) which is worth every penny, the guide is free.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Google Alerts Like most marketing professionals, I have several Google Alerts set up for my name, my company name, and topics of interest to me. Anyways, my delicious account and I thank you for all this great info! Katie Morse Community Manager @misskatiemo [link] [link] Katie Morse Jason – great post!

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Instead of dwelling on the sale, I want to praise the growth of such a big community and share the steps involved in duplicating my success. Over the last 4 years I have been immersed in the SEO community and tried hundreds of different tactics to get websites ranking. The site grew by over 600 subscribers in January.

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Viper Chill

MAY 26, 2010

When reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin he states, “If your business strategy relies on one big company to notice you then you’re going to fail&# and while that didn’t directly relate to me, it helped me see that I was looking outside of myself for my blog to succeed. I really appreciate every post you write.

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Viper Chill

JUNE 24, 2010

I hid my age online for a few years because I thought it would hinder me from getting internet marketing clients, but I didn’t let my age stop me from thinking I could make thousands of dollars per month helping companies succeed online. I’m running a test and curious about the results (which I will share here).

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