Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

This form of helpfulness is transforming the businesses of companies large and small all over the world. At this stage, these clients are primarily interested in information about communities, regional amenities, and lifestyle optimization in general. Youtility is marketing so useful, people would pay for it if you asked them to do so.

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Real Estate Marketing Foursquare Groups 139

Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. Using social media enables your company to reach a huge number of potential customers.

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Social Media NoFollow Marketing Social Bookmarking 159

Saying It Social

JULY 22, 2010

The advice that gets the most votes by 5pm ET on July 23rd wins an iPad and more importantly to me, some pretty nice recognition in the social media community. “According to the Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93 percent of Americans expect companies they do business with to have a social media presence.

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Justin Levy

JULY 1, 2010

How consumers digest advertising and make buying decisions has forever been altered by the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and LinkedIn. Many companies use traditional media to imprint or introduce a brand to the target market. During the Discovery phase the brand lets go of the conversation and hands it to the community.

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Retail Fashion RSS Advertising 191

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Andy was the engineer behind the world’s most successful Twitter campaign , which was centered around the hashtag #WantAnR8. With a smart team running the campaigns and the trust of the company behind them, they’re able to achieve more than any brand who is micromanaging their social media outlets. Holy Social! .

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Stay N' Alive

APRIL 16, 2011

Allan is now in his own startup, I believe as co-founder, this time starting a new, up-and-coming social commerce company called Piick. I admit I don't know Tyler personally, but I certainly know his company. They make beautiful iOS and mobile apps, and Tyler deserves a lot of credit for what his company has done in this area.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family. That is until recently. That someone was me.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I work for a growing software company and they don’t have much of a footprint in the social media world. Like many companies, they didn’t know the difference between Twitter and a blog or that Facebook was for more than keeping in touch with their friends and family. That is until recently. That someone was me.

List 96

List Social Media Case Study Wiki 96

Sprout Social

MARCH 13, 2017

Imagine if brick and mortar companies displayed the average review of every product they sold in stores. For local businesses that might mean Yelp, Google and FourSquare. For others like software companies, aim for positive feedback on sites like G2 Crowd. This has actually already started happening. Customer Testimonials.

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Conversation How To Review Influencer 110

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Kikolani

JANUARY 26, 2010

Amongst the topics that came up was some common sense insight into the usage of geo-based social media sites like Britekite and Foursquare. Most natural links generally are linked to your website or company name. Simply put, don’t post your location unless you want to be found. Blogging Tips for Serious Bloggers.

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ROI SEO Social Media Tips 114

Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 1, 2008

I started this website with the intent of keeping in contact with my family and friends but what I had failed to realize besides the fact my blog gets indexed by search engines was that I was getting to know other ‘friends’ around the internet. Blog for yourself.

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StumbleUpon WordPress Foursquare Hosting 53

ProBlogger

JULY 22, 2014

Now more than ever, marketing experts are improving their marketing strategy with fewer resources, and they are shifting marketing budgets from traditional to digital tactics like search engine optimization and social media. Companies, too often, omit their social media marketing strategy from their SEO strategy, which is a grave mistake.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# If you have a search engine on your website, look at a report that shows what people type into that box. Try to return something to your own company.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. The reviews business will be transformed by geo-location.

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Social Media Consultant Video Strategy 134

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 28, 2012

Given the widespread adoption of social media marketing practices, the “if” and “when” questions seemed to have now been resolved by most midsized and larger companies (and a lot of small companies as well). Companies Struggle To Manage Social Media by MediaPost. by MarketingProfs.

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Social Media Tips Tumblr Wikipedia 207

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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Marketing Affiliate marketing Small Business SEO 279

Kikolani

AUGUST 27, 2017

It is also great for socializing and building your own community. This comes to you from one of the people who owned one of the first companies that had domain registration services after deregulation, so it comes from an authority! Hosting Companies. However, if you want to set up a business site, I suggest WordPress.

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WordPress Resources How To FeedBlitz 93

Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Ann is an SEO consultant, the brains behind the hugely popular My Blog Guest site for bloggers to network and acquire guest blogging opportunities, and a regular contributor to Search Engine Journal. Her blog, Kommein , covers blogging, business, community management, social media, and more. Follow her @casey_hibbard on Twitter.

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Blogger SEO Consultant WordPress 168

Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Image credit: Business 2 Community. Just 18% of consumers trust posts by brands or companies on social sites like Facebook and Twitter. While 78% of companies now have a dedicated social media team, only 26% integrate social media fully into their business strategies. Business 2 Community ). MarketingLand ). MediaPost ).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2012

User Friendly SEO : These are the tactics that search engine optimizers should use to optimize for search engines and user experience. Your strategies must employ content creation, community management, local/maps optimization, among others. Wouldn’t you want your image to be associated with local places?

Marketing 264

Marketing SEO Case Study Small Business 264

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

24 blog optimization tips to attract search engines and readers – great tips to get an overall boost to traffic. Search Engines / SEO / Analytics. How to piss off an online community – examples from the latest changes to Digg, Facebook, Sphinn, and Twitter. Build online community. Increase traffic to CTA.

Mashup 116

Mashup Resources WordPress Press Release 116

Kikolani

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Search Engines / SEO / Analytics. 3 reasons to dig deeper in social listening – uncover content ideas, locate communities, and identify advocates. Why I deleted my Foursquare account – geolocation is hot, but I don’t need to have a Foursquare account to evangelize its importance.

Mashup 139

Mashup Resources Picasa SEO 139

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

There was a hostage situation at the parent company, Discovery Communications, on the first of the month. The three hostages are fortunately safe, and business resumed as usual for Discovery Communications staffers. Around that time, though, I noticed that TLC was promoting Foursquare as Facebook within their TV programs.

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Social Media Foursquare Marketing Flickr 217

Convince & Convert

APRIL 22, 2010

Problematically, however, the “social media&# moniker is now also used to describe a great many things, similar only in that they are online, and involve some form of interaction between customer and company. Social PR & Influencer Outreach Using social connectivity to introduce your company or products to influencers.

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Social Media Social CRM Loyalty Web 2.0 128

Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

Over time, some of the more web-savvy companies started offering online forms as a way to send them an email – now users didn’t even have to log into Hotmail to send a message! Ask a newly-minted Foursquare mayor how they feel about it. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Social CRM 110

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. Authority Labs By far my favorite tool for tracking search engine positioning, Authority Labs shows you at a glance whether you’re #4 or #40 in Google, Bing and Yahoo!

Social Media 167

Social Media Strategy Consultant Tweetdeck 167

Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 5, 2013

Rapidly growing companies? Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are the most popular social networks with search engine marketers. Furthermore–75% of social media users “object to major companies and platforms using their personal information for commercial purposes.” How do top executives use social media?

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Statistics Social Media B2B SEO 214

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 23, 2010

This is a page you can use that is publicly available (for the world to see and find via search engines) to help your customers find you. Community Pages are the most annoying thing Facebook has given us , but I see their point. There you have it: personal profiles versus Fan Pages versus Community Pages versus Facebook Groups.

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Facebook SEO Policies Groups 268

Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 2, 2016

The company was early to the idea of integrating social media into its overall strategy. But why did the company start this initiative, and why does it keep it going? If you have ever used an American Express card, you’ll know that this is deeply rooted in the company’s ethos. American Express. Content: Example.

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Strategy Case Study Collaboration Communities 100

Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] Getting pumpkins with the boy. (@ Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm) [link] Recent comments Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

or Geotracking services are picking up steam and in my post about Foursquare, Gowalla and Yelp I was still sifting Koka Sexton dot Com: [.] Getting pumpkins with the boy. (@ Clayton Valley Pumpkin Farm) [link] Recent comments Koka Sexton dot Com: [.]

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Koka Sexton

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

I’m a freaking engineer for crying outloud, but I also love the outdoors, I hunt, I can probable make a better fire than you, and I’ve taken my girlfriend to places most people only dream about. As in, the company I work for mines the Earth. Nicer, gentler guys are for later, long term relationships. I work as a Miner.

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