Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

We have entered an era where every business needs to consider themselves a TV station and a magazine , and the quicker you figure out your strategic content marketing plan, the faster you can use content to drive meaningful business results. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Consider a company like Kodak.

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Diva Marketing Blog

MARCH 10, 2009

Today's Diva Marketing Talks explores how nonprofit organizations are using social media to not only tell their stories but to encourage donations to their causes, build community and expand their reach. Myspace may or may not work. You can pick it up as a podcast or listen on your computer. Facebook may or may not work for you.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

As my company builds out our first blog- there are great tips in here, thank you. But to me, a blog is similar to a magazine and most popular magazines have pictures. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Something to be said, there.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. Imagine subscribing to a magazine that was about tennis one month, and about cooking the next month.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. If you were going to run an ad in a magazine, you would ask about both the psychographics and demographics of the reader so you could target the call to action and message appropriately.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Brand communities, contests, most social listening, and non-promotional tweeting fits into this category. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 11, 2010

Amber is Director of Community for Radian6 , co-proprietor of the influential Brass Tack Thinking blog (formerly Altitude Branding), a cool mom, a motivating force, and a hell of a flautist). We reconfigured our companies to accommodate phone. Not just the big companies, but the every companies. is my vote. is my vote.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. Not sure who came up with it originally) Social media changes the relationship between companies and customers from master and servant, to peer to peer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Using market intelligence, Royal Caribbean identified supporters of the cruise line via social networking sites and took the opportunity to give fifty of the most ardent supporters, called Royal Champions, special privileges, including free paid cruises and invitations to special events with company executives.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands. JB : How are companies incorporating influence metrics into their marketing? Should companies treat customers differently?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Your company needs to be part of that conversation. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. That’s not a “wave the magic wand&# scenario. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

link] [link] Jason Never underestimate how far showing a little humanity instead of towing the company line can go towards setting things right. From a PR standpoint, I see companies and people time and again fail to embrace the cardinal rule of admitting mistakes to the highest degree possible. What BP Can Learn From the Umpire.

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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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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. What do you think?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. 10 Creative Contests Powered by Social Media (Mashable): You can use social media to do many things: build community, make business decisions, and more.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google. Agencies need to advocate for cooperation and help make it happen.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

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. A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. 22 Comments. Graphic Design.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 23, 2008

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. Reaching out to bloggers and online communities, it hit both the NY Times and Wall Street Journal in the first week of publication.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

Having long ago passed MySpace as the most popular social network, Facebook recently replaced Google as the most-visited website in the U.S. 5 Ways for B2B Companies to Engage on Facebook by Social Media B2B. Facebook Is Becoming Your Company’s New BFF by MediaPost Search Insider.

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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. Somebody’s “strange&# social network is someone else’s potentially thriving customer community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

By putting effort into the writing process, you reap the benefits of a community that supports you because you lift them through your words. Smashing Magazine ), among other things. Bloggers who focus on a niche and tackle it are highly respected among their peers and within their communities. Read a lot. Search marketing?

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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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Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? It places ads from companies like Microsoft and Southwest Airlines on profile pages.) advertising? A mugs game?

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

500 companies now call social media “very&# or “somewhat&# important to their marketing or business strategy. 6 Basic Questions For Social-Optimizing Your Company Website by BlueGlass. For Companies: 10 Questions to ask yourself before entering social media by Mindjumpers. 85% of Inc. Mistakes were made.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 10, 2023

When Janet was in sixth grade, she was inspired by Ashley Quall – the 14-year-old who created her website that offered HTML tutorials and Myspace layouts. Janet had read about Quall from a Seventeen magazine she got from her middle school library. I didn’t even attempt it, probably because of my fear of failing.

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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. And it sounds kind of cool to use for newspapers and magazines.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 24, 2008

In other words, they don’t give a damn about the community and they seemed to have moved on — perhaps completely. Instead, since they weren’t, we are left to our own devices and seek alternative methods (which are not the right avenues of communication, but what do you do when the proper roads lead you to a dead end?).

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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. The difference is that it’s virtual. Look at Shana’s chart.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

But while companies are rightly trying to get their heads around the concept that every customer is now a secret shopper and a potential reporter, not enough attention is being paid to the positive ramifications of real-time business. Instead, you must first establish a protocol by which your company is CONSTANTLY listening for opportunities.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Facebook Pages do not allow background images like Twitter, Myspace, and other services. I have a couple set up for books that I work for the publishing company. I am trying to do this on my company fan page and I dont see the pencil for the boxes tab either. This applies to Pages as well. Looking forward win! Whats going on???

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2010

August 25th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Today’s post is a collaboration with Clinton Bonner , community connectivity expert, futurist, and blogger at Everything to Everything. Carefully crafting and leading the consumer experience in-store and virtually, has earned the company trust and admirable loyalty.

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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

APRIL 1, 2010

For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. Join other communities When you’re first starting off, or even if you already have a large platform, you should participate in communities that already exist. Photos by Shutterstock.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder is a co-editor of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE Magazine. For example, I write a lot about AOL, and after the recent layoffs, I wrote how the entire mobile advertising team took a voluntary buyout and quit the company. He currently serves as the community guy at Building 43.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 14, 2009

SEO Mastermind Aaron Wall Brings Bad News : In an interview with Entrepreneur magazine, Aaron Wall talks about all things SEO. 4 Reasons Many Big Brands Downplay SEO : Why aren’t all Fortune 500 companies engaging in SEO? Jill Whalen has been active on forums and online communities for 10 years now. Scared of Social Media?

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

HOW TO: Create Custom Backgrounds for Twitter, YouTube, & MySpace by Mashable. A Cheat Sheet to Help You Conquer Social Media by Fast Company. Rebecca Corliss reveals an easy five-step, 10-minute daily process for keeping on eye on what’s being said about your company across popular social media venues.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Nobody forced companies to get involved with their customers in this way. But yet so many companies are using Twitter as a post-modern headline news service. Startling to me, but less than 1% of the participants would use Twitter as the first way they’d contact a company when they need customer service. And for what?

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