Adam Cohen

JULY 19, 2010

My topic for this week is “ Social media AND… “ If you have been a subscriber here you know that I look at social media tactics as informed strategies leveraging deeper understanding of a brand’s most valuable customers and prospects – truly integrated into other forms of marketing.

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Mindjumpers

OCTOBER 1, 2010

» What You Can Learn From H&M’s Use Of Social Media Posted by Sara Hansson Oct 1st, 2010 Tweet H&M is one of the businesses that has done some great work in using social media for marketing. Here is what you can learn from the company to achieve a more engaging and growing community.

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Justin Levy

JULY 30, 2010

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Are Blog Comments Dead? Written on July 30, 2010 by Justin Levy in blog , community , facebook , interactions , social media , twitter 23 Comments - Leave a comment! Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here!

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

Understanding the Current and Future Market Conditions Market research is a core part of any business strategy – in this case meaning researching markets. The CMO is the one managing brand perception, and if you believe social media initiatives impact branding, marketing or communications, the CMO will want to hear about it.

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

Mpace I will not comment about anything Old Spice – f'ing brilliant [link] adamcohen lol – Thanks Mike blog comments powered by Disqus Connect About Adam Adam is a partner at the digital agency Rosetta, leading the Social Media practice. [link] adamcohen I'm a measure of restraint, I know.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Meanwhile, if your social media team and your email team are not the same people, you need to start thinking about how to merge them, pronto. And, you need to start unifying your content strategy across all channels. It speaks further to a company needing a well-rounded online marketing strategy. Great post! Great post!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

So, Lisa Beatty build JaneNation.com , a new opinion, information, and idea community just for women, that launched recently at the Marketing to Women conference. With free membership open to all women, JaneNation combines social networking with opinion collection. It’s on JaneNation. With JaneNation, St.

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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. Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 2, 2010

02 am Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison) Jump to Comments With over 40,000 tweets per minute and new-user registration growth rate of 1500%, you would expect Twitter to give a close fight to the social networking giant Facebook. ‘Facebook’ being a closed platform the community considers it as a friend focussed channel.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social network connectivity is becoming the post-modern email newsletter. I certainly do not support the Draconian position that somehow social networks threaten email’s existence as a marketing channel. link] [link] Alecia Dantico RT @jaybaer: Social Media and Email – What's Your Integration Strategy?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

In doing so, we’ve learned that findings resulting from search and social data mining are incredibly handy for informing creative and content, improving relevance and impact. Pre-Strategy, Defining Content Demand So how do you figure out what content consumers want? Easy – you listen!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Lewis July 20, 2010 at 1:29 pm Customer Service is often the last thing considered in any strategy when it should be the first. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch! Tamar is also the author of The New Community Rules (July 2009).

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The Way of the Web

JUNE 27, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Why does the UK budget reward print and punish web? And that’s not too hard to do if the community in question is something you already identify with. And it’s even more important if you’re working with communities you’re not familiar with.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 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 Is It Curtains for the App Store?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

This presentation: “Why Before How: The Keys to Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps&# also formed the basis for my recent MarketingProfs Webinar. Developing a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps View more presentations from Jason Baer. That would be two strategies, not one.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Even if your social marketing strategy is perfect, your employees are trained perfectly, everybody in the company is using social media as you hope and your social media policy is water-proof, you still will have to evolve, as will your employees. That’s OK, learn, adapt, improve and evolve.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Take a look at the company’s philanthropic endeavors and cause-related initiatives, especially in the area of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). 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. Don’t be Shy.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 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 Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Embracing social media should not mean organizational change, it should change the organization. I now take the organization’s current strategic plan, CEO’s vision, mission statement and make those the metrics of a social media strategy.

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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. Everybody loves to stir the pot, but coming up with a programmatic solution or strategy is much harder. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings.

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Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2008

The surging social-networking giant is talking to a number of song-streaming services and music community sites, including Rhapsody.com, iMeem.com, iLike.com and Lala.com, about an outsourcing deal that would more deeply integrate their music experience into Facebook, sources familiar with the situation said, the NY Post reports.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

What’s the ideal internal/external dynamic when you’re dealing with something transformative like a huge new software implementation, or social media strategy? But wouldn’t companies be better off if they didn’t need consultants? Well, if organizations didn’t need consultants, then I wouldn’t have a job.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

social media is not to blame. blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Im Jay Baer.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Un #CaseStudy de una empresa de aventuras [link] [link] Elena RoBe Artículo interesante: El malentendido de las redes sociales [link] [link] robertwheatley And therein lies the great lesson: being helpful and human. Allowing for and creating communities. Engaging people in their passions all helps make the business more meaningful.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Your social media strategy should do this too. is Crucial to your Content Marketing Strategy 6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace Driving Sales with Relevancy and Utility [link] Innovate AZ 3 Ways Infomercials Can Inspire Your Social Media: I know, I know. That’s just a brochure in 140 characters.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Social media can help you create a long-term relationship with your consumer that ensures they continue to visit you, and not a competitor. 3: Large Brands – Bigger brands have two things that smaller companies don’t: an already built community, and money. They also often require large investments to create an initial community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 16, 2008

Where : Black Finn NY, 218 East 53rd Street Who : Yours truly and a bunch of awesome people who are flying in to NY to attend the Search Engine Strategies conference Why : Because you know you want to support a charity and hang out with some of the biggest search industry leaders Will I see you there?? I hope so!?

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Jason Yormark

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

A large (albeit, relevant) following is important to me… I am working to gain credibility in social media marketing and community building while building out my business. The following strategies assume you have some Twitter history with your account. At the very least, some potential buyers/customers.

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Jason Yormark

AUGUST 30, 2009

For those of you looking for the quick and dirty, Socialnomics reads quick, is filled with interesting real world stories, and is basically 265 pages of argument that social media is not only here, but ready to transform the way we live our lives and do business (his tagline actually). Thanks for stopping by, and sharing.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? But those differences are at the tactics layer, not the strategy layer. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. Private brand communities vs. Facebook. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 3, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Really, Jay? DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] DJ Waldow Jay – I disagree here. How can you not know how to care? It's been 40+ days and they are still doing and saying dumb stuff. Is anyone advising them?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. It is a social media engagement process that includes the idea of finding Influencers in your target markets. What would you do?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 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 “Like&# How I Look In These Jeans?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Are you a company or do you know a company that has immersed itself in the social media waters and succeeded? Epic Change decided to dabble in social media, because as Stacey says, it was “a way to cultivate a community of support for Epic Change.&# Epic Change brought social media into the mix for other reasons as well.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

link] Vishal Joshi RT @SMBConsultant: Staggering Social Media Insights »The Best of Twitter 20 eBook »Very Generous @jaybaer »[link] blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. Im Jay Baer.

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