Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

That content helps the company with SEO, and also builds a real-time, living FAQ of customer testimonials and insights. As Brian Solis has written about a lot, social optimization needs to be simple. It could apply to almost any business, especially tourism. Allowing for and creating communities. That’s it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Plaxo: contacts, calendar and e-cards As a social network, I think Plaxo is pretty dismal, no matter how much it tries to Face-Twit-book-terify itself. Check it out and I’m pretty sure you’ll become a fan. These fine folk did: Jan. 24 : Whats Next DC , Washington, DC Feb.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 3, 2011

Don’t let your social media activity die. Clearly, your new employer might have guidelines as to when you can get online and on social networks and when you can’t. So I understand not being able to be active on SM during work hours. These fine folk did: Jan. 24 : Whats Next DC , Washington, DC Feb.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Blink The thing with social networks, particularly one such as Twitter, is that the streams move so fast, you barely notice someone’s absence. – is this: if we are going to use social networks to build influence as a way to achieve organizational goals, we have to use them the way they’re meant to be used.

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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. We see blogging both as community building and as a function of being a web based business.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

And more important, are you SHARING other people’s status updates with your community? Because it’s not enough to be in the social media space if you’re only there to project your message. Mark as read Approve comment Davina, I follow the advice of Denise Graveline from dont get caught communications with much of my social networking.

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Mailing a Package Becomes a Video Tutorial Shane and I are developing KnowHow Cafe , an online learning community. Ash | SEO PPC Blogger September 16, 2010 at 2:24 pm Fun is one of the most motivational activity to be used in social media marketing which most of them ignores! Too bad they don’t fly to Hawai?i…

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Bare Feet Studios

MARCH 1, 2009

I would have liked to point this campaign to my San Francisco friends, who also happen to be active web users, who themselves have a large “following&# via blogs, social networks, Twitter, et al. Hawaii tourism officials would do well to read the book. GoHawaii/HVCB will get attention in any case!

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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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Bare Feet Studios

JUNE 9, 2010

Three years ago, when Twitter was a tight knit community of tech and communications early adopters, we literally begged them to charge for the service. As late as November, 2008, Guy Kawasaki ran a poll and over half still said they would be willing to pay – despite the usual snark attack common by internet communities.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Image: betsyjean79 via Flickr , Creative Commons Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Design, Digital, TV, Radio, Podcasts, Blogging, Social Networks, Newsfeeds, Affiliate Marketing, Web TV, SEO… Creative industries have evolved just as the environments, mediums, consumers and needs of our clients have evolved over time.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

I have been the one man show for social media marketing for [link] Tourism website for the area, and have gotten accounts to 5000 within 9 months. The fact of needing schedules and outlines to follow “sometimes roughly&# is a big MUST. Without direction you will be posting putting out fires constantly!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. Chris puts it really nicely when he says, “But free is a choice, and it’s not your buyers who decide this, no matter what we like to think in social media kumbaya-ville. .&# You usually do.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So called social media marketers are lured by the instant spread of their business using social networks and hence they ignore the basics! link] Allen – Personalbrander Social Media Marketing has become one of the essential marketing channel to business of any kind!

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