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Link Love Monthly: Best of September 2010

SocialFish

How To Be The Jack Bauer Of Your Company (Adam Singer). Under Construction (Acronym). What McDonald’s got wrong about Foursquare, Social Media strategy, measurement, and ethical reporting. Association lobbyists: Congress is kicking our butts when it comes to social media (Stefanie Reeves). Can an AMS Do Social CRM?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I think Charlene Li may have coined this one) The goal of social media is to turn customers into a volunteer marketing army. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Social media creates kinship between companies and customers, and kinship equals purchase intent. It’s not viral unless it is.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted. Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. Company launches a media content destination for women. Is this the future of agencies? link] [link] Katherine M.

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Digital and Dollars – Successfully Adding Online Marketing to Your.

Convince & Convert

The Digital Ecosystem There are four key planks to successfully offering online marketing services within your existing agency: Search Marketing Email Marketing Social Media Analytics and Reporting Agencies can deliver real value to clients in each of these areas, and developing competencies is viable and achievable.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

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. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

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10 Words And Phrases Social Media Pros Should Help Their Clients Understand

SocMed Sean

” 3) ROI – There’s a lot of concern with business executives as to whether there is any Return on Investment in social media. That’s their job, making money for the company by serving customers. I wrote a full article on why the phrase social CRM is just stupid. Blogs are customer service channels.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Social Media is optional It doesn’t matter what the demographics of your customers are. 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. It doesn’t matter what industry you’re in. It’s about humanization.