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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

February 11th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Guest post by Bob Dennis , freelance Web designer with experience in everything from audio production to social networking. Between hosting and implementation, there is no doubt that there are substanial costs involved. Also, $0.30

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MARCH 15, 2023

Plus, we share some of the best (legitimate) LinkedIn automation tools to improve your efficiency on this business-first social network. Bonus: Download a free step-by-step guide to combining organic and paid social tactics into a winning LinkedIn strategy. Cost: Hootsuite plans start at $99/month, with a 30-day free trial.

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JUNE 27, 2008

Know-Who Canvassing & Connection: Use social network analysis (mapping or interviewing) to identify the de facto networks of expertise and trust in the organization. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Know-Who Canvassing & Connection: Use social network analysis (mapping or interviewing) to identify the de facto networks of expertise and trust in the organization. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. It’s about humanization.

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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.&# Total cost of this incredibly helpful marketing effort is very low, and Mike even offsets that by including ads from sponsors! It’s a Bird.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

With social media, we can join conversations previously hidden, but what we need is the same as ever: a way to reach you – the places you metaphorically live, the clubs you frequent, the places you hang out, the company you keep. Leaving the etiquette alone for now, our focus is how marketers need to approach our targets.

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JULY 6, 2010

She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Yet before a crisis erupts, no matter what the root of the issue, companies should cushion themselves by leveraging the good work they’re already doing. Don’t be Shy.

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MAY 12, 2010

I feel like the other guy in the story- will you try social media if I give you some great case studies? Could I get you to reply to the people who like you and your company on Facebook if we can demonstrate that it strengthens your brand recognition? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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JUNE 17, 2010

But at what cost? link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. I look at it a little differently. Numbers can both have value and be deceptive.

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MARCH 25, 2010

On the ROI front, Swix CEO Scott Lake ( @scottica ) told me that the company puts as much emphasis on tracking the “I&# as they do the “R&#. That’s why there’s a built-in calculator where you can input your costs (hard costs + labor costs) for each social media outpost, and the system automatically calculates your ROI.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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JULY 13, 2022

Customer experience (CX) is your customers’ perception of their interaction with your company. The formula to calculate your CLV is this: CLV = (Annual revenue per customer * Customer relationship in years) – customer acquisition cost (CAC). And companies are using bots to increase response time and improve customer satisfaction.

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MARCH 29, 2022

Quora is, of course, a social question-and-answer website launched in 2010. It’s a part search engine and part social networking site that can help you build a dedicated and loyal online following. Using the right Quora marketing strategies, marketers can get good results for their clients or companies in the coming years.

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APRIL 28, 2010

Because our behaviors on the social Web leave a noticeable fingerprint, smart companies can modify the way they engage and interact with us, based on our social graph, purchase history, etc. But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic.

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JULY 13, 2023

Good for: Small to medium-sized businesses Media monitoring and social listening Uncovering brand insights from conversation data Advanced data filtering Competitive landscape analysis Pricing Meltwater does not publicly display its pricing and did not respond to requests for comment. Scale: The best social media tools grow with your brand.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. The variation may come in how social media is used, not which social media are used.

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MAY 27, 2009

Blogger has to hustle on a case by case basis to cover costs and receive just compensation fro the incredible work being done building a targeted and loyal audience. If a big company did this – like Walmart did with its fake videoblogger/RV across America tour a few years back – they would (and did!)

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

Losing in social media can be akin to the experiences of companies like Kraft, Nestle, and BP in the social media realm. At the very least those companies are engaged in the conversation and have a strong awareness of the perceptions of their brand. With the low/no cost of entry, it does cost time – your time.

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APRIL 1, 2010

In a world where company employees from Legos reward their most die hard fans by engaging with them in their online communities, what better vertical to do something similar than with professional sports? I have grown increasingly critical (but not cynical) of big brands failing at social media.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Of course, there are a ton of outstanding PR firms doing excellent work in social media, including all the folks I have the great privilege to work with every day here at Convince & Convert. But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle.

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AUGUST 11, 2010

We looked at criteria like size (under 100,000 people), college town, good schools, access to health care, cost of living, etc. We just moved there and I need some company though I've a temp relocation to the Netherlands for the month of August. and the site produced a list of candidate cities for our consideration. Safe travels.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) Historical data seemed more robust as well.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Recall that MySpace was the logical heir to the online profile/social network world pioneered by Geocities, Tripod, and Angelfire. Facebook is the Model T of social networks.

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MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Most executives saw it as a means to speed up and reduce the cost of the back office, the same way the assembly line had reduced manufacturing times and costs. Many companies that jumped early onto the KM bandwagon have all but abandoned it, while many organizations that waited are now repeating the mistakes of the pioneers.

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MARCH 9, 2010

March 9th, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Are you treating social media like a checklist? 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.

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JUNE 27, 2008

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JUNE 15, 2010

A major component of answering those questions effectively is understanding in which social outposts your customers are concentrated. A major component of answering those questions effectively is understanding in which social outposts your customers are concentrated. Rapleaf is better for larger companies. Total cost?

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JULY 22, 2010

While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully. Lion Brand’s Lion Brand Notebook: Lion Brand is a yarn company that has been in business for over a century. Please let me know by commenting below!

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MARCH 22, 2010

I believe this will be the most comprehensive, useful collection of Webinars (education in your jammies rules) ever compiled about social media. link] Zack Wow, list of heavy hitter presenters… you're in good company. Tickets are going fast , Social Media Success Summit. 297 gets you 24 killer social media Webinars.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

The entry cost to inbound marketing is getting cheaper by the hour and almost negligible. Inbound marketing earns the attention of customers, makes the company easy to be found, and draws customers to the website by producing interesting content” – according to Wikipedia. 2 – Leverage Social Media for Traffic.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2010

it’s really not possible for a company (or even an individual like me) to have true conversations within social media – and certainly not with any real scale or breadth. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The point of tracking software isn’t to determine how many tweets were sent mentioning a company, it’s to figure out what those tweets say, and what the business ramifications are. I interviewed Adam Schoenfeld , President and Co-founder of RowFeeder to learn more about the company and its plans.

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JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. This has happened before online. Proposals are written. Resources deployed. Stuff gets built.

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