Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2011

When the Cluetrain Manifesto was published in 1999, it signaled a paradigm shift: markets are conversations. Given my observations, both in the “canned response&# department and the company’s engagement with other customers and prospects, they’ve got it all wrong. What’s your social media policy?

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 15, 2015

A top-level view on CX reveals that it best fits under the umbrella of your marketing department, which is why marketing typically controls the majority of the customer experience budget. Branded, personalized moments at each and every point of customer engagement are what market leaders are seeking. A Shift in Importance.

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Net-Savvy Executive

MARCH 30, 2011

Blogging about the day's big news is sort of obvious, so I'll focus on the question I haven't seen raised yet: what does the Radian6 acquisition mean to the other companies in social media analysis ? Enterprise software has noticed social media analysis. If it's not already obvious, the many companies in SMA are not the same.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Sure, I pay attention to where I’m ranked in the AdAge Power 150 (a broader ranking of all marketing blogs), and I look at my search rankings, etc. But I am incredibly delighted to top the list of content marketing blogs, because for me content marketing is becoming fundamental to business success at every level.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. A tall order, to be certain.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The two most important words in social media should be “so what?” ” As Tom Webster eloquently put it in his recent Blogworld keynote , when research wears the cloak of content marketing, it’s a recipe for the incurious to pull a fast one on the masses, disguising pointless data as gospel. Of course not.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 21, 2012

In fact companies that think that numbers are the most important metric, miss the point of what social media is all about. Of course, its a chicken vs. egg conversation in some aspects. Tweets like this give me a warm feeling that we are doing something great in the Social CRM and sales productivity world.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 16, 2010

I’d be honored if you’d sign up for the 3-2-1 and or The Social Media Messenger. link] Marketing 150 Via @jaybaer [link] Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] TimWeaver How will this be different or an adjunct to those of us who read your blog, FB and follow you on Twitter?

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Convince & Convert

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.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 10, 2012

As marketers try to determine appropriate resourcing, one of the big measurement and accountability challenges faced by social media is the anonymity inherent in most social data. But in almost every case, the evidence that social media “works” is based on aggregate, anonymous data.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond. All of this is happening to companies (maybe yours) every minute of every day. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. Note to readers: all of these companies are Convince & Convert clients. said Brandon Lake, Vice President of Western River. .&#

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Measuring social media is viable, but not obvious.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social media and its impact on business only exists because of the larger trend of customer information and consequent choice making. Of course not. But that data reflects a moment in time, a vestige of the era (soon to pass) before customers were besieged by invitations and offers and contests and social shopping deals and bit.lys.

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 2, 2011

After joining and getting waist deep in building strategies around engaging our customers and prospects using social media, a few things became very clear to me. One was that this company has hit on something very hot, giving sales people actionable trigger events to drive business conversations and decisions.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. I’ve been thinking lately about why I got involved in social media. Testimonials are a huge part of the infomercial world, as they are for effective social media. Your social media strategy should do this too. But, I’m not.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

New research from White Horse of 104 companies found that in 86% of companies, executives are not using social media. Would a company launch a major television campaign if the CEO had never watched TV? If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies.

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Convince & Convert

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.&# Taxi Mike is Here to Help During my recent vacation in Canada, I stumbled upon a fantastic example of marketing via helpfulness, from Taxi Mike in Banff, Alberta.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. Nobody appreciates keyword spam on the social Web.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Companies didn’t seem to understand where she was, who she was, or what she wanted. 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. It’s on JaneNation.

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). Put it on YouTube of course. Post it to your Facebook page.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

The first step in that process of course is knowing why it is that you’re blogging. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. It’s imperative that you select the most relevant ones that match with your blog’s purpose and intent. What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Of course, it's purely subjective. 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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

This of course creates considerable challenges for business, which typically is not yet architected for real-time communication (at least not in public). Yesterday, I wrote about real-time information and the death of news cycles. Speed matters. Speed and brevity are the twin rails of technology and customer interaction.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

To succeed in a social media, you need the right skills, the right knowledge, the right training — and the right social media marketing tools. Each social media platform operates as a silo. The right social media marketing stack quite simply makes you a better marketer. Social media scheduling tools.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. Social Media is “Viral Marketing&# False, in the same way that a square is also a rectangle, but a rectangle isn’t a square. Can a social media program go viral? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 2, 2010

This is an excellent marketing and promotional step that will ensure their brand is recognized world wide. link] Ellen Cagnassola Deisel is also partnering with a furniture company creating furniture for young urban types. link] [link] David Goldie Interesting cross between physical and online marketing, through Facebook and Diesel.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we find the existing customers that are already passionate about our client, and turn them into a volunteer marketing army? 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.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. 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?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

Since we moved down here, we've gone through my wife's heart surgery and kidney transplant, me getting fired from two jobs (people in Florida find us NYC types to be very disagreeable – don't know why) and starting my video production company. We pulled through it together and we're the better for it today. Safe travels.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

Tagged as: apps , contests , dale carnegie , how to win friends and influence people , influences , iphone , mobile marketing , social media Did you enjoy this blog post? People who… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life: Who Influenced You?All Who influenced you, and why?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 12, 2012

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. We use Argyle Social for our social engagement; we use Infusionsoft for our email; and Jim is our guest host for the podcast and a smart guy).

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? Social media is about people, not logos. If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy. If you’re a big company, how can you act small again? Social media strategy consulting details here. What’s the Point?

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Sprout Social

APRIL 28, 2022

Communications tools are make-or-break for modern companies. But the bigger your company, the faster these issues tend to snowball out of control. To manage these relationships and keep stakeholders up-to-date, companies might use: Project management tools. Company Intranet or wiki tools. Team chat tools. Enterprise.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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