Koka Sexton

JANUARY 14, 2013

If I ever ran a sales team that would be the directive. If you dont think there is a reason to have a Twitter profile, read The Ultimate Guide to on How to Use Twitter for Social Selling. Best-in-Class sales reps (reps that deployed social selling) companies saw a 16.3% Technology has become a necessity in sales.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar.

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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 ? Aquisitions say something about the segmentation of social media analysis. Enterprise software has noticed social media analysis.

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Proactive Report

JUNE 4, 2010

On Wednesday morning a group of people interested enough in social media to brave the LA traffic gathered at the W in Westwood for the Visible Technologies Social Media Readiness breaskfast. Kolsky was a Gartner analyst and now does work on social CRM and strategy. Form social media teams.

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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. Who should attend SSU?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

But, if email marketers don’t actually use the data they have at their disposal to increase message relevancy, then the email versus social debate become more viable. Unify Your Team The first step is for companies to devise a coordinated strategy that uses email and social communication synergistically.

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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. If a consumer emails a company, we’ve trained them to expect a response in a day or so.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

Some of my favs include: Books – Content Strategy for the Web (Halvorson), Letting Go of the Words (Redish) Networks – The Content Strategy LinkedIn group Blogs – Here's a great list from Catherine Ventura (@catherinventura): [link]. Very helpful as our company moves forward with our plan for Social Media.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2010

If you’re looking to bring some clarity to your Facebook efforts, be sure not to miss this illuminating presentation from social media strategist Jay Baer. I’ve worked with this team before on the Social Media Success Summit earlier this year. It will change the way you think about Facebook for business.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Mike Cassidy made me (and a lot of other people) think differently about the intersection of social media strategy , and business objectives. Visits are up. Page views are up.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

There is no real benefit to having more Twitter followers per se, just a potentially bigger group of people with whom you can interact in pursuit of a more definable goal. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. But really, there’s not much point in that. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Is that due to the natural progression of success (all big companies are eventually vilified) or a fundamental shift in Apple's brand promise as ultra hip and very convenient? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

In that spirit, here are some interesting updates from companies and tools I’ve written about previously here at Convince & Convert. This was an item requested by approximately 125% of Swix’ customers, and the company was finally able to pull it off. agencies, you should be experimenting with this too). Comment away!

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agora pulse

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Factors like your publishing schedule, the size of your client roster, your marketing goals, the platforms you use, and your marketing budget all determine the best social media scheduling tool for your team. The Top 10 Social Media Management Tools. Ready to discover the best social media management app for your organization?

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Convince & Convert

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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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Tip of the Iceberg Unlike enterprise-class social anthropology services like Rapleaf , Flowtown is incredibly easy-to-use, and is tuned for the do-it-yourself marketer. “We want to be the mint.com of social marketing,&# says Ethan Bloch , co-founder of the San Francisco based company. Just a thought. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

Want to cheer for a historically mediocre college football team. 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.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

Testimonials are a huge part of the infomercial world, as they are for effective social media. Sure, you can tell your company story ad infinitum in social media, but ultimately you’ll benefit so much more if you can make your customers part of your marketing team. That’s just a brochure in 140 characters.

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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. How can you instruct your team to implement and operate something that has so much potential to immediately win (or lose) customer hearts and minds, if you’ve never used it yourself?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Easy, One Time Set-up To build your Swix success metrics (which they call “pods&# ), you just log-in to your various social outposts or hubs, and agree to a data exchange. You’ll be able to easier understand how these events drive social success using Swix. New YouTube video that goes viral. link] jaybaer Yes indeed.

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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

JULY 15, 2010

Take a look at the Social Media Responsibilities Worksheet we use at the Flint Group. Social Media Responsibilities Worksheet What are your thoughts or comments? Amazing to see how many companies use Facebook as a one way communication when its real strength is to create a dialogue (engagement). I enjoyed reading it.

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Visually SM

JULY 27, 2020

Hootsuite allows you to manage multiple social content streams from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram. It is one of the most famous social media tools in the market. Working across multiple networks with a social team can be difficult, and Hootsuite makes it possible for you and your team. Tweetdeck.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 10, 2010

I’m looking forward to an all-new group of Twitter 20 interviews in the coming months, and hope you’ll be right there with me – tuning in, asking questions, and telling your friends. Someday, we’ll all look back on these days and say we were there at the beginning of the social media transformation. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. How can I help you?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

A Policy of Protection While speaking recently to a room full of ad agency folks, I asked the audience if they had a social media policy in place for their staff. If your team uses social media at work, particularly for clients, you’ve got to have a policy. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

As befits the CEO of a company built on a wide-open corporate culture, Hsieh is remarkably candid about his successes, failures, and fortunes throughout, and this first section is the strongest in the book. Each harrowing near death of Zappos makes you cheer that much louder inside when the company eventually succeeds on a grand scale.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Agencies should also be working with clients on using social media as a market research tool, by surveying fans or creating dedicated, invite-only brand communities that serve as a living focus group. Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully.

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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.&# This is the strategy of creating a Social FAQ. Website surveys, email surveys, Facebook inquiries, focus groups, telephone calls to 25 customers each month.

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agora pulse

APRIL 7, 2020

Factors like your publishing schedule, the size of your client roster, your marketing goals, the platforms you use, and your marketing budget all determine the best social media management tool for your team. Ready to find out which social media management app works best for your organization’s needs? Agorapulse.

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agora pulse

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Because my agency manages several social media profiles and depends on team collaboration, I find that using a single dashboard is more efficient and helps eliminate mistakes. Read on to discover how a social media dashboard can help your team do more, from scheduling and engagement to listening and reporting.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

Second, huge thanks to Joe and his team for the honor. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? What formerly was the sole bastion of the media, is now also a company bailiwick. Consider a company like Kodak. If you purchase a magazine ad to promote your company, that ad might generate a lot of new customers.

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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). How did I know that? To really do so.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we convince our clients that we’re good at social media? How can we find a social media guru to add to our team? Better question: How can we distribute social media knowledge across the entire firm, including ongoing training and knowledge sharing? What do you think?

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

This is a very helpful post — I am passing along to my leadership team. This is a very helpful post — I am passing along to my leadership team. by @jaybaer: [link] (via @ginidietrich) [link] Patrick Reyes The digital eco system can be applied to large companies too! Sandi McCann Jay — this is great.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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.

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