Almost Savvy

JANUARY 2, 2009

Following the time when Mom’s praise was enough and prior to today, there was also a time,when customer testimonials printed on marketing brochures were all the evidence we needed to know you were the bee’s knees. Gone is the generic praise and the quotes from sources we were unable to contact.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 9, 2007

But for those of you who have come to expect these kinds of conference wrap-up posts, you know the drill: it’s time to greet everyone once again. Reply Steve December 10, 2007 at 11:47 am It was an excellent conference. Craig Newmark isn’t altruistic, but he sure created a damn good website. There was other stuff to do?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 14, 2009

Through phone communication, collaboration on TweetsGiving, and in-person meetings at industry conferences, including NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference in April, their relationship blossomed. 12484 SUBSCRIBERS FOLLOWERS Lijit Search Read more about The New Community Rules Get Techipedia on your iPhone or iPod touch!

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Almost Savvy

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Jim is a super-smart marketing mastermind and is also the brains behind The Tech News Blog and The Ideas Blog. Meeting: Oh No, You Didn’t ( Itamar Kestenbaum) In addition to useful content, conferences provide wonderful networking opportunities. Quick Internet marketing tip! There goes my reputation.

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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. link] Michael A. Tiene sangre de troll.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Organizations have used it for developing programs, marketing efforts, research, and education. One of the ways that Twitter has been used (other than listed above) has been by conferences like South by Southwest (SXSW) and Gnomedex. Then again, not everyone is familiar with net marketing except Net Marketers.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 31, 2008

I went to the West Coast for the first time to attend search engine conferences, with trips to Seattle, San Jose (twice!), You could call me a blogger of many hats or a social media maven or Internet marketing consultant. She provides consulting in internet marketing and manages Community Support & Advertising at Mashable.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Social media marketing is all about potential audience. Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Indeed, email marketing and social media marketing are spiritually and procedurally similar. Email is all about actual audience. Approximately 25% of the time (on average) they will.

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Almost Savvy

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Many thanks to Vincent and Digitrad for offering free registration to AlmostSavvy readers to allow you to see for yourself how you might use it to your own best advantage to manage your online reputation and visibility. Also, in the name of full disclosure , Vincent did buy me a crepe while I was in Paris attending LeWeb.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is because B2B has a smaller potential customer base, a higher average price point, and a customer decision funnel that is more influenced by word of mouth and reputation. I believe it to be the most complete picture yet painted of how marketers are thinking about and deploying social media.

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Almost Savvy

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Suggested language you might want to consider including in the invitation: Wonderful to meet you at the marketing conference last week. It is considerate to remind the other person how you know one another and why you would like to connect with them, as opposed to connecting with someone to increase the size of your network.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

When you go to a conference in Manhattan, you probably seek out hotels that you’ve also heard of. I personally learned about Roger Smith Hotel at a social media conference and was told that it’s the place to be. Roger Smith has really penetrated a heavily saturated market, and they’ve done so with grace.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2010

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? Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. I'm really looking forward to this, Jay!

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MAY 12, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Would You Try It With a Fox? You'll like it.&#

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AUGUST 2, 2010

More from Convince and Convert You Are Pissed Off at the Wrong Guy Taking Consumer Reviews Viral with Facebook Are you spending enough on digital marketing? Convince and Convert Recommends Facebook Vs. Twitter (The Arkayne Blog) 7 Ways to Market Your Business on Facebook – Free Ebook (Danny Brown) Facebook Pisses Off Users.

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JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. How can I help you?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. He believes that common sense should prevail, and that UnMarketing success is rooted in the creation of everyday “wow&# moments.

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JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Josh Lysne contributed a social marketing management process (and companion document) that I’d never seen. It will pay off.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Of course, it doesn’t hurt to have sat next to you, Tamar, at enough search industry conferences to know you don’t blog about plants. So, the hardest job is often counseling clients in competitive markets that good community behavior will be rewarded … eventually. Let’s do it!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I presented today at Social Media AZ , a new conference for Arizonans interested in, and practicing social media. Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Then this is the blog post for you. – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] Aussie_Sheila Great post!

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is It Curtains for the App Store? Everything.

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MARCH 4, 2010

Also, I think another viable category for blogging for reputation, or to establish a voice of authority. Also, I think another viable category for blogging for reputation, or to establish a voice of authority. In the well-documented Marriott case study, they tracked $500 mm in bookings from links on the corporate blog.

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JUNE 29, 2010

link] Hot In Marketing Cognitive Surplus – Use Social Connectivity to Change the World | Book Reviews | Social Media Consulting – Con. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Bravo, Clay. – [link] [link] Mads Kristensen Definately a book for intense consumption. Thanks for that!

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Drive Results with Content Marketing &# can be voted for here. Meanwhile, we’re hitting the road to present the core concepts of The Now Revolution to businesspeople and marketers everywhere. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, I’d love for you to vote for my other two panels while you’re in the mood.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

link] [link] Hot In Marketing Social Media's Internal Impact – An Interview with Phil Simon | Internal Social Media | Social Media Consultin. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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JUNE 17, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: 7 Surprising Statistics About Twitter in America Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Are You Suffering From Premature Calculation? Roberts @njmirolo Always fun!

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MAY 13, 2010

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 isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive. (I I use this a lot. Activate your fans, don’t just collect them like baseball cards. It’s not viral unless it is.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Social Media is Email Without the Database Because social communication feels more authentic and timely in most cases, email marketers must fully embrace testing, personalization and optimization to boost relevancy for recipients. Follow/fan/friend is just opt-in – and all you've done is agreed to be sent direct marketing.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

I’ve been in marketing or advertising (online or otherwise) for 20 years. 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. You’re thinking that I’m crazy. But, I’m not.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

As marketers, we need to reach our customers where they are and social media’s potential in that regard is unquestionable. But marketers have always reached out to communities in many forms, and each new medium has taken its turn as Holy Grail for customer influence. To paraphrase Tina Turner , we don’t need another acronym.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

The post explored the topic of utilizing common interactive marketing tools in unintended ways to tap into consumer demand. It’s Time to Put Content Strategy First, Shiny Objects Second Until recently, interactive marketing tactics and techniques, bells and whistles, and new online tools often outshone smart, targeted messaging.

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JULY 26, 2010

Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Im a frequent social media conference speaker , and interview social media luminaries for my Twitter 20 series of live Twitter interviews. Im Jay Baer. Ive worked with more than 700 brands since then, including 25 of the Fortune 1000. How can I help you?

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MAY 5, 2010

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. This 40-something Florida Mom found he… [link] [link] I Marketing Exposed Online Community With Purpose and a Plan: Lisa Beatty was at a cross-roads.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

link] [link] Bogdan Donisan New post: Randy Kemp: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail [link] ( [link] ) topsy_top20k RT @jaybaer: Turn the Tables on Social Media with NutshellMail: Keeping tabs on your social media connec… [link] #marketing [link] Focus Communications interesting. This, I'll try. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s about marketing sideways , not marketing head-on. Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens was asked about the contradiction of a services company providing helpful videos at a conference where I spoke. Or do you think that reputation through relationships is enough to expand your market?

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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. .&# More Work Upfront, Less Ongoing What I love about this program (in addition to the eye-popping results): It’s rooted in helpfulness, not marketing.

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