Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

The tsunami of data being created, collected and parsed every second of every day now makes influence identification instantaneous, and possible from the comfort of your desk chair. Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Hunter Shoots a bear: Tipp Ex has created a fun and creative campaign on YouTube, where the user can influence what kind of video that will show depending on the words you type in. Successful Ways To Create User Involvement | Mindjumpers says: September 24, 2010 at 9:28 am [.] It uses YouTube in a new way, which really activates the audience.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Here are some of the campaigns that have created successful user involvement: Hunter Shoots a bear : Tipp Ex has created a fun and creative campaign on YouTube, where the user can influence what kind of video that will show depending on the words you type in. It uses YouTube in a new way, which really activates the audience.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Similar Posts: Social Media Marketing Policies and Education: The Employee Perspective Building Online Brands: The Influence Sphere of Brand Communities Facebook Changes Their Pages – What Does It Mean For Your Marketing Potentials?

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Adam Cohen

JULY 16, 2010

No way I’m going to share how brilliant sharing behind the scenes is, nor how I really think it’s brilliant to mix who they reply to between influencers and “normal people&# who barely have any followers. &# since I’m sure people never ask that about TV commercials the day they first air.

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Jason Yormark

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Checking in to similar types of establishments earns you points towards those societies making you more of an influencer. Today, I also learned of a new “trusted&# professional social network. There wasn’t any real value to me to try to do it more. I’m using their iPhone app and it’s beautiful. have to check it out.

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The Way of the Web

AUGUST 19, 2010

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← Thoughts on UK magazine ABC figures… Making some real world changes… → Influence and Empire Avenue August 19th, 2010 · View Comments The quest to measure and monitor online influence is one that is enticing a lot of companies and individuals. Will it work?

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 30, 2010

As mentioned in Part 1, we at Mindjumpers have integrated the social media platform Hoist as a mean for managing social knowledge sharing and project management. You may also like to read: » Interview With the CEO From the Social Media Platform Hoist » Learn to Innovate in the 21st Century [.]

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Adam Cohen

JULY 12, 2010

How is our market share today vs. a year ago, and how will a new program help influence that? Talking to customers in these markets in social channels increases the need to understand the market overall and correlate initiatives to marketing directives. Will there be future demand for products?

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Mindjumpers

JULY 30, 2010

The desire to eradiate wisdom, power, influence and authority Some people like to position themselves as specialists in a specific area, whether it is in smaller social groups (family) or larger social groups (an industry). It’s often a way of attracting attention and distinguishing ourselves.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 27, 2010

Social media monitoring can help you link to the most popular sites and blogs that have the highest amount of influence. SMM tools assist in linking the most suitable content pages along with their influence level taken into consideration. Not to mention, it also builds trust within your consumer base.

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Mindjumpers

JULY 23, 2010

This is likely to affect how often your hotel provides updated online content, hence it affects how many potential guests you can influence with appealing offers and other marketing messages. . - Initiate interactive events as a way to derive increasing traffic to your various online platforms.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 27, 2010

Social media monitoring can help you link to the most popular sites and blogs that have the highest amount of influence. SMM tools assist in linking the most suitable content pages along with their influence level taken into consideration. Not to mention, it also builds trust within your consumer base.

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Mindjumpers

AUGUST 27, 2010

Social media monitoring can help you link to the most popular sites and blogs that have the highest amount of influence. SMM tools assist in linking the most suitable content pages along with their influence level taken into consideration. Not to mention, it also builds trust within your consumer base.

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Mindjumpers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

explaining how you commit yourself to listen to them and be an ‘open’, sharing, ‘human’ and social company that wants to engage in conversations with its customers. By communicating it, you are in fact interacting with your customers and other people in the social and online influence sphere of your brand.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 20, 2010

People who use social media correctly tend to exhibit some of the more overt characteristics of people chemically influenced (and those who use social media badly exhibit either characteristics of teetotalers or people over-chemically influenced). I have much to accomplish and certainly wouldn’t want to be stoned.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

AUGUST 25, 2010

Do study your influencers Want to reach out to influencers ? Thing is, some people don’t really reach out correctly to influencers. Influencer outreach may possibly be the most powerful outreach tactic that PR practitioners or marketers are laziest about. Just do it head first, not with one foot.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Social Media Advertising Building your personal brand is about interacting with others and establishing your credentials. Logging onto social networks only to propagate self aggrandizing propaganda will turn off potential clients. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

In fact, I don’t think becoming a social media expert is something that people should be worried about; they should be focused on becoming expert communicators instead. Influencers accept that they have a position to hold and won’t abuse it for a quick buck. Highlight Others Do you ever read the tweets of Chris Brogan?

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Social Media Network Marketing

AUGUST 19, 2010

The various points of influence are: Traditional/mainstream websites. Professional networks like LinkedIn. Social networks like Facebook and others. Social news / bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, technorati, dig and others. Engage in more effective public relations by understanding who the real influencers are.

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The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

And to be able to identify the good and bad parts elements of the gaming mechanic, just as increasingly we’re learning to identify the good and bad parts of social networking and interaction to keep improving. You’ll need to be able to recognise when you’re succumbing to it, and when you might want to escape.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

But now, social media is enabling companies to make influencer outreach a foundational marketing tactic. Labeled “Mass Influencers&# this army of 29 million opinionated chatterboxes may very well be the key to your social media success. Fly more miles, get priority seating on an airline. population.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

All of us have influences. Tell me in the comments who influenced you and why, and you could win a copy of the uber-classic book “ How to Win Friends and Influence People. Sounds like the playbook for successful brand/customer relationships on the social Web, does it not? Who influenced you, and why?

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

Your network of friends is likely interested in what you have to say, so you have influence wherever you’ve gathered a social network. By increasing the size of their social graph, you’re increasing the size of their reach. These badges generally serve one of two purposes (or both).

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Jeff Esposito

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

First was that Twitter is not a social network , but a news platform and the second was that a new Twitter was rolling down the pipeline. As long as I still have my 3rd party apps blog comments powered by Disqus Stay connected Recent Posts Can influence be bought? Anonymous Thanks. Unported License.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

I think e-commerce benefits from social media. It’s a great arena for finding influencers and inspiring client generated content – nirvana to those of us who toil in the social media space. As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

We’ve added Disqus as the commenting system. Changed the sharing tools to incorporate Sexy Bookmarks plug-in (Michael Stelzner at Social Media Examiner turned me on to it). blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. link] Adam Q. Im Jay Baer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

As Seen In… Social Media Backtype Brightkite Business Exchange DailyBooth del.icio.us Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Beth Hrusch is Senior Editor at Interact Media, a business blog writing service that teaches writing tips and best practices.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

It’s about time that I bring the dialogue here since it’s evident that I’m already starting to grow fond of the brand new social network. The Early Adopter Appeal Mixx is a new social news site that went into private beta a mere two months ago. And for that reason, you should join–now. i just registered.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

However, the CEO read an article in Adage, and as a result, he wants to hit social ground running. They want a blog, an iPhone app, viral videos, a Twitter handle, a Facebook fan page complete with custom applications, blogger and influencer engagement initiatives, an ad.ly

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean.

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The Way of the Web

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

And if it does expand out in terms of the social aspect, it’ll still conform to the same basic principles of reputation,engagement and gaining influence which have ruled all social interaction since we first emerged from caves. But there are obvious limitations to what you can do at the moment.

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 23, 2010

JetBlue maintained a human voice while remaining transparent via its other social networks. « Previous Post Next Post » blog comments powered by Disqus Stay connected Recent Posts Can influence be bought? JetBlue could have made a much worse comment back to Borowitz. Thanks for visiting! Unported License.

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Jeff Esposito

JULY 22, 2010

Social networks are a powerful communications tool that should be managed by communications professionals, however unlike traditional PR, offer hard metrics to present to executive to show real value. « Previous Post Next Post » blog comments powered by Disqus Stay connected Recent Posts Can influence be bought?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

fb [link] SEO India Interesting Post blog comments powered by Disqus Subscribe to Convince & Convert Jay Baer Greetings. 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. Thanks @jaybaer! #fb

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 20, 2010

– This post plays both sides of the fence as to whether or not social media will be its own job in five years. It is something that I disagree with as there are many jobs that are pure social media now. blog comments powered by Disqus Stay connected Recent Posts Can influence be bought? What do you think?

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Mindjumpers

JULY 12, 2010

Like Mindjumpers, he is associated with Social Marketing Forum. They try to tell the right stories, combine the proper social networks to get them told (or shared if you prefer), and of course identify the so-called ‘influencers’. So the identification of influencers should happen in all of these stadia.

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