Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The same dynamic is present on Facebook. What percentage of your status updates are seen by each of your Facebook fans? In fact, BrandGlue estimates that as few as 1% of the status updates brands send on Facebook are seen by the fans of those brands. Social media connectivity is digital bumper stickering. Very, very few.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

I’ve seen Klout engage with a large number of bloggers and talking heads openly and honestly (without of course revealing the algorithmic secret sauce). But most social media types aren’t Paul Gillin. Facebook, which “ranks&# status updates via EdgeRank. And guess what? Google, which “ranks&# Web pages.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 14, 2013

I started connecting the dots between the early adopters of Twitter and my LinkedIn network and seeing that instead of just building a bunch of connections I was able to follow the real time activities of my friends and prospects/customers through their social streams. Another article asks Should your business invest in social CRM tools ?

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Convince & Convert

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. A good example of a company’s CSR successes is Target® with its long-standing commitment to schools and education.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

While many organizations have got social media religion, there are many others still swimming against the stream. Or, paradoxically, they claim to embrace social media while forbidding their employees from being on Facebook or Twitter. As you know better than I, we are in the early innings of social media.

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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. We have a video of the Social Selling Primer here. Why does social media matter to sales people? Social media marketing grew 50% in 2010 to $1.2

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Convince & Convert

MAY 13, 2010

While my social media speaking engagements vary enough that I alter my material quite a bit from event to event, there is definitely a batch of one liners that I tend to incorporate. Social media allows big companies to act small again. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Something along the line of “we tried a blog but it wasn’t a success” or “we have a Facebook page, but it isn’t doing anything for our business.” The Facebook page was a failure because they were not engaging their audience, they were just collecting names. If you have a Facebook page, know who is responsible for engagement.

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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. Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Social Outposts Without the Mystery I’m often asked by corporate clients where they should engage in social media. “Should we be on Twitter, or Facebook, or Linkedin, or YouTube, or some other places?&# Flowtown gives you the answer in seconds. The fee for up to 75,000 sent emails per month is just $99.97.

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agora pulse

OCTOBER 26, 2020

If your team needs a full-featured social media scheduling tool, Agorapulse delivers. In addition to comprehensive publishing, engagement, and reporting features, this tool also has an integrated social customer relationship management (CRM) where you can track conversations with followers and even identify influencers.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

[link] Laura Click Are You Growing Enough Voices – a great post about utilizing guest bloggers from @jaybaer: [link] [link] Ian Greenleigh Jay- Inviting, commissioning and curating content that expands the relevance of your blog to its readers is the part of engagement that's not talked about enough, IMO.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 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: Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? Caching content in the app provides for an experience that is both faster and more visually engaging.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

The good news is that with the typical exception of Facebook, most of these changes are positive, well-communicated, and understandable. Now, you can track number of “likes&# and daily interactions on your Facebook page, in the same place you can track RSS feeds, Twitter followers, and all the other awesome data points Swix provides.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Match Your Social Media Tactics to Your Social Media Goal The problem we’re faced with today is that very few companies seem to be thinking about their efforts in this way. On Twitter for example, if you’re tweeting about your company’s new product, you’re engaged in a customer gain event.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Power, Risk & Accountability Today, I gave a presentation to LEAD San Diego, a group of Southern California business leaders. Develop Rules of Engagement The only way to succeed in a world where marketing is a waterfall, not a lake, is to have codified rules for how you’re going to handle social media circumstances.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

Virality, Quick and Easy Once the stories are approved and posted on the blog, RESMARK automatically triggers another email, notifying the author and asking them to share the story on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. Engaging people in their passions all helps make the business more meaningful. Allowing for and creating communities.

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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.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

Big companies are starting to follow JaneNation on Twitter , and engage with the community across the social Web. John & Partners can have conversations with major brands that perhaps wouldn’t put the mid-sized agency on their radar otherwise.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

87% of respondents had heard of Twitter, compared to 88% who had heard of Facebook. Compare that ratio to Facebook, where 88% have heard of it, and 41% have a profile (a conversion rate approaching 50%). 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. population).

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Visually SM

JULY 27, 2020

Here are 24 of our favorite social media tools for saving time, getting better results, and making the most of every single social interaction. 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.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Social is an Ingredient, not an Entree Help clients find ways to add social components to existing marketing (print, outdoor, broadcast, direct mail, email, search, live events) – rather than viewing social media as a freestanding silo. There’s a way to get your Facebook update seen in more news feeds.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I am new at blogging, but tend to notice that I get many more comments when I include an engaging headline that gets people interested in the topic. If we've been following your blog, we've got that figured out because we are familiar with the Convince and Convert “from&# name.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

The problems with that are clearly one of culture (truly believing that every customer is a reporter), and of definition (thinking that social media is somehow driven by Twitter and Facebook). How big a role social media will play in a company's success will be determined over time.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Post it to your Facebook page. Improve and Expand Now that your content is posted to your various social outposts, invite your current customers to make it better. Talk it up on Facebook and the blog.

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agora pulse

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Read on for solid reasons why it might be time to ditch the native tools and go with a social media scheduling tool. If you’ve been using native social media tools to manage your brand’s social channels, you probably feel like you have to be everywhere at once. So, you can do basic social media management using native apps.

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agora pulse

APRIL 7, 2020

If your team needs a full-featured social media management tool, Agorapulse delivers. In addition to comprehensive publishing, engagement, and reporting features, this tool also has an integrated social customer relationship management (CRM) where you can track conversations with followers and even identify influencers.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2010

Better question: How can we optimize and improve our existing social media programs? What’s the best way to get the most possible Facebook “likes&# and Twitter followers? Better question: How can we encourage existing customers to truly engage with our clients on the social Web? What do you think?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Tired of chasing shiny objects, and setting up Twitter and Facebook accounts with clear direction, or success metrics? Using the Forrester Social Technographics Ladder, understand how your target audience (as defined by gender, age, and geography) uses social media. Social media is about people, not logos. Volvo = Safety.

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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Learn more about social media scheduling: The 10 best social media scheduling tools. How to make a social media posting schedule. How to create a social media calendar. The best time to post on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Social media analytics tools. Social media KPIs to track.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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? But if you’re engaged in a social media program in an effort to go “viral&# you’re not really engaged in social media at all.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

When a current customer wants to stay engaged with the brand, to learn about new products on the horizon and other updates, what’s going to turn them from a customer to an advocate? Smart, optimized content. Smart, optimized content.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

People who have educated, inspired, engaged, supported us. See my review of the iPad review here) This content would also make a fantastic Facebook application. 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?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). We easily forget that Facebook was one of the first social networks that insisted that we use REAL names, and policed personal profiles accordingly. Haven’t you?

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