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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Sprout Social

MAY 24, 2022

Ten-cent text messages, AIM chat rooms with your best friends and glittery MySpace pages with bulletin boards are just a few nostalgic elements from the early days of social media. According to Zendesk’s Customer Experience Trends 2022 report , more than 70% of customers expect conversational care experiences when they engage with companies.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 7, 2014

Powerhouse networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used to promote specific trials to targeted demographics while significantly lowering the cost per patient. At the same time, there are close to 2 million pieces of content shared on Facebook everyday. Additional recruitment costs. Termination of the trial.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

By now, you’ve probably read your fair share of “What I Hate About the New Facebook Updates” to the point that you’re pretty comfortable with the fact that you hate the changes. The Best Facebook News Feed Setting. Tired of people who feed their tweets in as Facebook updates? Good stuff! Review All Tags.

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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). Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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Keyhole.co

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They are the cool kids in the block, who even had Orkut and MySpace profiles. Memes, culture, and slang heavily influence their personality. This practice is engaging because it allows folks to meet the requirement of physically being present in the office while still enjoying the flexibility of remote work.

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Firebelly

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

10 Steps for Optimizing the Brand for Social Search For media properties and brands, optimization combined with targeted and enterprising social networking now plays an instrumental role in capturing the attention and essentially defining the action of our customers, peers, and the trust agents and authorities who influence them.

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 8, 2011

Facebook aficionados in particular are known to congregate in hot spots that feature free access to the social network for laptops and cell phones. Entrepreneurs may have initially seen social media - most notably MySpace, Twitter and Facebook - as a playground for the younger generations.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 18, 2010

You can search for related groups and Fan Pages through Facebook, start accounts on social bookmarking sites such as Digg or StumbleUpon, and check on who is linking to your site to find out who’s interested. Starting a fan page on Facebook and a business account with Twitter is sort of like moving into a new neighborhood.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 7, 2010

“I want to have 100,000 Facebook Fans in 2 weeks, and I am a start-up business that no one knows… &# It is hard to explain to people how it all works when they have this type of expectation. Reply Arthur Charles Van Wyk October 8, 2010 at 2:27 am Does the consistency part mean that if I have a Facebook profile where I am just me.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 12, 2010

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 In general, there are no visible calls to action to engage with social channels and little if any interactive assets.

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Danny WhatMough

JUNE 30, 2010

He kicks of with a slam-dunk, wind-up merchant question: “Is it okay to think that Facebook is a bit crap?” Walley brazenly proclaims: “Could Facebook not just be a globally successful communications medium that doesn’t need brands, like the telephone?” The social media opportunity. Surely we are beyond this?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Because of the less serious checklists that are being passed around the web right now, I thought it would be a good time to look at what some of the influencers online are really doing, and how you can join their ranks if you’re so inclined. Influencers accept that they have a position to hold and won’t abuse it for a quick buck.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Social Network have all opened up their platforms which means that brands have cost effective access to more than 500M engaged users (250M of them on just Facebook and MySpace alone!) New Balance Created a Social Branded Application to get in front of key customer and influencers. It is simple, fast, easy to use etc.

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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. million followers on Twitter? population.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 19, 2010

Consumers are actively looking for and want to engage with most businesses that fall into the following categories. 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. Even better it can be measured. Answers Yahoo!

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

Despite many claims about email digging its own grave, email marketing remains a top marketing priority simply because it is still effective in drive prospects and customers back and to engage them regularly. ” Building relationships with other influencers should be on everyone’s agenda. Blog RSS feeds. Social media.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

All of us have influences. People who have educated, inspired, engaged, supported us. 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. Just leave a comment below about who influenced you and why and you could win.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. But not likely the first order of business. Share This.

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ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

Despite many claims about email digging its own grave, email marketing remains a top marketing priority simply because it is still effective in drive prospects and customers back and to engage them regularly. ” Building relationships with other influencers should be on everyone’s agenda. Blog RSS feeds. Social media.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

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. The B2B prospect hanging out on Facebook Sunday night behaves differently and has different information needs than the same person reading e-mail on Monday morning.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

It’s bursting with pivotal moments like the launch of Instagram Stories, to that one time Zuck was on trial for Facebook privacy issues, to…honestly, let’s just look at the entire social media history timeline. Hot or Not is rumored to have influenced the creators of Facebook and YouTube and nurtured millions of insecurities.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Jeremy gets online and says it’s cos he’s not a woman he got sacked, the GoodGame crew go the forums and say it was their decision, the community get their knickers in a knot and start a petition , a Facebook goup and a website called SaveJunglist (his gamer handle or nickname). The Facebook group. How can you help?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 4, 2010

Today, it appears every retail or business concern says ‘follow us on Twitter’ or ‘be our friend on Facebook.’ If you’re constantly broadcasting and not building bridges, your social media engagement will only travel so far. For the most part, you can’t buy Twitter followers or Facebook fans.

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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?&# To know how an audience is using a platform woudl allow us to know how to direct our clients to engage their audience.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

If a non-profit has a strategic objective to “further engage current donors”, with 600 million people on Facebook it is a sure bet that some of them have a profile. Those results will not change without a concerted effort to engage in social media. Social media exists and organizations are in it whether they choose to be or not.

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Diva Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Every once in awhile while there are people who enter your life and not only influence your journey but touch your heart. There were sites like Facebook and Twitter and I didn’t quite know what to make of it. I know, my wife is on Facebook and if she can use it, anyone can. Paul Chaney is one of those people.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 21, 2009

Social media, quite simply, relates to the usage of content created by easily accessible publishing technologies (social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter, photo publishing sites such as Flickr, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo) that is generated by the hundreds of millions of consumers utilizing these technologies.

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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. Facebook Fan Pages are email newsletters with smaller pictures. Facebook is for people you used to know. Linkedin is for people you know.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 22, 2008

We have all engaged in debates over the past few years about social media. Simply put, the new mass media helped organize, and influence, large numbers of consumers. Companies have to engage with their buyers, especially the early adopters, and make sure they’re happy. If so, how? This isn’t for the faint of heart.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 12, 2009

Perhaps this is a “take heed&# call to community participants who engage on the social web, but while ExpertCruiser warns its readers that this is a scummy practice, in reality, scouring social sites for mentions of your product, service, and even your competitors is nothing new.

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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? Myspace also. If your audience skews older, you may not want to engage in a lot of “make a video&# contests, since that segment indexes low on the “Creator&# scale. Sessions start October 5.

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Ignite Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this session, Jim shares his personal journey of success in the world of social media and influencer marketing. If we take a look at what’s happened over those 15 years, to frame this in the context of the larger timeline going on in the world, MySpace launched in 2003. So the fact that iOS 14.5

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

The taboo of never tooting your own horn with a press release about your good deeds clearly has crumbled in corporate America, and companies today are not only promoting philanthropy through social networks, they’re building unique Facebook pages and Twitter profiles for these important programs.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

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. You’re engaged in an advertising and marketing campaign that uses the Web as its distribution platform. That’s the brand engagement holy grail that we’re all seeking.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

Read on for insights from Eric plus Eric Boggs ‘s Social Media Stat of the Week ( This week : Twitter gets 15% more media mentions than Facebook.). One of them is sort of consumer engagement apps. Another is sort of consumer-influenced analytics , obviously Klout being the only thing in that quadrant. Listen Now.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 23, 2023

But crafting a strong social profile will boost your engagement, strengthen your brand, and keep your messaging consistent. Your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and BeReal profiles all contribute to your overall social profile. To keep it simple: Yes, your social media profiles matter.

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