Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 31, 2010

Tying this invaluable data into a CRM solution generates sales leads, ideas for product direction and strengthens a company's image and brand. Opinionated social networking users become a virtual focus group, praising or complaining about a company's offerings, and coming up with suggestions for improvements or new products or brands.

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Bare Feet Studios

AUGUST 31, 2011

As big a splash as Groupon made in the market and all the talk about extravagant valuations and their turning down a $6B offer from Google less than year ago, it turns out they may not have a sustainable business model. Everything we do is training our customers. I do use Gowalla now and then, but very strategically.

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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. Marketing isn’t about campaigns any more. It’s an exciting time to be a marketer, but it’s also a tremendous responsibility. Now, he tweeted it to his 1.6

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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. link] [link] WebPro360 And, it's not just about businesses 'tooting' their own horn. Great thoughts, Laura!

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APRIL 20, 2010

That group used 3,126 different search terms to get here. The most popular search phrase – “ social media strategy &# brought 837 visits, and 2,654 search terms were used by just one visitor during the month. link] [link] SEM Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail? link] [link] SEM Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail?

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JULY 21, 2010

A recent presentation at the PRSA Counselors Academy, by Michael Lasky , Partner and Chair of the Public Relations Law Practice at the law firm of Davis & Gilbert in NY, provided a wake up call to those in attendance about how the law is slowly creeping into the social landscape and why responsible marketers had better pay attention.

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JUNE 22, 2010

If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. You have to work on a pilot program – maybe even in secret – to show social media’s impact on customer satisfaction. Do You Believe?

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JUNE 3, 2010

We may be the least… [link] #marketing [link] Wissensauslese RT @jaybaer: What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce: We don’t ask for much, really. We may be the least… [link] #marketing [link] Wissensauslese RT @jaybaer: What BP Can Learn from Umpire Jim Joyce: We don’t ask for much, really. " Kudos Joyce. Pathetic BP.

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MAY 11, 2010

And if possible, I’d recommend having employees closest to the product (designers, engineers, product marketing, customer service) be the stars of the show, not executives or marketers. Digital Dandelion Take your written and video content, and spread it as widely as possible on the social Web. Give this a try will you?

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JUNE 7, 2010

billion), and the founding of the Zappos Insights program (where companies can receive training on Zappos’ customer and culture-centric methods). This is the overarch… [link] #marketing [link] Jim Weldon Delivering Happiness Delivers Indeed: Yes, nice guys can finish first.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

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? How can we create a killer social media campaign that will get noticed?

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Questions Social Media Consultant Education 161

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Turning your customers into advocates and marketers on behalf of your brand pays off a lot more when you’re selling $10,000 pieces of manufacturing equipment, than it does when you’re selling $3 cans of Pringles. Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Podcasts vs. YouTube. The range of Facebook usage is just 37% – 51%.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate. 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? Social Media results can’t be measured False.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant Web 2.0 151

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APRIL 13, 2010

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? People who… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life: Who Influenced You?All Who influenced you, and why? link] Scott R.

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Social Media Strategy Influencer Education 113

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

“Twitter users talking about marketing and brands far exceeds the usage on the other social networks,&# said Tom Webster , the VP of Strategy & Marketing at Edison (and the study author), when I interviewed him for this post. 42% learn about products and services via Twitter. 19% seek customer support.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2016

This is episode one of my new show: Marketing Marvels. There is A LOT of marketing technology out there, and it’s difficult to know what all the platforms and packages do, whether it makes sense for your business, how it stacks up to competitors, and a bunch of other key questions. To subscribe to the show go to [link] ).

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JULY 22, 2010

She is deeply curious, loves all things marketing and blogs less frequently than she would like at Stickystimuli.com. While many businesses are excited about opportunities to reach their customers on the social web, few actually believe they have done so successfully.

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Social Media Strategy Influencer Case Study 129

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also ask for training to make sure you’re using all the features to the best advantage. Don’t be afraid to ask for demonstrations or trial accounts (even if you’ve already had a trial with that provider before.) They’ll often work with you to make sure you feel comfortable you’re making the right decision.

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Social Media Radian6 Strategy SM2 157

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MARCH 22, 2010

Over ~30 days, there are 24 sessions about everything social media , and because it’s totally virtual, one registration can cover your entire team or company, and you get access to a registrants-only Linkedin group and other networking opportunities. Thanks as always. Let me know what you think of the curriculum.

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Price Social CRM Social Media Consultant 108

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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Social Media Facebook Marketing Consultant 167

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JULY 8, 2010

While it’s not that easy with online marketing, for the past two decades, email has been the leading retention marketing tactic, and the channel you can bank on to deliver a predictable revenue stream—provided that you’ve invested in building your own, permission-based list. A driving force behind the company’s SUBSCRIBERS RULE!

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RSS Research B2B Consultant 129

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JULY 13, 2010

Every single person in a public relations firm should: 1) understand the impact of social media and 2) be able to activate that marketing potential for their clients. Honestly, as an employer, the idea that there can only be a select group of firm experts makes my blood boil. It’s a big world out there.) Good stuff.

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Social Media Strategy Consultant SEO 140

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

There’s a huge gap between the perception of social media as an instant, free, can’t miss marketing opportunity and the reality of social media as a long-term, time-intensive customer loyalty and brand advocacy opportunity. Blogging has reached that point, and now social media is approaching it.

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Social Media Consultant Social CRM eBook 121

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APRIL 8, 2010

Would it work as a marketing and/or presentation device? link] Wissensauslese RT @jaybaer: The Truth About the iPad: Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was inv… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Truth About the iPad: Are you old enough to remember when the TV remote control was invented?

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MARCH 16, 2010

Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. Young People Don’t Use It Today’s marketing coordinator is tomorrow’s CMO, and younger Americans don’t embrace Twitter. A new Pew Research study shows only 8% of U.S.

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Social Media Strategy Foursquare Social CRM 125

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AUGUST 3, 2010

A digital marketing success story. And Facebook fan pages are often easier for marketers to update than your corporate website, not requiring you to call Gill from IT for his famous “assistance with a smirk&#. Build a website. Make it useful and at least moderately pleasing to the eye. Keep it updated. And I still feel that way.

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Facebook Consultant Social Media Sites 167

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JUNE 30, 2010

One of the greatest benefits in the emergence of social media communication and marketing is that now every consumer has a voice that can be heard. It's not like the “old days&# where TV/radios advertisements and marketing campaigns had to appeal to broadly defined targets markets. Well…duh!

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Social Media Strategy Automotive SEO 129

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By way of comparison, that’s approximately the same size as the Asian American population, and you certainly don’t see the media coverage, software development, conferences, and general hullabaloo about marketing to Asians. Can you imagine an “Illinois Marketing for Dummies&# book? We built our own Frankenstein.

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Social CRM Twitter B2B CoTweet 147

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Thus it seems that the very people that are today putting together the RFPs, often are the ones that have had no training in critical thought. 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.

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APRIL 27, 2010

Ask Emmanuel Rosen , – whose revised version of Buzz Marketing should be required reading for all communicators. Why can’t you make your FAQ a marketing and sales tool, instead of a necessary evil? Why can’t you find the Randys in your company, and let them train everyone else?

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JUNE 28, 2010

On today’s Web, buying decisions are influenced less by the grand, sweeping programs that take old marketing and put a fresh coat of social paint on them. There are two strategic ramifications for this new era of content marketing. Targeted at marketing directors. But, it’s still important.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social Integration Maybe I just heard what I wanted to hear/preach, but there seemed to be a lot of chatter among returning attendees and experienced social media types about integrating social media with other marketing and/or customer service elements. This level of vagary is useless. The kismet.

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