Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The two most important words in social media should be “so what?” ” As Tom Webster eloquently put it in his recent Blogworld keynote , when research wears the cloak of content marketing, it’s a recipe for the incurious to pull a fast one on the masses, disguising pointless data as gospel. Point Less.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Are there differences between B2B and B2C in social media? Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 4, 2010

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Do you see social media participation as one of the hurdles businesses now need to successfully clear? Absolutely. Change takes time.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form. UNderstandable One of the most commendable aspects of this book is Stratten’s gift for boiling down a marketing principle to its simplest form.

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agora pulse

MAY 8, 2019

This study revealed what many marketers had suspected for a long time: Facebook’s organic reach was declining. What was even more alarming for business owners and marketers was the announcement that Facebook made at the start of 2018. This applies to your website content as well as your social media posts.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

Because helpfulness hasn’t historically been looked at as a marketing objective (tons of great stuff about this umbrella concept in Scott Stratten’s forthcoming new book UnMarketing – buy it ), identifying areas where help could be provided isn’t in the DNA of most companies – yet. It’s a Bird.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. Research: How do people talk about your industry and who are the influencers? What’s the client/competitor/industry name(s)? And that’s how I pick the right social media monitoring tool for the job.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 3, 2017

January 4, 2017: Maintaining a Social Media CRM. Sprout Product Focus: Social CRM. Organizing and keeping track of community members across social networks can be incredibly overwhelming. This week’s #SproutChat will focus on Sprout Social’s CRM features. New Year, new trends!

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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. What would you do?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. corporate expenditures on social media will increase by an AVERAGE of 34% a year , and that by 2012, as much will be spent on social media as on email marketing.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 13, 2010

While it pre-dates the Internet (and commercial air travel, ATMs, competitive eating, Red Bull and a lot of other stuff we take for granted), its core premise serves as the foundation for social media effectiveness. People who… [link] #marketing [link] Innovate AZ The Best Advice Has No Shelf Life: Who Influenced You?All

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 26, 2011

When the Cluetrain Manifesto was published in 1999, it signaled a paradigm shift: markets are conversations. Today, the online space and affordability of web hosting and domain names has helped create billions of conversations about your brand, your industry, and critical key players in your space. What are your goals of social media?

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Twist Image

MAY 15, 2011

The Marketing industry only has a handful of true innovation legends. Along with his business partner, Martha Rogers , they invented the term one-to-one marketing to "illustrate the importance of treating different customers differently." digital marketing. marketing legend. marketing over coffee.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 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 Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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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. Introduction to Social Selling. We have a video of the Social Selling Primer here. View more presentations from InsideView.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. How can we convince our clients that we’re good at social media?

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Pixlee

JUNE 19, 2017

Influencer marketing has become a powerful tool for brands in today’s age of social media. As the ‘social influencer’ industry has continued to develop, tracking and measuring influencers with specific key performance indicators (KPIs) has also evolved. What Should Brands Track?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. But, the team does reference a series of social media outposts via a tiny murderers row of icons (my favorite is “Linkedin.coming soon&#. But then it gets even worse. Your Web site.

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Pixlee

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Pixlee’s industry-leading UGC platform is known for its extensive content creation, curation, and multi-channel publishing capabilities. We’d like to share a few of Pixlee’s unintentionally best kept secrets to make your marketing even more effective. These are five ways you should be using Pixlee (if you aren’t already!).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 31, 2012

Wildfire , a pioneering social media management software application that specialized in contests and promotions, announced today that it has been bought by Google for a smooth $250 million. Why let an entire, parallel industry spring up?” Jay is the founder of [link] and host of the Social Pros podcast.

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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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Hootsuite

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

To succeed in a social media, you need the right skills, the right knowledge, the right training — and the right social media marketing tools. Each social media platform operates as a silo. The right social media marketing stack quite simply makes you a better marketer.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 10, 2011

The “ROI of social media&# (or lack thereof) is a hot, and still hotly contested, topic. I summarized arguments from both sides a few months ago in The Social Media ROI Debate. It can influence your prospects to buy from you, but doesn’t normally lead straight to a purchase.

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agora pulse

JUNE 22, 2020

Whether you’re shopping for your first social media management tool or you’re ready to upgrade an underperforming tool, you need to make sure that your preferred social media dashboard has these nine essential features. A Quick Look at Social Media Dashboard Basics. Social media post scheduler.

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Razor Social

JUNE 1, 2017

If you are in B2B marketing or otherwise tasked with sourcing leads for your company, LinkedIn is one of the most powerful platforms you can use to grow your business. A recent, while Hub Spot found that 43% of marketers have sourced a customer from LinkedIn. Filters searches to a specific industry, location, company or title.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 14, 2013

As a geek, I welcomed the idea that I could find a way to blend tech into my sales efforts and the first and easiest way was to leverage social media. Social networks open up an entirely new game for you to play and it’s a very profitable one. Best-in-Class sales reps (reps that deployed social selling) companies saw a 16.3%

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2015

A top-level view on CX reveals that it best fits under the umbrella of your marketing department, which is why marketing typically controls the majority of the customer experience budget. Branded, personalized moments at each and every point of customer engagement are what market leaders are seeking. A Shift in Importance.

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Pixlee

JANUARY 19, 2017

The 50 user generated content stats that all marketers need to know in order to successfully work with brand influencers, improve brand loyalty, and increase ecommerce sales. Influencer marketing is the fastest growing channel for customer acquisition. for every dollar invested in influencer marketing. Businesses make $6.50

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Before Permission Marketing , how much audience did Seth Godin have? I couldn’t write Katie Van Domelan’s post about social media listening tools. I don’t have the chops to write Mike Corak’s piece on the role of language in content marketing. Chris Brogan started with zero posts and zero readers.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Just when you think you have some modicum of a handle on this industry, new developments come along and shake up your head like a snow globe. Although Flowtown leans toward the B2C mass market culturally, I see monster B2B possibilities here. What have you seen in the social media world lately that’s excited you? (I’m

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Keyhole.co

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Social media with almost 4.6 That’s why using social media analytics tools has become indispensable for crushing brand competition and building an engaged social media audience. In this guide, we will delve into some of the best competitor analytics tools for social media. Key features.

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Convince & Convert

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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Keyhole.co

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Social media with almost 4.6 That’s why using social media analytics tools has become indispensable for crushing brand competition and building an engaged social media audience. In this guide, we will delve into some of the best competitor analytics tools for social media. #1. Key features.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

It’s an example of an industry with poor understanding of taxonomy – the words and phrases used to describe products and services. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing.

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Keyhole.co

JULY 9, 2023

We bet whenever the social media management topic arises, Hootsuite is the first name that pops up. It is a legacy platform that was one of the first to cater to the ever-changing social media dynamics. Social media marketing is an indispensable tool for both elite and common businesses and individuals.

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