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Why Your Special Offer Isn’t

Convince & Convert

And that’s why it’s imperative that if you’re going to succeed in social media, you need to dig deep and communicate with your customers through authentic, human stories that are equal parts marketing and entertainment. Email marketing has followed a similar trajectory. Beware the Invitation Avalanche.

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Co-op SEO and the Future of Websites | Guest Posts | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies. Which brings up the whole “viral&# aspect of the platform.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

More recently, numerous writers including Olivier Blanchard , Neil Glassman and Mark Schaefer have tried to make the case that social media ROI is real, can be measured, and must be measured. The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. What should they promote? Here are 20 ideas.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing. Don’t be Shy. If a company is “doing good,” don’t be shy about talking about it. link] [link] WebPro360 And, it's not just about businesses 'tooting' their own horn.

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Why You're the Key to Social Media Success

Convince & Convert

Too many companies are “experimenting&# with social media because they feel they have to, not because they want to do so. Unlike every other form of marketing and communication ever devised, you can’t treat social media like taking medicine – something that you do when you have to, and only because someone told you so.

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Social Pros 11 – Vanessa Sain-Dieguez, Hilton Hotels

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The full report was $500, and I’m a cheapskate so I don’t have all of the details, but the press release headlines that hit the wire I guess it was last week are pretty interesting, in that they point to a broad trend that we’ve brought up a couple times. We were testing it in a couple markets.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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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. They are still stuck in the old paradigm of interruption marketing. Would love to do it after work, but I'll be writing press releases until the wee hours.