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How to Turn Social Connections Into In-Person Sales

Alix Hart, Brand Marketer at Best Buy, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss integrating social into all aspects of customer service and battling the “showroom” effect as a brick-and-mortar retailer. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. Please Support Our Sponsors Huge thanks to our amazing […]

9 Tools to Improve Social Media Productivity

Do you find that the daily demands of social media promotion are increasing? Our time is our most precious asset and social media is great at eating into it! Thankfully, there are several wonderful tools that can help. Here are 9 social media tools that will help you save time and improve your productivity. 1. […]

Why Next Level Content Needs A Managing Editor

Content creation is all the rage these days now that Google has updated their algorithm and companies are seeing outstanding results from providing useful content on the web. But if you have a large content program, you know that creating amazing content is only half the battle. You also need to edit, format, schedule, and […]

6 Steps to Win More Retainer-Based Business

If your agency offers digital marketing services like SEO, social media, email marketing, PPC, chances are you’re in high demand. AdAge reports that digital is the fastest growing business area for agencies of all types. So, if the demand for your agency’s’ digital services are so high, why are you spending so much time writing […]

11 Reasons Why Prospects Don’t Convert Into Customers

Just four years ago, my friend Marcus Sheridan discovered the power of content marketing and rescued his nearly bankrupt pool and spa business. He dove deep into blogging and propelled River Pools and Spas to a dominant leadership position in his home state of Virginia. Today, while still maintaining partial ownership of the pool business, […]

Is Your Brand Socially Agile?

Andy White, Senior Manager of Social Media Marketing at M80 and creative genius behind Audi‘s social media strategy, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the importance of brand trust in a social media team, the thought process behind the successful #WantAnR8 campaign, and how Audi’s social agility lets him get things done. Read on for […]

The Best Social Media Advice I Learned in Kindergarten

In this edition of The Baer Facts, I talk with Kyle Lacy of ExactTarget about LinkedIn’s recent marketing program whereby they sent emails to members announcing their profiles were in the top 10%, 5%, or 1% of all profiles viewed. (excellent coverage about it from LinkedIn consultant Andy Foote) As Andy and others pointed out, […]

Make These 5 Marketing Changes in a Smartphone Dominated America

In 2013, smartphone penetration in the United States will reach 57%. This is when we cross the chasm – the majority of adult Americans will have, in their pants, access to most of the world’s knowledge, at all times. Information is the enemy of excuses. (tweet this) If you make a bad decision today you’re […]

Leveraging Your Company’s Internal Power for Good Social

Sonny Gill, Social Media Manager at U.S. Cellular, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss social media strategy on the regional level, competing with the big dogs, and maintaining a level of excellent customer service using social and traditional strategies side by side. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to […]

3 Steps to Building a Solid Media List

Ever land a cover story from a Twitter pitch? Newsjack breaking news from a Facebook feed? Secure a blog column on a critical e-zine website? If not, it’s time to kick up your PR skills a notch or two. The PR industry continues to shift like Tony Stewart at a Daytona race, and it impacts EVERY area […]

The Critical Interplay Between Social and Search

Rand Fishkin, Founder and CEO of SEOmoz, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss content calendar and community management at SEOmoz, the rumors of Google’s Author Rank, and the future of Facebook’s new Graph Search feature. Read on for some of the highlights and tweetable moments, or listen to the full podcast. Please Support Our Sponsors Huge […]

The New Skill Every Social Media Marketer Must Possess

In The NOW Revolution, Amber Naslund and I predicted that social media would become a skill rather than a job. As companies take more steps to “be” social, and incorporate social business initiatives alongside the more common and obvious social media marketing programs, employees from all divisions and departments will utilize “social” to be more […]

Empowering Employees with Social Business Strategy

Sandy Carter, VP of Social Business Sales and Evangelism at IBM, joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss social media versus social business, the importance of innovation in social business strategy, and how to keep customers and employees alike most productive and loyal. Read on for some of the highlights or listen below for the […]

If You’re Looking Content Creation Moments Are Everywhere

Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs and co-writer of Content Rules, joins the Social Pros Podcast live from the New Media Expo in Las Vegas this week to discuss the on-going visual renaissance, leaving the “person” out of “personable” in social, and the struggle to keep the customer first. Read on for some of the highlights […]

4 Customer Service Lessons from the Biggest Brands on Twitter

As we learned a few months ago in a recent release of The Social Habit (a social media research project that Jay is working on with Tom Webster, Mark Schaefer, and Jason Falls), customers have high expectations of brands using social to address customer service issue. In fact, 42% of customers expect a response time of […]