Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Content marketing is a hot topic, primarily in the B2B world but increasingly in consumer marketing as well. The number of Google searches for the phrase have increased 400% since January 2011. Content Marketing Strategy Guides. How to Build Your First Content Marketing Strategy by Search Engine Watch.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Blekko’s Tools Give Search Marketers Google Alternative by MediaPost Online Media Daily. Measure your social media marketing performance with tracking tools for the major social media networks, keep tabs on competitors and compare your results to theirs, and get alerts about trends and social media activity.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

Here are the highlights: A Colossal Opportunity According to Forrester research, from 2009 – 2014, the average annual growth rate in digital marketing expenditures in the U.S. will range from 11% (the relatively mature email marketing), to 34% (social media). Direct mail? Note that I didn’t include Web design. Embrace Math.

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Jeff Esposito

JANUARY 21, 2014

Content marketing is alive and healthy in 2014 and it’s not leaving anytime soon. Content has matured as an industry ever since it exploded sometime around 2011. In fact, 92% of B2B marketers say they are budgeting for it, which is a sure sign that content marketing here to stay. SEOs are using content as linkbait.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Facebook Pages for B2B social media marketing – a look at the elements of three successful B2B pages. Creating a SEO friendly Facebook page – key elements to make sure your page is search noteworthy. Making Money Online / Online Marketing. Search Engines / SEO / Analytics.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 3, 2012

Social media, content aggregation and curation , user-generated content and other developments have dramatically changed the B2B buying cycle over the past few years. How can B2B organizations, marketers and sales professionals adjust to, and thrive in, this new environment? B2B Marketing Trends, Tips and Strategies.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2011

It’s going to be an exciting Fall for me, as I hit the road to talk about The NOW Revolution and other aspects of social media and content marketing. A note on that: I do not speak at events (even for money) that I don’t believe in , as I do not lend my name to help profiteers sling social media and content marketing hokum.

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The power of events, ESPECIALLY B2b events, is undeniable and people are still attracted to them, computers and phones not withstanding, most of us prefer the company of human beings. Make your marketing dollars communicate with your incentive dollars. This will not kill the event or incentive industry.

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Jeff Esposito

JANUARY 21, 2014

Content marketing is alive and healthy in 2014 and it’s not leaving anytime soon. Content has matured as an industry ever since it exploded sometime around 2011. In fact, 92% of B2B marketers say they are budgeting for it, which is a sure sign that content marketing here to stay. SEOs are using content as linkbait.

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Trends Content Marketing Press Release 20

Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Though social media marketing is now used in about 90% of companies, techniques, platforms and best practices continue to evolve. Increase use of video marketing? Marketing Pilgrim ). 90% of marketers now use social networks in their marketing efforts, but growth has plateaued; the figure was 89% in 2011.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

How to not suck being a conference moderator or speaker , from TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog. How B2B companies use real-time blog posts to get trade media exposure , from David Meerman Scott ‘s Web Ink Now. Marketing, Public Relations and Social Media Blog | Atlanta, GA says: November 9, 2010 at 6:04 pm [.]

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Social media marketing has gone well beyond the hype stage and is now mainstream business practice. Read on for answers to these questions and more from some of the best minds in social media in some of their best blog posts and articles of 2011 so far. 9 Ways B2B Companies Can Use Location Based Services by Social Media B2B.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 26, 2012

The New Breed of B2B Buyer by Chaotic Flow. Inbound Marketing: Unlock the content from your emails and social marketing by MarketingSherpa Blog. Observing that email marketing efforts often produce “a mountain of content, but little of it gets used for marketing,” Adam T.

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Tips Reputation SEO B2B 183

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 9, 2012

In just a few short years, Twitter has transformed from an odd little sort of public IM service where people posted what they just ate for lunch or what their cat was doing at the moment into one of the big four social networks and a significant channel for news, PR & marketing, politics and more. Twitter and SEO.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

of articles on the topic of Internet Marketing, from SEO to social media to web usability and then some. They are strategic guides that hopefully will enhance your internet marketing experiences in the future. Without further ado, I now present to you the best internet marketing posts of 2009. Here’s 2007.

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Marketing SEO Journal Engineering 265

Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Let’s be honest: you probably didn’t get into content marketing because you love working with numbers.    But I’ve worked in media and content marketing for over a decade now — long enough to know that keeping a close eye on the numbers is essential if you want your content marketing efforts to pay off. 

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Mark as read Approve comment Ah, youre flattering me, Justin. :) Yes, I think all businesses are relationship businesses, which is one of the reason I feel a little at odds when people say theres a huge difference between B2B and B2C. that damn redhead says: January 2, 2011 at 2:38 am [.] Do you know me better? Wanna Subscribe?

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 16, 2012

6 Tips for Blogging for SEO in WordPress by Business Insider. Sue Reynolds offers a half-dozen tips for SEO on WordPress blogs, helpful particularly for those just getting started. 7 Key Elements to a Successful Business Blog by TopRank Online Marketing. Displaying Social Proof – What the Marketing Experts Use by KISSmetrics.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Marketers, we’re told, need to think like publishers. How widespread, really, is the use of social media for marketing? How are B2B marketers using social media differently from their B2C counterparts? How are marketers measuring social media success? We’re all hungry for data.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

For anyone in marketing or PR being asked to make “data-driven&# decisions “based on the numbers&# (and doesn’t that include pretty much everyone in marketing and PR these days?), How are consumers and b2b decision makers using social media in their buying processes? Social Media Facts and Stats.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 19, 2011

Web presence optimization (WPO)—using tactics like SEO, PPC, online PR, social media, content marketing and reputation management in a coordinated fashion to maximize your online visibility and business results—is the core theme of this blog. Sally Falkow reports research on new influences in the B2B buying process (e.g.,

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Tips Press Release Reputation B2B 179

Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This year, we’re pleased to honor 50 women (below) and 50 men (in an upcoming post on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog ) who are among the top social media connectors and engagers in the technology world, representing technology vendors as well as related venture capital (VC), advisory and analyst firms. Cindy Bates. Cindy_Bates.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I took a look at 14 lists that have come out over the last year for the top bloggers, social media marketers, search marketers, and entrepreneurs. Her latest posts include Conundrum , You Aren’t As Healthy As You Think , and Is Your Marketing Making Your Customer Think Too Much. And it’s no surprise they notice.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup, some tidbits on Affiliate Summit West, and a free ticket to Social Media Marketing Las Vegas on kikolani.com. Save money and time by avoiding newbie traps – don’t get sucked into these make money online / affiliate marketing traps.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

2010 by far was the biggest year yet in the Internet Marketing realm. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Content Development/Marketing. SEO: Strategy. SEO: Information. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Marketing.

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Razor Social

JANUARY 12, 2017

For anyone who is in marketing today, one of the biggest professional fears is falling behind the technological curve. As marketers, we rely so much on software to better create, manage, automate, and analyze our marketing activities that failure to keep up with the pace of change just doesn’t seem like an option.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 5, 2013

As marketing becomes more data-driven, it’s vital to use data to keep up with trends, competitor strategies, and developments in your market. of all marketers love blog posts about marketing statistics. For example, 93% of marketers use social media for business. B2b vendors? WordPress Hosting SEO ).

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 6, 2012

As it approaches one billion users, Facebook has evolved from a site where friends and family share photos to an online marketing juggernaut rivaling Google. And while its primary marketing value is on the B2C side, more than a third of B2B marketers also rate it as their most active social network. ” The solution?

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

Note: This post, a joint effort between Cheryl Burgess and me, originally appeared on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog last month. So, as promised in Tom Pick’s blog, “ 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Women ”, in honor of mothers, our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men now honors fathers. Revolutionizing Communication.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 18, 2012

Social media and inbound marketing techniques have been a boon for marketers. Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). Marketing Charts ). Marketing Charts ).

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 6, 2017

Social customer relationship management (CRM) was being written about as a distinct product category as far back as 2008, but market interest really began to take off the following year. According to Google Trends , the average number of monthly web searches for the phrase “social CRM” quadrupled from June 2009 to June 2011.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 18, 2012

Social media and inbound marketing techniques have been a boon for marketers. Not only do leads generated through social and content marketing cost half as much as traditional outbound-generated leads (see below), they also close at higher rate (again, see below). Marketing Charts ). Marketing Charts ).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 13, 2012

SEO used to be a self-standing marketing discipline, having a well defined, generally accepted set of activities and objectives. Today, SEO is much more intertwined with other marketing activities, making it difficult to know where SEO ends and where social media, for example, begins. Google’s SEO Mindset.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2012

Of course, there’s no single cookie-cutter approach to social media marketing that works for every enterprise. Social Media Marketing Tips and Tactics. Social Media, What Matters Most for Marketers by iMedia Connection. ” 50 Social Media Marketing Tips and Tactics by Jeff Bullas.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 11, 2013

Online advertising doesn’t directly affect organic search, but it is a vital component of online visibility and can support social and content marketing efforts. How can you best manage a team of digital marketing professionals to coordinate and optimize overall efforts? You have to have a way to get the word out.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 8, 2011

See the 2011 Online Newsroom Survey (PDF) from TekGroup for more guidance here. Maria Verven is a PR and content marketing executive with KC Associates , a Minneapolis-based b2b technology PR and marketing agency. News releases should always be in HTML format for searchability.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2016

Kate Volman : Hello, everyone and welcome to Talk Digital to Me, conversations on marketing and customer service with the pros over at Convince & Convert. You know, it’s something that is near and dear to my heart as a marketing person but also just as a lover of efficiency. That’s just the nature of digital marketing.

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