The Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

43 pm 3 Ways to Analyze Facebook Fan Page Traffic Jump to Comments NOTE : I had recently scribbled my thoughts on Facebook Insights for India’s growing B2B marketing community www.paulwriter.com. Such changes could be design level changes or content level changes. Here is the version that is live on the website.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If you are in charge of a B2B (business to business) corporate web site, you might have wrestled with the decision of whether or not your company should create a blog. Company Web sites could use the newest blog publishing platforms, such as WordPress, TypePad, or BlogSmith, to publish content towards the Internet website.

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Diva Marketing Blog

MAY 12, 2013

Just Once Crowd Sourced Question is a Diva Marketing series where the community shares their insights on a specific social media issue. This could be the new Digg (something I’ve said for years). How Do You Build B2B Relationships Using Social Media? One truth that still remains consistent even in 2013. Jack Yan.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 1, 2010

To me this is the story for any content marketer like myself. Bottom line this is great news for us content marketers. The choice is really yours but at least you know how to plan for the proper amount of content. Related posts: B2B Marketing: Trust + Community = ROI Trust is not a new thing when it comes to.

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Myrland Marketing

APRIL 6, 2010

These are all just different communities and different tools, so you need to make sure you find the right tool for the job. I also add more geeky sites like Delicious, Yahoo buzz, reddit, Slideshare, and maybe digg or even flickr. It used to be that plain old text and content was King online. Stumble upon something good?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 12, 2010

In b2c, contests, games, apps and coupons are popular content. The answers will be different depending on your company’s resources, the amount of content you have to work with, the number of employees involved in your social media efforts, the specific social media tool and other factors. Share this on Bebo. Post on Google Buzz.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit. So, make sure first-time visitors can access other content that may be of interest, convincing them that perhaps they should make a return trip.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

40 Key Elements to Getting Started in Social Media (Louis Gray): Mike Fruchter writes an awesome blog post on Louis Gray’s blog about how to get involved in social media, from branding to blogging to Twitter to community. This post is really poetry, as are all his other writings and blog posts. It’s definitely a worthwhile read.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Because so much focus has historically been on creation and distribution of content online, companies often mistake social media outlets as simply another, more social repository for this content. link] Chris Johnson Another nice post, J.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 10, 2011

And though a website used primarily by young people to post embarrassing pictures of themselves and by older people to share cute pictures of their progeny would seem an odd venue for selling after-shave or enterprise software, both b2c and b2b marketers have embraced the platform in droves simply due to its incredible scale and reach.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Terrific content, per usual. Terrific content, per usual. link] Develop a Social Media Strategy in 7 Steps | Social Media Marketing | Social Media Consulting – Convince & Convert « Netcrema – creme de la social news via digg + delicious + stumpleupon + reddit [.] So, giving you all the cred.,

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 17, 2011

How are consumers and b2b decision makers using social media in their buying processes? Roundup of the Top Internet and Social Media Statistics by Awareness Community. Social Media Facts & Figures for B2B Sales by Inside View. B2B Marketing and Social Media. 28 Awesome B2B Social Media Statistics by Social Media B2B.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 3, 2011

Effectively generate content contributions from subject matter experts in your organization? Produce more stylish and readable content? Seven Ways to Revive a Neglected B2B Blog by MLT Creative. Inciting Insight: How to make thought leaders think by The Communicator. Grow your audience? by MarketingSherpa.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 14, 2010

Nobody wants to have to to a minority that seems to be unhappy with the content you’ve spent hours upon hours writing. Those of you rude enough to want to demand more : consider yourself lucky that you’re better than the content provided online. I love reading new content via RSS, Buzz, Twitter, FB, etc.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. The software development community -- especially the open source community -- has long used "bounties" to help lure developers to certain tasks. Customer Support. Think of it as Yahoo! crowdsourcing.

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Rebekah Radice

APRIL 30, 2017

Getting a clear understanding of what your blog is about, who you’re writing for, and what type of content you create will make the “getting started part” a whole lot easier. Authority: create content around a singular focus or topic? Consider all of these words dependent on the focus of your blog and content.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Gina Gotthilf proposes “6 questions to ask in determining if your website welcomes interaction,&# such as whether or not your content is sharable, dynamic, and open to reader input. How to Use Social Media for B2B Marketing by Inc. How to: Use B2B Social Media for Lead Generation by TopRank Online Marketing Blog.

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Viper Chill

APRIL 26, 2010

For example, you might not know that I helped one newspaper go from a limited social media presence to helping them hit the Digg homepage over 40 times. Use it to engage your audience (on a Fan Page) with questions, contests, photo and video sharing and sharing relevant content that makes people want to keep coming back to your page.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

Social Media Sites: General The Big Boys of Social Bookmarking: The Top 20 Sites (10e20): Chris Winfield ranks the top 20 social bookmarking sites by their Alexa rankings and gives a short description of what each does — in case you haven’t ventured beyond Digg. However, there’s a lot more to Stumbling when you share.

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ProBlogger

JULY 11, 2012

This guest post is by Heather Baker of the B2B PR Blog. When I launched my first blog, the B2B Guide to Social Media , in 2010, my strategy for building its readership relied heavily on blind faith. Firstly, it covers a niche (B2B PR rather than PR in general). Here’s how I did it. This got an additional 46 visitors.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 8, 2010

Thanks to books like The New Community Rules , written by yours truly, Engage , Social Media 101 , and others, social media marketing is, for the time being, going to still be on people’s minds as they discover this bright and sunny marketing opportunity. If you keep at it, that number will double and triple, but you must keep at it.

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Kikolani

AUGUST 5, 2010

A content strategy for audience engagement – use this when planning your blog posts, and you will get more interaction. How to find good keywords for content marketing – getting the right ones will ensure more people will find your content. How B2B companies utilize Facebook. The Resources Mashup.

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Rebekah Radice

APRIL 30, 2017

Getting a clear understanding of what your blog is about, who you’re writing for, and what type of content you create will make the “getting started part” a whole lot easier. Authority: create content around a singular focus or topic? Consider all of these words dependent on the focus of your blog and content.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

These are the people who really make a solid effort — they review the blog content and realize that their pitch might be a further extension of content that they had already seen on the blogs they are targeting. B2B correspondence should be polite and respectful foremost. But greed is not what this blog post is about.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 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 Are You Taking Social Media Shortcuts?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

Have you added the ability for email recipients to share content on Twitter, Facebook, Digg and elsewhere? Most quality email service providers give you the option of easily adding sharing tools, and you can then run a report showing which of your subscribers clicked your Twitter link, and/or shared content on Facebook.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. 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.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 16, 2010

With the amount of helpful content about social media marketing growing faster than Facebook’s user base or Lindsay Lohan’s court appearances, it’s tough to keep up. 6 tips for connecting with social media content by iMedia Connection. 10 Principles for B2B Sales by Better Closer.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 10, 2008

The bottom line: If your content is good enough to stand on its own, it will be Retweeted. Social News (Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Tip’d, and a whole load of related sites) Submitting only your own articles and posts to social media sites. FriendFeed is a service but it’s also a community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 1, 2010

You need to have a clear idea of who you are, what you want to be known as, and the type of content you can consistently publish, otherwise you won’t stand out. For example, Tamar Weinberg is the community manager for Mashable, and she has written for Lifehacker.com and other mega blogs. You don’t own social networks, you lease them.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

If you like this one, please don’t hesitate to stumble, blog, digg, bookmark, and otherwise promote the hell out of this. Track things like audience/community sentiment (positive/negative) if you want to map effort to results. Buy an easy-to-remember, easy-to-spell, content-appropriate domain name if you can.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. They know that I actually care about my community and that they’re not an audience. Participate in my site’s community.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

APRIL 28, 2010

With the initiative for Facebook to be open and to empower businesses to host pages that celebrate their business, offering deals and giving the community the ability to converse directly with the business or entity these pages represent, you forgot about accountability. And now there are Community Pages! Who the heck needs it?

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 26, 2010

As Mari Smith explains, “There are two primary components to Facebook fan page engagement: 1) Sharing quality, relevant content and 2) inciting comments. 4 Tips for B2B Marketing on Facebook by Mashable. Facebook Marketing Tips: Make the Most of Your Fan Page by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. Does Facebook Work?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 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 Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media?

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