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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Plug any URL into Topsy and see who tweeted it and which users were most influential (and which have a blog). Twitter is often the easiest social gateway to finding bloggers since people with a blog tend to be on Twitter too. Google Blog Search. BuzzStream. BuzzStream offers nice functionality in this area.

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Competitive Marketing Analysis: 14 Ways to Monitor and Beat Your Competitors

Writtent Blog

Channels of Distribution: Do they have a blog ? Frequency of Publication : Do they blog twice a week? Subscribe to their blog to determine whether they have a schedule, and how rigorous it is. Subscribe to their blog to determine whether they have a schedule, and how rigorous it is. Is their customer base growing?

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18 of the Best Content Marketing Strategy Guides of 2013

Webbiquity SMM

The Top 6 Reasons You’re Failing at Content Marketing by BuzzStream Blog. Whereas if your goal is brand awareness, or perhaps link-building for SEO, going broad with your content can be an excellent strategy.” ” Don’t copy your competitors—be the source they try to copy.

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5 Advanced Lessons from Content Marketing World 2013

Writtent Blog

Thanks to an increasingly talented workforce and amazing options like content marketing outsourcing services, the challenge for companies isn’t just getting their hands on a blog to publish. Page – a 120 year-old mesh and fencing distributor with one of the best blogs on the block. How do they do it? Don’t Think International.

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How to Earn Extra Money Freelancing While Starting a Blog

ProBlogger

You should already know that earning money with a blog does not happen overnight. It takes time, consistent publishing of great content, and unique smart ideas to make a blog take off. Depending on the niche you want to get in, ranking in search engines might be tough, and often requires strong SEO skills. I started as a writer.

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The New Writer’s Guide to Evaluating Websites for Guest Posting Opportunities

ProBlogger

Finding the most valuable guest blogging opportunities on high-authority sites takes time. You have to nurture a relationship with the blog owner, and that means human interaction, not automated emails. Instead, focus on blogs with small and medium levels of influence (Twitter followers, blog subscribers, likes, +’s and so on).

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The Nightmare Public Relations Professional and How to Stop Him

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our blog that clearly is known for addressing a specific subject matter, we get an email from a public relations agency that takes us for someone completely different. Jonathan Fields blogged about his PR outreach nightmare. I’ve yet to blog about either. Guess what?