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APRIL 22, 2015

Does your business blog have the livelihood of a funeral? When you look around at your blog and analytics, what do you see? You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anyone even cares remotely about your blog. What’s going wrong with your business blog?! Blogging for business purposes is (still) relatively new.

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JANUARY 14, 2011

If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. I really like its functionality, plus it’s a great way for folks to search on your blog as well as on the Interwebz without actually leaving your blog. LinkWithin.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. This is hugely helpful, because each theme is different and, as a result, the way a post looks when published on one blog, might look completely different on another. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 12, 2014

For marketers, memes may have come to represent something very different: an “in” with the “Internet culture” crowd. What we’re talking about here is memejacking: another of those made-up-sounding words that has come to have a welcome place in the marketer’s toolkit. Memejacking: How to Get Started Marketing with Memes.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Free Digital Marketing Tools for Non-Profits January 24th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt These are frugal days, and everyone loves getting and writing about free stuff. She lives in Takoma Park, Md.,

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JULY 3, 2013

But this is the approach I see in the early days of a lot of start-up marketing. Unfortunately, most of these ideas fail because they fail to successfully hit their mark in the open market. And the reason they fail to hit their mark in the open market is that they fail to differentiate themselves from the competition.

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APRIL 6, 2016

Influencer marketing is more than just a buzzword. According to a 2015 report by Augure , marketers are increasingly achieving positive results with influencer marketing campaigns. Like most other things in the digital marketing space, garnering the support of influencers in your niche takes time , and sustained effort.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Let me unpack this a bit.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. And they wouldn’t bother to poke around on the blog to find it.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Ah… content marketing. “Let’s do some content marketing!” When content marketing lets you down. And of course, then I decided to blog about it. This is a classic case of being let down by content marketing. When Content Marketing Lets You Down is a post from: Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. I love how, when you click on an image, it starts the slideshow right on your blog! Don’t forget I started out this post with my initial list of five ways for you to spice up your blogging.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 22, 2016

– influencer marketing best practices, relationship-building, and measuring your efforts. They included: Gini Dietrich , CEO of Arment Dietrich and queen creator of the popular Spin Sucks blog community; Founder of the influencer marketing platform Traackr (my client), Pierre-Loic Assayag (my friend!)

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2016

Last year, I started a Twitter chat called #SocialPowWow in order to have a meeting ground on Twitter for PR pros, marketers and startups from India and across the world. It was last year in October that I decided to start a chat to build a community of PR pros, marketers, and entrepreneurs in India to discuss topics of mutual interests.

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MARCH 4, 2015

Content marketing does much more for your brand than just aid your marketing. Effective content marketing shapes your brand by giving it a face to know, like, and trust. Content marketing and becoming human. Another excellent example from the mid-market is Twist Image and Mitch Joel. It’s not just marketing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 5, 2011

Instead of always talking about what PR can learn from marketing analytics, what if we asked what marketing can learn from PR measurement? “PR has been answering these questions using media research for a long time,&# but they are much newer to marketing. Pretty radical, eh? It was really interesting.

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APRIL 17, 2015

If there’s one thing you take away from today’s post on content marketing, please let it be this: just because you build it, doesn’t mean they’ll come. Content Marketing: a scenario. But you’re probably not approaching content marketing the social PR way. So you put it together. Twitter chats).

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Get Your Blog Project Approved January 13th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski Okay, you’ve had nearly half a month to sink into 2011. I manage the University of Regina’s blog.

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APRIL 15, 2016

As more and more brands jump on the influencer marketing bandwagon, how they structure influencer programs and communications is becoming increasingly important. blog posts, maybe even building to a blog community). ” I saved the email for two reasons: I figured it was great for teaching (like this blog post!);

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MARCH 30, 2015

So if your marketing feels as if it might be in a rut (already!), Here are some ideas on “buzz marketing” (I know, I know). 6 Buzz Phrases Marketers Should Take Seriously in 2015. Winning the Marketing Battle Between Help and Hype. 5 Clever Social Media Marketing Campaigns that Went Viral.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. Umair Haque , blogging for the Harvard Business Review , places the Gap logo debacle into this context of creativity. When it comes to blogging, anyone can compile data and churn out a post.

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MARCH 28, 2011

We PR pros often talk about what Public Relations can learn from Marketing. But what can Marketing learn from Public Relations, if anything? “First, once marketing materials are shared online, they are no longer under the control of the brand. How to be more analytical. Focusing on the numbers. Being more results-driven.

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APRIL 8, 2015

Effective marketing. Marketing is most effective when it pulls qualified leads into your pipeline, and that’s all about attracting. How can you hone your marketing messaging to its most compelling and simple form? So we could call this marketing. Keep it simple in marketing. Keep It Simple In Marketing.

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MAY 4, 2016

When it comes to using humor in marketing, advertising and public relations, we often have to step back and answer a few questions before proceeding down a path of knock-knock jokes, current event inspired memes and company social media postings which could potentially make your mother-in-law cringe.

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AUGUST 5, 2015

Leah Fein-Roque , who specializes in tech PR and digital marketing understands the Snapchat appeal personally: “I have a 21, 19 and 16 year old using it mostly for everything including texting. But these metrics probably are not informative about how your Snapchat campaigns are contributing to your overarching PR or marketing goals.

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JUNE 24, 2019

On the marketing dance floor, influencer marketing is all the craze-because it works. In fact, 58 percent of brands have seen improved brand awareness and perception from influencer marketing campaigns. This is great news for marketers looking to increase the impact of their campaigns. Blog interviews or contributions.

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MAY 1, 2020

“All this free time on your hands” As we move into Week 523 of The Shutdown To End All Shutdowns, I have noticed an increase in the number of marketing emails that offer suggestions on what to do with “all this free time on your hands.” Who is letting marketing like this get through?

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

A year and a half ago, I started a blog about my pet guinea pigs called Cavy Savvy. Originally, I wanted a way to test the SEO techniques I was learning about at work, and having a hobby blog just seemed like a fun way to do so. Here is how I made Cavy Savvy a success, and how you can apply some of these techniques to your blog.

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DECEMBER 22, 2014

13 Sizzling Blog Post Ideas to End the Year with a Bang. Why: Give your blog some extra momentum in 2015, by ending 2014 off on a high note. 3 Essential Tips for Digital Marketers. How to Start a WordPress Blog. Why: Are you considering starting a blog on WordPress or moving your existing blog to WordPress in 2015?

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MARCH 25, 2013

They do something I always say is more important than marketing. Here is a short Q&A with Ashley Butler , Chobani’s Community Coordinator, who is based in NYC (the center of their marketing operations): WUL : I am curious: how many cups of yogurt do you guys sell in a day? Image via Chobani Blog , used with permission.

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MARCH 31, 2014

I’m here to speak at The Hub Convene along with Heidi Sullivan of Cision (disclosure: client); we’re presenting on “Content Marketing Metrics That Matter.” How to Encourage Your Team to Blog. Why: Does your team struggle with blogging? The Truth About the Blog Supremacists.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2012

But while a few doctors including Wendy Sue Swanson, MD , author of the Seattle Mama Doc blog and Natasha Burgert, MD , author of KC Kids Doc blog , are using digital communication to communicate better with their patients, according to a 2011 survey by AMN Healthcare only 8% of physicians said they use social media at work to connect with patients.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Be succinct, use photos, on and on down the list of cliched suggestions that have peppered many a blog post. A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. But if I ask my audience a question and hear crickets, why didn’t anyone engage or share my post?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Content marketing is essential for any business in the modern age – it’s creating valuable and relevant resources that customers consume and use, in order to sway them towards then using your products and services. Are you receiving the full benefits which content marketing can offer? Guest Post by Aimee Laurence.

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MAY 18, 2012

Erin Feldman is the marketing communications manager at TouchSystems , a touch screen company based in Hutto, Texas. Her background is in marketing and creative writing, and she riffs about writing right at her blog, Write Right (so write right, don’t make her use her red pen).

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali MeasurePR: The BrandBuilder Edition November 3rd, 2010 Tweet If you work in the PR/marketing world(s) (are they one now? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. shouldn’t they always have been?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

10 Must Read Content Marketing Posts for 2015. Why: Content marketing has remained a hot topic during 2014. Lee Odden showcases 10 of Top Rank Blog ‘s most useful content marketing posts. Why: Do you let people to subscribe to your blog through a reader? When the Intermediary is not Adding Value.

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