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Looking Back at 300: Top 10 Posts on the Webbiquity Blog So Far

Webbiquity SMM

Again, thank you for reading the MarketingSherpa Readers Choice top b2b marketing blog for 2012. Vocus vs. Cision (November 8, 2011). Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. 33 (of the) Best Marketing Strategy Guides and Insights of 2010 (February 14, 2011). So which is best?

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Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video)

Adam Sherk

Being required to do cold-call follow-ups as a junior employee was one of the main reasons I gravitated toward other forms of online marketing as soon as they started to emerge. Fortunately today there are much better tools at our disposal be it PR software suites like Vocus and Cision or networking services like HARO and Seek or Shout.

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Amplify Your Content Strategy with Influencer Marketing

Convince & Convert

Most of us are familiar with the concept of influencer marketing, i.e., marketing to a select group of individuals — such as journalists, bloggers, consultants, or industry analysts — who influence your buyers’ decisions. Image via BigStockPhoto.com. That, in turn, can help move your buyers down the path to purchase.

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Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

Another chart of interest in the Vocus whitepaper demonstrates how social media monitoring has become an essential part of the PR practioner’s toolkit: News monitoring and online media databases have traditionally received the lion’s share of PR tool spending. Both rightly deserve credit for increasing awareness industry-wide.

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Social media marketing, online PR and SEO are three tactics that are all powerful on their own, but have far more impact when used in a coordinated, synergistic manner. The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases by Adam Sherk. Vocus and Cision ) to the obscure ( Butterfly Publisher ). 5 Stars **.

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How to Best Work With a PR Pro

Waxing UnLyrical

Prior to letting this person go, Shonali Burke [whom you know as the publisher of this blog] was kind enough to have a teleconference with my client and I. You get a bonus for using Vocus or a similar platform.). B: I was never contacted directly for anything related to marketing that might dovetail with PR.

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Five Newsworthy Stories for Your Next Press Release

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Frank Strong of Vocus. To promote his business, he does what good marketers all do well: he’s active on social media, publishes a blog, and contributes content elsewhere. Frank Strong is the director for Vocus , which also owns PRWeb, Help a Reporter out (HARO), iContact and North Social. The lesson?