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Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail | Blogging and Content Creation.

Convince & Convert

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). The free “Blogging’s Long Tail Approach&# white paper is devoted to describing this notion of blog content breadth, and its impact on search term selection, and search term optimization.

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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

Promote white papers / eBooks / reports for lead generation. Use “ads&# in your blog sidebar, and in-post text links where appropriate, to drive visitors to your white paper or other gated content download pages. Make your content easy to share by including social sharing buttons on your blog posts.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Social CRM is still confusing. Only 16% of companies say they currently have a social CRM system in place. 21% plan to implement such a system in the coming year, but another 17% “don’t know what a social CRM system is and why businesses need it.” iMedia Connection ). The Backup List ).

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The More Things Change, The More Things Change

Convince & Convert

Let’s say you have a white paper for download on your site. If you use Wufoo to power your forms, you can hook up Flowtown to investigate, score, and sort your form submissions, and then alert you based on custom business rules.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Finding Your Influencers As noted in the study, the notion of true 1:1 marketing via social media is a bit of a fallacy. It’s really only possible in a reactive sense via social CRM, where individual complaints or questions can indeed be handled.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. State Indicator – Turns orange when you’re in that section 2. Show your first-time visitors who you are (literally and figuratively).

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Social media is by definition slow.