Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 2, 2013

I’ve been a web marketer for a long, long time. Having built my first web site ( DVD Verdict ) in April 1999 and managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country from 2006 to 2009, it’s safe to say I’ve seen many changes in web marketing over time. That’s a blog post for another day. Image: esocialmediashop via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 8, 2013

Image: Sean MacEntee via Flickr, CC 2.0. Content is the “meat and potatoes” of everything from websites to newsletters to blog posts; without content you literally have nothing. So this week’s roundup brings you some stellar content… about content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

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. Image: Doug Hay via Flickr, CC 2.0. Content marketing and becoming human. It’s not just marketing.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2019

There are several reasons why marketers may want to partially automate their social media campaigns. First, success with social media marketing comes with frequency (plus quality). Depending on your campaign strategy and target audience, social media marketing could be a 24×7 job. Guest post by Anand Srinivasan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 13, 2012

Tootzypop , the lifestyle blog I founded for savvy women over 40 , is no exception. In women’s online media, the formula is one part fashion and beauty, one part yoga and fitness, one part recipe swap, a ginormous dose of mommy blogging; mix and cover with a thick frosting of e-shopping. How much content is right for my audience?

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Have you ever wondered what compels people to share content on their social networks? Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. Be succinct, use photos, on and on down the list of cliched suggestions that have peppered many a blog post. In other words, the bandwidth for content consumption is fixed.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JANUARY 12, 2023

Higher education social media marketers face unique challenges. They must ensure that each department consistently creates and posts suitable types of content and find reliable, scalable strategies for centering important messaging on top-level brand accounts. We upload it to Flickr, and all our partners can download it freely.”.

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Your Escape From 9 to 5

JUNE 27, 2022

Why some blogs take off and others don’t generate much traffic can seem completely random. In fact, the blogs that generate the most traffic often have several things in common, from content creation to social media sharing tactics. Here are 6 easy tips to drive more traffic to your blog. Know Your Audience.

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Ari Herzog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This paragraph comprises the first words published on this blog since I asked for your opinions on blogging frequency seven days ago. Never before in the history of this blog (or, at least over the past 18 months) has a week transpired without new content. She owned her world. Those are powerful words.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 1, 2015

I’ve lost count of the number of crowns Content wears. But the thing is, it’s true; when you’re strategizing or planning to implement social PR today, content is related to practically everything we do. Do you think your content is doing what it’s supposed to do, or could it use a little nudge?

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Firebelly

AUGUST 8, 2012

I’ve been talking a lot lately about content curation lately, and our contributor, Erik Deckers, is all about content creation, which has led to some “Tastes great! But the one thing that we’ve both agreed on is the importance of publishing of our content, regardless of where it came from. Less filling!”

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Firebelly

JANUARY 16, 2014

The Content Cake. Scott Stratten of @unmarketing used a major case study on QR codes to emphasize why marketers should shift their focus towards content. The problem these QR codes demonstrate is marketing campaigns don’t focus enough on the actual nuts and bolts. Flickr Credit: Some rights reserved by nmxlive.com).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. Like this: Image: Nisa yeh via Flickr, CC 2.0. 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. Imagine you’re at a party.

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Harp Interactive

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can increase business exposure and your web and store traffic simply by including geographical information to your digital content. Geotagging and local search optimization are two technology-based solutions that savvy marketers are using to attract the crucial local market segment. Google has added geotagging to Blogger.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. These days, many people have started a blog for hobby or business.

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 8, 2022

With the growing popularity of social media, one question that crosses the mind is how to post content created by third-party users within the limits of fair use. However, if you’re using the content for commercial purposes, it falls outside the realm of fair use. The fair use doctrine is part of the Copyright Act.

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Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Not every company needs a blog. Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve sharing. Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques. Experiment with Flickr and/or YouTube groups to build media for specific events.

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Social Media Marketing

MARCH 8, 2011

Every year, pundits proclaim the death of blogging. In 2008, it was Wired , wondering if the rise of Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and the like would be more en vogue for individuals, who were getting pushed aside as the conglomerate professional blogs were beginning to take prominence. Where will this lead us?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2012

Flickr image from Jurischk. There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2012

Flickr image from Jurischk. There’s no question that companies are applying rigid direct marketing principles to social media, not recognizing that social is the long con , not a smash and grab. That same trend toward premature monetization is rampant in content marketing too, especially on blogs.

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Writtent Blog

MARCH 17, 2014

The ancient saying that a picture is worth 1000 words comes as no surprise to content marketers. However, it can get expensive pretty quickly, especially if you’re committed to delivering quality visual content. However, it can get expensive pretty quickly, especially if you’re committed to delivering quality visual content.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Image credit: untitled exhibitions on Flickr. The success of any marketing effort hinges on the accuracy and clarity of your buyer personas. It doesn’t matter if your target market is comprised primarily of retirees who’ve just discovered Skype and now use it to call their grandchildren. What are they looking for?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 12, 2014

Image: Retis via Flickr, CC 2.0. For marketers, memes may have come to represent something very different: an “in” with the “Internet culture” crowd. Marketers hear all the time about how they should double-down on their creation of visual content. Memejacking: How to Get Started Marketing with Memes.

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Kikolani

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

It’s extremely hard to think about digital marketing without considering content production. If you have any experience in online marketing, you should know that the power of marketing communication is shifting away from businesses and more towards customers. Remember: Keywords Aren’t the Only Key .

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Waxing UnLyrical

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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Social Media Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Image credit: Express Monorail (Flickr) "Round up the usual suspects." Corporate blogging has been with us for quite some time, with some major companies having forayed into the space in the early to mid 2000s. Or is it that there's a purpose that isn't served by blogs? "I The first thing is, it's long form content.

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Buffer Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Here at Buffer, we think a lot about visual content. We’ve explored tools that help anyone create visual content. But there’s one question we get asked quite often: Where can you find free images that are high quality and cleared to use for your blog posts or social media content? Free Images. Life of Pix.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 22, 2021

The post How to Hire Writers for Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. This blog is based on episode 169 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most blogs start out as a solo effort, with one person doing all the writing, marketing and social media updates. That’s certainly how I started all my blogs. build up my archives.

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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? The campaign content and its distribution tends to be different, but the media-related research questions are similar.&#. Pretty radical, eh? Tools like Radian6, Netbase, etc.,

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Firebelly

AUGUST 18, 2010

Learn how to make data-driven decisions about content by using Insights, launch "legal" contests and promotions via the Wildfire application, and create an engaging landing tab for your Page with Static FBML. Firebelly Vice President Chantelle Flannery will also be at the conference signing copies of her book Corporate Blogging for Dummies.

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Waxing UnLyrical

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. Image: Angelo Juan Ramos via Flickr, CC 2.0. How to be more analytical.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! 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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. In other words, while your content might be fabulous in its essence, your reader is doing exactly what we grew up being told not to do: judge a book by its cover. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper.

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The Marketing Blog

MARCH 26, 2010

32 am How People Respond to Your Online Content Jump to Comments One of my favorite bloggers, Rajesh Shetty had written an excellent blog-post last year , which describes how people react to your content. If you are interested, please click this link to read the full blog. Heading over to the actual post now!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Doing so reveals finely honed, groan-inducing marketing copy that clumsily tries to build a bond via forced humor and shared humiliation. If Your Story is Inconsistent, At Least Leverage Your Content Ouch. But, it’s widely disparate content usage across social outposts that’s the real mystery. Your Web site.

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Firebelly

AUGUST 11, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « Fridays 5 Fun Social Media Finds | Main | 5 Helpful Social Media Must Reads » August 11, 2010 Firebelly VP Co-Authors Corporate Blogging for Dummies (Out Now!) It shares best practices of corporate blogging - including tricks of the trade, what works, and traps to avoid.

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Kikolani

MAY 5, 2016

As more and more businesses battle it out in the cyberworld to capture the hearts and minds of netizens, the importance of link building and content marketing is more pertinent than ever. However, a lot of marketers are getting confused on the complementary relation of link building and producing great content.

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