Writtent Blog

MARCH 10, 2014

What if you’re trying to make a startup seem like a bigger, more well-established brand? Pace: Four Seasons Magazine. A recent assignment wasn’t an unfamiliar marketing challenge, but it’s a pretty big one – how do you make a startup seem larger and better-established? And what if the client is incredibly specialized?

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MAY 11, 2013

"Something I''ve noticed over the past year: a whole lot of very good, very interesting design thinking going into (some) news/magazine sites. What can other startup learn from Instagram''s meteoric rise and how deals in Silicon Valley get done. Here''s a preview of Reuters '' new look. How did a deal like this go down?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Consider the impact that Facebook Open Graph protocol integration will have on your existing on-site community features and social functionality. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? So tread carefully and provide clear instructions, settings and (when relevant) opt-out functionality.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! And good point on the Lakers and Magic being on Twitter’s Suggested User List, that explains the major discrepency there.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 5, 2009

I can’t imagine they would, especially when virtually no one outside of the developer and SEO communities is even aware that this change has taken place. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Is Google going to run out and start penalizing sites with sponsored links in JavaScript?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

If you distribute press releases through a variety of communication channels journalists have the option of selecting which ones are most suitable for them and this should result in more engagement from them (which is the whole point after all). As Twitter is so popular with the journalism community it seems a natural choice.

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The Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2007

I remember speaking to a journalist from a leading business magazine some-time back who was really passionate about a story he had to cover. The focus of the blog has shifted from that of a startup-centric one when it originally started in 2007. I guess, it's an entrepreneur/ blogger fav topic to blog when starts a startup.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Magazine list of America’s fastest-growing private companies for five years in a row. Because you really need to understand how your products/services are considered, purchased, and followed up on by your team, Infusionsoft is not a great choice for startups. Infusionsoft is built with that philosophy at the forefront.

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Twist Image

AUGUST 7, 2013

Many struggle with this sense of constant connectivity combined with our smartphone devices, while others have turned this social habit into a business unto itself (check out Tim Ferriss '' bestselling opus, The 4-Hour Workweek or The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau ). What have we become? Does anybody remember kindness?

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Magazines are arguably one of the first publications to rock content calendars. Their content calendars do this traditionally to help their customers (marketers) know how to connect their advertisements into the big picture of each magazine issue. Step 3: Complete the 3 Stages of Content Calendaring.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2023

If you’re a small business or new startup, you don’t have money to waste on expensive advertising like your bigger competitors can. Publish articles in trade or local magazines. Most people think published work is more valuable than a simple blog post, and articles cost less than advertising in the same magazine. Reuse content.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki talks about how she’s not just built a large audience – but how she’s built such an engaging community. Nikki: I was a journalist for 20 years and edited a weekly magazine in the newspaper where I worked. It’s just two things that I know that a lot of startup bloggers struggle with. Is this me?”

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ProBlogger

JUNE 5, 2017

Nikki talks about how she’s not just built a large audience – but how she’s built such an engaging community. Nikki: I was a journalist for 20 years and edited a weekly magazine in the newspaper where I worked. It’s just two things that I know that a lot of startup bloggers struggle with. Is this me?”

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2012

Eric: The stat of the week comes from a February 2012 survey from the marketing magazine B2B Magazine. My first two online startups were Web Strategy, Web Dev. Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week: Social Media is the Best Source of Leads for 11% of B2B Companies. It was about lead generation.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 29, 2012

Eric: The stat of the week comes from a February 2012 survey from the marketing magazine B2B Magazine. My first two online startups were Web Strategy, Web Dev. Eric’s Social Media Stat of the Week: Social Media is the Best Source of Leads for 11% of B2B Companies. It was about lead generation.

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Not only leaders in their professional lives, nearly all these women use their social profiles to express their passions outside the workplace, which range from NASCAR, art, travel, billiards, wine and music to community service, politics and, of course, family. ” She was named B2B Magazine’s 2012 Digital Marketer of Year.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Too often we see social media strategies that involve putting photos into Flickr, videos into YouTube or the creation of a Facebook application and then never revisiting the environment to engage with the communities around this content.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 6, 2016

Startups and small businesses often need brand awareness and lead generation just as much as sales leads; in fact, without first having the latter two, obtaining leads will be challenging no matter how much is invested. With Brad’s many years of industry experience, he’s been featured on sites such as: Moz, Smashing Magazine and Forbes.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

At Define we work with a lot of newspaper and magazine sites, many of which have syndication deals with multiple partners. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Crowdsourcing, a term coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 issue of Wired magazine, is a model of labor that has been fully embraced on the Internet over the past couple of years. A number of large web development discussion communities host contest areas, including NamePros , v7 Network , and Webmaster Talk. 22 Comments. POPULAR TAGS.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

She has written for major sites like Mashable and Smashing Magazine as well as published the book Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity. Her blog, Kommein , covers blogging, business, community management, social media, and more. Cameron Chapman. Deborah Ng. Her personal blog covers just about everything.

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Laurel Papworth

NOVEMBER 22, 2009

We look at Freemium revenue in social networks and online communities including asking that: if freemium is the business model of giving it all (or most) of the services away for free , how can you then charge for it? Wired offers the magazine for free online yet 800,000 pay $1 a month for subscriptions. advertising? A mugs game?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

As many of you know, I have an annual tradition of giving back to the community on my birthday, which is why this year is no different. Since I can’t read everything written by the Internet Marketing community, I ask my Twitter and Facebook followers for their own recommendations. Community Management/Engagement.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

I hearken back to the magazine rack on the street corner that had the sign if you read it you bought it. This was pretty cool for a number of years until publishers, newspapers, magazines, art galleries, museums, professional photographers, and numerous other cultural gatekeepers started to fold. You usually do. This one by Matthew.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2009

The Sexy Girls of Tech and Politics: The Unbeatable Trio (NxE): Find what the community likes and pander to them for the best kind of traffic exposure on social sites. For more 404 pages, check out the Smashing Magazine collections. What are Social Media Marketing and Social Media Optimization? Look at Shana’s chart.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 15, 2017

This is a guest post from Jonathan Chan of Foundr Magazine. Yes, we have become a community of skimmers and slackers. You are probably here because you are a proud blog owner. But you’re still not using Instagram to promote your ground-breaking content. We pretty much saved the best for last. Why is it the best, you ask?

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 14, 2023

Generate five unique topics for a magazine article about trends in education. Brainstorm ten potential titles for a romantic comedy about two coworkers who fall in love while working at a tech startup. Design five content buckets that can be used to organize the content of a print magazine for an international audience.

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Products Real Estate Tourism Fashion 92

Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 5, 2016

6 Free Social Media Tools for Startups to Build a Strong Social Media Presence by Duct Tape Marketing. Building a strong social media presence is an imperative for startups in the digital age. Slideshare is the largest Powerpoint sharing community on the web, but it is so much more than that. The Storyteller by Content Magazine.

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Twist Image

JULY 8, 2014

I remember being very busy at a startup in publishing. Be more involved in our community. Read every article (cover to cover) of a magazine that interests you (and yes, read the ads too). Do some volunteer work in an effort to help your community and meet other interesting people. We all want to read more. Meditate more.

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

With our community’s help, we put together an ultimate list of content curation sources across multiple industries. Ecommerce Marketing Blog by Shopify: A blog about ecommerce marketing, running an online business, and updates to Shopify’s ecommerce community. . But where do you start with curation? Personal finance.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 6, 2011

It takes a community to build a community. So much of building a community requires understanding people and engaging with them. Now you may wonder, “ How do we build a community? Senior Analyst at Forrester ( @TomGrantForr ) “You don’t build a community. According to Tom Grant , Ph.D, You expand it.”

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

A hybrid curation app and social network—grab any content from the web and save it to your own Flipboard magazine. Sample review: “I have connected my Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn feeds to Flipboard, enabling me to scan each post in the feed as if they were articles in an electronic magazine. Marketing Insider Group (Startup).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 24, 2010

I selected influencers in all different “walks of life&# and areas of influence, from the blogosphere to the power users of Digg to founders of successful startups and authors of bestselling books. Mark Frauenfelder Mark Frauenfelder is a co-editor of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE Magazine. They understand brevity.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 14, 2012

Social media and community management and listening and social business and enabling your employees to be spokespeople and all the things we talked about here at Social Pros , and all the things we talked about in the Now Revolution , that’s not advertising. To me just intrinsically, that feels like something a startup might do.

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Viper Chill

JANUARY 5, 2016

Darren was abandoned by his mother at 10 days old and grew up with an abusive father, yet later went on to found SUCCESS magazine. Larry Ellison is fighting to keep Oracle’s huge marketshare in an industry rapidly gaining competition in the form of well-funded startups. He now runs a multi-million dollar insurance company.

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Diva Marketing Blog

MAY 26, 2009

Social Media Marketing means reaching customers and communities on behalf of my clients using social spaces on the Internet, where people come together to do/discuss/create/laugh/complain about what interests them. I primarily focus on: B2B, B2C, Internet startups 5. and whatever else happens to strike my fancy at a particular moment.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Robert is a coach, teacher and community leader who has a passion for solo business owners. I chatted with Robert earlier today, and I asked him about some of the biggest challenges I see in our community of solo-entrepreneurs. Robert is a coach, he’s a teacher, he’s a community leader who has a passion for solo business owners.

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