Biznology

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Photo credit: Danard Vincente. “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll probably end up someplace else,” said Laurence Peter. For any brand doing business on the internet, to get where you want to go, an understanding of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is required. The reasons why are simple. 80% of people who visit a website get there from typing a keyword in the query box of a search engine. 46% click on the website in the first position on first page. 90% c

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Tweet Photo credit: s_falkow. For those of you who have never been in sales, I would like to take you through a sales process (or some aspects of one) from the sales representative’s point of view. In sales, we are trained to look at situations as if we were sitting in the prospect’s chair. The reason for that is that it makes it easier for a sales person to recognize what is REALLY important to the prospect.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Tweet Photo credit: Frank Gruber. You probably hear a lot these days about targeting mobile consumers and how important tablets and mobile devices are becoming. The contention is that knowing where your prospect is when he or she is interacting with your content becomes more and more crucial as mobile devices – and mobile networks – grow.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Tweet. Yesterday, Chris Abraham of Reputation.com presented our latest Biznology® Webinar about taking back your online reputation. In today’s 24-hour news cycle, crisis response is essential to every company’s communications strategy; however, after all the dust settles and it looks like you’re in the clear, what happens when all of the negative press finds its way onto Internet search?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Tweet Photo credit: Wikipedia. As an SEO provider , it’s always a bit nerve-wracking when a client mentions that they are planning to launch a new website. It’s understandable that things need to be refreshed from time to time, however a huge SEO ranking factor is the trust of your website. If drastic changes are made and if certain things aren’t implemented properly during the new site migration due to lack of knowledge, it can result in some of that SEO trust being lost.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife. I have a stock answer whenever I’m asked why I’m good at PR: “It’s all about the relationships.” In PR, your success or failure is 90% driven by the types of relationships that you have with the media. Cultivating those relationships takes up a fair amount of your time and represents one of the greatest intangibles, which is what makes PR so hard to quantify.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Last month, I wrote about 2 challenges to keyword collaboration. Among other things, I argued for the importance of developing a corporate keyword database for digital marketers. Without keyword collaboration, your digital assets will compete for the limited time and attention of your audience. Chances are, a relatively small set of words are both relevant to your product offerings and your client’s needs.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. As companies go through their social business journey, there are several “truths” about their use of social media that are not necessarily observed in real life, but still get treated as dogma, as if social technologies were so special and enigmatic that deserve a quasi-religious status. In this post, I’ll elect my top 5 social business myths, but of course, lists shouldn’t be dogmatic either: the intent of this post is just to raise awareness tha

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Everybody indeed wants a shortcut. I just wrote something about this in relation to building online social media communities over on the Huffington Post and so I thought I would extend the idea to online reputation management (ORM) as it’s practiced both in your own life (as the resulting splatter painting of your life online, over time, unintentionally) and as it’s managed by my company, Reputation.com.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. If you sell online, you know the problem. How many people place things in their carts but don’t come back? For some e-Commerce companies, they convert fewer than 20% of orders placed in carts, usually because they are withholding pricing (or shipping charges) before the item goes in the cart. But all e-Commerce sites find a drop off when some percentage of their customers abandon their carts.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Small businesses need loans in order to take product and service ideas to the next level. Without the infusion of upfront cash, many small businesses flounder despite having an arsenal of legitimate business ideas. Since 2007, tighter business lending regulations have gone into effect and they make it especially difficult for small businesses to obtain traditional loans from banks and credit unions.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Photo credit: eric.delcroix. I’m old. 30 years ago, I learned how IBM qualified leads for sales. At the time, I know now, it was unusual to even have a process for such a thing, but that is how IBM worked (and still does). Most B2B businesses did not have such a process and the ones who did probably did not follow them as religiously as IBM did, but even if you don’t know you have a process, you do.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Tweet Are you or your clients convinced that your product or service is too niche for anyone to care about? That your appeal is so limited that investing in social media engagement or blogger outreach would be a shot in the dark? Well, that’s not only a pity but patently wrong. The Internet is so vast and self-selecting that there’s nothing that you can imagine that’s not an obsession by at least 1,000 people.

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