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Blogger outreach is scary

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Image via Wikipedia. Unlike a few years ago, today everyone at least pays lip service to reaching out to bloggers the same we PR people have always reached out to mainstream media. That’s what my company, Abraham-Harrison does, and lots of other companies try to do it, too. But I am still surprised that many companies don’t do blogger outreach, even today.

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Simple Works Well in SEO

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Image by Niels Linneberg via Flickr. Search engine optimization (SEO) is not an easy task. We like to act like it’s easy because that’s what everyone (meaning those who want to do it but don’t know anything about it) wants to hear so we, as an industry, often go right along with the charade and talk like it’s something you can do in your spare time.

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What does “Do It Wrong Quickly” really mean?

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Image via Wikipedia. I was privileged to keynote the Webdagene event here in Norway this morning, and they requested that I talk about “ Do It Wrong Quickly Marketing &# (link to slides), which I was happy to do. If you haven’t read my book (I assume that’s most of you), you might not be seduced by the idea of doing anything wrong.

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Social Media Across the Organization

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I got a chance to speak Friday at a great event in Copenhagen along with speakers from Berlingske, Denmark’s national daily newspaper, and Facebook. My topic was how companies can use social media, not just for marketing, but across their entire organization. We focus a lot on using social media for marketing and public relations (as well we should), but we should also be thinking about how to improve other functions in our organizations, such as product development, customer service, and

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Why Zagat might be a smarter purchase for Google than Yelp

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Image via CrunchBase. By now you’ve heard the news that Google has purchased Zagat Reviews. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Zagat, it has a worldwide set of reviews that travelers have relied on for decades to choose the right restaurant. Google famously flamed out in its bid to buy Yelp in 2009, and has finally added the restaurant reviews it has craved.

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