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Best Interactive PR Articles and Blog Posts of 2009

Webbiquity

Interactive PR, sometimes called social PR, is a combination of search-optimizing press releases, creating social media releases through tools like PitchEngine , blogger outreach and the use of social media to promote company news and announcements. Blogger Outreach. Blogger Relations by Sourcing Innovation. Post this on Diigo.

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Content Marketing with Stories: Better than Facts

Writing on the Web

A 2007 study by Jennifer Edson Escalas , a marketing researcher at Vanderbilt University, found that people had more positive reactions to advertisements that were presented in a story form than to ads that were factually straightforward about the products. Some bloggers and writers are natural storytellers, some aren’t.

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Content Marketing Tips: Get Your Stories Straight

Writing on the Web

I’m re-reading a great book by Jim Loehr, The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Free Press, 2007). Blog this on Blogger. It’s extremely important that you edit your stories, and in many cases, you’ll have to do some rewriting. They may or may not take us where we ultimately want to go.

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

In fact, many bloggers say that they write mainly for themselves, in capturing some of the interesting things they are seeing and thinking. Trevor Cook is just one example of a blogger who writes notes from all of the conference sessions he attends (including his reflections on our Enterprise 2.0 Future of Media Report 2007.

Web 2.0 100
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Online Persuasion: What Do Clients Say?

Writing on the Web

In 2007, Peter De Vries and Ad Pruyn studied whether recommendations influenced Web site visitors’ decisions when buying digital cameras and choosing tourist destinations. Blog this on Blogger. Do these same persuasion tactics work for sites and businesses that aren’t selling physical products? Share this on Bebo.

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7 Ways to Market to the Subconscious Brain: The Homer Simpson Guide to Content Marketing

Writing on the Web

In 2007, $12 billion. Blog this on Blogger. Our behavior and decision-making is affected, 95% of the time, by the unconscious processing in the mid and old brains. 95% of our decision making and buying and Web actions are heavily influenced by unconscious processing. 85% of the time our brains are on autopilot. billion in US alone.

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Best of 2007: Blog Posts on Social Media Marketing

WebMarketCentral

My last post listed several of the best news articles from 2007 on how to effectively use social networking sites for marketing. Among the complaints about Digg are its excessively broad audience and categories and the site's lack of transparency.