Ambal's Amusings

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Do something charitable : In this 2008 pre-holiday post, Chris Brogan requests that instead of sending holiday cards, readers contribute to particular causes. Check out this post on What to Buy a Marketing Person for Christmas. Get Rich Slowly blogger J.D. Tags: Tips and Techniques. Happy Holidays!

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 11, 2009

10 SEO and Marketing-Friendly Title Tag Formulas by Conversation Marketing The brilliant and creative Ian Lurie offers ten (well, eight really) title tag formulas that provide both SEO and branding benefits along with suggestions for best practices to satisfy both search engine bots and your human site visitors.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

By leelefever on June 10, 2008 - 9:20am. Submitted by Victor (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 8:34am. lightweight Submitted by EmbeddedLibrarian (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 9:33am. not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 9:53am. Ning Submitted by Elizabeth (not verified) on June 11, 2008 - 10:01am. Home » Blog.

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Customer Experience Matrix

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This showed that as of December 2008, search was still the most common Internet activity (used by 85.9% By contrast, the Pew Internet & American Life Project Survey in December 2008 found only 35% of adult online Americans had a social media profile. Zenith Optimedia pretty much agrees: its October 2008 report shows U.S.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Why is now the best time to start blogging, and what opportunities does it bring for business bloggers? Blogging is important because, up until 2008, more people still used offline (e.g. Online tipped over the 50% point in late 2008 and has grown every year since. For personal blogs – it’s tough.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Here, Im following both bloggers from the world of workplace learning (i.e. Personally what Id like to see is more conversations happening between edubloggers and workplace learning professionals on the issue of 21s century workplace literacy. Posted by: Meryn Stol | April 21, 2008 at 03:09 PM. Is this even an issue?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 14, 2008

This week we're exploring various strategies for using a blog to support personal and formal learning as part of the Work Literacy course's focus on blogging.  In a blog challenge, several  bloggers work together on a group learning project over a period of time--a few days, a week, a month.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Get the answers to these questions plus learn more about the largest and the fastest-growing social bookmarking and social networking sites in this installment of some of the best SMO blog posts and articles written so far in 2008. The only thing missing is each site's policy on the use of insidious nofollow tags.

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Marketing Insider Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The tag line for the award is “each year we recognize individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions to business through Twitter.&# I mix in some personal stuff, and some authentic company news amplification. And the real answer on how to be successful on Twitter is to focus on those relationships. What else?

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Online Marketers See High ROI from SEO by Marketing Pilgrim Blogger, SEO expert and PR pro Janet Meiners reports on an MarketingSherpa study detailing the growth in paid search and organic search engine optimization. tags: online advertising ROI, PPC costs, Web 2.0 tags: online advertising ROI, PPC costs, Web 2.0 UM Finds Web 2.0

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

First of all, tremendous thanks to the incredible team of guest bloggers who did an amazing job keeping the content fresh, and the conversation lively. Spread the Love It’s easy to fall into the trap of relying on one or a few persons in your organization to be the content creation mules. Visits are up. Page views are up.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

REVEAL Adding a personal experience helps to humanize your content. Then I expand the bullet points into complete paragraphs. An outline also creates a roadmap as I progress from chapter to chapter until I finish my report or eBook. No one likes to read text that sounds like a sermon. This white paper aims to change that perception of them.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 16, 2008

Luglio 16, 2008 di Giuliana Guazzaroni. Tagging : Che cosâ??è? Personal Branding con i Social Media â?? Alfabeti digitali, lingue, linguaggi, scrittura, e-learning, tutoring online, tecnologie didattiche, crossmedialità e netlife a cura di Giuliana Guazzaroni. Le competenze del Knowledge Worker. Come posso utilizzarli.

Wiki 100

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Online Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2011

Why not just establish some sort of conversion goal from the web on your own site (blog or www) as hub and create a social segmentation, establish process to campaign tag special links / promos and set everything else as a KPI (community size, engagement events). I really don’t see this as a tough thing to solve. Will send you a ping.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Bloggers of all stripes have counted on the popularity of “list” posts whenever they’ve run out of fresh ideas for content. Rohit may be the first person to have coined the term “content curator.” Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word. So curated content is not something new. What is content curation?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

link] Eric_Hoffman I'm game, even if my game is a bit weak…in the month of March, for my personal blog, I saw a whopping 29 different search terms used to get to my content and for the work blog that I help to maintain we saw 190 different search terms used to get to that content.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Brinker—the founding editor of Chief Martec, program chair of the MarTech Conference, and co-founder of his own martech company, ion interactive—has been a leading voice in the space since 2008. ” What are your thoughts on attribution and tagging? You can have bloggers who are truly specialists in their fields.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up for your email updates when you send one out, that person will receive it in almost every case. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Having a social media policy is considered an enforcement action by the FTC, which can be important if you are sued for misleading or unsubstantiated claims on a blog or by a blogger.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Home About Resources Archives Subscribe Consulting Contact How NOT to pitch a blog 29 Comments | Posted by Lee Odden on Aug 29th, 2007 in Blog Marketing , Blogging , Online Marketing , Online PR In the past I’ve written about blogger relations offering tips on how marketers or PR professionals ought to present their story ideas to bloggers.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. The way to do this practically is to borrow a technique from social media and use tagging.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! Because the real advantage email has over social is data.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 27, 2009

Affiliate Marketing vs. MLM 5 Major Mistakes that Bloggers usually make 7 PPC Budget Saving Tips by click consult Inspired 10 SEO strategies carry constructively for traffic hubs regularly for more efficiency HowMuch Serious Are You For Your Blogs And Blogging? Polls Archive Recent Visitors Copyright © 2008 Sanjay Dhingra.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

We measure it (personally and professionally) quantitatively not qualitatively. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Social media has never been driven by function and purpose. It's mostly based on buzz and mass popularity. It's… well… *mostly* a mass media so far.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header. 2 many words I guess?

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

60 Certainly, there are many other factors that contribute to number of followers, and I’m not saying this is in any way a metric judging how influential a person is on Twitter, just how efficient their Twitter usage might be. Had it connected me with many people I'll never meet in person? Gary Vaynerchuk has a FPT of 39.26.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Plus, event invites, and photos in which you’re tagged. Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. I'm taking some of your suggestions above and tailoring to what I *think* will work best for my personal needs. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. The more email addresses a person uses across the social Web, the less ideal the results. Isn’t that worth the 5 cents per contact that Flowtown charges?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Another person tweeted a link to a blog which turned out, much to my chagrin, to be a post asking for votes rather than a vote about the subject. But until then, I can’t not participate as some sort of personal protest. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. link] jaybaer I know.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

In the first section, Hsieh recounts his personal story, including his early childhood and nascent entrepreneurial adventures, including a misguided effort at worm farming. The book concludes with a few pages about the science of happiness, and how personal and business happiness can be inextricably linked.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2010

There's “bad&# advertisements and “bad&# uses of social media as well… Maybe you'd call it human marketing or even personality marketing, but the concept is really simple. He was personable and funny, a real likable guy. Sounds easy, but it's also really easy to screw up. I'd buy a book from him.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

The team’s record for the last five years: 2009-10 (14-60) so far 2008-09 (24-58) 2007-08 (22-60) 2006-07 (32-50) 2005-06 (33-49) In fact, the Timberwolves have won a playoff series only one time in their 21 years of existence. The chronically bad Minnesota Timberwolves NBA franchise has this sign in the Twin Cities airport: Bravo.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved. 4463 Forest Hill Drive -- Bloomington, Indiana 47401 (602) 616-1895 jason@convinceandconvert.com

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