Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

You may be surprised by how different some of those terms are from those used within your company. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Google is not the only source of content ideas. Bottom line – better content comes from better research.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

Having worked closely with many manufacturers and companies from the industrial sector, I have learned several valuable lessons about what works when it comes to marketing to engineers and technical buyers. You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. I should know — I am an engineer too. of Tiecas, Inc.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Here’s my description tag from the same post (NOTE: it is not the default first paragraph): Don’t go crazy stuffing keywords in your page’s keywords tag because Google does not use the keywords Meta tag in page ranking. See a video from Matt Cutts on Google official position on using keywords meta tag ). Here less is better.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. Don’t ignore social media’s ability to quickly announce new blog posts, articles, webinars and events. And yes, it does cost money.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How Lack of Marketing Content Can Derail Your Website Redesign Project by Achinta Mitra on June 3, 2010 in Content Marketing , Industrial Websites , Search Engine Optimization (SEO) , Website Design & Development What comes first – site content or site design?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

As mobile browsers become more powerful, Google and its partners decided to do things their own way. Pissing off Google.) Pissing off Google.&# Pissing off Google.&# Pissing off Google" [link] [link] Bruce Hendrickson Great post! You know what’s not a good idea? introduced an application-geared Internet.

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JULY 26, 2010

Each of the 27,000 companies that use the service had the same goal – to share their pitch. 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. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yes, social media applies to B2B. In fact, social media can be MORE transformative for a B2B company than a B2C company. Creating and calibrating a social media strategy for any company should follow the same process. The variation may come in how social media is used, not which social media are used.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Too many companies and organizations are reinventing the content wheel for every social outpost they maintain. Taxonomy is incredibly important in social media because it’s the most direct link between the worlds of social and search marketing. Take your top keywords (including your company name, product name, etc.)

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Unify Your Team The first step is for companies to devise a coordinated strategy that uses email and social communication synergistically. Sure, social media is rooted in conversations, and listening to your customers and then responding on the social Web is a pillar of social media. But, it's not all conversational.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

I also like to look at search data, both the searches that people are conducting about your company on Google ( use this free keyword tool ), (insert Google keyword tool screen shot) and the searches conducted on your Web site (assuming you have a search function). You don’t need a film crew. How did I know that?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

February 23rd, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Is your social media program about asking, or answering? there’s a schism coming in social media between companies using it for marketing, and companies using it for customer service and CRM. Like Sonny divorcing Cher (or was it the other way around?)

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

A collaboration between RESMARK Systems (a provider of hospitality software), Western River Expeditions (an adventure tour company), Compendium (provider of corporate content creation software), and ExactTarget (provider of enterprise messaging software) shows how this can be done day-to-day. That’s it. It makes sharing simple.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

Regarding comments about the search box location, I'm used to a left or central location on search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.), Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. All rights reserved.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

I'm not sure you can separate content from community anymore, as Google seems to be looking more and more at engagement (comments, linkbacks, time on site) to determine the value of content. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

His ramblings can be found at www.membershipjedi.com This post is a compilation of ideas born out of Jay’s post “ Why You’re the Key to Social Media Success ” in which he succinctly describes one of the biggest obstacles facing organization’s pursuit of social media effectiveness – corporate culture. Why ignore it?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 28, 2010

When I discuss this concept with companies, however, too often I hear something in the realm of “we don’t know what to provide our customers that would be helpful.&# Try to return something to your own company. 5 excellent points that a company can (should!) 5 excellent points that a company can (should!)

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APRIL 20, 2010

While this is important for a blog like mine, it’s flat-out critical for e-commerce companies, and others that are blogging for business. I am showing as 2291 keywords where my site appears in Google's index, but only 170 words where they have actually clicked through to the site itself.

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AUGUST 10, 2010

JB : How are companies incorporating influence metrics into their marketing? JB : In addition to influencer outreach, how can companies engage in influence mining for customer service? Should companies treat customers differently? RK : Measuring social media’s direct impact on sales. It will be interesting to watch.

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MARCH 3, 2010

Me Too Agencies realize how hot social media is, and they are scrambling to add social media expertise (real or imagined) to their services mix. In fact, a search for “social media agencies&# on Google yields more than 41 MILLION matching Web pages. Remember, the most important customer of EVERY company is Google.

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APRIL 15, 2010

We have entered an era where every business needs to consider themselves a TV station and a magazine , and the quicker you figure out your strategic content marketing plan, the faster you can use content to drive meaningful business results. Is Your Company in the Content Marketing Industry? Consider a company like Kodak.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

Create a social media steering group (cross-functional) for your company. Social media is fueled by passion, and too many companies try to take elements of their company that aren’t passion-worthy, and attempt to build a social media program around it. Facebook fan pages are email newsletters 2.0

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

If you fall in love with tools, you’ll constantly be changing directions, with no real plan to guide your way. Can you describe what your company does in 120 characters or less? Social media is about people, not logos. If you’re a small company, congratulations, this should be pretty easy.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

Of course, there are a ton of outstanding PR firms doing excellent work in social media, including all the folks I have the great privilege to work with every day here at Convince & Convert. But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace answered in July, 2008 – almost a full year later. Don’t Sell Too Early Many of the missteps that contributed to MySpace’s decay were based on the company not moving beyond its core proposition. In 2006, you have a veritable ATM machine, with companies begging you to put banner ads on your site.

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MARCH 23, 2010

I'll have to check my Google numbers, all that good stuff. Im a tequila-loving, hype-free social media strategy consultant, speaker, and author that works with major corporations and PR firms to harness the awesome power of the social Web. Ive founded 5 companies, and spent 15 years running digital marketing agencies.

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JUNE 15, 2010

Companies should follow, not lead, their customers across the social Web. Rapleaf is better for larger companies. Ask Perhaps the most obvious way of finding out where your customers are hanging out in social media is unfortunately the least utilized. Because there really is no benefit in beating your customers to the punch.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Social media relies on the premise that we’ll believe what people tell us more readily than if we were told the same thing by a nameless, faceless company. But, a new study by Edelman (whose digital arm features social media and ebusiness genius David Armano ) claims that bond is eroding.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe. I mined my Google Analytics and put together a list of the 25 most popular posts that have ever appeared on this blog , ranked by total number of page views. but question is. How do someone come up with creative titles like that?

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MAY 20, 2010

Ready, Fire, Aim There are two schools of thought regarding social media effectiveness tracking. The first is the experimental, dip the toe in the water approach whereby a company begins a modest collection of initiatives to get familiar with the morays and methods of social media. This is the pet naming program. great read.

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JULY 22, 2010

According to a recent Social Media and Online PR Report from Econsultancy , 86% of companies surveyed planned to spend more on social media marketing in 2010, but only 25% say they have gained “real, tangible value&# from the medium. Please let me know by commenting below!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. One of the reasons companies continue to put a lot of emphasis on their websites while still maintaining a robust Facebook page is that Facebook couldn’t do all the things a website can do.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Incidentally, this is why Google is so afraid of Facebook. Google has made a couple of dollars by reading and ranking Web pages. One of the reasons companies continue to put a lot of emphasis on their websites while still maintaining a robust Facebook page is that Facebook couldn’t do all the things a website can do.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

it’s really not possible for a company (or even an individual like me) to have true conversations within social media – and certainly not with any real scale or breadth. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again. Remember, social media makes big companies seem small again.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

The point of tracking software isn’t to determine how many tweets were sent mentioning a company, it’s to figure out what those tweets say, and what the business ramifications are. I interviewed Adam Schoenfeld , President and Co-founder of RowFeeder to learn more about the company and its plans.

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