Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. Is anyone out there? What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (or at least correlation) between social media success and business outcome. Want to compare the historical growth of your RSS subscribers to your YouTube channel subscribers? A write up on a blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

To add a new twist to a thorny problem, I read a very interesting quote from Avinash Kaushik, the man who literally wrote the book on Web Analytics 2.0 , he said, “Engagement is not a metric, it’s an excuse.” You can read his entire blog post here. Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. State Indicator – Turns orange when you’re in that section 2.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. And that begins with thinking like an investigative reporter by asking the 4Ws and the 1H questions.

Email Marketing 60

Email Marketing Planning Web 2.0 BtoB 60

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? If you are not a professional copywriter, coming up with new content regularly can be a difficult task.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s a shame and here’s why — among the top ten in Interbrand’s Best Global Brands 2009 , IBM was listed at #2, Microsoft, GE and Intel at number 3, 4 and 9 respectively. Create an expertise blog to showcase your internal subject matter experts and allow your prospects and site visitors to interact with them directly.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 12, 2010

I found a series of blog posts on pricing on your website at Dave Jung’s B2B Blog , some of those articles date back to 2006. My web analytics indicate that not all visitors that land on the pricing page also click on Web design RFQ or Contact Us links. Why do we need prices on B2B websites? If not, what’s stopping you ?

Sales Management 60

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 26, 2010

It goes well beyond just cutting costs, today, it is more about accountability, analytics and engaging customers and prospects by using free or inexpensive social media tactics. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing Home Bio Speaking Grade your Site Marketing Resources Twitter Jeff’s YouTube Contact Congratulations: You have successfully subscribed! I then added to that post with some ideas from readers and more of my own with a post titled “ 50 Ways To Optimize Your Blog “.

Paid Content 40

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

About Automation Toolbox Automation Consulting Privacy Policy Blog Glossary Resources Contact Calculator Login close Client Login coming soon. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Reply Inbound Marketing Automation Blog Welcome to Gossamar’s Inbound Marketing Automation blog.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 18, 2009

This entry was posted on June 17, 2009 at 12:50 pm and is filed under B2B Online Marketing , B2B Social Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 Get a free blog at WordPress.com. It takes work, but the business value derived may be well worth the effort.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) Hope that helps!

Social Media 155

Social Media Media Paid Content Work Management 155

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Blog HubSpot TV Contributors Marketing Kit Internet Marketing Blog The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Figures for company blog customer acquisition are closest in range, with 57% of B2C companies and 43% of B2B companies obtaining a customer through this channel. However, B2C marketers are more engaged in every other type of social media tracked by the survey.

Social Media 40

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 3, 2009

B2B Marketing News SMEs flock to BT Tradespace 10 June 2009, 11:30 GMT BT Tradespace has announced 400 per cent year-on-year growth. This Knowledge Bank focused on how to use customer insight and sophisticated data analytics techniques to revolutionise your business, and make your database a highly effective marketing weapon.

Business to Business 40

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readwrite

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Costolo is best known to date for his work at Feedburner, the RSS publishing and analytics service bought and squandered by Google. RSS has been widely derided as too hard for consumers and relegated to obscurity “under the hood” – replaced even in the lives of many tech-watchers by Twitter.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Marty Weintraub provides a remarkable and highly detailed guide to setting up a social media reputation monitoring dashboard using free tools such as Google Alerts, iGoogle, Google Analytics, and keyword tools along with Excel. 11 Reasons You Can’t Ignore Social Media in 2009 by Digital Labz. What’s In Your Social Media Toolkit?

Social Media 100

Social Media Marketing Budget Social Marketing Paid Search Agency 100

Online Marketing Institute

JULY 31, 2012

RSS Feeds. --> --> Bookmark FOLIOMag.com. 2009 Eddie and Ozzie Awards Winners. While Facebook and Twitter offer their own analytics tools, a host of third-party offerings exist to pick up where they leave off. ); E-Mail Alert Sign-Up. --> Subscribe Now. --> Media Kit. --> About FOLIO. MediaPRO Community. SEARCH FOLIO: Search.

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Social Media Enterprise Management Marketing Management CMS Development 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter. The Supply Chain Expert Community launched in August 2009 and is home to 3,620 members and counting. But to kick things up a notch, it built a community for supply chain management specialists to congregate. For a niche community, that’s a feat.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing B2B Marketing 40

Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

In the last MarketingSherpa Search Marketing Benchmark Guide (2009), data indicated that the average CPC for B2B lead generation efforts was $3.33, vs. $0.78 Contact | Members Info | RSS Feeds | Email Subscriptions | Privacy | Advertise | About © 2010 Third Door Media, Inc. for B2C retailers and $1.93 for B2C lead generators.

Paid Content 40

Paid Content PPC Cost Per Click Paid Search Agency 40

Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

There have lots of posts written about Google search tricks , but in this piece, Amit Agarwal shows how to perform tasks like tracking companies, finding MP3 files and even setting up an RSS feed of search results (something that can’t be done with Google or Yahoo!) 100 Tips and Tools to Research the Social Web by Select Courses.

Tools 100

Tools Enterprise Management Marketing Management Best Practices 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics.

Social Media 167

Social Media Media Paid Content Webinar Metrics 167

Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

I want to share a list of tactics and approaches I’ve used/experimented with at this blog to attract from 40,000-250,000 organic visitors monthly and more than 8,500 RSS/email readers. This is in the hopes of inspiring some new ideas to help your blog or your client’s blog.

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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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Traffic Lead Ranking Lead Scoring Top of Funnel 60

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009. Brian Solis provides a wealth of statistics that answer these questions and more, e.g., 87% of Americans said they were familiar with Twitter in 2010, up from just 26% in 2009.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 21, 2009

A sophisticated yet free analytical tool for optimizing your CRM implementation? Social media analytics? Find them all and others here in the first set of the best cool web tools for 2009. Mail), social networking sites (Facebook, MySpace), blogging platforms (WordPress, Blogger, TypePad), media sites (Flickr, YouTube) and more.

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Tools Marketing Management Best Practices 20

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Concepts under consideration include a variety of different search results (not just by time, but possibly by relevancy or impact), analytics, RSS feeds, widgets and more. Help Shape the Future of the Real-Time Web Gilbert is considering adding several other features to today’s admittedly basic version of Kurrently.

Social Media 164

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 164

Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang Home About Speaking Research Media Contact Subscribe via RSS Connect with Jeremiah: twitter friendfeed linkedin flickr technorati Connect with Jeremiah on twitter A few years ago, critics said Blogging was a fad. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0

Social Networks 40

Social Networks Enterprise Management Marketing Websites Work Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Written by Adam Blitzer June 16, 2009 at 5:38 pm Posted in Design , Marketing Strategy SpamAssassin Rules and what they Mean for your Emails leave a comment » For the past several years I have been following SpamAssassin’s rule set and I am always amazed by how many seemingly innocuous things (e.g. Clarity gets the point across.

Work Management 40

Work Management Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services B2B Marketing 40

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter. The Supply Chain Expert Community launched in August 2009 and is home to 3,620 members and counting. But to kick things up a notch, it built a community for supply chain management specialists to congregate. For a niche community, that’s a feat.

Social Media 40

Social Media Enterprise Management Social Marketing Work Management 40

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out). If You Can’t Beat Em, Should You Join Em? And I still feel that way.

Social Media 167

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

Also, Facebook’s enhancements to its Insights analytics product aim to give companies information about their visitors that far exceeds the data available from Google Analytics (another reason Google is freaking out). If You Can’t Beat Em, Should You Join Em? And I still feel that way.

Facebook 167

Facebook Marketing Websites Paid Content Social Media 167

Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Blog Comments (The blog is on WordPress) Disqus This is what I use to manage comments here at Convince & Convert. ChatCatcher This is a nice little tool that finds Tweets about your blog posts, and automatically adds them as comments. Despite being free, Google keeps adding functionality to Google Analytics.

Social Media 40

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Install site analytics, the free Google Analytics is a good start. Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } wp-popular.com » Blog Archive » Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? If necessary, rewrite or edit the text to address critical pain points of your prospects and customers.

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Marketing Websites Marketing Budget Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 13, 2011

Home How it works Solutions Customers Company Free Trial Blog Get updates via email: What is ReadyContacts? Whether they come from form fills, landing pages, rss subscriptions, webinar registrations or downloads, these are now regarded as some of the most qualified and actionable kinds of leads that can be generated. b2bmarketing

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