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How to Blog: What Blog Categories Should I Create?

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A successful blog has carefully thought-out categories under which you group your blog posts. The irony is that it’s often not until you’ve blogged for a while that you figure out what you want those categories to be. Blog Post Categories Should Mirror Your Products and Services.

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Does LinkedIn Make Your Phone Ring?

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So, if I’m getting results, why do many business people still say, “I’m on LinkedIn – now what?” So you’re on LinkedIn – now what? I was the 102,794 th person to create a LinkedIn profile on January 7, 2004. (To I’m relatively active on LinkedIn.

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8 Elements of the Perfect Blog Post

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What does a perfect blog post look like? I recently curated an article on the perfect blog post by Kevan Lee of Buffer. It was chock full of great tips and best practices for blog posts proven by research, but some of my followers commented that the long and detailed article was hard to put into action. This surprised me!

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Is Your Social Media Consultant an Expert or a Wannabe?

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Just as “SEO Experts” created themselves overnight after reading a few how-to blog posts online, many consultants who call themselves social media “experts” have little or no real experience. I think this is because more marketers understand Facebook than LinkedIn. That’s a topic for another blog post.

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The Death of Salesmen, Really

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I’ve been a marketing consultant since 1997 and an Inbound Marketing Certified Professional blogging, tweeting and working on social media for my marketing and for clients since 2009. I’ve logged hundreds of thousands of hours on social media in the last five years (ten years on LinkedIn).

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Fuel Your Online Marketing Machine with Dynamic Content

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It did mine recently – I received a call about a post I did in 2009 from an executive at a financial services company on the East Coast. Here are some ideas: Blog posts. Tweets, LinkedIn and Facebook status updates. Does your online content make your phone ring? Press releases. Whitepapers.