The Effective Marketer

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Stress vs. Productivity from www.hrmreport.com If your office is anything like mine, your colleagues send you Youtube videos, web links, and other stuff that although very entertaining doesn’t help you get your projects done on time. Have you ever tried simply not checking email ? Close the email and ask yourself again in 1 hour.

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The Effective Marketer

MARCH 7, 2009

Albert Chen, from Google , flew directly from Boston to our cozzy Florida weather to grace us with his presence and gave a thoroughly entertaining presentation discussing what Google Can Do for You. He reinforced some key messages we heard throughout the day and added some great stories about Twitter, blogs, and podcasting.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 28, 2010

A 2009 study by MarketingProfs found that all companies, regardless of model and size, are predominately using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Blogs, and Linkedin. There’s a lot more to social media than Twitter. All of these are positively impacted by social media. B2B Social Media Myth #3. B2B Social Media Myth #4.

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Webbiquity

MAY 30, 2010

From social media cartoons and contextual advertising gone wrong to dysfunctional agency-client relationships and the best (and worst) online ads, here are some of the most amusing, creative and remarkable blog posts and videos of 2009. The Twitter Avatar Roast: 10 Types of Profile Images by Tremendous News. Episode 4 by Thoughtpick.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

One executive I know, the president of a software company, shares the first page of Google with a biomedical researcher, a diplomat, a (not exactly best-selling) author, and the Facebook page of a college student from North Dakota. Yet he owns the first five pages of Google for his identity. Start Twittering. A few examples.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that. These statistics are easily and readily available from your dashboard in Google Analytics. In Google Analytics look at Traffic Sources > Keywords.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

SlideSix lets you upload PowerPoint, PDF or OpenOffice presentations, mix in videos from YouTube or Vimeo, and share your presentations with groups. PeoplePond PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you sell tickets, Eventbrite charges a fee, plus you will need to link to a Paypal or Google Checkout account to accept payment. You can even track your registration page in Google Analytics. Twitter Twitter can offer limitless value in promoting your event. Invite attendees to ask questions via Twitter or live chat.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Page title (Title Tags) – This is what is visible at the top of the browser window. It is a very important part of your on site SEO strategy and you should take the time to customize your title tag for each post and page. By default, search engines will use words from your first paragraph if you don’t specify a description tag.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

By increasing the number of indexed pages in Google (Blog pages Google includes in its database of pages considered for ranking for specific keywords). For every 50 to 100 pages of indexed pages in Google, leads achieved double digit growth as seen in the chart below.

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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. Most CEOs of manufacturing, engineering and technical companies do not believe in the value of brand building and consider it the domain of consumer marketing (B2C).

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So I Googled “content curation&# and lo and behold, it returned 77,600 results. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog. I hit the mother lode!

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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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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! Provide “share this” buttons to Facebook and Twitter as a minimum 22. Implement “subscribe” buttons via RSS and Email 23. be authentic.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

The first one is All in One SEO Pack and the second one is Google XML Sitemaps. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing. You need to optimize yours if you want to be found in major search engines.

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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. Instead of thinking of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter as lead generators, use them to increase awareness and drive traffic to your website.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. webinars website design White Paper Marketing whitepapers YouTube Marketing Matters Marketing Matters is our monthly e-newsletter on best practices in industrial and B2B marketing. Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

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. Instead of guessing, develop a list of keywords and phrases that your target audience is actually using to search for solutions to their problems.

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Anything Goes Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

During my research, I stumbled upon a great article by the Canadian Marketing Blog called " 2009 B-to-B Demand Creation Trends " eh (Canadian joke). Use social media techniques such as Twitter and YouTube to maximize the effect of your webinars, videos and white papers. You can even just post the slides or the speech text.

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Customer Experience Matrix

JULY 30, 2009

The one major missing inbound marketing feature is paid search management, such as Google AdWords integration. It extended this in 2009 email alerts triggered when user-selected leads visit the Web site. Volpe said that users’ biggest problem is finding time to write new content, not making the other changes like tweaking page tags.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Situation turns dire until someone within the company gets an epiphany, “Our site is not optimized” > Quick, call in that SEO expert who guarantees first page ranking in Google > Before you know it, you are locked in a 6-month search engine optimization contract.

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Hubspot

MAY 29, 2013

The amount of digital information created worldwide, tagged, and shared has grown 9-fold in the past five years, and should quadruple again by 2015. 5) Google+ is doing better than you think. 5) Google+ is doing better than you think. It’s now the #4 social media site, behind Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Website Grader Badge Connect with Us HubSpot on Facebook HubSpot on Twitter InboundMarketers LinkedIn Group ProMarketers Facebook Group Subscribe to Blog RSS Want to share your Inbound Marketing advice with the community? Q: How do you compare your video marketing efforts on YouTube with your blogging program?

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 10, 2009

Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% Site Alexa Rank (March 2009) Compete Traffic (February 2009) Compete 1-Year Traffic Change Google Pagerank Facebook 5 73,787,766 +159.0% 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4%

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Linkedin Groups vs. Twitter. Podcasts vs. YouTube. Twitter is even narrower at 36% – 46%. The pattern holds for YouTube and Linkedin, too. First, marketers of all stripes seem to have accepted (for now) that social media in large measure = Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube and blogs.

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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. Twitter knows that you are @somecustomer, and what you Tweet about, and maybe your geography.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Top Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video Google Buzz Social media Android Mobile 2.0 The team focused on creating communities for NYC professionals, which resulted in a @RegusNYC Twitter feed and a Facebook Page. The company started a blog, participated in LinkedIn LinkedIn and engaged on Twitter.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 26, 2010

What you’re doing on Twitter isn’t a social media strategy, it’s a tools strategy. I don’t believe Twitter and Facebook will always dominate. These services are in many ways would Twitter was originally, with another layer of loyalty and rewards built in. Stelzner on Vimeo.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Mark Walsh helpfully outlines the recent changes Facebook has made to its privacy settings, though noting that “ profiles opened to everyone, however, will still not turn up in searches on Google or other outside search engines. &#. 8 Excellent Tools to Extract Insights from Twitter Streams by Social Media Today. by HubSpot.

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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). Put it on YouTube of course. You don’t need a film crew.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Remember, your most important customer is Google, and your content ladder needs to maximize your chances for search success. This is especially important now that Google and Bing are incorporating social content into real-time search results). and search for them on Google, Bing, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and SocialMention.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 14, 2010

A Google search of the phrase “social media ROI” provides 694,000 results (at least at this writing). I recently heard a poignant expression, “you are your Google results”. Now, Google creates perceptions and it is our job to engage the communities and instill what perceptions we want seen.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. 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.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

SlideSix lets you upload PowerPoint, PDF or OpenOffice presentations, mix in videos from YouTube or Vimeo, and share your presentations with groups. PeoplePond is a secure social profile site that can be connected to your Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts. PeoplePond. My Tweet Space. Tell A Friend. And it’s free.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 17, 2018

A Google search for " growth hacking " yields a plethora of results. Since its 2009 founding, one thing has been certain about Uber: It's experienced unequivocal brand growth. Use Twitter retargeting. Tag your YouTube videos. Since Twitter has a 280-character limit, these short snippets are prime for sharing.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

Why Use Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn for Content Marketing? B2B Voices ( Trade Youtube Twitter Leads Sales ). CeeKue ( Promotion Word of Mouth B2C CRM Google Content Tips ). The End Of Google Search Is Near , Wednesday, July 7, 2010. Blog as hub, site as spoke , June 23, 2009. June 8, 2010.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You can also set up various searches from Google, Twitter, etc and run the RSS feeds from each search through Yahoo Pipes and have the resulting feed delivered to your inbox or RSS reader to monitor ongoing. Also, the ability to tag sources and posts for later reporting or creating listening streams is often important to consider.

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