Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Home About Lisa Create a Website Create a Blog Get This Theme Submit Guest Post Contact 2 Create a Website Blog Your guide to building, promoting and monetizing blogs and websites. It saves your time writing unsolicited email pitches because there you can connect to bloggers who are willing to publish your article.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Some of the guest writers blog on occasion at their own sites. 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. link] Doris Juergens RT @jaybaer: Are You Growing Enough Voices [link] (More info on guest bloggers…must be summer!)

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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. Funneling traffic from the blog to some other Web destination (typically a corporate site or lead form) is the prime objective. What’s the Point? As I see it, there are 3 options here: 1.

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 23, 2010

If you want to learn about formatting sales and landing pages using Wordpress , please register for the free Webinar I’m hosting Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 4 p.m. Blog this on Blogger. Post on Google Buzz. Blog or Website: Do You Use Wordpress as a Website? Share this on Bebo. Add this link to Box.net.

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MLT Creative

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

October 2-3, PodCamp Philly 2010 Philadelphia, PA: This event is targeted to audio and video podcasters, bloggers, social media enthusiasts, professionals and hobbyists, musicians, marketers, and people who want to understand more about the new media space.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2010

This helps inform the type of content that needs to be created, and where it should be distributed outside of the website (ex. RT @MikeCorak: Honored as guest blogger on C&C-RT @jaybaer: 5 Steps to Winning Fans with Content Strategy [link] [link] Abby Thanks for the resources. – Thanks Mike!

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

I attracted 1008 keywords to my website last month although I'm actually targeting 10. But the reality is, your blog is probably a lot more broad than you think. Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). Thanks for the info. So now you know !

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 17, 2010

So I found this person, actually, a Wordpress Wizard found me, and she said she had a whiz-bang solution for anybody with a Wordpress site who needed to create a sales page without the hassles. Next Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 4 p.m. Blog this on Blogger. Post on Google Buzz. ET , I’m going to interview Suzanne.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

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. If you make a blog or website, you have to find ways to get people to visit your site, thus affecting your search indexing. How do you get them to your website or blog?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Google’s new Buzz technology recognizes this convergence, by treating email connections between us as the core atomic unit of the social Web, rather than newer, more ephemeral connections made on Twitter, Facebook or elsewhere. (For You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! Just had that very discussion here this morning.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 29, 2010

Shirky points out that consumer-powered review sites like Yelp are just as valid as a critique from a professional restaurant reviewer, although perhaps for different reasons based on the collective knowledge and biases of each source. More people making stuff (100 million bloggers can’t be wrong) 2.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 28, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website A Blogging Style to Call Your Own by Achinta Mitra on April 28, 2010 in Industrial Marketing Blog , Industrial Marketing Strategies , Social Media Marketing Creating a blog is not too difficult but building an active community around it is.

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 21, 2010

First thing I tried to do was create a registration page using my Wordpress site on this blog. You can register right here for the free class on June 24, 2010 , at 4 p.m. Blog this on Blogger. Post on Google Buzz. Blog or Website: Do You Use Wordpress as a Website? ET, and get the free audio file: Name.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Based on my own anecdotal research, natural search typically drives at least 40% and average more than half of all unpaid traffic to b2b websites. Create helpful and link-worthy content, optimize your pages, and get other sites linking to yours in order to improve your site’s position in the search engines. Acme Software Inc.).

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

Having clear language on blogs and websites puts the public on notice about your position vis a vis copyright. Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. The FTC encourages social media policies be in place and reviewed.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As my friend Jeff Rohrs from ExactTarget (client) says: “How can social media kill email, when you have to have an email address to belong to a social media site?&# "How can social media kill email, when you have to have an email address to belong to a social media site?” link] [link] Sam Cece Exactly.

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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 ). Option 3, for some reason, reminds me of a news station web site. but a right-hand location on content sites. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

link] Kristi Hines I think that is probably the best way to get into the minds of the people your advertising is targeting, as opposed to the 1 – 10 rating surveys or expecting your demographic to come to a corporate website to voice their real opinions. Such a cool site! Such a cool site! Such a cool site!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 25, 2010

RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works (check it out) [link] [link] Meltwater Buzz RT @jaybaer: A Social Media Scoreboard That Works [link] A Social Media Scoreboard That Works – [link] (via @jaybaer & @philsimon) #fb [link] Kim Brame RT @upwardaction: Great tool!

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

After all, why would they even be coming to your Web site unless they had questions about your product or service? After all, why would they even be coming to your Web site unless they had questions about your product or service? Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time. To be entertained? I think not.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

You can also manage your customization preferences by clicking links in the email, so visiting the NutshellMail Web site isn’t needed after initial sign-up. So, if you want to see more about a new Twitter follower, you can simply click the name or photo in the email, and instantly visit their bio. This, I'll try. This, I'll try.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

I consistently look at the number and percentage of visitors to this site that come from Twitter. I love the Twitter culture and community, and I spend quite a bit of time using Twitter. Indeed, I use Twitter for all of the reasons above (especially to meet new people), but for me and my business, I have two core, measurable goals.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Again with the blogging, make sure your blogger or bloggers want to do it, if they are forced into it, you won’t get your posts on time. I have been the one man show for social media marketing for [link] Tourism website for the area, and have gotten accounts to 5000 within 9 months. This is a very interesting site.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Orientation for Your Blog Your first-time blog visitors are unfamiliar with your site design, navigation, structure, and other proclivities. One of the data points I track closely is the number of people who visit my speaking page, where they entered the site, and if they were first-time visitors or long-time readers of the blog.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. So much so, that 49% of recipients take the time to write about their experiences on a website form Western River provides.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 25, 2010

While having some measure of Web design and programming capabilities is almost a requirement, being in the business of constructing Web sites and applications per se, is typically a losing proposition for most agencies that are not involved in that business at scale. Note that I didn’t include Web design.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

Let’s say you have a white paper for download on your site. The way Donovan McNabb hates T.O. The way Lindsey Lohan hates non-alcoholic beverages. If you use Wufoo to power your forms, you can hook up Flowtown to investigate, score, and sort your form submissions, and then alert you based on custom business rules.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

Not to mention there are more benefits from using social networking sites showing every day. She leads the agency’s social media group, and has more than 20 years experience in consumer, technology, B2B and social media marketing.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

People use Twitter and FB and other social media sites to provide word of mouth advertising whether it be negative or positive, it is some time of feedback of a product. because through social media, customers are praising and criticizing companies in public in a way that requires marketing to triage and respond.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

Also, the official Web site at www.deliveringhappinessbook.com will be morphing soon to an online community where readers and others can share their stories and work together to create and spread happiness in the workplace and beyond. Donate just $33, and get a copy of the book, and an entry into a trip to NYC.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Thanks [link] Joanne Spruyt So glad I found your site. Thanks [link] Joanne Spruyt So glad I found your site. Sessions start October 5. Go to [link] to save 50% for a limited time. Are you ready to add some “Why&# to your “How&# ? Another excellent article. I’m going to put your Social Media Worksheet to work for me.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Find keywords and search phrases to include in these four places: Google Analytics (or whatever Web site analytics program you’re using) Look at your keywords report to find phrases that are driving traffic to your site. com ) and you'll get a list of all the sites that link to them. type link:www.(competitorURL).com

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 11, 2010

and the site produced a list of candidate cities for our consideration. I'm connected with quite a few Indiana bloggers and they are all terrific. Interesting to hear your reaction to AZ vs. IN bloggers. Seriously… are you sure this site isn't run by their chamber of commerce or something?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

A visit to the main T-Wolves Web site finds absolutely none of the humility and forthrightness that made the original ad so compelling. So, I turned to the team’s Facebook page, where NBA rules have not yet been codified, and team’s have more leeway than they do on the official Web site. Your Web site. At a minimum.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Look to Yelp and Forums When you get beyond social networks, the heaviest concentration of influential impressions is on ratings and reviews sites (32%), followed by discussion boards/forums at 29%. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Sore spot with us PR types.)

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

› Home › Column › Search › SEO Why Host a Blog on Your Corporate Website? Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. Thank you to everyone who reads Convince & Convert. Second, huge thanks to Joe and his team for the honor.

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