Writing on the Web

JULY 4, 2012

With the onslaught of social media in the last 10 years, the ever constant question is, what can it do for my business and my business blog? First, why should you bother with social networking sites ( Facebook , LinkedIn , Twitter ) if you’re in business? Facebook tops Google for weekly traffic in the U.S.

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Writing on the Web

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

5, 2010 at 5 p.m. Here’s where I’ve posted more information about the Scribe sale , and these 3 tips on how to get great search engine results : SEO for Smart Content Marketers: You’ve got to do keyword research (so you know what words people will use to find you). Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Is Content Curation an Easy Way for Content Marketers to Do More With Less? Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I’m not sure I craft “perfect” blog posts even after writing 1,000 of them—but I’ve certainly learned a few things. For the record: I wrote 440 posts on the Blogger-based WebMarketCentral blog between 2005 and 2010, and have now published 560 posts here on Webbiquity. Hence, 1,000.

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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. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. The class is on the phone and on the Internet, your choice.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

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). Branding is an expense item like the rest of marketing. He suggests that B2B marketers take a cue from their B2C counterparts when it comes to increasing brand awareness.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

I have written about this problem in my previous post, “The Disconnect Between B2B Content Marketing and Customer Engagement.” Some B2B marketers are using more sophisticated ROI measurement tools to track activities over the entire life cycle of a lead. You can read his entire blog post here.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 2, 2010

Fact: it is obscenely easy to set up a business blog today and begin driving new, qualified traffic to your site soon. Regular readers of HubSpot's blog are probably already experiencing the benefits of regular blogging, including harvesting the long tail of search traffic to drive incremental, high-quality leads to their site.

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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.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO? Here less is better.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

With 92% of companies now incorporating social media into their marketing efforts, it’s no longer sufficient to just “be there” on social networks. The first step to improving digital marketing results is to understand the emerging trends and best practices. What do buyers really want from social media marketers?

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Atomic Reach

JANUARY 3, 2019

This is where content marketing comes into play. Content Marketing allows brands to speak to you while coming across as authentic, empathetic, and dedicated to connecting with you. It is a blog post that informs you of industry changes or a video on social media that reveals a customer reviewing the brand. Through j effbullas.

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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

MARCH 4, 2010

Metrics would include the number of times a post is mentioned in other blogs or media, references, RT's, etc. It's important to educate businesses about the different permutations of business blogging, and measurement is going to part of that. Very helpful post, Jay. Mark, you're spot on!

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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. The blog can even extend beyond the conference and be used as a year-round source of information.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

In one word content – marketing content that is relevant and tailored to the prospect’s stage on the buy cycle. My take: Go back to the drawing boards and brainstorm with your R&D, engineering, sales and marketing people to make a list of problems that existed and are solved by your offerings. How can you accomplish all that?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

I’m sure you’ve read many times that engineers hate marketing/marketers and they want only the facts. That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. Creates Content Marketing With Lasting Impact ). While social media marketing may be cheap, it is not free.

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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.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

link] [link] Beth_Carroll 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Beth_Carroll 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] Beth_Carroll 5 Ways to Make Friends with Strangers on Your Blog [link] [link] davinabrewer Jay, the stats on first time visitors are interesting.

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Writing on the Web

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Re-purposing content – a life-saver when you don’t know what to blog about. Blogging 101: 6 Weeks to Confident Blogging. Wednesdays, November 10 – December 15, 2010. Add this to Google Bookmarks. Post on Google Buzz. Add this to Google Reader. Related posts: The REAL Reason I Love Blogging.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Business buyers typically seek additional information and resources for information on business products and services. In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. Â Pure content creation is demanding.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 3, 2013

For years, I've believed that the notion of a marketing 'campaign' is dead. In the words of Joseph Jaffe , “Marketing is not a campaign, it's a commitment.” which some of us might call 'inbound marketing'. Blogs and social media behave like compound interest, so if you treat them like 'campaigns,' you lose all the benefits.

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Hubspot

JULY 13, 2010

Online marketing, or inbound marketing as well call it at HubSpot , has many moving pieces. But as a CEO, you don’t need to get caught up in the details of your company’s online marketing efforts. As a busy CEO, you likely don’t have much time. Why Online Marketing Is Important.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Inbound marketing takes time, but most marketers only have a few hours in the schedule that they can carve out for inbound marketing, which can make prioritizing activites extremely difficult. If you only have a few hours to dedicate to inbound marketing per week, how should you allocate your time?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Great content this month via the B2B Marketing Zone. 50 (of the) Best Twitter Guides, Stats, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) , 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.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

KISSmetrics Home About KISSmetrics What Can You Learn from 7 Awesome Corporate Blogs? By Cameron Chapman on Oct 8, 2010 11 Comments Share Tweet Share A winning corporate blog can bring new traffic to your website and added attention to your company. Reply Kelly Oct 13, 2010 at 4:37 pm OKCupid’s data blog is amazing.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A business blog is an important and integral component of inbound marketing. While there are plenty of business blogs from B2B marketing consultants (including this one), industry portals and vertical search engines, there aren’t too many from manufacturers and industrial companies.

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

The B2B Marketing Zone has really taken off over the past few months with the recent addition of numerous great bloggers. For those not familiar with it, the B2B Marketing Zone (a.k.a. the BMZ) was officially launched a year ago as the first content aggregation hub for leading business-to-business bloggers. June 7, 2010.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Really great content around B2B Marketing again this month. Ten reasons to blog – even if nobody reads it - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , November 7, 2010 Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Google Analytics. Why not use it?

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Online Marketing Institute

MAY 18, 2010

When assessing B2B client resources for optimization, most marketers focus on web pages and increasingly, digital assets and social media content. Asking the right questions when sourcing content for search engine and social media optimization can reveal substantial assets that many marketers didn’t even think of using.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 15, 2010

Let me hear about it: View Comments | Subscribe To This Blog | Sign Up For Our Newsletter Share This Post: Similar Posts That You Might Enjoy: Build Your Brand a Social Content Ladder in 5 Steps Why Social Supports Email in the Interactive Marketing Hub Blastoff for My New Social Media Newsletter [link] Danny Brown Great tips, Mr Baer.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 14, 2014

“Big data” is one of the trendiest buzzwordy terms in marketing/technology/business today. 2014 B2B Content Marketing Trends–North America: Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs. 2014 B2B Content Marketing Trends–North America: Content Marketing Institute/MarketingProfs.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. July 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. The 20 craziest things you can do on Twitter - grow - Practical Marketing Solutions , July 7, 2010 OK, we’ve heard all the great business success stories about connecting and learning through Twitter. But that’s content for another blog post.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Though social media marketing is now used in about 90% of companies, techniques, platforms and best practices continue to evolve. Increase use of video marketing? Is blogging coming back or trailing off? Marketing Pilgrim ). Social media and blogs reach 80% of all U.S. V3 Integrated Marketing ). eMarketer ).

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 7, 2020

The start of 2020 marks 10 years since the launch of the Webbiquity blog in January, 2010. Simply looking at Google Analytics data, a couple of the most-read posts of all time covered social media marketing statistics and social media marketing best practices. Honorable Mention: Posts about marketing humor.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Market Theme. What the reviewers had to say: “Market Theme ($55) is a very user-friendly shopping cart solution for WordPress. Last updated: February, 2010. This was originally created for the artists to sell their art work online through their own blogs and websites. ” – All Blogging Tips.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Email Marketing: Improve deliverability by deleting subscribers? 4) Personal Branding: The five elements of being seen as a thought leader through crowdsourcing (2) Recognition Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open? I’ve been focusing on how the buyer experience and the sales.

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