Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

A little too sterile, in my opinion. Just my opinion though… -Ralph [link] iFroggy Hey Jay, I voted for number 2, but I changed my mind. In my opinion, the more color the better! And while I have my photo on the right side of every page (I like the photo – by my friend Tyson Crosbie – do you?), Hope that helps.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

If you are still not sure about the benefits of using a business blog, head over to HubSpot and read these articles: 6 Reasons Every Small Business Should Be Blogging… Are You Missing the Boat? Without passion and expertise, you will have a hard time sustaining your business blog over the long haul. I say you need both.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As then you have a much better chance that they’ll return or sign up for your RSS feed, email newsletter or other call to action. At first, you knew everyone at the party.

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

Businesses in particular can capitalize on this because businesses that blog experience 126% higher lead growth than non-blogging businesses. Try things like current news, opinion, and media rich content. You’ll be surprised that many people will still prefer this over RSS. What’s remarkable?

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

About the Data: In March 2010, White Horse conducted a survey of 104 corporate marketers across a range of businesses about their companies’ use of social media marketing.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos About the Author About this blog High tech marketers face incredible challenges building awareness, developing demand, enabling sales, and demonstrating marketings impact on the business in an increasingly digital world. « B2B Marketing POSTs by Laura Ramos Says: February 1, 2010 at 4:18 PM [.]

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Mark Jackson | August 18, 2010 | 0 comments ); //]]> Share Tweet My company has recommended blogging to many of our search engine optimization clients. Today, I’m going to share my opinion of why you might want to consider adding a blog to your corporate website. His columns can be found in the Search Engine Watch archive.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve started a comparison chart, based only on my own experience and opinion, for you to use and update as you see fit. Socialmention.com is basically a social search engine, if the business name is unique it can be a good option. This can be a problem if a business doesn't have a management tool in place. Hope that helps!

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified. Be Your Own White Knight I know this blog is called Convince & Convert, and originally I thought that was a perfect description for the social media and real-time business revolution. This makes no sense. Lastly, the people factor is huge.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Find online buddies who are having fun with the tool : It may not be your idea of giggles, but you still need to develop an educated opinion on why the tool is attracting attention, anyway. Heather Rast 07/06/2010 at 8:18 PM Permalink Hi, Elizabeth! and great speech!) What a great post to save to my favorites and keep in my arsenal.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 28, 2015

We believe that content marketing is starting to have a dramatic impact inside marketing organizations for business both large and small. Many businesses have ways to measure the cost per subscriber, or cost per lead. It has to come from real people, with real opinions and personal passions. Next, you can look at performance.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Make Social Portable Facebook’s true genius isn’t Facebook.com, it’s Facebook Connect, allowing consumers to import their friends and their friends’ opinions onto hundreds of thousands of other Web sites. Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside , a conference of advertising and PR agency owners.

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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. Within the field of content marketing, content curation blends a mix of new content with the filtering and management of useful information streams from blogs and other RSS resources.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

MEMBER LOGIN > | BECOME A MEMBER > Column: Strictly Business Finding The Right Calls-To-Action For Your B2B Website Nov 17, 2010 at 12:23pm ET by Shellie Foriska Marketers continue to search for ways to convert more website visitors into actual leads. Using the power of website analytics can help make that search a little easier.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

MEMBER LOGIN > | BECOME A MEMBER > Column: Strictly Business B2B Hubs Or PPC? Mar 17, 2010 at 11:34am ET by Andy Komack B2B companies crave leads. Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land. Are All Leads Created Equal? Good leads. Quality leads. b2bmarketing

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

You’re in an industry (photography) and are a business type (small) where a lot of people would say “social media isn’t for me&#. You’re in an industry (photography) and are a business type (small) where a lot of people would say “social media isn’t for me&#. Those type of comments are why I do it.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

MEMBER LOGIN > | BECOME A MEMBER > Column: Strictly Business 6 Tactics For Overcoming The High Cost Of Clicks In B2B PPC Jun 8, 2010 at 9:05am ET by Andy Komack For anyone involved in marketing their B2B companies via paid search, it’s painfully obvious that the cost of clicks can be prohibitively high. Comments are closed.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

AdSense/CPC Blogging & RSS Design Getting Started Making Money Traffic / Promotion The Step-by-Step Guide to Guest Blogging June 14, 2010 · 33 comments This is a guest post by Ann Smarty of MyBlogGuest.com. Your approach and professionalism is very important if you want to gain the attention of busy bloggers!

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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. 71% of business users now say Twitter is a useful tool, up from 59% a year ago. So what are the best ways to use Twitter for business?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 20, 2012

The RSS feed is: [link]. Digg made a big technology change or big product change, I think in, like, 2010, and basically drove away all of their customers. I have my own opinions around that. Listen Now. Click the play button to listen here: Download the audio file: [link]. Find us on iTunes: [link]. Please Support Our Sponsors.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2010

link] [link] Jen Grant You're Invited to the Socialpalooza [link] by @jaybaer (who in my opinion is worth 10x more than the cost here #justsayin) [link] Skip Bensley RT @jaybaer: Wow. I believe this will be the most comprehensive, useful collection of Webinars (education in your jammies rules) ever compiled about social media. (if

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 8, 2010

When you go on a business trip and you have your phone and computer, would you bring a 3rd device with you? I use Skype for a business line and would love to be able to video chat using an iPad… But alas – Apple has much more money to be made before they get to that feature. But then again, Apple is a business.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

July 29, 2010 at 2:43 pm Related Topics: Business To Business blogs 23 Comments » 23 Responses to “Blogs are Becoming the New Front Door for Prospects: Is Yours Open?&# Kate Gallagher Says: July 30th, 2010 at 11:32 am Great post!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). The dominant URL shortener is also the best – in my opinion – at tracking and analytics. for whatever search terms are important to you and your business. I implement bit.ly

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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. pull PR is, in my opinion, a superior approach: you draw media to you. And, #10 really revolves around taking a stand in my view.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 10, 2012

What’s better than getting an expert’s opinion on the best ecommerce plugins for WordPress? How about getting the opinions of 10 experts! An integration of successful themes with WooCommerce can give a huge impact to any business giving the ability to grow sales on the web.” Last updated: February, 2010.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] He points out that at some level, we are all beholden to some stakeholder if we are doing business on the net: domain registrars, hosting providers, WP.com, Tumbr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. If they are not appearing on searches most of their business is gone. Make that, Section-8 housing for your small business.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 3, 2010

link] He points out that at some level, we are all beholden to some stakeholder if we are doing business on the net: domain registrars, hosting providers, WP.com, Tumbr, Facebook, Twitter, etc. If they are not appearing on searches most of their business is gone. Make that, Section-8 housing for your small business.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 16, 2010

I advocate participating in Twitter, and I’ve certainly grown my own audience via that channel, and it should be part of almost every company or business professional’s social media tool kit. Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM.

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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

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

This is set to reach 12% by 2013 Source : AMR International B2B Online Marketing Assessment and Forecast to 2013 US business-to-business (B2B) advertising and marketing spending will increase by 0.8% this year, to $129 billion Interactive spending will climb 9.2%, to $51.5 Powered by Logic In Motion.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Use WWSGD to include a little message before or after each of your posts, asking readers to subscribe to your RSS feed (or buy you a drink). The dominant URL shortener is also the best – in my opinion – at tracking and analytics. for whatever search terms are important to you and your business. I implement bit.ly

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

MEMBER LOGIN > | BECOME A MEMBER > Column: Strictly Business Why B2B Blogs Aren’t Achieving SEO Success May 26, 2010 at 9:22am ET by Galen DeYoung Earlier this month, I led the Hot Seat Lab on Better Blogging for Business at MarketingProfs’ B2B Forum in Boston. Check out all the benefits ! Comments are closed.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 5, 2012

The RSS feed is: [link]. ” I get so tired of listening to people who have no business experience say something like, “Oh, you shouldn’t do any traditional marketing. Actually, sorry, that was 2010. Listen Now. Click the play button to listen here: Download the audio file: [link]. Find us on iTunes: [link].

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Online Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

If your event is the Business of the Calling Ducks conference, don’t use #businessofthecallingducks as your tag. Do you have strong opinions about IE6? Jason Breed Hashtags do help categorize, however not structured enough for businesses. Choose a simple hashtag that represents your event or brand. will revisit your site.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Brian Solis Home Articles Business – Marketing PR 2.0 – New Communications Social Media Speaking Books Appearances About The State of the Blogosphere 2010 December 13, 2010 View Comments The question we ask ourselves when examining the state of the blogosphere is whether or not the cup is half full or half empty?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

dougwri RSS. dougwri Comments RSS. At the current time one in ten technical support skills are off-shored; by 2010, it will be one in four such jobs. Business analysts predict: “The offshore trend is not a fad, but a mega-trend.” « A good policy for policies |. Morello, “U.S.

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