Convince & Convert

JULY 27, 2010

Instead, traffic here on Convince & Convert is actually UP since I went on vacation. 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. Certainly, there is a benefit to creating content on a daily basis. Visits are up.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Blogging for Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation.

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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. Since April, 2010 Western River has collected more than 1,100 of these customer stories. Each story shared becomes new content for the blog.

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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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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog by Achinta Mitra on September 20, 2010 in B2B Lead Generation , Industrial Marketing Blog In B2B lead generation, quantity versus quality is probably the biggest challenge faced by industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 10, 2010

However, none of that can happen until you drive lots of interested traffic to your business blog. Optimizing (SEO) your business blog is critical because it allows your target audience to find you in search engines and attract traffic. I keep these checked to avoid any duplicate content issues. Please leave your comments below.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Traffic to my blog. Whatever your Twitter objectives might be, I suggest you spend some time with yourself figuring out what they are, and how to measure whether you’re accomplishing your goals. I consistently look at the number and percentage of visitors to this site that come from Twitter. Followers per tweet.

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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. The more content pointing to your site from sites with authority the better. Each of the 27,000 companies that use the service had the same goal – to share their pitch.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2010

Instead of spending most of their marketing budget on traditional industrial marketing channels like trade shows or direct mail, Vico produces webinars and creates content that site visitors download and others link to. In short, they are doing things that help them get found online.

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Industrial Marketing Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Leave a Comment Previous post: Content Creation Made Easy Next post: Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales. Copyright © 2010 Tiecas, Inc.

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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.” Involvement : Measured by tracking traffic to your site or your blog, Pageviews, bounce rates, New vs. Returning visitors and time on site. In Google Analytics look at Traffic Sources > Keywords.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 21, 2010

Create content – It is easy to get bogged down with the design aspects of a company blog. Keep your focus squarely on finding topics that are of interest to your target audience and developing content. After all, blog content is what will influence people to take a desired action.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 2, 2010

Develop your email marketing strategy first Before you begin developing customized content and using sophisticated analytics, the first order of business is to develop a sound and sustainable email marketing strategy. Each has its own pain points and needs the right content to address them. WHAT : What do you expect your list to do?

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. Remember that your likelihood of a first-time visitor coming back goes up the more content they consume on that first visit.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

If anything, social media is MORE important for B2B companies than it is for B2C companies. Also, many B2B purchases are heavily researched, providing a real success path for content creation and socially-derived thought leadership. Most B2B companies have fewer customers, so the opinions of each are magnified.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Please share with your friends and followers: Related posts that may interest you: High-Performance Email Marketing for Attracting and Engaging Industrial Buyers Social Media with Email Marketing – is it the Super Combo? an industrial and business-to-business (B2B) marketing communications company in Houston, Texas.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

Today, technical buyers and engineers expect suppliers to have a substantial online presence with a website packed with relevant content in a variety of formats and easily searchable. The key here is to serve up relevant content that matches the prospect’s state or stage on the decision making process.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. Make a plan: Even before you start writing content and posting, you need to have a clear set of goals.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to footer Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting Social Media Strategy Blog Social Media Consulting Blog Social Media Consulting Speaking Newsletter Free Social Media Tools Twitter Interviews About Lijit Search Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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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. Before you can deliver your content and engage with your target audience, they need to find you! Once there, make sure your content fulfills their search queries and encourages them to engage with you further.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. You have full control over this SEO technique since you can add, edit code and content at anytime. It automatically optimizes your titles, generates META tags and avoids the typical duplicate content found on WordPress blogs.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

I emphasized that to remain relevant, agencies must differentiate themselves by providing advanced social media services, not just the basics. Go beyond the obvious and use customer service metrics, social connectivity of customers, and Web traffic patterns as measures that matter.

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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. For example, if you’re searching “ how to know if you need an ac repair company ,” you most likely wouldn’t find this type of content on a corporate website.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

APRIL 24, 2012

So on Wednesday, April 25 th , the Marketo B2B Marketing Book Club is inviting you to a special tweetchat with Lee Odden, CEO and co-founder of TopRank and author of Optimize: How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing. We know your worlds are colliding. We’re big fans of Lee.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community. The bartender approaches, and asks if I’d like to hear the TV. I say “sure” expecting him to saunter over to a monitor, and turn up the volume.

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Content Standard

MAY 22, 2016

In “Pressure,” a new story from the Content Standard, we investigate the mounting pressure marketers are under to change how they connect with audiences. Traditional media, like radio and print, suffered at the latter half of the decade, as TV became the cornerstone of many national media plans. The Backstory.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

A comprehensive survey (1,753 respondents) released today by Edison Research, paints a fascinating picture of Twitter and its role in America’s social media ecosystem. It works for those kinds of accounts because the content or offering is SOOOO valuable that the engagement would only dilute it. blog | ideaLaunch [.]

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RebelMouse

APRIL 3, 2018

used the following example of the new snippet feature, comparing quartz and granite: According to Google, the information provided in the new snippets will be "automatically generated based on our understanding of these topics from content on the web.". The search engine will now evaluate how a piece of content delivers value to a reader.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Done correctly, social media is about developing meaningful relationships with customers and prospective customers in their natural habitat. You have to create content, be part of many communities, and proceed incrementally. Many successful social media programs take months (or even more than a year) to really germinate.

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Content Standard

MAY 22, 2016

In “Pressure,” a new story from the Content Standard, we investigate the mounting pressure marketers are under to change how they connect with audiences. Traditional media, like radio and print, suffered at the latter half of the decade, as TV became the cornerstone of many national media plans. The Backstory.

Enterprise Management 62

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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. Don’t spam!

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Really great content around B2B Marketing again this month. Here’s what the social signals said was the best content and the hottest topics. Monitor your social media in less than 10 minutes a day - inblurbs , November 26, 2010 Social networking is very essential for today’s online business world. There better be.

Enterprise Management 40

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Driving Traffic to Your Homepage All the Time May Be a Big Mistake by Achinta Mitra on October 26, 2009 in Industrial Websites , Website Design & Development You’ve read up on all the traffic generation tactics and optimized your site to rank high on major search engines.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Last week, I was on a content marketing discussion panel (moderated by Jeff Rohrs ) at the ExactTarget Connections conference. At one point we discussed headline writing and what draws clicks within the social media content universe. Most of the rest are from spring 2010 or earlier. The numbers and lists thing works.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

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. 8220;You must have a strategy before you begin social media,&# I say at my talks.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

I mean it in a 2010, gothic cool sort-of-way in which vampires are smart, sexy, bankable characters who can’t be killed and are making boatloads of cash for the people who channel them into books, TV shows & movies. And now, people are getting multiple email accounts (free via gmail and yahoo) in order to better manage their traffic.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Apture is a handy plug-in that finds photos, videos, links and related content that you can embed or link to within your posts with a single click. Content Creation Cameras For still photos, I typically use my iPhone 3GS or Panasonic Lumix TZ5. for whatever search terms are important to you and your business.

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