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The Top 3 Priorities for 2010 Marketing Budgets

Online Marketing Institute

Create content on a blog or produce videos, and promote using Digg, Twitter, and other social bookmarking and social networking sites. Public relations (PR) is pretty much the opposite—it produces limited immediate and direct results, but builds your brand in the eyes of prospects, the media, analysts and other influencers over the long term.

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Your corporate website needs to become a trap

Biznology

Everyone’s obsessed with drawing visitors to their sites and online social media properties through advertising, SEO, marketing and PR; however, when the stars align and someone actually clicks through and comes into your sphere of influence, do you have a collections strategy? The same thing is true when it comes to your website.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

Social media, and discussions of its value for PR and marketing, have become ubiquitous. But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable? What's the best tool for social media research and learning? How can you maximize the business value of tools like LinkedIn and Twitter? tools (delicious, Feedburner, LinkedIn et al.),

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Best of 2008: Blogging for Business, Part 1

WebMarketCentral

The prolific guest-blogger also contributed 10 Innovative Blog Business Models —a post detailing 10 methods beyond the obvious (AdWords) to monetize a blog, such as selling educational courses, eBooks, premium content, consulting services (hmm, that sounds familiar) and digital products. Do You Show Appreciation to Your Favorite Bloggers?

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

WebMarketCentral

Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros.

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 6

WebMarketCentral

Unfortunately, several of the largest sites including Digg, delicious, Reddit, Mixx and Mister Wong now partially or completely use insidious no follow links. Top 30 Largest Social Bookmarking Sites by Anything Goes Blog A great list of the top social bookmarking sites, with visitor statistics, as of late last year.

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Best of 2008: SEO Guidance, Part 5

WebMarketCentral

StumbleUpon and Digg) is "spiky" and doesn't convert well, but supports SEO through the links generated. Among his findings: organic search is the source of both the highest volume and best quality of traffic. Social traffic (e.g. There's lots more red meat for web analytics data junkies as well.

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