Marketing Insider Group

APRIL 28, 2011

My own social journey (and years of procrastination) pushed me into starting this personal blog nearly a year ago. And with 93 posts, almost 500 comments, nearly 30,000 visitors and just over 47,000 page views later and I am convinced that blogging is one of the simplest and most effective forms of marketing. See mine here.

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. Create a plain text file, using Notepad or a similar tool, with the following information compiled: Blog name/title (e.g.,

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Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

You need to know why you care , and you need to communicate that to customers in your content marketing and blogs. Think about it: why should people care what you have to say in your blog unless they can identify with your values? Here’s an excerpt from the B2B Manifesto, the second imperative for content marketing: 2.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

These technologies include Browse My Stuff (which powers both the B2B Marketing Zone and Social Media Informer ) and Paper.li , which enables users to create custom online “newspapers&# based on a Twitterer and his/her followers, a hashtag subject or a Twitter list. is free but doesn’t offer any filtering options for results.

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Webbiquity

JUNE 21, 2010

Blogging provides business executives and marketers with opportunities beyond and distinct from a typical company website. Blogs are seen as key sources of information rather than just promotion. Blogs are seen as key sources of information rather than just promotion. Here are five key benefits of blogging for businesses.

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Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

&# I just read this term in a new digital release: The B2B Manifesto , just published by Velocity Partners in the UK. The B2B Manifesto: 5 Imperatives and 6 Staples for Winning the Battle for Attention: page 19: “You need to leverage trust-builders into each step of the (buying) journey: case studies. Blog this on Blogger.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 5, 2010

Stumped for new blog post topic ideas? Struggling to increase blog traffic? Learn how to make your blog the center of your social media efforts, build traffic, write great posts and more here in some of the best tips, tactics and guidance for blogging of 2010 so far. On Twitter, shine the spotlight on your blog.

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Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Content marketing with blogs isn’t as easy as it used to be. The bad news is there are more blogs, more competition for attention. Doug Kessler and the boys over at VelocityPartnersUK ask this question in the B2B Manifesto. For example, they suggest 5 imperatives for B2B marketers. Blog this on Blogger.

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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. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. Is anyone out there? What’s the Point?

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Anything Goes Marketing

MARCH 8, 2009

Twitter: Maximize Your Travel In the past, I had blogged about why I use Twitter so it’s exciting for me to provide a success story for Twitter. While anyone can sign up for the networking tools I listed above, blogging acts as a differentiator as it forces you to come up with good content that people will want to read (if that is your goal).

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Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

These questions are asked and answered by a distinguished group of contributors to the Content Marketing Institute’s blog and you can read the post here: What Does Engaging Content Mean? The B2B Manifesto , from VelocityPartners in the UK, makes this point as well, by encouraging content creators to share their world views and beliefs.

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Writing on the Web

AUGUST 13, 2010

How do you know if your blog posts are optimized for search engines ? You go here , you sign up, you install it to your WordPress blog. You write a blog post, you fill in the information on the SEO plug in, you click the Scribe analyze button, wait a few seconds and get a review of how well your content will do with search engines.

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Writing on the Web

OCTOBER 4, 2010

What makes your blog writing effective? It’s because when readers are scanning your blog post, they are thinking about other things, and filtering everything you say through the limbic brain (the emotional parts of the brain). This is Imperative #2 in VelocityPartner’s B2B Manifesto. Blog this on Blogger.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. 10 SEO Tips To Get Your WordPress Blog Ranking Highly In The Search Engines by SEOheap. 8 Effective SEO Techniques Every WordPress Blogger Should Use by BloggingPro. WordPress SEO.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Blog HubSpot TV Contributors Marketing Kit Internet Marketing Blog The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Your blog works exactly the same way. 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. State Indicator – Turns orange when you’re in that section 2.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The impact of that can be felt in B2C as well as B2B Marketing. I still hear marketers say – “my CEO just doesn’t care about blogs – they only want to be in the NY Times or Wall Street Journal”. Blog this on Blogger. It’s no secret that the number of publications has declined over the last few years. Let me explain ….

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Webbiquity

APRIL 19, 2010

TigerDirect, Wal Mart) to consumers and b2b buyers. B2c and b2b buyers alike are tuning out such messages; they increasingly listen to each other, to key influencers, and to marketers willing to add real value beyond just schlepping their own products and services when making their purchase decisions. HP, P&G) to the channel (e.g.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

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. For B2B marketers, content curation provides the best of both worlds. I cannot imagine the need for original blogging going away anytime soon.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

AUGUST 27, 2008

B2B marketing professionals in today's economy are always looking for new ways to do more with less and still gain a competitive advantage within the marketplace. First up in our B2B Marketing interview series is Tom Pick of WebMarketCentral. You've been a B2B marketer since 1992. and StumbeUpon for B2B marketing in early 2007.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 16, 2008

Getting blog coverage for your product or service is now just as (if not more) important than getting written about in traditional media. Blogs are now mainstream, as almost 80% of Internet users report having read a blog within the last year. What really motivates bloggers to write about whatever it is they write about?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

10 Tips For Content Marketing Success by TopRank Online Marketing Blog. E-newsletters, blogs and white papers are among the most popular types of content. 7 “Rs&# for B2B Marketing Content Planning by Customer Think. How Much B2B Content is Enough? by Savvy B2B Marketing.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 26, 2010

Get the answers to these questions and more here in the best blog posts and articles of the past year on marketing strategy. 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers by Open Forum. 10 Takeaways from the MarketingProfs Digital Marketing World Virtual Conference by Modern B2B Marketing. Why is content marketing becoming critical?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 10, 2010

Learn the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles from last year on Twitter techniques, tools and tactics. Twitter in B2B – a Velocity Slideshare by The B2B Marketing Blog. Doug Kessler outlines his firm’s presentation on seven ways to use Twitter for b2b marketing.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing Home Bio Speaking Grade your Site Marketing Resources Twitter Jeff’s YouTube Contact Congratulations: You have successfully subscribed! I then added to that post with some ideas from readers and more of my own with a post titled “ 50 Ways To Optimize Your Blog “.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. It’s about humanization.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Then this is the blog post for you. I’ve forwarded your blog to him. Cheers! -= Park Howell´s last blog. I’ve forwarded your blog to him. Cheers! -= Park Howell´s last blog. Are you ready to add some “Why&# to your “How&# ? So, giving you all the cred., Thanks for sharing.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 21, 2010

From a pure lead generation / ROI standpoint, this skepticism isn’t entirely unjustified; research from earlier this year showed that branding metrics (increased brand exposure, webs traffic, email subscribers partnerships)—not strict revenue or ROI measures—topped the list of benefits that b2b marketers realized from social media activities.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2010

The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise. Business-to-business (B2B) social media is a different animal. That doesn’t mean social media doesn’t have a place in the B2B world, though. But what about the use of social media between businesses?

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B2B Marketing Savvy

JULY 28, 2009

Good recap of sites like Digg, Del.icious.us, YourElevatorPitch, Shoutwire, StumbleUpon, Ma.gnolia and others…. Search for comments on your content from various sources/other blogs that talk about your content. For bloggers/others, some also come with nifty metrics. Twitter: Who Owns What, the Social Brand Index/Twitter.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The B2B Social Media Marketing Series is supported by IDG Enterprise. Digital marketing is gaining traction in a number of industries, and business-to-business (B2B) marketers are in on that trend, too. Let us know how your brand uses social media for B2B marketing in the comments below.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Virtually every b2b buying decision involves some level of research on the web. 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. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – this is the ultimate no-brainer.

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Several readers asked how B2B companies could take advantage of the tips we shared, and I know that some organizations are still wondering if it even makes sense to try to reach a business audience on Facebook Facebook. Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr , one of the world’s top independent PR agencies.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 1, 2007

Getting mentioned by relevant and influential bloggers is one of the most productive means of viral promotion (and free, other than the outreach effort). Independent bloggers don't want to be corporate shills, but they do love to write about cool stuff. social media, YouTube, Insight24, iTunes, Digg, PRWeb, technology forums del.icio.us

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EMagine B2B Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

There is also a column for data hub activities, which is the number of social conversions and events that have happened on one of the official social networks, which includes Digg, Blogger, Delicious, Google+, and Reddit. Data Hub activities will not include Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed).

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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 8, 2010.

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