Share and Enjoy: Tags: Blogging best practices Content Marketing Public relations corporate communications customer acquisition  . Building an engaged community through a business blog can be extremely difficult — sometimes impossible. Look at companies like General Electric who do an amazing job with their blog and yet have almost no “community&# or comments at all. There must be some good business reason they do it, right? . There better be. Every corporate marketing activity must somehow be tied to creating shareholder value and blogging is no different. Why not use it?  MORE >>

comb through blogs and articles on an almost daily basis, and share what I consider to be the best and most relevant mobile, social media, and online marketing news to my followers on Twitter. Content Curators are the best online friend a marketer could have! Content Marketing Marketing best practices Social scoring content curation content marketing social influence social scoringBy Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist. Are you overlooking some of the most powerful influencers on the social web?  Let’s find out. know, because I’m one of them. I Make sense? MORE >>

The best blog writing weaves your personal narrative into the discussion and lets your personality shine. Blogging best practices Writing best practices blog community building blog community management blogging best practices blogging success writing for a blogThere are many great writers who have unsuccessful blogs. Here’s why. They may be great writers, but they are not great bloggers. There’s a big difference. Here are eight ways that blog writing differs from how you might write in school or at work. 1) Headlines matter. Blog readers are SKIMMERS. MORE >>

America’s best-selling fiction author James Patterson already implements this style. Augmented Reality blogging Blogging best practices futurist Writing best practices content marketing future of blogging mars dorian writingBy Mars Dorian, {grow} Contributing Columnist. believe that if you want to have success in the present you must anticipate the future. No crystal ball required. Because you want to sniff out trends to ride them. If you only act on what’s already happening, you’re getting sidetracked to second, third or even worse, fourth place. Screeeech. Let’s roll. MORE >>

But I think that’s just what makes this a best practice. think this is best answered through a comment from Bert DuMars , Vice President E-Business & Interactive Marketing at Newell Rubbermaid.  B2B and social media Twitter best practices branding twitter twitter and company brandingLet’s start this post with a little quiz.  I’ve assembled a few Twitter avatars from my Twitter stream.  It’s disarming isn’t it?  A massive multi-national B2B company represented by the welcoming and smiling face of Megan. Handling multiple stores/accounts. MORE >>