WebMarketCentral

APRIL 10, 2007

9) More of the Best Website Marketing Tools (Jan. On the occasion of the 101st post to this blog, here's a brief look back at the ten most trafficked posts to this point: 10) Business Blogs: PR Tool or Marketing Tool? 30, 2006) In which the question is asked (and answered), what is the fundamental purpose of blogging for business?

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm guessing it works best with Wordpress. ish. ** Terms: One by One Media blog, social tagging, social bookmarking, social networking, ExplodingBoy blog, Christopher Ware, blogging tools The Internet marketing business portal: WebMarketCentral.com Contact Tom Pick: tomATwebmarketcentral.com.

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Social Networks Web 2.0 Ads Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

On some projects, you do the best you can in the time available, accepting imperfections (hmmm, several releases of Windows come to mind). On others, you try to take as much time as you can to get it right. I tried to do the latter with this marketing trade publications page; if you notice anything wrong or missing, please let me know.

Internet Marketing 20

Internet Marketing Contact Marketing Advertisements Advertising 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 29, 2005

Recently added to WebMarketCentral.com , the Web marketing portal, are three new pages providing Internet marketers with everything they need to know (for now) about creating and maintaining an effective business-related blog.

Business 20

Business Sample Internet Marketing Newsletter 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 3, 2007

4) Read Chris Baggott's Email Marketing Best Practices blog. There are a number of feature-rich, reasonably-priced hosted email services available.

Deliverability 20

Deliverability Blast Campaigns CAN-SPAM Opt-out 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 24, 2006

Yahoo, Google and Netvibes all seem to be fairly browser-agnostic; Pageflakes appears to work best with IE. Another service planned but not yet launched is the "life organizer" from Lifeio from ATTAP Technologies. You can sign up to be notified when the service is up and running.

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RSS Stats Internet Marketing Contact Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 20, 2006

Best-selling marketing books, while I'm, well, just me , I was dang honored to come in with an honorable mention to Seth), Jill Konrath (author of Selling to Big Companies , and an all-around cool person), and the often-imitated-but-never-duplicated Mike Schultz.

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RSS Opinions B2B Sales Marketing Report 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 5, 2006

Fans of Marketing Sherpa or RainToday will be probably be familiar with these excellent marketing-related blogs, but just in case, here are four blogs recently added to the recommended blogs list on WebMarketCentral: Email Marketing Best Practices : Chris Baggott is CMO and co-founder of hosted email marketing services provider ExactTarget , and an (..)

Buzz 20

Buzz Viral Marketing CMO Small Business Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 5, 2006

The list goes well beyond the common tools such as Pingoat and Technorati (well known and also covered in Best Practices in Blog Marketing ) to include traffic-generating and tracking tools, as well as mobile blogging. Definitely a post worth bookmarking and coming back to. That's the tools.

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Tools RSS Blogger Mobile Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 6, 2006

If your organization needs help determining the best approach to handling returns management, you may want the services of a consulting firm that understands both operations and marketing, such as Kelly Allan Associates.

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Marketing Management Merchandising Touchpoints 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2008

TopNetPix Billed as " an aggregator of the best sites, the best content and the best search results on the Web," TopNetPix brings together an extraordinary amount of news, blog and shopping content and enables you to create your own customized portal containing the web parts you find most interesting and useful.

Web 2.0 20

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 18, 2008

My last post listed several of the best news articles from 2007 on how to effectively use social networking sites for marketing. Here are some of the best blog posts on social networking and social media marketing strategies and tactics.

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 20, 2006

The practical result of a "scattershot" approach is that the best prospects are inadequately communicated to, resulting in wasted marketing efforts and dollars, a mushy message, and an inordinately difficult sales process. For example, one company I worked with said it "focused" on eight (!) vertical markets.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 28, 2006

Winning an Honorable Mention (despite being up against Seth Godin ) is the second-best thing that's happened as a result of lanching this blog. The best thing has been the opportunity to meet, or to get to know better, a lot of fascinating marketing people, directly or indirectly through this blog. It's quite and honor.

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einsof Rules Advertising Agencies RSS 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 14, 2006

It was too late to rework the campaign at that point, so I tweaked the copy as best I could, but the result was predictable: a whopping 0.1% The copy was watered-down mush designed to appeal to the broad array of companies the email would be sent out to, which meant, as Anne points out above, that it didn't really appeal to anyone.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 26, 2006

But the best advice to follow when evaluating an argument is "consider the source." Maybe, unlike a typical garage sale, social networks will provide more quality content than junk.

Social Networks 20

Social Networks iProspect Network Marketing Search Engine Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2005

I resolve to try to get back to reading the Marketing Sherpa Best-of-Weekly newsletter on a regular basis. It is the best marketing newsletter on the planet. I resolve to try to determine why dmoz.org has become so awful about adding new sites. I resolve to learn more than necessary, and teach as much as possible.

Planning 20

Planning Newsletter Marketing & Strategy Marketing 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 30, 2009

Looking for the best career search websites? While these search engines / portals / directories have much lower traffic than the big three, that traffic is much more focused. Online tools to help you check out that prospective employee, new next-door neighbor or potentially significant other? Specialty search engines?

Marketing Budget 20

Marketing Budget Classified Ads Best Practices Budget Programs 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 8, 2006

E-Mail Marketing Best Practices E-Commerce Times 8 Feb 2006 Producing consistent, predictable results at the push of a button is the dream of every marketer, but can only be accomplished by following some simple rules.

Advertising Agencies 20

Advertising Agencies SMB CAN-SPAM RSS 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 22, 2005

There are several Web content providers listed in the WebMarketCentral directory ; each has its own strengths and limitations , and specific applications for which it is the best fit. Moreover is generally considered the leader in current awareness solutions.

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Keywords Contact Marketing Online Marketing Order 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2007

While The Truth Laid Bear provides a portal and blog search engine for individual bloggers and blog-readers, Kithbridge provides customized technology, services, and strategies for businesses, political campaigns, nonprofits, and other organizations which seek to fully engage with the growing and dynamic world of the blogosphere and new media. . *

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 21, 2006

We're at a stage where the best entreneurial opportunities exist in micromarkets. The best new ideas still come out of garages. So, where are we exactly? To return to the beer analogy for a moment, nobody's going to line up investors to create the next Budweiser, but they might get funding to create the next Summit.

Cable 20

Cable Internet Marketing Amazon Rules 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 16, 2006

” Emmanuel Colleg e agrees, stating " Web should be capitalized when referring to the World Wide Web, but lower case when used as an adjective." Other sources merely reflect widespread confusion.

Internet Marketing 20

Internet Marketing Advertising Mediums Distribution Template 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 11, 2008

Our tool focuses on capturing the tacit knowledge held by multiple generations and geographically dispersed employees, resulting in a knowledge-sharing and collaboration portal that unites the minds of a company's entire workforce.

Enterprise Management 20

Enterprise Management Ning Wiki Work Management 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 8, 2007

Watching our customers tell others about our services is just the best. outbound newsletter sponsorships, online advertising buys, radio, we even have an outdoor advertising campaign! However, the most special promotion we can get is word of mouth.

Work Management 20

Work Management Marketing Management PR Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 1, 2005

I thought of this book when putting together my portal site for Web marketers, WebMarketCentral.com , because of two key lessons I took from it. Best of luck to you in dealing with the curveballs in your life. There is lots of opportunity out there, so if you have an idea for a business, do your research.

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Planning Research Resources Examples 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 1, 2006

In addition to direct consulting, the firm conducts primary research on best practices in marketing and selling professional services. It helps them because the get the best information available, and it helps us because it positions us as the market leaders in the area because we are leading the thinking and the field research.

PR 20

PR RSS Consulting Newsletter 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 19, 2005

One site -- Avery.com -- stood out not only as the best in the industry, but as an example of creativity and utility uncommon in any industry. While doing some Web strategy consulting work recently for a large office products company, I evaluated several competitors' Web sites.

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Paid Search Agency Companies Work Management Copyright 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 7, 2005

Her book Dickless Marketing: Smart Marketing to Women Online is raising eyebrows and helping smart marketers improve their results, and her witty and widely-read blog was honored as one of the Best Blogs of 2005 by Marketing Sherpa. it stands to reason that marketing books to the women's market is the best approach. That's what we do.

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Differentiation Buzz Custom Publishing Copyright 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 24, 2005

FA: We use multiple marketing methods such as outbound call centers, email, search engine marketing (SEM) , banners, PR, and last but not the least, word of mouth which has proven to be the foremost and best marketing strategy for us by far.

Work Management 20

Work Management Marketing Management SEM Allocation 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 31, 2008

This is based on the past 12 months worth of traffic data for this blog and for the WebMarketCentral marketing portal site. I've written previously about which social networking/tagging/bookmarking sites seemed to work well at driving B2B traffic, but have collected significantly more data since then. and Zimbio —about 1% each.

Social Networks 20

Social Networks Traffic Digg Wikipedia 20

WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 7, 2006

Which service is the best? The best solution for 2-3 participant remote sales presentations is different from the best solution for 6-10 participant marketing or training presentations, which is in turn different from the best solution for 50+ participant webinars.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 29, 2007

The best predictor of the success of a movie is mild rain in large cities on the release date." This relates to the weakness of economic forecasts which rely on the assumption of "human rationality" as well. Three interesting facts from the book that you may or may not have known: 1.

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Forecasting Tagging Act-On Buzz 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 15, 2007

The answer has to be "no," particularly when collecting such information isn't even helpful. Advertisers should focus on using only the information they really need for effective prediction.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 11, 2005

AM: We are best suited for companies that have a limited marketing staff or a VP of Sales and Marketing. This situation best utilizes the four core expertise areas of Provident Partners; those being, creative ideas, public relations, lead generation, and multi-media production. WMC: Who is your ideal or typical client?

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