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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Tony tells me that he uses these Best Of posts as a way to see the very best from these 40+ blogs each month. The Best Of list is a great for someone like me." ** technorati tags: Tony Karrer B2B marketing Top 40 B2B Marketing Bloggers Twitter social media Junta 42 Gimbal del.icio.us Tags: Blogging for Business.

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APRIL 11, 2008

The 10Ps of blogging may seem to be quite enough, but a recent article by Matt Richtel of the New Yorks Times entitled Work fast, die young: The blogger lifestyle? Why do you blog? There are also corporate bloggers, analysts, journalists, and people who just enjoy writing as a creative outlet.

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JUNE 24, 2009

Everyone who writes a business blog ultimately wants the same thing—more traffic. A more broadly helpful post from this blog is 7 Steps to Better Business Blogging guest contributor Ann Handley of MarketingProfs. All good ideas, though you'll need fairly substantial traffic to begin with for these techniques to be practical.

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APRIL 27, 2009

What are some of the most effective ways to attract more readers to your blog? Acknowledge other bloggers you admire? Find ideas for helpful blog posts? Assure you're utilizing blogging best practices? Learn all of that in more in some of the best posts from the last year on blogging for business.

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APRIL 10, 2008

Following up on my recent post on The 4 Ps of Effective Business Blogging , here are six more Ps to keep in mind for business blogging success. The bottom line is: as long as the platform you choose makes your blog recognizable as such by search engines and provides RSS feed capability, it will work.

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APRIL 29, 2008

The flipside of the ten P's of blogging previously covered here are the attributes or characteristics that should be avoided in creating a successful business blog. Like the seven deadly sins in Christianity, these vices can relegate a blogger to the underworld of the blogosphere though the judgment of readers.

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MAY 5, 2009

Congratulations to ViralBlog , named Best Marketing & Advertising Blog in the 2009 Chapeau Blog Awards. ViralBlog is written by a "collaborative team of viral bloggers (who) haunt the globe for great viral and social media cases every day.(the) This means of course that WebMarketCentral.took second place.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Which blogging platform is best for your needs? How can you more effectively convert blog readership into revenue? What SEO tactics are crucial to incorporate on your blog? Learn all of this and more in the articles and posts highlighted below, some of this year's best so far on business blogging.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

The VirtualHosting blog just announced their list of the Top 100 Social Media and Social Networking Blogs for 2007. tags: VirtualHosting blog, Top 100 Social Media and Social Networking Blogs for 2007, Web 2.0, tags: VirtualHosting blog, Top 100 Social Media and Social Networking Blogs for 2007, Web 2.0,

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

There are several different tools and tactics included under the umbrella of "social media"—including podcasting, video, social bookmarking, wikis, forums, and social networking—but the ideal starting point is blogging. It's something you can promote on social bookmarking and social networking sites without being blatantly promotional.

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APRIL 22, 2007

There are several ways your business can benefit from blogging short of starting your own blog, from simply identifying and monitoring the most influential blogs in your industry, to asking bloggers to write about interesting developments at your company, to guest-blogging. Zimbio Web 2.0

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AUGUST 10, 2007

has changed the practice of PR and how PR professionals can best take advantage of blogging and other social media. When Tom asked me to contribute an article about PR and blogging outreach, I was both flattered and yet apprehensive at the same time. I focused on the macro issues that impact how PR practitioners relate to bloggers.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

While there are several similarities between blog and podcast promotion, as an audio medium, podcasts offer several addition avenues for distribution. FeedBurner also provides an excellent tutorial on how to produce, store and index your podcasts using popular blogging tools.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

I was recently invited to give a presentation on the "do's and don'ts" of creating a successful business blog. In thinking about the topic, words beginning with the letter "p" kept coming to mind: Persistence: the number one reason, by far, that blogs fail is that they aren't maintained. Hmm, I may need to keep thinking about this.

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JANUARY 18, 2008

Here are some of the best blog posts on social networking and social media marketing strategies and tactics. Get a Facebook Strategy by Buzz Marketing for Technology Blogger and podcaster Paul Dunay explains why and how you should develop a brand-building strategy for Facebook leveraging other popular social networking tools.

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JULY 5, 2006

If (like me) you've chosen Blogger as your platform for online disquisition, you've noticed that it's fast and reasonably intuitive, but lacks a few basic functions. The folks at Quick Online Tips have rectified that with Free Essential Tools for Bloggers , an excellent list of add-ons that expand the capability of the platform.

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DECEMBER 13, 2006

Happening across Blogs Are Like Pliers on the One by One Media blog , I noticed two things: 1) these guys are pretty smart, and 2) the social networking links across the bottom of each post are cool. I tried adding social bookmark icons from the ExplodingBoy blog , but couldn't get them to line up properly.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2008

Here are a collection of the best online articles and blog posts to help you think about the big picture and answer the big questions about brand-building and marketing strategy. by Loyalty Marketing Blog Jonathan Treiber makes the case that customer loyalty can't be bought, only earned. Can you buy customer loyalty?

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JANUARY 24, 2008

The last post here presented some of the best articles and blog posts on general search engine marketing practices. by Traffick Blogger Andrew Goodman provides the how and why of dynamic keyword insertion in AdWords, and why, though it's a powerful technique, it doesn't "always" work. Techniques that Always Work?:

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

According to this post on Workz.com , blogging "has risks that should not be ignored." While there are dangers in virtually any aspect of daily life, Housley's paranoia about blogging seems a bit overblown. Blogs are given credibility by their authors. Blogs are given credibility by their authors. What does she recommend?

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MAY 1, 2006

Charlene Li at Forrester Research has put together a nice report on how businesses can effectively utilize blogging (free, but registration is required for non-clients), titled "Blogging: Bubble or Big Deal? " Companies, particularly public companies, should, at a minimum, monitor what is being said about them on blogs. .

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JANUARY 30, 2008

Following up on my last post, there were just too many excellent newsletter articles and blog posts on SEO last year to fit them all into one post, so here are more of the best bits of SEO guidance from 2007. video, audio files and PDFs) and encouraging mashups. The Alternative Search Engine of the Year, 2007!

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JUNE 22, 2005

A group at MIT is conducting a survey of bloggers. The larger the sample they receive, the better their results will be, so if you've got a few minutes to devote to the study of blogging, click the image. I just completed it, takes about 10 minutes. I hope to make the Top 1 Billion list someday. Search Popdex :

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JANUARY 28, 2008

Judging by the number of high-quality articles and blog posts still devoted to the topic (so many I had to split this category into two posts), SEO remains a critical component of online marketing success. SEO is dead? Balderdash! ”) and questionable ( Stop using keywords in your URLs.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

And one of my favorite aspects of blogging is "meeting" new people across the marketing blog space. Over the last couple of weeks I've had the pleasure of exchanging emails with several prominent bloggers, all of whom have made me smarter. David Wolfe at Ageless Marketing Many bloggers provide tips, which are very helpful.

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JULY 1, 2009

Hosted by community organizer (I mean that in a good way) Tony Karrer using his Browse My Stuff technology, B2B Marketing Zone features content from rockstar B2B bloggers like Brian Carroll , Paul Dunay and Newt Barrett. Additional bloggers meeting the high standards for the community will be added over time.

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JULY 15, 2009

Traffic continues to grow and the number of featured bloggers has doubled. Awareness has been expanded through posts from prominent b2b bloggers like Brian Carroll , Ardath Albee and Cece Salomon-Lee. Tags: Blogging for Business Need to Know.

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

Bloggers not only use Twitter to promote their content, but writing about Twitter frequently is their content. 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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JUNE 16, 2008

Here are a few highlights from his presentation at the recent Blogging for Business conference. Blogging is (officially) no longer new. 90% of Internet users in the 25-34 year-old group are familiar with blogs. Blogs now rival traditional media for reach. Bloggers write (in almost all cases) for passion, not money.

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APRIL 22, 2009

While traditional journalists still have significant authority, influence is now more diffused among writers, analysts, bloggers, customers, and other internal and external subject matter experts. Press releases make lousy blog copy, and there's no room for a detailed legal disclaimer in a 140-character Tweet.

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DECEMBER 17, 2009

Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best blog posts and articles on search engine optimization from the past year. Blogging helps. How does the increasing use of social media affect SEO efforts? What common SEO mistakes should you avoid, and what myths to dispel? Among his conclusions: more content helps.

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MAY 19, 2008

The Blogging for Business (B4B) Conference coming up in Salt Lake City on June 6 will feature an intriguing lineup of speakers , including: Brian Critchfield of Navel Marketing on how the consumer revolution is driving transparency in marketing; Charlie Craine , Director of Interactive Media for the Deseret News; Christopher Barger , GM's Director (..)

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MARCH 24, 2009

The publisher defines social media marketing and PR as "the practice of facilitating a dialogue and sharing content between companies, influencers, prospects and customers, using various online platforms including blogs, professional and social networks, video and photo sharing, wikis, forums and related Web 2.0 technologies." (If

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

When two of the smartest people in blogging and interactive PR have a conversation, it's worth listening in on. Paul Dunay at Buzz Marketing for Technology yesterday posted his podcast interview, PR's Role in New Media , with Cece Lee of the PR Meets Marketing blog.

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OCTOBER 12, 2007

If you're not familiar with The Truth Laid Bear , it's a kind of cool blog tracking site that's been for the past three years by the eponymous N.Z. was launched as an evolution of one of the blogosphere's original and most successful blog-tracking sites, The Truth Laid Bear. Should my website include a blog? One never knows.),

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MARCH 14, 2008

Late last week, MediaPost's Cathy Taylor wrote about the shortcomings of marketing agencies (large ones at least) when it comes to really understanding and utilizing social media on their clients' behalf—or even their own—in Blogger's Block - And Other Ways Agencies Aren't Walking The Walk Of Social Media. " We're blogging!"

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Advanced link-building—blogging, commenting, content marketing , guest posting, blogger outreach, interactive PR , etc. Including (but not over-doing) keywords in content and heading tags. Incorporating keyword links in page text. Basic link-building—social media sites, directories, business partners etc.

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