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How to Blog: What Blog Categories Should I Create?

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A successful blog has carefully thought-out categories under which you group your blog posts. The irony is that it’s often not until you’ve blogged for a while that you figure out what you want those categories to be. Blog Post Categories Should Mirror Your Products and Services.

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How to Blog: How Much Time Does It Take?

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If you’re thinking of blogging for your business, a very good question to ask is, “How much time will it take to write and publish a quality blog post?” ” It seems that many business marketers and others don’t consider the resource requirements of starting and maintaining a blog.

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How Much Should I Spend on My B2B Marketing (Part 2)

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Blog entry excerpted from the Marketing chapter written by Jennifer Beever in The Book on Business from A to Z. In an earlier post, I blogged on how to calculate your marketing budget by understanding your sales history.

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3 of My Favorite Strategic Marketing Models

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Blog entry excerpted from the Marketing chapter written by Jennifer Beever in The Book on Business from A to Z. See my previous blog entry, 1-Page SWOT Analysis with Action Items , for more information about this tool. I have several favorite tools and models for analyzing a client’s marketing strategy.

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Why You Should Rethink That Snarky Social Media Comment

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I recently published one of my most popular blog posts on the Business 2 Community blog and was happy to see that it was widely shared and liked by readers. I wondered to myself, “Have I ever been snarky when I commented on a blog?” Happy, that is, until “the comment.” ” I sure hope not.

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When It Comes to Your Marketing Leads, Quality and Quantity Count

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Blog entry excerpted from the Marketing chapter written by Jennifer Beever in The Book on Business from A to Z. B2B marketers need to track lead quality as well as lead quantity. Marketing is a numbers game, right? Fill up that pipeline and increase sales! Not exactly. It is important to track the quality of your leads.

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Can Social Media Move You from Good to Great?

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In his book Good to Great , Jim Collins wrote that great companies never saw or tried to use technology as the way to greatness. That is why Jason Alba wrote the book, I Am on LinkedIn, Now What? That is why the blog abandonment rate is over 90%. Social media is not a silver bullet, the be-all and end-all, a panacea.