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OCTOBER 13, 2009

How can you attract more traffic to your blog? Find free and legal images to add to your blog posts? Make money from your blog? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the first set of the best posts about business blogging so far this year. Can Blogs Help Drive Purchasing Decisions?

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Forrester Landing Pages Business Best Practices 20

WebMarketCentral

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. Tags: Blogging for Business.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 30, 2009

Given the enormous interest in using social media for business purposes, I've been astounded to hear comments like these at recent conferences: "That's all really interesting, but I can't access any of the websites you just talked about. My company blocks all access to social media sites."

Social Media 20

Social Media Media Web 2.0 Tagging 20

WebMarketCentral

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.

RSS 20

RSS Best Practices Business Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 30, 2009

Understandably, as businesses begin to invest more marketing/PR dollars into social media, there is great concern over the ROI of these activities. Tools like HubSpot do a great job of quantifying social media leads, but still have some last-click bias. The recent United Airlines breaks guitars incident is one extreme example of this.

Social Media 20

Social Media Paid Content ROI Media 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 2, 2009

Interest in social media marketing is surging, with several recent studies showing that a majority of companies, of all sizes, are now using social media in some form for business purposes. I've also seen dramatically increased interest in hiring social media consultants. And aren't the tools pretty easy to use?

Social Media 20

Social Media Consulting Social Marketing Media 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Can social media really increase revenue? What common mistakes should you avoid in social media marketing? Get the answers to these questions and others here in the final set of the best posts on social media marketing from last year. Builds on the arguments made in Social Media ROI vs. RONI (risk of not investing).

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Media Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 4, 2009

Social media is a bit like art—most of us are pretty sure we know what it is, but articulating a common definition can be challenging. There are many definitions of social media floating about of course, they just aren't consistent. Flickr or YouTube ), a wiki, a forum, a Squidoo lens, wherever.

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 Media Wiki 20

WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 28, 2009

If you enjoy the coverage on this blog of social media marketing , SEO , online tools and web marketing —as well as occasional off-topic ramble , vacation or home project photos —please cast your vote for WebMarketCentral in the Chapeau Blog Awards today! (Or Or tomorrow. But that's it. Voting closes on Thursday.)

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I recently did a little test to determine whether Twitter or LinkedIn was more effective at driving traffic to a few specific posts on this blog. Various posts were promoted on Twitter (with retweeting encouraged) and to three relevant and popular LinkedIn Groups focused on social media, PR and b2b lead generation. The results?

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

How can you make a big splash in social media without a huge budget? Turn your social media contacts into leads, and ultimately customers? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in the penultimate list of the best posts on social media marketing from the past year. Use Facebook fan pages to help with SEO?

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 10, 2009

In "The 4 C's of Social Media," I noted that coming up with a concise definition of social media , like defining "art," is challenging. Another is to look at the different types of websites and tools that comprise the social media landscape. 8 LinkedIn 14 11,246,726 +137.4% 8 Plaxo 1,440 2,629,043 +144.7%

Social Media 20

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

Everybody uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but which niche social media sites are worth investigating? How does social media relate to SEO? Learn the answers to these questions and more here in some of the best blog posts on social media marketing and optimization of 2008.

Social Media 20

Social Media Optimization Digg Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

How can you make more efficient use of social media? What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? Find those answers and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts about social media marketing from the last year. Got something to tell the world?

LEADSExplorer 20

LEADSExplorer Social Media Optimization Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 25, 2008

It's been three years since the launch of this blog, and it still gets less traffic than the Huffington Compost (sigh). Anyway, taking a look back at the first three years of the WMC blog, here are the ten most popular posts as chosen by you, my elite (in the good sense!) tags: best blog posts on social media marketing, Web 2.0,

Web 2.0 20

Web 2.0 Paid Search Agency Advertising Agencies Adwords 20

WebMarketCentral

APRIL 22, 2009

The emergence of social media has dramatically changed the role of public relations. As the landscape has shifted from being dominated by one-to-many mass media to many-to-many participatory social media, the skillsets required of PR professionals have changed. and private conversations, which could be informal.

PR 20

PR Social Media Web 2.0 Media 20

WebMarketCentral

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.

RSS 20

RSS Blogger Best Practices Business 20

WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Social media, and discussions of its value for PR and marketing, have become ubiquitous. But which social media tool do marketers find most valuable? What's the best tool for social media research and learning? How can you explain the value of social media to skeptics?

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Web 2.0 Paid Search Agency 20

WebMarketCentral

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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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

How should you measure the impact of social media? Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR.

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 iCrossing Optimization 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 31, 2009

With the rapidly increasing use of social media tools for marketing and PR comes growing pressure to demonstrate results. But what metrics are really most appropriate for social media measurement? Is your social media strategy built on a solid foundation, or is it more like a Hollywood movie set—a pretty facade with nothing behind it?

Social Media 20

Social Media Social Marketing Burn Rate Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Based on my informal research, here are the most popular social media elements people are adding to their Web 2.0 email signatures: Twitter page, LinkedIn profile and blog link: these are the most popular social networking elements, used in about half of Web 2.0 signatures. Here are a few notable examples of Web 2.0

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Social Media Web 2.0 Ning Skype 20

WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Judy Grundstrom at the Just JudyJudyJudy blog yesterday announced the Twin Cities Top Ten Titans In Social Media 2009 , chosen by a distinguished group of judges. The winners come from a variety of backgrounds, including politics ( Dusty Trice ), broadcast media ( Jason Matheson and Alexis Thompson of FM 107.1, Paul del.icio.us

Social Media 20

Social Media Web 2.0 Media Tagging 20

WebMarketCentral

MARCH 24, 2009

MarketingSherpa's 2009 Social Media & PR Benchmark Guide (PDF) provides a wealth of useful statistics and guidance. If you parse that, it matches up pretty closely to the 4 C's model of social media marketing.) In It Came from Facebook! Here's some research on how to do that. technologies." technologies." (If

Social Media 20

Social Media Paid Content Paid Search Agency Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Note: this is a guest post from Cece Salomon-Lee , social media relations expert and author of the PR Meets Marketing blog. Cece has previously guest-posted here on best practices in PR and blogging outreach. The same goes for social media technology. In this case, social media isn't only for virtual events.

Social Media 20

Social Media Media Web 2.0 PR 20

WebMarketCentral

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. a webcasting and rich media marketing solutions provider.

PR 20

PR Outreach Blogger Web 2.0 20

WebMarketCentral

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. .

Forrester 20

Forrester RSS Blogger Guidelines 20

WebMarketCentral

JUNE 5, 2008

I'll be starting off my presentation at the Blogging for Business Conference tomorrow with this statement: The practice of PR has changed more in the last five years than it did in the previous fifty. Social media has shifted the practice to interactive PR , or, if you prefer, social PR or conversational PR. What do you think?

PR 20

PR Social Media Web 2.0 Media 20

WebMarketCentral

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.

Social Media 20

Social Media Media Web 2.0 Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The term "social media" encompasses several different types of sites, and it's important to use all of them properly in order to really be effective at social media optimization (SMO). So, here are some tips for using different types of social media sites for SMO. potentially viral, and increasingly searchable.

Social Media 20

Social Media Wiki Optimization Digg 20

WebMarketCentral

MAY 16, 2008

In the latest installment of Outside the Inbox, Jared Reitzin of mobileStorm reviews some recent research studies and asks, when it comes to participation in social media (blogging, uploading videos to YouTube, etc.)—are —are Americans lazier than web users in other countries, or just busier?

Social Media 20

Social Media Media Tagging Case Studies 20

WebMarketCentral

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.

Social Networks 20

Social Networks Web 2.0 Ads Blogger 20

WebMarketCentral

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. The bottom line, according to Kalehoff: "traditional media strategies are not dead, and buzz tactics can't necessarily live on their own in a vacuum.

Brand Identity 20

Brand Identity Branding Marketing & Strategy Best Practices 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. More ) Blogs are fast and easy to create. And they are loved by the media as well as by search engines.

Business 20

Business Sample Internet Marketing Newsletter 20

WebMarketCentral

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. you get the point so stop it already."

SEO 20

SEO SEM Work Management Thought Leadership 20

WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Social media marketing is a hot topic, with 75% of marketers planning to initiate or increase social media use next year. With larger budgets and more time devoted to social media will come increased pressure to demonstrate ROI.

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