WebMarketCentral

MAY 4, 2009

What are some of the best tools for implementing PR 2.0? How do PR, SEO and social media work together to build name recognition and credibility for a company? What are the best (and worst) practices in interactive PR? Thankful For PR 2.0 by THINKing Harry Hoover calls out some of his favorite PR 2.0

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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."

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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 ? How can you optimize your use of social networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIn? 5 Daily Social Media Builders In Less Than 10 Minutes (Total!)

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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.

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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

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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.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

How should you measure the impact of social media? What are some of the best free tools for monitoring social buzz about your brand or company? Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR.

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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. "

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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?

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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.

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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. 60% of those under the age of 21 belong to a (online) social network.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

To add a few of my own thoughts to the last post by Cece Lee , "blogger relations" are becoming as important as media relations in PR strategy. Blogs are a key component of the social media B2B buyers are reading. Blogs are a key component of the social media B2B buyers are reading.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Which social bookmarking sites have the most clout? 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.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Wikipedia defines interactive PR as "the practice of using Internet tools and technologies such as search engines, Web 2.0 social bookmarking, new media relations and blogging.to David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR provides an excellent primer on the subject. tags: interactive PR, Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 24, 2008

Being social media savvy, you add blogger outreach to your PR plans for a new product launch. You carefully research blogs using related keywords and competitor names to build a solid outreach list. Just as with advertising, PR relies on frequency. You send your messages, and then.nothing. Or very little response.

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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,

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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.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Social networking sites are simply an extension of those two functions, giving other people more information about yourself and additional ways to interact. Based on my informal research, here are the most popular social media elements people are adding to their Web 2.0 signatures. Here are a few notable examples of Web 2.0

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

Everybody uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but which niche social media sites are worth investigating? How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How does social media relate to SEO? Why is online reputation management so important?

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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? Discover the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best posts on social media from this year.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 26, 2009

One of the most popular posts ever on this blog was The Social Media Email Signature , in which I noted that "In the old days, email signatures pretty much just mirrored business card information (which is still the case for most people).A Social Media Signature"), then click "Next." A growing number of Web 2.0-savvy

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 16, 2009

Several recent studies have put the challenge that social media presents to marketers into stark relief: social media is huge. In social media, where viewers are often creating the content, that bargain doesn't hold up. After all, it is social media. It's growing at an astounding rate.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 15, 2008

Note: the following is a guest post from expert researcher and freelance writer Heather Johnson on how businesses can effectively use social media as a component of PR efforts, and efficiently focus their efforts on the most productive sites. Indeed, it is currently the reigning champ for promoting many types of Websites.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Featuring local social media experts, the session will provide an overview of social networking sites, search engine optimization and emerging new media to watch for as well as discuss what’s working, what’s not and what’s here to stay within the social media universe. Louis Park, Minn. from 8 a.m.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 9, 2007

Seana Mulcahy at MediaPost recently wrote a piece about using social media and other tools to build word-of-mouth promotion online. There are a number of online tools and methods to spread word of mouth online, but a key one is interactive PR. So what is interactive PR exactly? And then they'll write about you!"

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

There are two kinds of readers who won't like David Meerman Scott's The New Rules of Marketing & PR ; fortunately for the author, both groups are small. into a unified marketing and PR program: blogs, podcasting, wikis, online discussion forums, social media, video, websites and search marketing. social media.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

How can generate more targeted traffic to your blog? Find the answers to these questions and others here in WebMarketCentral's final list of the best posts on business blogging from the last year. What techniques will help you write more compelling posts? Which "rules" should every blogger know and follow? about your organization?

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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. 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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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 18, 2007

As noted here previously, from both the B2B vendor perspective and buyer perspective , social media is becoming an increasingly important channel for B2B communication. With that in mind, here are four ways B2B vendors can use social media to spread their messages. Participate in blogs.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 16, 2007

Specifically, ITtoolbox wanted to determine how IT decision makers use social media tools (such as blogs, podcasts, discussion groups and wikis) to assist in purchasing decisions. Among the key findings: Overall, IT decision makers spend more time each week reading or interacting with social media (3.5

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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.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2007

According to recent white paper from Robert Lesser, publisher of LeadGenTools.com , and Paul Dunay of the Buzz Marketing for Technology blog , "B2B marketers are not just embracing Web 2.0 tools such as blogs and podcasts to target prospects. Blogs are the most frequently used Web 2.0 Here is the vendor perspective. tags: Web 2.0,

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 27, 2009

What are some of the most effective ways to attract more readers to your blog? 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. Acknowledge other bloggers you admire?

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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.

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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,

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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.

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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. 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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