markempa

JUNE 21, 2006

A number of bloggers I know have become or are in the process of becoming published authors after starting a blog. A number of bloggers I know have become or are in the process of becoming published authors after starting a blog. I’m delighted to tell them that it all started with my blog.

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markempa

JULY 5, 2007

« Podcast: Interview with MarketingSherpas Anne Holland | Main | Early Stage Leads are too important for Sales People Alone » Off-Topic: On Selling Ideas in 1776 Fellow blogger Tom Pick, over at the The WebMarketCentral Blog tagged me to write something off topic, interesting, seasonal and non-work related this week.

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Biznology

JANUARY 17, 2012

Being beautiful, friendly, clever, generous, and charming is no longer good enough when you’re not just competing with the student body for Prom King and Queen, you’re now competing with potentially every other beautiful, friendly, clever, generous, and charming person on planet earth.

Social Media 80

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Companies must also uphold privacy laws.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 29, 2015

This type of endorsement isn’t just for big-name retailers, either—small brands can integrate effective promotional content into their strategies through strategic public relation efforts or partnerships with up-and-coming celebrities, online personalities, or local bloggers.

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 29, 2015

This type of endorsement isn’t just for big-name retailers, either—small brands can integrate effective promotional content into their strategies through strategic public relation efforts or partnerships with up-and-coming celebrities, online personalities, or local bloggers.

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The Effective Marketer

JUNE 21, 2009

For those that already use social media sites personally and just want to take it to the next level and include their business in the social media space, the presentation is a starting point, but it only tells you some of the basics. Setup what your goals are for each platform (create connections, increase brand awareness, etc.)

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 20, 2010

link] Eric_Hoffman I'm game, even if my game is a bit weak…in the month of March, for my personal blog, I saw a whopping 29 different search terms used to get to my content and for the work blog that I help to maintain we saw 190 different search terms used to get to that content.

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markempa

NOVEMBER 18, 2005

On the other side, Ive heard numerous speakers and bloggers declare e-mail marketing dead. On the other side, Ive heard numerous speakers and bloggers declare e-mail marketing dead. That’s simply not true. E-mail is a one-to-one medium, nothing more, nothing less. That’s simply not true.

Lead Generation 120

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

This sounds simple, but it’s shocking how many bloggers aren’t clear on the core business rationale behind their blog initiative. Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

How can we find the most influential bloggers and get them to write about our client? Wanting to be at the center of a new way to communicate to customers and prospects is a worthy objective. Better question: How can we develop a sustainable, ongoing social media strategy that will turn customers into advocates over the long haul?

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

This puts significant pressure on email to be more relevant, because most of what would be contained in an email newsletter or special offer now happens faster and more personally within Facebook, Twitter or other social outposts. You are becoming one of my favourite bloggers! Because the real advantage email has over social is data.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 12, 2010

It's mostly based on buzz and mass popularity. We measure it (personally and professionally) quantitatively not qualitatively. What separates 'social' now from what has come before is that it got buzz, got cool, got popular. Social media has never been driven by function and purpose.

Paid Search Agency 121

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If someone signs up for your email updates when you send one out, that person will receive it in almost every case. If someone signs up to follow your company on Twitter, when you tweet will that person see it? LinkedIn – only if I have made a personal connection. Email is all about actual audience. Will that open it?

Social Media 135

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Navy. • Paul Bove – Social Media Strategist/Web Developer at Air Force Public Affairs Agency. • Mike Boehmer – Senior Public Relations Specialist at Hamilton County Department of Job and Family Services. • Sonny Gill – Online Marketing and Social Media Strategist at DeVry University. Post on Google Buzz. Tweet This!

Enterprise Management 100

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

Home About Resources Archives Subscribe Consulting Contact How NOT to pitch a blog 29 Comments | Posted by Lee Odden on Aug 29th, 2007 in Blog Marketing , Blogging , Online Marketing , Online PR In the past I’ve written about blogger relations offering tips on how marketers or PR professionals ought to present their story ideas to bloggers.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

IT Must Help Marketing and Sales Collaborate with Lead Generation Fellow blogger, Jim Berkowitz and his CRM Mastery E-Journal provides excellent insight into the lead tracking issue. FREE lead generation consultation from InTouch Just Tell Us How To Contact You First and Last Name Company Email Telephone Ext.

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Biznology

JANUARY 24, 2012

There is a strong desire amongst the Good Fences variety of Social Media Isolationists to want to maintain a semblance of control over brand perception, brand response, and brand buzz. This is the sort of person who collects beautiful heritage silver and china, never to see the copious staining gravies and beet juice of a holiday dinner.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2010

I have recruited a posse of incredibly smart social media, digital marketing, and public relations thinkers to entertain and inform you while I’m learning how to pay with colored money, and my son attends hockey camp.

Paid Search Agency 116

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markempa

MARCH 27, 2005

RSS is still bleeding edge especially for non-bloggers. Bloggers over-hype RSS. RSS is still bleeding edge especially for non-bloggers. Bloggers over-hype RSS. " Here is his original concept. It will probably take somewhere between 12 to 18-months for RSS to reach critical mass for the following reasons: 1.

RSS 120

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Hubspot

MAY 18, 2010

Social Media Explorer -- Jason Falls is constantly pumping out great posts on social media's impact on marketing and public relations. The Future Buzz. -- Adam Singer takes a clear approach to social media marketing and SEO topics and isn't afraid to take a stance against ideas and tactics he thinks are bad for marketers.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

60 Certainly, there are many other factors that contribute to number of followers, and I’m not saying this is in any way a metric judging how influential a person is on Twitter, just how efficient their Twitter usage might be. Had it connected me with many people I'll never meet in person? Gary Vaynerchuk has a FPT of 39.26.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I’m a big believer in humanization of your blog (in fact, it’s one of my 11 must-dos for serious bloggers ). Personally I think having the photo on the far right anchors it a bit better, but people seem to be responding well to #3. But I need your help with the biggest change – the header. 2 many words I guess?

Paid Search Agency 109

Paid Search Agency Webinar Metrics PR Advertising Agencies 109

Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

They also have a nice integration with Klout – the leading service to gauge Twitter influence – automatically including Klout scores for each person. The more email addresses a person uses across the social Web, the less ideal the results. Isn’t that worth the 5 cents per contact that Flowtown charges?

Social Media 127

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Personally, I did not find it helpful, although the concept holds promise. I'm taking some of your suggestions above and tailoring to what I *think* will work best for my personal needs. This, I'll try. However, I found the default content excessive and the reaction of fans not favorable.

Social Media 115

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

These guidelines aimed to provide helpful, practical advice—and also to protect both IBM bloggers and IBM itself, as the company sought to embrace the blogosphere. IBMers are personally responsible for the content they publish on blogs, wikis or any other form of user-generated media. And write in the first person.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2010

Another person tweeted a link to a blog which turned out, much to my chagrin, to be a post asking for votes rather than a vote about the subject. But until then, I can’t not participate as some sort of personal protest. I guess it’s all transparent, so it’s not really “bad.&# link] jaybaer I know.

Paid Search Agency 111

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The Effective Marketer

JULY 21, 2009

Taking the plunge into social media may not be the right thing for you Social media is just another media Experts, personalities and false prophets are all clamoring that social media is king. Otherwise it’s just buzz. That is, if you can translate all those additional site visits, downloads, and re-tweets into sales.

Social Media 100

Social Media Planning Work Management Social Marketing 100

Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If we can reliably identify a person across Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Yelp and elswhere, we can then segment not only for the demographics of the consumer in question; we can tailor content for the mode they are in where we reach them. You can call it ButterCRM Frosting for all I care. link] Ian Greenleigh Great post, Kevin.

Social Media 123

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Convince & Convert

MAY 5, 2010

John & Partners , a full-service advertising and public relations firm, based in Jacksonville. .&# And Now For Something Completely Different But here’s where it gets interesting. In addition to being Chief Jane of JaneNation, Lisa is also the Cultural Strategist for St.

Social Media 125

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

Here they were, arriving at your party with nary a prior personal connection, but looking for a good time just like everyone else. Humanize Your Blog Remember, it’s a blog not a white paper, and a key differentiator is personality. And infuse your writing with personality and voice. (If Make links to your bio easy to find.

Social Media 119

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Joe Fernandez : The amont of public-facing data attributed to a person’s name has exploded. We’ve gone from MySpace and a era of anonymous accounts and comments attributed to “SexyBear1984″ to using our real names on Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere as we build personal brands.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

Meaning, a brand (or person) could benefit by leveraging the crowd. Aside from optimizing the structure of the site and the pitches themselves, sheer volume and traffic drove our authority with Google and other search engines. The more one company shares their pitch, the more views it has, the more backlinks it provides, and so on.

Social Media 115

Social Media SEO Marketing Websites PR 115

Convince & Convert

APRIL 28, 2010

Don’t assume that the person that gave you one star on a Yelp review is some sort of carnival freak outlier. Same with the message board trolls, who are all too easy to overlook in favor of bloggers and Twitterers. Except in this case, they were almost always talkers because a home is so personal and it's easy to share.

Social Media 147

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2010

In the first section, Hsieh recounts his personal story, including his early childhood and nascent entrepreneurial adventures, including a misguided effort at worm farming. The book concludes with a few pages about the science of happiness, and how personal and business happiness can be inextricably linked.

Social Media 119

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 119

Convince & Convert

JULY 6, 2010

While demonstrating the company’s commitment to education, Target also created a local solution to a national issue by personally connecting with parents through a timely and innovative social media campaign.

Social Media 137

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Convince & Convert

MAY 27, 2010

DJ Waldow Director of Community, Blue Sky Factory @djwaldow [link] Doug Braun The More Things Change, The More Things Change (Jay Baer updates us on Swix, Flowtown, BulbStorm): [link] [link] ckdarby All I could keep thinking was the person on the youtube video sounded like an ultra nerd, sorry =(.

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