Chris Koch

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How to establish a voice of authority in a blog

Chris Koch

But it’s not enough just to support bloggers. But you can’t establish that authority by putting a link to their LinkedIn profile on the blog. But you can’t establish that authority by putting a link to their LinkedIn profile on the blog. It would be wonderful if your bloggers were the only experts writing about their fields.

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Three steps for B2B marketers to build a personal social media presence

Chris Koch

I mostly use it as a platform for determining the blogs I like best and then follow them through good old-fashioned e-mail (the tool that most bloggers use to do this is Feedburner ). To me, it’s the missing link between monitoring blogs and connecting with people through social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook.

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How to use social media for B2B

Chris Koch

For example, the number of RSS subscribers bloggers have, the number of comments to the blog post, the number of page views, etc. Taking a poll in a LinkedIn or Facebook group, asking for input from Twitter followers, or asking for information through comments on blogs are some of the ways to gather information. Gather research.

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Why the volume and quality of interactions with customers has to pass for social media ROI

Chris Koch

For example, being listed on the blogroll of a highly respected blogger, analyst, or journalist not only generates traffic; it also establishes you as an authority among the people who care most about the subject you’re blogging about. 10 Tips for Beginning Bloggers (edtechpower.blogspot.com). What do you think?

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

This is the model of most relationship-based social media tools today, such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Plaxo. For example, if you start to exchange messages with an influencer, it’s a logical next step to enter into a permission-based relationship on something like LinkedIn. Permission model. ask a poll question, etc.).

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Want to know which social media tool to bet on? Look at their relationship models.

Chris Koch

This is the model of most relationship-based social media tools today, such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Plaxo. For example, if you start to exchange messages with an influencer, it’s a logical next step to enter into a permission-based relationship on something like LinkedIn. Permission model. ask a poll question, etc.).

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3 factors in winning the social media horse race

Chris Koch

Maybe I’m being too cynical, but when I read posts by the A-list bloggers, there are tons of people who seem to think that saying something—anything, even “So true, so true”—is good for their street cred and exposure. There’s just not much to say about something that didn’t have much substance to begin with.