Biznology

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Last week, I talked about using the long tail of blogger outreach –the idea that you can’t pin your hopes for most public relations efforts on only the A-list bloggers. For blogger outreach to work, over and over, you need to be endlessly generous and endlessly appreciative.

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Biznology

JANUARY 3, 2012

This is all according to your preference, but when it comes to a blogger outreach campaign, the decision is never so zero-sum, not nearly so either/or. You can always secure hundreds of long-tail earned media mentions while you’re desperately working on securing coverage on Mashable and TechCrunch.

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Biznology

JULY 5, 2016

As I mentioned last month in Influencer Marketing Tools of the Trade , Dan Krueger and I are in the midst of an earned-media blogger outreach campaign on behalf of Skinny & Co. If you’re doing things right, you really should be aiming at doing 80%-90% of all the work for each and every blogger.

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Biznology

JANUARY 2, 2018

And if you’re compassionate enough to not put the onus of intralinking and interlinking onto your bloggers then you can do all of this during the editorial process afterwards. So, since you’re the gardener of your own online presence, it’s up to you and yours to quilt your website together using internal links.

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Biznology

JULY 28, 2015

A few of my offerings include online influencer outreach , long-tail blogger outreach , and social media marketing so a major part of my services include sifting through the entire Internet ( The Internet is big. If you want to know more in advance, watch this: long tail blogger outreach and influencer outreach.].

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Biznology

MARCH 23, 2016

We’ll cover A-list and long-tail outreach, bloggers, journalists, and social media influencers across different platforms, and discuss what does and doesn’t work in earned media and how to pay-to-play if you’re not getting results. He focuses on blogger outreach/engagement and internet crisis response.

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Biznology

JULY 17, 2018

While it’s not quite a work slowdown, influencers put in the sort of energy and time commensurate to how much you value their time, influence, and the amount of work they’ve invested in becoming successful as a creator and online celebrity, no matter how long tail or niche. This needn’t be a war. Grease That Palm!

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Biznology

APRIL 26, 2016

I reach out to the A-listers by hand via GroupHigh’s excellent blogger/influencer-dedicated social CRM — it allows me to track the outreach and, if I can’t find their email, I can still fill out their contact form or reach out to them via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, or even DailyMile, if that’s what I have to do.

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Biznology

JANUARY 10, 2012

Last week, I explained how to succeed with B-list bloggers, but maybe some of you aren’t convinced. So, this week, I want to draw an analogy to successful Google AdWords approaches so that you can see how to apply that same technique to blogger outreach. Long-tail blogger outreach is like long-tail Google AdWords advertising.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

My presentation is titled Blogger Outreach Case Study: How I Activated Hundreds of Bloggers for Mizuno Running. See what we did to engage and activate hundreds of bloggers, from the top 100 running bloggers down the every single blogger who self-identified with being a Runner.” Long Tail Blogger Outreach.

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Biznology

APRIL 22, 2014

If you’ve been blogging for a long time, your life has probably changed a number of times. You’ve developed a history that has been, until now, etched in stone. But no more! Now, you can revise your entire history in just a couple easy steps. Give Your Web Site a Keyword Facelift.

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Biznology

JANUARY 17, 2012

This can include a long-tail blogger outreach campaign, it should include an A-list influencer outreach, be they on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or wherever. Be the catalyst of your natural social media success. Membership in your community is a later stage of the hearts-and-minds campaign in which you need to engage.

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Biznology

JANUARY 29, 2013

This can include a long-tail blogger outreach campaign, it should include an A-list influencer outreach, be they on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, or wherever. Be the catalyst of your natural social media success. Membership in your community is a later stage of the hearts-and-minds campaign in which you need to engage.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Then it became social media marketing, then blogger outreach, then digital PR and digital marketing. And that’s your fault, man — own up! Let me give you a personal example. When I started in digital, what I did was called new media marketing. I called it defensive SEO then defensive search.

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Biznology

MAY 6, 2014

Amateur radio reminds me of what it was like being a blogger in the late 90s using tools like Greymatter , Zope , and Pyra Labs (pre-Blogger). It took me a while to register the importance of my long tail blogger outreaches. Those 900 are important, even if 90% of them bounce, there’s still an impression.

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Biznology

APRIL 15, 2014

In spite of all those campaigns, all those clients, and all those hours, I tend to spend all of my energy on blogs, bloggers, Twitter, Facebook , Pinterest, and even reddit, message boards, fora, and email lists before I spent time on maybe the most powerful top-down influential platforms in the social media- and social networking- sphere.

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Biznology

APRIL 30, 2013

You know how much I am obsessed with “ long-tail blogger outreach ,” right? I am a man possessed! That said, I really don’t collect people. People don’t like being collected.

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Biznology

JULY 3, 2012

I just wrote an article , Blogger outreach is earned media PR, isn’t it? wherein I suggested that some bloggers are kinda jerks because they lead any blogger outreach with “here’s my advertising packet.” Bloggers, in fact, are the victims and we digital and PR agencies are the perps.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

My long tail blogger outreach strategy is periodically challenged or criticized as being too aggressive. The argument generally goes as follows: if you send thousands of email pitches to topically- and demographically-relevant bloggers and online influencers in one go, you’re spamming. Image via Wikipedia.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 21, 2014

We’re personally, by hand, reaching as far down the tech, app, and gadget A-list as possible, reaching hundred of bloggers and social media writers. In addition, my staff is doing a long tail outreach, including upwards of 4,000 influencers. My client also has their media list. There’s probably a lot of crossover.

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Biznology

JUNE 26, 2012

My definition of blogger outreach has always been about acquiring earned media coverage from bloggers and online influencers. My definition–and my assumption–has always been that blogger outreach is public relations and not paid media. I may well be mistaken. ” I quickly responded, “Funny.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Back in 2006 when I started doing online public relations, blogger outreach was a minefield. 2006 was an amazing time: it was both the heyday of blogging — remember the midterm elections of 2006, ten years ago today, and remember how influenced the 2004 elections were influenced by these newfangled things called blogs and bloggers?

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Biznology

AUGUST 30, 2016

Take your bloggers and social media influencers to lunch. 7 ways to use bloggers in your content marketing strategy. 7 ways to use bloggers in your content marketing strategy. Mizuno running long tail outreach marketing case study. Earned media influencer outreach is alive and well. What is social media marketing?

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Biznology

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The state of the blogger outreach union ten years on. Take your bloggers and social media influencers to lunch. Micro-influencer marketing is the new long tail. My Best Biznology Blog Posts of 2016. Use Instagram as the starting point to promote your business online. Becoming a reddit Internet sensation.

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Biznology

JUNE 14, 2016

So, since blogger outreach is at the top of mind, I thought I would talk a little bit about the tools of the trade — what we use to stoke excitement about our clients! Check, check, check, check, and check! Check, check, check, check, and check! OK, now on to tools. While influencer marketing is PR, you need to treat it like sales.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Read more… Target Twitter followers using a theory of everyone — I put more trust in the value and impact of the online influencer long tail than I do in the impact of the couple-dozen top-influencers that most social media consultants and digital PR teams recommend. Simply put, blogger outreach is scary.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

So, over time, shell-shocked from seeing everyone around them being shot down and rejected; and, after repeatedly being warned by the media and by social media gurus as to how much of a mine field blogger outreach is, once-bitten, twice shy. Bloggers are generally more libertarian rugged individualist than sycophantic people pleasers.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Explore the long tail (there are millions of people blogging, sharing, and posting online – and PR tends to pile on the same 100 “influentials.”) “We want you to take 50 million of us as seriously as you take one reporter from The Wall Street Journal ” (#83 of the 95 theses from The Cluetrain Manifesto ). InkyBee – inkybee.com.

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Biznology

AUGUST 16, 2016

Last night I had the honor of dusting off my trusty old long tail earned media blogger outreach deck and updating it for the new world of earned media influencer marketing for the lovely Brigitte Winter and her Georgetown School of Continuing Studies students. Waiting for class. My Personal Digital PR Philosophy.

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Biznology

AUGUST 2, 2016

For two reasons: 1) you can relate to how shitty being blogger can be, especially based on how crappy a lot of pitchers, brands, and marketers are on a day-to-day basis, especially in your INBOX. 2) you can always lead that you’re a fellow blogger and include all of your mad social media and blog bonafides in your pitch.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I have been pitching bloggers, online influencers, micro-influencers, reporters, and journalists for exactly ten years today (let’s say that true). As you may know, over time, we developed general message model strategies that are committed to honor and appreciate the oft-ignored long-tail micro-influencers.

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Biznology

JANUARY 7, 2014

A majority of my revenue is generated from blogger outreach, namely long-tail and deep-dive, outreach that extends all the way into the thousands of bloggers. As part of the client service work on behalf of my clients I have engaged with many thousands of bloggers over the last decade. Mark my words.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Why would it be any different when it comes to blogger and influencer outreach marketing? The conventional approach in outreach marketing and PR relies on converting just a handful of highly-influential journalists, online writers, and bloggers who have a well-established popularity and readership. OK, finally, it is OK to fail?

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Biznology

JUNE 4, 2013

You may know that I am a proponent of long-tail blogger outreach , a theory of outreach and engagement that pushes well past the few top influencers and deep into the democratic world of everyone else. One caveat, though: my queue is pretty long so I only Buffer content that can sit around for a month before it posts.

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Biznology

APRIL 23, 2013

Back in 2006 I developed a strategy of blogger outreach that allowed my to reach out to more than just 25 top-tier bloggers by hand over time but to 2,500-5,000 bloggers. So, what my team and I developed is the equivalent of blogger-brand speed dating. Before long, hundreds of email replies stream in. And it works.

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