Biznology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Most firms focus only on outreach to A-listers. As the number of social networking platforms increases, we have found that connecting with influencers is the most powerful way of accessing their entire network, including their social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and even Reddit and SnapChat.

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Biznology

MAY 2, 2017

was endlessly generous with the hundreds of bloggers who responded to our outreach of thousands. Yes, you heard me right, we pitch thousands of bloggers in search of the perfect match. In our outreaches, “pay me money” means no thank you but I’m nobody’s fool. All for value for value.

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Biznology

APRIL 25, 2017

Chris Abraham is a leading expert in digital: online reputation management (ORM), Internet privacy , social media marketing, and digital PR with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement, and Internet crisis response. Chris has been volunteering with the local homeless kitchen, Miriam’s Kitchen , for over five years.

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Biznology

JUNE 20, 2013

Without great outreach, link building becomes 100x harder, because how can you expect to secure a link if you can’t get anyone to communicate with you? Without further ado, here are my main strategies for successful outreach for links – mainly for guest posting. Be Conversational. Avoid Stock Emails. Don’t Rely on Email.

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Biznology

JULY 12, 2016

A third of my practice at Gerris Corp is devoted to earned media influencer marketing (which I naïvely still call blogger outreach ) and guess what I’ve discovered over the past linear decade? There’s nobody online taken more for granted than bloggers. Bloggers have a lot of baggage. Reddit, right ?

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2017

I recently wrote two articles relevant to the show, The Implications for PR if Twitter Goes Away and The Secret to Mastodon’s Success is Mastering the Hyperlocal , both of which were foci of the podcast. The only reason this occurred to me is because I went back in time to when I was a Twitter baby, via my experience on Mastodon.

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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

APRIL 26, 2016

Creating real buzz, at least on Twitter, and in the Blogosphere, doesn’t rely as much about all those things, such as Followers, like SEO-focused social media marketing does. Twitter : @chrisabraham : 51.5k Share on Twitter. Share Photo on Twitter. Share Video on Twitter. Retweet Twitter.

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Biznology

AUGUST 14, 2018

Back in the day, hosting parties, meetups, and get-togethers for top-local-tweeters and geographically-close bloggers was all the rage. Guess Who I Am. Die Cocktailparty am Goethe-Institut. I hosted a really lovely Washington, DC, influencers-only cocktail party for the gang at Goethe-Institut Washington.

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Biznology

MARCH 15, 2016

LinkedIn and Twitter has made this even easier. Successful influencer outreach is just the end result of building a real relationship over time. Brands consider it threatening to their own equity but it’s much easier for people to connect than a brand and a person even if the person is a citizen journalist cum blogger.

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Biznology

JULY 26, 2016

Also, check out my last two articles on the subject: Earned media influencer outreach is alive and well. Connect with our panelists on Twitter at @chrisabraham , @frankeliason , and @hksully. Why Influencer Marketing Is Faltering and How PR Can Save It. Kindness opens many doors online. So why aren’t PR people doing it yet?

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Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2016

While earned media influencer outreach may well be as close to traditional PR as you can get online these days, short of calling journalists, my strategies and tactics care as much about spiders and bots as they do column inches and names spelled properly. Links to the source material for this episode are on Delicious.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Connect with our panelists on Twitter at @ChrisAbraham , @CreativeComms , and @Stevology. Dan York reports on the Internet Governance Forum this week in Mexico, a panel last week on Internet fragmentation (which communicators don’t want), and WordPress’s move toward promoting more SSL/TLS. He operates his consultancy at Gerris Corp.

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2015

Influencer Outreach. Bloggers : while they may no longer be the only kings of the kingdom, bloggers have a lot of bang for the buck because not only do they have a lot of SEO mojo associated with their blogs, they tend to be shameless self-promoters and minor deities themselves. What does Google want? Social Media Marketing.

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Biznology

JANUARY 29, 2013

People are spending the money and devoting the resources required to create compelling and engaging social media posts, not only just on Facebook but also on LinkedIn , Twitter , Pinterest , and even Google+. Think of it as Twitter-development. I am so impressed by how well brands are messaging these days.

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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). While each member may very well follow Ellen DeGeneres on Twitter and Like her on Facebook, they’re probably lurkers in that community. Communities like mine, for example.

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Biznology

AUGUST 12, 2013

This is because guest blogging, at its purest, provides an opportunity for a mutually beneficial relationship between webmaster and guest blogger. The webmaster receives quality content for their site and its readers, and the guest blogger gains exposure and is typically allowed to link back to their own site which provides some SEO benefit.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 4, 2012

At the end of the day, none of us own anything we do on Facebook, Twitter , Pinterest, Google +. So, there’s a built-in aggregator that I can set up to suck in all the RSS feeds of all the blogs to which I contribute, including Twitter. Image via CrunchBase. What we do own is our own properties.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

And bloggers , of course, need to know what words their audiences use to describe their pain points. Earned: Press releases, blogs, organic search, social outreach, Facebook, Twitter. And the words enriched all related social outreach. Of course they all could discover the right words independently.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 11, 2016

I have been doing long-tail blogger outreach since 2006. Chicago Running Bloggers via Instagram. AMT Editorial Staff via Twitter. via Twitter. Ayre via Twitter. Maggie Wolff via Twitter. Trihardist via Twitter. Chris Abraham via Twitter. Delicious Knowledge via Twitter.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2012

No matter how much money you spend on a graphic designer, a social media expert, and a community manager, you may very well not find the kind of success you want and expect from your investment in social media and social networks such as Facebook , Twitter , Google +, YouTube , and Pinterest.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 13, 2015

I have been doing this for years for my blogger outreach and influencer engagement campaigns: registering bespoke campaign-related domain names in order to make it as easy and as simple as humanly possible for everyone who has even the slightest inkling to attend your event or buy your stuff or get to know you a little bit better.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Reputation management is much hotter than ever, search engine optimization (SEO) is no longer considered snake oil, and blogger PR and social marketing. Too many people in this game have been burnt themselves by the surprised cat named Google, Blogger, Influencer, Twitterati, ending up scratched, bitten, and shamed.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 21, 2014

I’m doing a big influencer outreach right now on behalf of a technology startup. 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.

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Biznology

JANUARY 17, 2011

Let me explain and let me introduce myself because Mike has offered me the opportunity to be a blogger here, so I thought I would put everything into context and perspective. Instead, I threw myself and my agency into blogger outreach and social media marketing. That's my goal as blogger here.

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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. ” (Wikipedia).

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Biznology

JULY 19, 2011

Social media marketing and blogger outreach and activation can be effective for everything, though it isn't always clear how. We've worked for a broad spectrum in these five years, from health care and pharma to huge radio astronomy projects; from global non-profits to very specific public affairs campaigns.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To the history of my calls, to the history of the conversations and relationship I have with each person, maybe even access to my Facebook, Google+, Twitter , and LinkedIn accounts so that each meeting can come with a briefing. To historical meetings and meeting places.

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Biznology

MARCH 22, 2016

And, it’s so very rare that anyone who pitches bloggers and expects them (us) to do stuff for free ever asks bloggers (us) out to do stuff IRL (in real life). Follow them on Twitter. But you also must remember that most bloggers have very rich lives outside of their blogging life. Connect with them on LinkedIn.

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Biznology

APRIL 30, 2013

You know how much I am obsessed with “ long-tail blogger outreach ,” right? And with 43,571 followers on Twitter and 4,777 friends on Facebook , maybe I am “that guy.” I have tried to create Twitter lists and keep connected, but it’s not easy. I am a man possessed!

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The Outreach Marketing Virtual Summit 2014 , sponsored by GroupHigh , happens today. My presentation is titled Blogger Outreach Case Study: How I Activated Hundreds of Bloggers for Mizuno Running. Long Tail Blogger Outreach. It’s free, it’s web-based, virtual, and lasts all day.

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Biznology

AUGUST 27, 2013

Here are the answers to all your prayers — though I have a feeling that this list is going to make you hate me: Be newsworthy : any earned media outreach or social media propagation campaign needs real legs and being timely and newsworthy is essential — just like any PR or promotional campaign.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Over the last five years that Abraham Harrison has been pitching bloggers on behalf of clients, we have learned a thing or two about how best to reach bloggers, how to engage them, how to get them to carry our client’s message to their readership. Bloggers don’t trust PR firms. But first, the salutation.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Back in 2006 when I started doing online public relations, blogger outreach was a minefield. — and it was years before anyone else besides my little agency was willing to engage these bloggers on behalf of products and brands. Back in 2006, most bloggers of any note had zero tech savvy. Solid ground?

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