Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

IBM Social Computing Guidelines. Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media. 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. Introduction. Be who you are.

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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 Commerce Related to the first, but commerce-oriented blogs are more interested in conversion events than in traffic generation. As I see it, there are 3 options here: 1.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 13, 2014

Earning attention for a brand’s content can drive brand awareness, traffic, and conversions. Media Relations. This is a tried-and-true stalwart of public relations (PR), but it doesn’t have to be all about pitching brand, product, and service stories to journalists and editors. Syndication.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Based on my own anecdotal research, natural search typically drives at least 40% and average more than half of all unpaid traffic to b2b websites. What’s more, social media supports SEO and even branding activities. Virtually every b2b buying decision involves some level of research on the web.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

There’s a First Time for Everything New research (pdf) by my clients at Compendium Blogware show that for more than two-thirds of corporate blogs, new visitors comprise more than 80% of total blog traffic. I think first-time bloggers get enamored with the concept of “design.&# That would be a fun discussion, right?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 26, 2010

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. Then came social networks that were great places to deliver and share messages – but not really that great for telling your story. Why Am I sharing This?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

And while substantially smaller than the Facebook brigade, the Twitter crew is tuned in to brands like nowhere else on the social Web. 49% of monthly Twitter users follow brands or companies, compared to just 16% of social network users overall. It's like any other social network, right? population).

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 17, 2010

Traffic to my blog. link] EllisTweet Given the volume of yammering about how to measure social networking success, I must say that this post, Jay, stands out. Indeed, I use Twitter for all of the reasons above (especially to meet new people), but for me and my business, I have two core, measurable goals. Followers per tweet.

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Sword and the Script | B2B

DECEMBER 28, 2022

More than three-quarters (77%) of journalists surveyed say Twitter is the most valuable social network – the next most valuable network isn’t even close with 39%. Other findings include: 39% plan to spend more time on Twitter this year – the highest of any other social network. select all that apply).

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Convince & Convert

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

When you include one keyword or phrase in your post title, then repeat it in the first sentence – you are using helpful SEO tactics, even if you and/or the source blogger don’t know the first thing about SEO. Create Blogger Relations Directly With the Most Influential Bloggers in Your Client’s Industry.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Social media is hard False. And that’s only because of the alphabet soup of social networks, lifestreams, sharing sites, etc. Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. “Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube.&#

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 29, 2012

It also requires an active presence and network of relationships in social media, coverage in industry press, and carefully targeted online advertising to be where your prospective buyers are looking, when they are looking. How much website traffic did it drive? How many conversions? How does this compare to other activities?

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

All of these tactics can work together seamlessly to create a robust, optimized content marketing engine that pays real dividends in increased website traffic, and conversions. The brochure could be made available on site and could also be made available as a PDF that ExactTarget could drive traffic to via email.

Social Media 140

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Online Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 23, 2010

If you’re selling B2B products online, you can set up a shopping tab on your page to drive traffic to your e-commerce site and encourage viral sharing of your products. link] Top 5 Inbound Marketing Articles to Start the Week: Blogging Motivation | Best Traffic Tips [.] 5 Predictions for the Public Relation.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2010

Second, if you’re going to invest in a bunch of social media outposts, even if you don’t have a clear social media strategy , you should take every opportunity to link them together. The videos aren’t annotated to drive traffic to Facebook. The YouTube channel is barely mentioned on Facebook.

Social Media 120

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 6, 2010

Find keywords and search phrases to include in these four places: Google Analytics (or whatever Web site analytics program you’re using) Look at your keywords report to find phrases that are driving traffic to your site.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 22, 2010

If you don’t have the obvious social chatter about your brand, you have to make the case that content creation will drive search, which drives traffic, which drives sales. You have to work on a pilot program – maybe even in secret – to show social media’s impact on customer satisfaction.

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Convince & Convert

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Conversely, many blogs are too community-oriented, taking an overly insider approach, given that new research from my friends and clients Compendium Blogware shows that search drives 60%+ of total traffic on 80%+ of corporate blogs. find out – [link] [link] Heasley and Partners Is Your Social Strategy Proactive or Reactive?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 6, 2015

In few professions has the emergence of social media been such a double-edged sword as public relations. On one hand, the “citizen journalism,” blogging, and content-sharing platforms for all types of media have fundamentally altered the traditional print-based business model of professional and trade publications.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 15, 2010

To be on the same list (much less on top) with bloggers for whom I have tremendous respect and admiration ( Valeria Maltoni , Lee Odden , David Meerman Scott , and many others) is a real affirmation for what I’m trying to do. Thank you to everyone who reads Convince & Convert. Second, huge thanks to Joe and his team for the honor.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 3, 2010

Go beyond the obvious and use customer service metrics, social connectivity of customers, and Web traffic patterns as measures that matter. Communicate with Content After strategic thinking, the key to social media success is content creation.

Social Media 121

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Here’s the distribution of number of words in each of these headlines: 5 word headline = 2 posts in top 25 6 word headline = 3 posts in top 25 7 word headline = 8 posts in top 25 8 word headline = 9 posts in top 25 9 word headline = 0 10 word headline = 4 posts in top 25 Clearly, I write longer headlines than many other social media bloggers.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Last week I dissected a blogger outreach pitch email line-by-line in The art of writing the perfect blogger pitch as a way of proving that no matter how brief and conversational one of Abraham Harrison ‘s blogger pitches may appear at first blush, the effortlessness takes a lot of work and the time of three senior agents.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The B2B Social Media Landscape: a portrait by Beyond. ** 5 STARS. John Bottom has crafted an amazing, creative, interactive B2B social media landscape image with links to a large group of key B2B bloggers like Mark Schaefer, Joe Pulizzi, Beth Harte and Tony Karrer. The most underestimated social media asset by iMediaConnection.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 14, 2010

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and a Blog all dedicated to creating places for the public to tell them problem areas in the city, ask questions about traffic safety and promote a safer community. They get “Customer Service&# big time without selling anything, marketing anything or for their own advancement.

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Convince & Convert

MAY 11, 2010

You can study your Web analytics, and see which pages get the most traffic, and what questions are likely to be in prospects’ minds when they are on those pages. Or, you could survey Web site visitors, gathering data in real-time.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 8, 2010

In fact, it’s quite telling that every single social network still requires members to sign-up with an email address. One might even argue that social media isn’t email’s Van Helsing, but rather it’s Bella or Sookie. The reasons that social networks require email addresses are numerous: 1. Why is this?

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

All you need to do is create an excel doc and add the email addresses of popular bloggers/journalists in your industry and brief description of what they cover (bonus points if you know these people well enough to do this without descriptions). Notice all those Twitter users with 20,000+ followers but no blog/website traffic?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

By now you’ve probably become aware of the “fake&# BP global public relations account on Twitter spewing humorous observations such as: “We feel terrible about spilling oil in American waters, we’ll make sure the next spill happens where the terrorists live. bpcares&#. Websites, an ad that makes me want to scream.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , September 1, 2010 Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. Will Traditional, Social Media Blend? Blogger Relations. Is your company creating a social media ghost town? What’s the point? Tweet This!

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 26, 2010

RowFeeder is the first business to be spawned from the buzzed about new tech incubator Untitled Startup – a “transparent startup&# in Seattle that even publishes their website traffic live on their home page. or engaged in brand reputation management, often on a weekly basis.

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Hubspot

JULY 31, 2019

These third parties could include customers, journalists, bloggers, and anyone who shares your content for free — hence the name “earned”. These channels include public relations, social shares and mentions, guest articles and roundups, and product reviews. related metrics. Traffic/reach. Engagement.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

12 Ways to Leverage Your LinkedIn Profile for a B2B Company - Social Media B2B , July 29, 2010 LinkedIn is considered by many to be the professional social network, but since it is based around people and their individual profiles, many don’t realize the benefit their B2B company can get with a well-crafted, active personal profile.

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Scoop.it

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

It’s preferable to seek closely related terms or to hold the phrase itself and develop a sphere of influence around it over time in these situations. This may be accomplished by frequent content development, public relations, and promotional efforts. What are your key performance indicators (KPIs)? You can do the same.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 8, 2010

The opportunities, mishaps with technology viruses, popular gadgets and such all create a rapid opportunity path to jump on that popularity, host a video or post on a trending issue and gain traffic. Active listening required. Now if only I could figure out how to target the concept of tech support. Great stuff.

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Online Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Also, some bloggers (including Ari Herzog and Valeria Maltoni ) don’t favor including tweets as comments, since they are not true “comments.&# All In One SEO Pack Like many bloggers, I utilize the excellent All in One SEO Pack plug-in to optimize posts for search engine rankings. link] Mark Levy Great list Jay.

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