Biznology

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I am hereby making the jump from humans to robots for all my blogger research. In the last decade I have seen social media marketing and digital PR mature as a practice, I have seen social media metrics and analytics evolve by leaps-and-bounds. And I need a lot of them. I need brains and discernment.

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Biznology

JULY 10, 2013

Yesterday’s Biznology® Webinar with Chris Abraham was all about blogger outreach and online engagement. Have you spent all this time and money building the perfect social media and content marketing campaign and now feel all dressed up with nowhere to go? Create a blogger-optimized news release. Photo credit: zoxcleb.

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Biznology

AUGUST 25, 2014

Walmart also has a big social media presence. 20 bloggers called “Walmart Moms.”. Here are 10 lessons on Walmart’s social media strategy for every business. Because the company is often a target for controversial press, a second objective is to use social media to protect, defend and enhance Walmart’s reputation.

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Biznology

MARCH 8, 2016

I stared my first blogger outreach agency back in 2006. Ten years on, the state of the union of blogger outreach is good for brands and agencies but great for the bloggers and online influencers. Tell anyone that you’re a blogger or a podcaster and you’ll know what I mean. Blogger Outreach is Hard.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Are all of your conversations meta, meaning do you only discuss social media and social networks, the platforms and vehicles, rather than about content, narrative, story, experiences, expertise, and insight. What are you about outside of social media marketing and digital PR? Photo credit: Wikipedia.

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Biznology

APRIL 8, 2014

Outreach marketing, formerly known as blogger outreach, is a powerful tool with almost zero barrier to entry — just your time and attention. Remember, each and every one of the billions of real social media profiles around the world represents one or more human souls.

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Biznology

APRIL 8, 2014

Outreach marketing, formerly known as blogger outreach, is a powerful tool with almost zero barrier to entry — just your time and attention. Remember, each and every one of the billions of real social media profiles around the world represents one or more human souls.

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Biznology

MAY 6, 2014

It’s happened like this over and over: photography, filmmaking, recording, radio, television, computing, the Internet , message boards, blogging, and now social media. 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).

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Biznology

MARCH 11, 2014

Before you take the next step of using social media for business purposes, realize that it’s a life sentence. Like your Imuran and Azasan, your social media content is your daily bread and not just a special treat. At least social media is a two-way street. Don’t Freak Out. Are You Chilling Out?

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Biznology

MAY 8, 2012

I don’t want to compare parenting to social media community development and management but I guess I just did. Back in the day, when the social mediasphere was smaller and more intimate — maybe just more new — bloggers would let folks know what was going on.

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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

JULY 25, 2014

Your social media engagement traffic, engagement, and exposure are critical to your success. Craft your CTA’s to be requests rather than commands, discreet pushes towards participating in your social media strategy. Most top social media outlets – increasingly – facilitate image sharing.

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Biznology

MAY 22, 2015

Many of these influencers are bloggers, or at least started out that way, and they can give your content marketing strategy a much-needed boost. Today’s bloggers have easier ways to promote you, though, and they are usually more effective. Take a look at a few ways to use bloggers in your content marketing strategy: Hire them to write.

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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. Our low overhead allows us to gladly serve startups, publishing, nonprofits, and associations.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 13, 2011

In response to Inside a Social Media News Release , Jonathan Rick asked me , “Isn’t this essentially the same thing than what Pitch Engine offers?” Pitch Engine’s job is to make Social Media Release-making as easy-as-possible, tech-free, as possible. Image via CrunchBase. Pitch Engine is a how!”

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Biznology

JANUARY 24, 2012

In follow up on my last post, Being Pretty Isn’t Enough for Social Media Marketing , I wanted to discuss what I like to call Social Media Isolationism or Social Media Agoraphobia. And there are two forms of social media isolationism: Invitational and exclusionary.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So last week, I told you how NOT to pitch a blogger in your PR outreach, so it raises the pregnant question of what exactly should you do? But because we so so many people who are afraid of blogger outreach, due to the scary situation that others have blundered into, I wanted to walk through our process to show you how it’s done.

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Biznology

JUNE 25, 2013

I believe that all social media marketing campaigns should probably start with foraging (as I discussed last week) — but as you grow, you need to evolve, especially if you need to bring home more and more food. Even more, the content-creation for content marketing can trend-surf as well.

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Biznology

AUGUST 20, 2012

That’s far from typical–very few companies have more traffic to any of their social media venues than to their old-fashioned website. Here are 26 social media secrets Skittles knows: 1 out of every 5 minutes people spend online are spent on social networks in 2012; up from 1 out of every 20 minutes in 2007.

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Biznology

JULY 2, 2013

This is the next in the series, including Are you a social media forager? and Are you a social media marketing trapper? Are they bloggers? Are they on social media? For many, social media foraging and social media trapping is more than enough, as I’ve discussed the last two weeks.

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Biznology

APRIL 15, 2014

Promoting yourself, your brand, your products, your services, and your clients via social media is what we’re about here at Biznology. Social media marketing is what I have been doing for my clients, my business, and my own brand since 2003. Maybe you set up your LinkedIn profile years ago.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Yesterday’s Biznology Webinar by our blogger Rob Peterson was about measuring Social Media ROI. “How How do I measure social media return on investment (ROI)?” The result is his eBook, 166 Case Studies that Prove Social Media Marketing ROI.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 12, 2011

As social media has (somewhat) matured, an interesting culture has grown up around the idea of editing social media content. And for reasons that I don’t understand, it isn’t one culture–it seems as though every kind of social media has developed its own culture around editing content.

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Biznology

MAY 2, 2017

It used to be thousands of dollars-per-post, but now brands and agencies are signing partner contracts with digital, social media , and online influencers. was endlessly generous with the hundreds of bloggers who responded to our outreach of thousands. Back then we called it blogger outreach and blogger engagement.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Unlike a few years ago, today everyone at least pays lip service to reaching out to bloggers the same we PR people have always reached out to mainstream media. But I am still surprised that many companies don’t do blogger outreach, even today. Simply put, blogger outreach is scary.

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Biznology

JULY 27, 2011

As you look at how the social media market is evolving, you can see the lines being drawn. Large enough to go it alone, Google has it all, between search dominance, YouTube, Blogger, Picasso, and now the Google+ social network. Google is on one side. And Google has the cash to buy or build whatever it doesn't have.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

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. An Earned Media Micro-Influencer Marketing Primer.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last week, I talked about how blogger outreach is scary , and I talked about why this fear exists for most people before they start talking to bloggers. In the five years that we’ve been reaching out to bloggers, we’ve learned just as much about how NOT to pitch as we’ve learned about the right ways.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Has your boss started asking you the so-called “tough questions” about social media yet? What’s the ROI for this social stuff? Social can fill a vital role in each of these areas. Not only is it good for those, but social media can do lots more, too. Tweet This Post. Image via Wikipedia. You know the ones.

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Biznology

JANUARY 17, 2012

What’s more, the most successful online social media barflies are aggressive in addition to gorgeous. Too many companies that have invested vast resources in social have Pretty Boy/Girl Syndrome. Be the catalyst of your natural social media success. Mind you, there are exceptions.

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Biznology

APRIL 30, 2013

You know how much I am obsessed with “ long-tail blogger outreach ,” right? I have been consulting some bouncing social media babies recently and they’re doing it right. Do your best to not allow your burgeoning social media empire to go on autopilot. I am a man possessed!

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Biznology

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In order to succeed in social media, be it as a tool to build your own personal brand or as part of a marketing strategy for your own interest or for your employer, you will need to get over yourself and deal with some very primal fears you may have that feel a lot like your fear of public speaking. And that’s awesome.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 4, 2012

Social media and its social networks may feel like a home to some of us, but they’re really just private public spaces, similar to coffee shops, the Politics & Prose reading area, or the conference or ballroom at the Rosslyn Marriott. What we do own is our own properties.

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Biznology

JULY 16, 2013

Since WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, and even Tumblr allow you to adjust the post date of your blogs, you can slowly and surely backdate your entire blog offerings to go all the way back to the day you were born, if you like. Don’t worry, you’re not alone, either. Writers are not reporters and neither are you.

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Biznology

APRIL 3, 2018

I f you’re a serious business person whose business isn’t digital, you’re probably too busy making money to fool around on social media. Social media’s stupid, right? But the truth is, you cannot afford to let another day pass without sending in your social media and search insurance premium.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I routinely tell people that they need to give ’til it hurts when it comes to blogger outreach and online engagement — you need to offer the gift people want and not the gift you’re ready to give. You need to do the same thing when it comes to developing a cult of personality online.

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