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Thursday, September 2, 2010
Whether it’s a case study, best practice guide or white paper, PDFs are great for sharing content on the web. This post gives some guidance on making your PDFs social media friendly and ensuring your content doesn’t sit in a shady corner of the Internet gathering cobwebs. Top Tweeting. Would you believe it? 8211; [link]. Wrong.
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Your website is the hub of your B2B marketing efforts, so it’s critical that it be found on search engines. Power Tips for Page Titles When writing page titles, consider that the page title should: Accurately reflect the content of the page. Need help optimizing your B2B marketing website? Use weighted targeted keywords.
 
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Writing that “The most productive PR path…is a blended approach to social and traditional media,&# Len Stein offers a quick but valuable process for obtaining and promoting old and new media coverage using multiple tools like social bookmarking sites, internal company distribution, your own website, marketing emails and more.
 

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In 2007, the mention of content marketing brought as many blank stares from small business owners as the mention of a website did 10 years before. In fact, in 1997 when we started our small business magazine in Southwest Florida, few owners had websites, let alone an online marketing strategy.
Most of it can be done with content. Destination CRMs article, B2B Websites are Dropping the Ball , references the Nielsen Norman Groups study, "B2B Website Usability: Design Guidelines for Converting Business Users into Leads and Customers." quot; How effective is your website? dont know about you, but Im busy.
There are a number of reasons a content strategy is critical, but I’ll start with the simple fact that businesses are now being expected by their consumers to engage through content. Content Touches Everything. With such a demand for content, how could you not have a strategy in place? Better Content. On time.
Why An Effective Content Strategy is Fundamental to Effective Content Marketing. We hope you’re a firm believer in the value of content marketing. If so, you know how important it is to deliver relevant and valuable content to your most important current and prospective customers. Amorphous marketing is out.
We get asked how much a website should cost at least once a week. When they learn what we do for a living , they invariably ask us "what should my website cost?" We once saw a firm bid $500 to make a complete banking website with the ability to do everything a banking website should be able to do.
Content mapping is the process of understanding and organizing the flow of content for your website, nurturing campaigns or blog, so it can be presented to your audience ( personas ) based on their needs and stage in the buying cycle. Content mapping is closely related to Information Architecture and UI (user interface) design.
It’s been a very good year for content marketing. In fact, visitors searching our site for the phrase “content marketing” increased by 85% in 2009 over 2008. Social media certainly loomed larger in the past 12 months but interest in content marketing strategy accounted for the majority of the most popular posts. Not at length.
When your customers come to your website, they are similarly looking to you to solve their problems. If you can succeed at providing plenty of substantive information that addresses their biggest problems, you are beginning to play the role of content concierge in their lives. You have an advantage over a typical hotel.
Your Content Marketing Can Answer All Those Implicit Questions–And Much More. The difference between the old world of advertising and today’s world of content marketing is that in 2010, you can fulfill the complete role of a traditional business-to-business publication. don’t know your company.
have to say Im still amazed at the lack of context in their content presentations - from a customer point of view. Some B2B websites Ive visited are doing a better job on the positioning of their content to address problem/solution scenarios in the main content on the page, but the theme of laundry list sidebars seems to be in full force.