Writing on the Web

JULY 8, 2010

Based on what I hear from clients and colleagues, I’m going to speculate some of the reasons this may be so: Web marketing is complicated: Although tools (blogs, sales pages, shopping carts, audio and video, email marketing) have become more user-friendly in the last few years, there’s a lot more to do (social sites).

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Writing on the Web

JULY 28, 2010

Do these same persuasion tactics work for sites and businesses that aren’t selling physical products? In 2007, Peter De Vries and Ad Pruyn studied whether recommendations influenced Web site visitors’ decisions when buying digital cameras and choosing tourist destinations. Add this to Ning. Share this on Facebook.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 9, 2010

Get URLs for your site before somebody else does so with the poor intentions. You’ll be able to buy those with the peace of mind that no one will actually start a site devoted to lying about your hygiene! Add this to Ning. Protect yourself. Be a watchdog. Share this on del.icio.us. Share this on Facebook. Email this via Gmail.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 12, 2010

You can’t get results from all the content you’re creating and publishing on your blog, e-newsletter, social media sites, unless eventually you send people to a landing page and ask them to take action. Add this to Ning. Short answer: a landing page. Also known as a sales page, squeeze page). Share this on del.icio.us.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2011

stalwarts – Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – there are thousands of other sites to choose from. Technorati : Register your blog with this site that hosts a collection of writers and blogs for Business, Entertainment and Technology. Mixx : Submit and rate content to drive traffic to your site. Stay connected to customers?

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 21, 2010

First thing I tried to do was create a registration page using my Wordpress site on this blog. Add this to Ning. I had a teleclass I was doing with Michael Martine teaching The Ultimate Traffic Formula , how to get maximum results from your blogging efforts. So I thought, why not just create a stand-alone page on the WP blog?

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 15, 2010

At the time the Twitter home page question was something such as: “Let your family and friends know what you are doing now.&# I thought to myself: Why should they care about this and why should I join the site? But because I trusted Patsi, I went back to the site a few days later and signed up, getting the username @ZimblerMiller.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 27, 2010

Action : No easy way to retweet a post, or share to other social sites. and makes sure to feed a short question from his blog post, along with the shortened permalink URL, into several of his social sites. automatically updates his selected sites. Add this to Ning. Design : No author photo (or worse, no name!).

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Writing on the Web

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Don’t forget, it might (or might NOT) be any of the “Big 3″ It could be a small community on a Ning network just waiting for an expert like you to join in the conversation. Related posts: Social Writing: Don’t ignore networking sites. So, which will it be for you – or rather your target audience?

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Writing on the Web

JUNE 17, 2010

So I found this person, actually, a Wordpress Wizard found me, and she said she had a whiz-bang solution for anybody with a Wordpress site who needed to create a sales page without the hassles. Add this to Ning. You may not have access to such help. Of course, I didn’t believe her, but I’m a fair person.

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Biznology

AUGUST 14, 2012

Well, you first need to build out any sites you already have, including all your companies, foundations, and boards. Finally, you should start populating every social network service, social bookmarking site, and social news site. Textual healing is something that’s good for me. “But where,” you ask.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 15, 2010

When’s the last time you reviewed your site or blog banner? Add this to Ning. &# But it’s not about “the blog…&#. This year I switched from Typepad to WordPress , and I’m creating a new banner to reflect the changes. For a while now I’ve been playing with some ideas. Share this on del.icio.us.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 7, 2010

Has no first and last name, photo or link to their site. A perfect example can be seen on Internet marketing gurus sites. Ask people on social media sites if they need such a product, or if this product seems like a good idea to them. Add this to Ning. Social Writing: Don’t ignore networking sites.

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MLT Creative

JULY 20, 2011

93% of B2B buyers use search to begin the buying process and 37% post questions on social networking sites when looking for suggestions." Bookmark phenomenal content on Delicious, StumbleUpon or Digg. Launch your own social network on Ning to engage your prospects and customers. Comment on other trade or industry blog posts.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 5, 2010

That’s why they end up with web sites that go on about what they do… and how long they’ve been in business… yadayadayda. Add this to Ning. One of the reasons people have trouble writing like they talk, especially for the web, is their inability to visualize their readers. Share this on del.icio.us.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 18, 2008

My last post listed several of the best news articles from 2007 on how to effectively use social networking sites for marketing. Among the complaints about Digg are its excessively broad audience and categories and the site's lack of transparency.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Social networking sites are simply an extension of those two functions, giving other people more information about yourself and additional ways to interact. Social media email signatures can also include elements like AIM name, Digg page, Sphinn profile and Ning group. signatures. Here are a few notable examples of Web 2.0

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Hubspot

JULY 23, 2010

The fact is that web sites with a blog received 55% more visitors , 97% more inbound links and 434% more indexed pages than those that didn’t have a blog. If so then include Reddit and Digg. You also want to build a following on your networks, whether it be your own Ning network or Twitter. Are you in HR?

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2011

For the last decade, the net has been morphing into one huge social community with niches of interest breaking off and creating their own networking sites. To spend your marketing dollars most efficiently, you need to find the sites your target market frequents. Such online channels can’t be overlooked. The comScore 2010 U.S.

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Webbiquity

JULY 12, 2010

Where: which social media sites and tools will you use? Most companies find that the amount of time they need to devote to social media, particularly to engagement, starts out modestly and increases over time as their blog readership, Twitter following, Facebook fan base and other groups grow. Share this on Bebo. Share this on del.icio.us.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Best SEO Link Building Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , July 14, 2010 Optimizing a website by incorporating keywords into page titles, headlines, text, page URLs, image alt tags and internal links will help improve the position of a site in the search engines—but it’s only half the battle. Share this on Bebo. Tweet This!

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Webbiquity

JULY 26, 2010

Writing on the Web ( Ning Advertorial Business Blogging Online Marketing Linkedin Landing Page ). Blog as hub, site as spoke , June 23, 2009. B2B, Buzz & Brand ROI: Creating Customers That Create (MORE!) June 8, 2010. B2B Social Media: Why Do Business Professionals Use Social Media? Slideshow) , February 19, 2010.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Soon-to-be sophomore and official Yale blogger, Sam Jackson , puts this concept to work on his own site, where he blogs about higher education marketing trends. Speaking of Facebook, the site makes it easy to be private - you must have a.edu email address to blog here. He pointed to Liz B. Lesson #7 Learn to Twitter. Congratulations!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 9, 2010

And while I don’t have any issues with those sites (in fact I wrote about Facebook marketing in-depth here), but is treating social media like a checklist really the best possible solution for your company? But I think that we must understand that all social media sites do not work for every industry. But that still costs money.

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