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The B2B Manifesto: Trust Building Comes First

Writing on the Web

How good is your “trust-building?&# Before you can convert readers to clients, before you can get them to download your digital information and build your list, you’ve got to build trust. I don’t think enough of you do a good job of trust building. But hardly anybody talks about trust building.

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity

Additionally, every one of our posts has a quick link to Delicious, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. If someone finds your profile on Digg or thinks your answer to their question on LinkedIn is solid, they’re going to want to check you out a bit more. And links are a critical part of rising in the search engine rankings.

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B2B Marketing: Trust + Community = ROI

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Trust is not a new thing when it comes to marketing and communications as evidenced by one of the most awaited studies in the communications world is always the annual Edelman Public Relations Trust Barometer. Social Media changes that and elevates Trust to the individual level. This is actually good news for the B2B Marketer.

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The Pinterest Buy Button Might Rock Your Ecommerce

Convince & Convert

Both Facebook and Twitter have experimented with marketplaces of their own, but they are struggling to gain user trust and identify consumers’ intent to buy. Truthfully, many social networks are still haunted by what happened to Digg, a once-huge social network that destroyed its following by trying to monetize too quickly.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Many of them also trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. Examples: Pocket (pictured above), Digg, Pinterest and Mix. Generate traffic back to your own blog. Social review sites. Overview: According to Statista, 36% of consumers use online reviews to inform their purchase decisions.

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Avoiding Stupid SEO Tricks

Webbiquity

Linking a site from social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon is now among the fastest ways to get it crawled. Trust these spammers with website optimization? Second, direct submission of a site to search engines hasn’t been a crucial SEO tactic since the last century. “Get 1,000 Backlinks for $140!&#.

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How NOT to Do Social Media - Three Disastrous Social Media C**k Ups

Tomorrow People

The recent sale of former social media darling Digg for $500,000 (it was valued at $175m four years ago) is a timely reminder that in the world of social media , nothing is forever. And once people are talking about you for the RIGHT reasons, it's worth considering that 90% of consumers trust peer recommendations, whereas only 14% trust ads.