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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 4

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by HubSpot Rick Burnes notes that without a strong content strategy to back up social media efforts, marketers risk the "all hat, no cattle" syndrome: lots of attention on Twitter and Facebook, but no compelling content to back it up and turn the curious into the converted. This tutorial is clear and generously illustrated with screenshots.

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Best of 2008: Random but Interesting, Part 2

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tags: PromotionWorld Rob Wood TopRank Online Marketing Blog Lee Odden Informal Learning Blog Jay Cross HubSpot Preshant Kaw B2B marketing MediaPost Aaron Goldman Search Insider Summit micro-conversions white paper downloads iMedia Connection J. Brooke Aker semantic search semantic advertising Wildfire Marketing Group Jeremy L.

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Twitter Twaddle, Part 1: What Twitter Is and Why It's Cool

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Johnny Makkar provides some helpful guidance on how to get your co-workers to start Twittering , in which he links to this long but informative video from HubSpot on how to use Twitter for marketing and PR. Example from Bill Hartzer : " Ask.com Adds One-Click Election Poll Information to Search [link]." tags: Web 2.0

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Best of 2008: Social Media Optimization, Part 2

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Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed). Social Tagging.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 2

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He also quotes a HubSpot study finding that three-quarters of bloggers in small to midsize companies say that " their company blogs were 'useful,' 'important,' or 'critical' to their business." Another MediaPost article worth checking out is Scout Labs Offers Cheaper Way To Monitor Consumers.

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Best of 2008 - SEO Tools, Part 1

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THE Best Link Analyzer Tool by Search Marketing Blog Online Jon Clark raves about the Link Diagnosis tool, which provides detailed data on any site's backlinks including Pagerank, anchor text and nofollow information. Website Grader Gives Out Free SEO Tips by TechCrunch Erick Schonfeld gives high marks to the Website Grader tool from HubSpot.

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Twitter Twaddle, Part 2: Best Practices, Tools and The Future of Twitter

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The brilliant Mike Volpe of HubSpot takes a different approach to offering his advice in 5 Things On Twitter That Annoy the Crap Out of Me. You can unfollow me if you like."); and providing too much information ("I like how Twitter is a combination of some business and some personal info so I can get to know people on both levels.

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