WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

To add a few of my own thoughts to the last post by Cece Lee , "blogger relations" are becoming as important as media relations in PR strategy. I receive numerous emails each week from PR folks asking me to write about their product or service. Bloggers reach a micromarket.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Despite the fact that several smart PR bloggers, including Cece Lee , Laura Moncur and Elge Premeau have written about what works in blogger outreach for PR, there are still a lot of agencies and PR people who just don't get it. Their efforts at appealing to bloggers are awkward at best, counterproductive at worst.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 21, 2007

I don't normally do this here, but PR expert Greg Hoffman of the Internet Marketing Gorilla blog is an extraordinarily talented PR guy seeking employment. Greg gave me some great feedback for an upcoming post I'm working on addressing interactive PR. He knows how to develop highly effective PR programs on a tight budget.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 24, 2008

Being social media savvy, you add blogger outreach to your PR plans for a new product launch. You carefully craft your message, following best practices for blogger PR outreach : personalize each message, make it clear that you've read the blog and understand its subject matter, and explain the relevance of your message.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 19, 2008

The Blogging for Business (B4B) Conference coming up in Salt Lake City on June 6 will feature an intriguing lineup of speakers , including: Brian Critchfield of Navel Marketing on how the consumer revolution is driving transparency in marketing; Charlie Craine , Director of Interactive Media for the Deseret News; Christopher Barger , GM's Director (..)

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 10, 2007

Note: this is the first of two guest-posts from PR guru-ess Cece Salomon-Lee on how Web 2.0 has changed the practice of PR and how PR professionals can best take advantage of blogging and other social media. It goes to the core skills of what being a GOOD PR person is or isn't. I mean, I admit it. Is this viable?

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WebMarketCentral

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Creating and maintaining a profile on both sites, then creating connections to other people you know, can pay B2B PR dividends in at least three ways: - Profiles (particularly those on LinkedIn) show up well in searches for terms related to your position (so make sure your profile includes those key terms). . -

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

For anyone doing interactive PR , PitchEngine has become a vital tool for creating, distributing and promoting social media releases. PitchEngine is the most no-brainer, must-have PR investment my clients make. Tags: Interactive PR. It's simple, fast, powerful and gets results.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Advanced link-building—blogging, commenting, content marketing , guest posting, blogger outreach, interactive PR , etc. Basic link-building—social media sites, directories, business partners etc.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 13, 2009

What are the best examples of organizations using social media for marketing, promotion and interactive PR ? How can you make more efficient use of social media? How can you optimize your use of social networking tools like Twitter and LinkedIn? 5 Daily Social Media Builders In Less Than 10 Minutes (Total!)

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 19, 2008

I'll be back to writing about social networking, interactive PR, SEO and SEM, and the usual stuff as soon as I make sure my clients are well taken care of for the moment. So, the blog will take a brief time out.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 23, 2009

Savvy b2b marketers are also investing more in content marketing, social media, interactive PR and SEO to feed the "top of the funnel" as well as investing in PPC advertising to capture prospective buyers further along in their buying cycle. The lines between display ads, search and social are blurring rapidly.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 11, 2009

How can PR and SEO work together more productively? She provides an excellent primer on SEO staring with objectives, keyword research and onsite optimization techniques and continuing on through SEO tools, local search, image optimization, video, online PR and blogs. What tactics are most effective at driving increased search traffic?

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 14, 2008

Smaller agencies, who do little if any TV ad work, are better positioned to take advantage of blogging, podcasting, interactive PR , social networking and other techniques of conversational marketing. Social media is about creating two-way conversations.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Discover these answers and others here in more of the best posts from the past year on social media marketing and PR. Top 10 Business Applications for Facebook by Duct Tape Marketing Of the 1,000+ Facebook apps built thus far, only a very small number—perhaps a couple of dozen or so—have value for B2B marketers and PR pros.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 12, 2007

Blogger relations, social media outreach and interactive PR for starters. * Again, blogger outreach through interactive PR. Bear, Kithbridge, blog tracking, custom blog feeds, social media outreach, interactive PR del.icio.us . * How do I find out when bloggers are writing about my organization?

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Three Ways People Who Aren't Running for President Can Make Social Media Pay by HubSpot's Inbound Marketing Blog Rick Burnes explains three ways that even organizations which don't have tens of millions of dollars to spend and thousands of volunteers can use social media for marketing and PR, and measure the return.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Note: this is a guest post from Cece Salomon-Lee , social media relations expert and author of the PR Meets Marketing blog. Cece has previously guest-posted here on best practices in PR and blogging outreach. One argument against virtual events is that you would lose the intimacy that face-to-face interactions provide.

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 3, 2009

The boobs have it, the biggest PR blunder since New Coke by Marketing Edge The always brilliant Albert Maruggi explains how UPS bungled an unusually powerful branding opportunity with Kentucky Derby-winning horse Big Brown.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

I mean who would have thought that building relationships and interacting with your customers could possibly increase sales? by Social Media Today Jacob Morgan reviews a report from the Economist Intelligence Unit which concludes that 80% of companies believe social media can increase company revenue. As Jacob writes, "Shocker huh?

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 28, 2009

Discovering New PPC Search Advertising Opportunities with the Google Search-based Keyword Tool by Internet Marketing and e-Business Review Louise Rijk provides an in-depth look at Google's search-based keyword tools, including how to use it for developing landing page copy and competitive research.

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WebMarketCentral

OCTOBER 24, 2008

Essentially, companies that want to conduct market research among difficult-to-reach B2B and IT decision makers will now be able to slice and dice profiles of LinkedIn's large member base to reach groups with very specific attributes.

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 14, 2007

Helpfully, however, the Six Pillars model includes interactive PR as a key element; this is an important but challenging area for many PR agencies, let alone small to midsized companies. Also, affiliate marketing is overplayed (this is important in online retailing, but a small component of B2B web marketing strategy).

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Tom helps clients—independently and through B2B technology marketing and PR firm KC Associates —increase visibility, credibility and business success through interactive marketing and PR activities. Get to know Tom at: [link] and [link] Mark Palony.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

The Freakiest Ads of 2008, Final 4 by AdFreak Exploding heads, zombie dads, shrinking heads, growing noses, pet slugs—you'll find them all (if you really want to) in Tim Nudd's collection of the most bizarre ads from last year.

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WebMarketCentral

AUGUST 24, 2009

While we worked together, George was responsible for turning out some of the most mangled, garbled, and just plain screwed up help desk tickets ever before seen by mortal man." tags: Web 2.0 tags: Web 2.0

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MARCH 2, 2009

Instead of page and after page of marketing copy, provides news, advice, assets and opportunities for interaction. But regardless of tactics chosen, do try to create an environment for interaction. For situations where that is not a practical option, Peter provides several other ideas.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 20, 2009

You might be far better off looking for smaller gains on longer-tail keywords, 2nd-tier engines, or by using day-parting or other segmentation technologies."

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WebMarketCentral

JUNE 17, 2009

The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites by PC Magazine Finally, Kyle Monson reviews a slew of useful and/or entertaining online tools such as Animoto (automatically creates videos from uploaded music and photos), Jott (a cool and handy speech-to-text conversion tool) and, for researchers, NationMaster , a site which lets you compare countries on a wide (..)

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WebMarketCentral

MARCH 16, 2009

Advertising shouldn’t be about interrupting or invading the social network experience, it should be part of this conversation.advertising should follow the same philosophy of adding value through interaction and consultation.and adding value – such as offers, sneak previews and co-creation of content." Social Tagging Research and Reports.

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 5, 2009

Hire a social media-savvy PR person to help you get interviewed by prominent bloggers and writers in your industry. Tags: Interactive PR Web 2.0 Any time there is an online news story or blog post published about your company or product, submit it. Also submit other items that may be of interest to your customers and prospects.

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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. Greene Christina, an interactive PR pro with The Advance Guard , had the first email signature I'd ever seen that included her Second Life name. signatures. Christina L.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

As Glen notes, commenting generally drives only a small amount of direct traffic, but helps establish a relationship with the blogger that can lead to links and other benefits down the road.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 16, 2007

Among the key findings: Overall, IT decision makers spend more time each week reading or interacting with social media (3.5 Smaller numbers of respondents valued social media for interactivity with peers and accurate information about news and trends. The results are eye-opening. hours) than they do with editorial content (2.9

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Here's the list of the sources that represent the Top 40+ B2B Marketing blogs: B2B Sales and Marketing Wondering Out Loud Junta 42 FYIndOut Anything Goes Marketing Beyond B2B Web Strategy Content Marketing Today B2B Marketing Zone Posts Marketing-Gimbal B2B Marketing Savvy B2B Conversations Now WebMarketCentral B2B Lead Generation Blog Modern B2B Marketing (..)

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 14, 2009

With that in mind, Michael McVeigh of Zeta Interactive explains how to use free Google Tools— Google Trends , Media Planner and Insights for Search —for competitive intelligence on online benchmarking.

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APRIL 20, 2009

Lead Generation Form Optimization Tips and Tricks - Google Analytics by VKI Studios Darcy Foster explains how to use Google Analytics and Omniture for conversion rate measurement, then provides tips for testing different approaches to improving conversions.

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