Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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. This is actually good news for the B2B Marketer. Building demand for their unique point of view.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Photo credit: Wikipedia. When reporters speak in public about how they gather information and decide which stories to write, they tend to sound like scientific researchers, claiming to spend long hours objectively sifting through data until they find stories worthy of coverage. Staying on good terms. Friends do favors for friends.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 25, 2013

Imagine the inevitable Future of Marketing with 50 billion connected devices! How will marketing change and what role will brands and consumer play? Lee is the author of Optimize : How to Attract and Engage More Customers by Integrating SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing. The alternative of course, is to advertise.

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Biznology

JANUARY 26, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. Writing that story put me in mind of one of the hoary chestnuts of public relations strategy, which is to let sleeping dogs lie for some situations. Veteran PR folks are fond of refering to a minor flap as a "one-day story," meaning that you read about it in the newspaper today, but it disappears tomorrow.

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Biznology

JULY 5, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Every time you turn around, a new “performance marketing” opportunity turns up for B-to-B marketers. Let’s look at how marketers get value out of this approach to finding new customers. . To back up, what is this performance marketing thing, anyway? Pay per PR placement.

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Biznology

MAY 11, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. Universally, the biggest gasp I get when I meet people new to marketing, PR, or advertising is that most ad copy is restricted to a 6th grade reading level. by Chris Abraham.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. Unlike a few years ago, today everyone at least pays lip service to reaching out to bloggers the same we PR people have always reached out to mainstream media. It’s not that the blogger is out to shame and embarrass PR agencies. It is a case of the abuser blaming the victim, the blogger.

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Biznology

JANUARY 31, 2012

Image via Wikipedia. While neither marketing nor social media are sciences, one needs to use scientific principles to be most effective when it comes to both branding and prospecting online. It doesn’t take an Einstein to succeed in social media marketing, but to does take a scientist.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. The main thing to keep in mind is how you feel when you are on the receiving end of a misguided PR pitch. Now, Marketing Conversation gets loads of pitches as well. Tweet This Post. In great measure, these fears exist because of the horror stories that have resulted from wrong-headed approaches.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 21, 2010

She spends her days thinking about social media, public relations and digital strategies for her agency’s consumer focused clients. Marketers have a responsibility to ensure that bloggers are providing disclosure and that statements are not misleading or unsubstantiated. Download Michael’s presentation here.

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Social Media Paid Content Media Advertising Agencies 156

Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Among other things, I argued for the importance of developing a corporate keyword database for digital marketers. Keyword collaboration isn’t just important for digital marketing. Brand marketers need the right keywords to do a better job naming products and writing messaging guides.

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WebMarketCentral

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Wikipedia defines interactive PR as "the practice of using Internet tools and technologies such as search engines, Web 2.0 social bookmarking, new media relations and blogging.to build awareness of and credibility for (a) message without relying solely on mainstream publications." tags: interactive PR, Web 2.0

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In August 2014, due to a glitch in Google''s algorithm, Google users who searched for "Greggs" saw not the official company logo, but an unsavory version of one sourced from Wikipedia parody uncyclopedia.wikia.com. You''ve weighed whether it''s a real crisis and decided that yes, it is -- in fact, it''s a total PR nightmare.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 25, 2011

It’s going to be an exciting Fall for me, as I hit the road to talk about The NOW Revolution and other aspects of social media and content marketing. A note on that: I do not speak at events (even for money) that I don’t believe in , as I do not lend my name to help profiteers sling social media and content marketing hokum.

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WebMarketCentral

JULY 9, 2007

There are a number of online tools and methods to spread word of mouth online, but a key one is interactive PR. So what is interactive PR exactly? WebMarketCentral now includes a more complete guide with links to related web marketing strategies. Wikipedia also provides a pretty good definition.

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Word of Mouth PR Buzz Web 2.0 20

Hubspot

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Marketers are sometimes associated with some pretty negative terms: annoying, interruptive, manipulative. Well sometimes, whether we like it or not, it's our job to market the actions of our company. So bearing that in mind, does it then fall on marketers' shoulders to also be thinking about long term business strategy?

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Social Marketing Planning PR Ethics 28

Biznology

JANUARY 25, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. But NBC is continuing to endure unwelcome publicity—even directed against Comcast, which I suspect would not want such publicity given its cable television business that regularly must deal with government regulation. So, what should you do differently?

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. So last week, I told you how NOT to pitch a blogger in your PR outreach, so it raises the pregnant question of what exactly should you do? We at Abraham Harrison have been doing it successfully for almost five years now, so we think we know a thing or two about it.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 15, 2008

Note: the following is a guest post from expert researcher and freelance writer Heather Johnson on how businesses can effectively use social media as a component of PR efforts, and efficiently focus their efforts on the most productive sites. Wikipedia – It is a boon to your small business to be mentioned on Wikipedia.

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Small Business Marketing Social Media Wiki Wikipedia 20

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 10, 2010

Last week, I interviewed three men that are helping create an all-new field of marketing and customer service – the emerging discipline of influence mining. Influence mining makes the old school, direct marketing notions of sorting consumers by purchase history seem dinosaurian by comparison. Customer service?

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The thing about being in PR or marketing online is that no matter how pure your intentions, you will be scrutinized with skepticism. On reddit, on Wikipedia, on message boards , in emails, on reviews, and even on Facebook, Twitter , and Google+ , to the best of your ability. It doesn’t matter. And, you need to do your best.

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Biznology

JUNE 26, 2012

My definition–and my assumption–has always been that blogger outreach is public relations and not paid media. “ Earned media (or free media) refers to favorable publicity gained through promotional efforts other than advertising, as opposed to paid media, which refers to publicity gained through advertising.[1]

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Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But it’s also good for marketers, as it forces a focus on understanding buyers and providing them with value rather than manipulative gaming of search algorithms. ” • Content isn’t just the job of marketing and PR. . ” • Content isn’t just the job of marketing and PR. .

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Biznology

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. Last week I asked my management team if what we do at Abraham Harrison is inbound marketing. Or at least the deities who wrote the Cluetrain Manifesto , where markets are conversations. In PR and with blogger outreach, as with everything, be a gentleman and everything else will follow.

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Biznology

MAY 27, 2014

Here’s Felix Salmon’s attempt at putting together a matrix to explain what the difference is between PR, native advertising, and brand journalism; content marketing, marketing, and blogging. Public relations. Content marketing. Marketing. Call it contextual content marketing?

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

JUNE 9, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing. Great stuff in the world of B2B Marketing this month. 9 Social Listening & Tracking Tools - Marketing Genius Blog , May 7, 2010 Here is a list of 9 social media tracking and monitoring tools. And B2B marketers are constantly looking for ideas they can use to drive more ROI from their events budget.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Image via Wikipedia. You have probably responded to lower donations and attention by relinquishing too much power to your direct marketing firm and they have been much more aggressive than you’re comfortable with, sending out many more snail mail and email donation requests than ever before.

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B2B Marketing Zone Posts

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Best of B2B Marketing for September 2010. Great stuff in the B2B Marketing world in September. Best Social PR Guides and Tips of 2010 (So Far) - Webbiquity , September 1, 2010 Social media has fundamentally altered the practice of public relations. How Is PR Changing? Will Traditional, Social Media Blend?

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2012

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Two years ago, Mr. Owyang also researched the Social Strategist role and concluded that this person must have a strong digital or marketing background and focus on business objectives over the latest technologies. Length of marketing or PR experience: 10-15 years or more. That’s right.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I sat in an open-plan room occupying a former newsroom, spending all my days under cover, marketing on behalf of Sci-Fi Channel (now SyFy), Buena Vista (now Disney), TomTom, Paramount Pictures, Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Disney, Reebok, EA, RCA, and NBC. What we did was called word of mouth marketing. And that was just me, from 2002-2006.

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Biznology

APRIL 23, 2013

Too many practitioners of blogger outreach, email marketing , email outreaches, or even triple-, double-, and single-opt-in mailing lists are just too shy, too feeble in their messaging, for fear that they’ll get hundreds or thousands drinks-in-the-face. So, what my team and I developed is the equivalent of blogger-brand speed dating.

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