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Best of 2007: Interactive PR

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Proof You Can Gain Additional Rankings And Build Relevant Links With Google News by 97th Floor Blogger Matt Siltala shows how to use Google News search to increase the exposure and SEO value of a press release. Wikipedia defines interactive PR as "the practice of using Internet tools and technologies such as search engines, Web 2.0

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Why Marketers Should Act Like 3-Year Olds

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On the other hand, if you sell primarily to the construction or real estate industries, your leads have probably been down for several months now-and you don't need a great deal of research or reflection to figure out why. Search-optimized press releases improve the search results position of your website.

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Blogger Outreach for PR - Worst Practices

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Just send a press release. There is an extremely low chance that a blogger will write about you based on getting press release, but a pretty darn good chance that he/she will view you as a spammer and ignore any subsequent emails you send. Would you really spend that five minutes reading your press release to him? Unbelievable.

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Best of 2009 (So Far): Social Media Marketing, Part 3

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How are b2b buyers actually using social media in their research and buying decisions? While most marketers have now embraced social media for monitoring and participating in brand conversations, questions still abound. Sure, online video is hot, but how you optimize video assets? What's the best method for approaching social media marketing?

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Book Review: The New Rules of Marketing and PR

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The second group is the diminishing number of old-school PR and marketing practitioners, those who still believe that press releases are only for the media, that you have to interrupt people with your marketing message to get their attention, and that campaigns aren't real unless they are on TV. This book explodes their old view of the world.

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Viral Marketing for B2B Lead Generation, Part 2: Viral Promotion

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Once again, these recommendations are based on personal experience as well as research from the experts at MarketingSherpa. After blog and trade press mentions, social media and social tagging sites such as Digg and del.icio.us It's not the the most effective tactic, but nearly everyone does this because it costs virtually nothing.

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Helpful SEM Advice from MarketingSherpa

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If you missed it, MarketingSherpa hosted a webcast on New Research: Top 5 Tests to Raise Landing Page Conversions earlier this week. I've had it drilled into me that "PR is NOT lead gen," but one company that linked terms in its press releases to specific landing pages on its site saw a 12.5% conversion rate. Hmm, may be worth trying.

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