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How to avoid the martech black hole and ride the crest of change

Martech

To add to the usual list of challenges marketers and their technology counterparts deal with regularly, we’ve been saddled with: A pandemic. Will marketing tech budgets grow in 2023? If what’s past is prologue, marketing budgets will likely contract further in the coming year, despite a new survey saying 70% of U.S.

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Online Reputation Management: Using SEO to Defend Your Online Brand & Reputation

seo.co

Astroturfing – Or The Art of Masquerading. + 8 Tips for Effective Online Reputation Management. Keep These Tools on Your Reputation Management Workbench. That’s the reason online reputation management has evolved to become a specialized service. . + The Importance of a Brand’s Online Reputation. More opportunities.

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Not all integrations are created equal: 4 layers of app integrations with SaaS platforms

chiefmartech

Disclosure: This is one of those rare articles on this blog that’s entangled with my work as VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot. According to a recent study by the market research firm Ascend2, “integrating disparate systems” is the greatest barrier to success with marketing technology for 52% of marketers.

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Best practices for social media shilling

Biznology

These fake grass roots campaigns, called astroturfing, caught on about ten years ago and still haven’t died out. . All this was brought to mind when I recently did some dog food research for a client and it occurred to me that quite a few of the comments are astroturf. Well, from 2003-2006 I was in the astroturfing business.

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Your online reputation should be a culmination of you

Biznology

Like Jackson Pollock , you’re creating a genius work of Abstract Expressionistic spatter painting; unlike Pollock, you’re probably not being remotely as artful and intentional as he was — and this is a problem. A good reputation online is an essential marketing strategy (biznology.com). It’s about layering.

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PR and Blogging Outreach: Practical Tips

WebMarketCentral

And after Edelman's recent blog fiascos (no link needed, just search on Edelman, blog fiasco and you'll get thousands of results) and Comcast's recent astroturfing incident , I wouldn't recommend ghostwriting a blog on behalf of a client. a webcasting and rich media marketing solutions provider. tags: Cece Salomon Lee, Web 2.0,

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I was a teenage Russian troll OG

Biznology

In my early and mid-thirties I worked for New Media Strategies (NMS). 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.