Biznology

JUNE 12, 2018

Content marketing is online reputation management. Registering, populating, maintaining, and updating all your brand and personal social media and social network sites is online reputation management. We optimize and reinforce the network of content and websites we have created for maximum ranking and promotional power.

Work Management 207

Work Management Marketing Management Process Ideal Customer Profiles 207

Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

The recent shift from “conversions” to “key events” in (GA4) represents a significant change that digital marketers, especially SEO professionals, need to understand and act on. This article explores the implications of this change and insights on how to leverage it to elevate your marketing reporting.

Merchandising 102

Merchandising Marketing Analytics Tools Conversion Lead Ranking 102

Biznology

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Every 365-days, Shashi Bellamkonda invites me to guest lecture to his Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies communications class, Social, Mobile and Search Marketing, XCPD-732. Micro-influencer marketing is one of the services that sets my agency, Gerris Corp , apart from other Digital PR firms. Yes, please!

Advertising Agencies 150

Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Long Tail Marketing Blogger 150

Webbiquity

MARCH 13, 2019

They’ve adapted to using online social networks (namely LinkedIn) to identify passive candidates in the last few years and it’s serving them well. So, this recruiting firm is good at networking: online and in the real world. He actually said to me, “No one searches at Google for a recruiting firm.”

Social Media 206

Social Media Search Marketing Social Marketing Optimization 206

Webbiquity

MARCH 12, 2012

What is the distinction between “traditional” public relations (PR) and online / interactive / social PR? One part of the confusion stems from the fact that in PR, as in many other crafts, the tools change and advance but the fundamental skills required remain the same.

PR 100

PR Blogger Tips Best Practices 100

Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

Social media marketing, online PR and SEO are three tactics that are all powerful on their own, but have far more impact when used in a coordinated, synergistic manner. How can you amplify and extend new releases through social media? Which online tools are most helpful for PR pros? Go ahead, works for anything.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Social media and PR would seem to be natural allies. So why do corporate PR and social media efforts so often appear disconnected and out of sync? To be sure, some agencies and companies get it, and do an effective job integrating social media and PR efforts. Post on Google Buzz. Share this on Bebo.

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PR Social Media Media Blogger 100

Sprout Social

APRIL 4, 2023

When a brand is able to create positive buzz around their brand by just mentioning a product enhancement or product drop, you know they have a great marketing strategy behind them. But how are some brands, like Apple, able to attract new customers and elevate their positioning in the market with a simple announcement?

Brand Identity 121

Brand Identity Branding Word of Mouth Social Media 121

Scoop.it

APRIL 4, 2019

On April 2nd, 2019 , the world said goodbye to Google+, a social network created by the search engine giant. In the tech world, this isn’t the first time for an entire social platform to disappear. Size of the user base of Google+ was hardly comparable to that of Facebook or even Google’s own YouTube.

Enterprise Management 48

Enterprise Management Communities Top of Funnel Google 48

Convince & Convert

MAY 7, 2013

For instance, we did a webinar about Google analytics. Rather than call it “Advanced Analytics,” we called it, “The Lies and Truths of Google Analytics.” Create a list of tactics you’re going to use to distribute information about the webinar : News release, social networks, email, blog, Facebook ad, Google ad, and postcard.

Webinar Metrics 162

Webinar Metrics Co-Registration Budget Programs Marketing Analytics Tools 162

Brandpoint

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

2022 is just around the corner, and that means year-long marketing plans, budget updates, Q1 campaigns, and making predictions the best we can. Heck, what will Google want? Here are trends and predictions that marketing leaders are anticipating in the months to come. What will our customers want? What will our stakeholders want?

Paid Content 118

Paid Content Digital Experience Platform Advertising Agencies Planning 118

Biznology

JUNE 22, 2017

Since LinkedIn is hell-bent on becoming the premier social network for professionals and the LinkedIn database has become enormous, they realized the need to better categorize, organize and filter content. LinkedIn has become one of the most prized search engines and it plays nicely with Google ’s search algorithms. Not anymore.

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Linkedin Cross-Selling Social Networks Keywords 137

Biznology

APRIL 18, 2017

Magic in the form of Shel Holtz , godfather of Digital PR and Social Media Communications, asking me to join him on his globally-popular communications podcast, For Immediate Release (FIR). And since I am in PR and marketing, I might have personally taken myself off the invite list based on my past bad behavior.

Advertising Agencies 145

Advertising Agencies Public Relations PR Web 2.0 145

Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. Most orgnisations and agencies are still very tactical across the board.

PR 161

PR Social Media Paid Content Media 161

Webbiquity

JUNE 20, 2011

Amid all of the hype, conferences, and rapid adoption of social media marketing by organizations from sole proprietors to the Fortune 100, there remains an undercurrent of skepticism. This surfaces in posts like Social Media Skepticism , 5 reasons why social media skeptics maybe right and Business social networking: where’s the ROI?

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Social Media Peer-to-peer Media PR 100

ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

Heck, not all marketing people are content people. Marketing is the tip of the spear for driving growth and new customer acquisition. Paid is straightforward, it’s sexy (to non-marketing executives, at least), and it’s a simple sell internally when navigating the budgeting process because of the instantly measurable ROI.

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Paid Content Top of Funnel Work Management Marketing Management 92

Optinmonster

MAY 16, 2023

While on-page SEO focuses on optimizing elements within your website, such as content and meta tags, off-page SEO involves activities on other websites, such as link building , social media marketing , and content marketing. Search engines, like Google, value these endorsements and use them as an SEO ranking factor.

SEO 76

SEO Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Link Building 76

Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2010

Briefly, Webbiquity, or web presence optimization (WPO for those who prefer TLA’s), is the fusion of SEO, social media, interactive PR, online reputation management and other disciplines to make an individual or organization ubiquitous on the web for their name/brand and unique descriptive phrase.

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management PR Social Networks SEM 100

Contify

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

A Google alert is simple to set up — just search a keyword, click on ‘create alert’ and — voila — we’ve got a new Google Alert. Google will start sending email alerts whenever it finds updates matching our keyword on the web. Strangely, information missing in alerts can, sometimes, be found in simple Google search.

Work Management 60

Work Management Google CMS Development Enterprise Management 60

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 11, 2011

As indicated in the masthead of my blog, it has both an explanational definition (The fusion of SEO, search marketing, social media, reputation management, content marketing and social PR) and a reasonal one (Being omnipresent on the web for the search phrase that uniquely describes you or your organization.)

Optimization 100

Optimization PR Social Networks Youtube 100

KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 1, 2014

It’s no secret that personalized search has become a huge part of Google over the years. Between location, search history, and now Google+, two people are rarely going to see the same results. This is also the case with Bing, as they too are using social signals in addition to location data and search history.

CMS Development 120

CMS Development Search Engine Marketing Conference Link Building 120

Webbiquity

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Your PR team was aware of most of these as it often had a hand in generating those placements. A simple tool like Google Alerts would pick up most stray citations. I’ve used this tool on behalf of small clients for finding hundreds of key influencers on Twitter, blogs and various other social networking sites and forums.

Social Media 100

Social Media Budget Programs Tools Marketing Management 100

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Marketing professionals can agree on one thing–we live in an industry that’s constantly changing. Whether we’re on a PR team at a Fortune 500 company or manage media buying for a small business, there’s always a new tool or best practice we can implement to better communicate and measure our content. Social Used to Be Free.

Paid Content 97

Paid Content Social Media Paid Social Agency Media 97

Buffer

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I decided to take the same approach to marketing Diversability: If people wouldn’t hand me a microphone, I’d become my own hype person instead. Now, in 2023, we have 80,000 followers across our social networks and 5,800 in our closed communities. We created a Google Form to collect nominations.

Brand Identity 88

Brand Identity Branding Press Peer-to-peer 88

Biznology

JULY 26, 2016

Back in January I had the honor of being a guest on Shel Holtz ‘s premier PR podcast, For Immediate Release. It must have gone well because I was back on a panel of PR professionals yesterday , joining Shel, Zeno Group EVP Frank Eliason , and Cision SVP Heidi Sullivan. Micro-level marketing is a big deal.

PR 80

PR Web 2.0 Blogger Public Relations 80

Webbiquity

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Humor can be a highly effective element in marketing campaigns, whether the goal is get people laughing at our competitors, at themselves, or even at us. Kick back, relax for a few minutes, and check out these 24 examples of some of the best marketing and business humor of the past year or so. Check out this eight-image collection.

Advertising Agencies 100

Advertising Agencies Business Best Practices Paid Search Agency 100

Contify

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

From a business perspective, there are two major use-cases in particular: Media monitoring: Usually done by the PR functions to measure the impact and reach of their content. This is a uniquely difficult position to balance, even for Google, given the two use cases are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Study Design.

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Google Paid Search Agency Companies Case Studies 40

Biznology

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Pearson Education reached out to me to read and make make notes on Mike Moran’s and James Mathewson’s upcoming book, Outside-In Marketing. Just a cursory search of Google’s Adwords Keyword Planner shows me that my own site, Gerr.is , shows how out of touch I am. Content Marketing is the New Website Content.

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Marketing Websites Wikipedia Work Management Blogger 80

Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2016

A couple Sundays ago I met up with Joseph Thornley , Lynette Young , and Shel Holtz on video Skype to record episode 15 of Shel’s industry-trusted and industry-respected PR podcast, For Immediate Release , AKA the FIR Podcast. Have PR practitioners benefitted? So, it was an honor to be included.

Work Management 80

Work Management Marketing Management Skype Public Relations 80

Marketing Craftmanship

JULY 12, 2012

The study claims that 70% of them have absolutely no presence on social media. On the major social networks, including Facebook, Twitter and Google+, the participation of Fortune 500 CEOs was minimal, with only 7.6% on Facebook, 4% on Twitter, and less than 1% on Google+. In comparison, more than 50% of the U.S.

PR 100

PR Social Media Linkedin Comparison 100

Contify

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Image by Freepik Google Alerts remains one of the most popular news monitoring services. From a business perspective, there are two major use-cases in particular: Media monitoring: Usually done by the PR functions to measure the impact and reach of their content. Clearly, Google Alerts don’t work for media monitoring.

Google 40

Google Paid Search Agency Companies Case Studies 40

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JUNE 15, 2017

From the moment I was invited through the Typeform doors to launch a blog, it was clear that spitting out a dozen 500-word articles about forms and surveys each week—just so Google would be nice enough to send us a few visitors—wasn’t to be the “Typeform way.”. PR without Doing PR. Time to rethink how to do PR for your business.

Top of Funnel 127

Top of Funnel PR Content Lead Scoring 127

Webbiquity

JANUARY 19, 2016

Social media use isn’t quite universal—but it’s getting close. population now has at least one social networking profile; more than half use two or more social networks. The number of worldwide social media users is projected to grow from 2.1 But social media marketing spending will rise anyway.

Social Media 100

Social Media Stats Social Marketing CMS Development 100

KoMarketing Associates

OCTOBER 18, 2016

When used effectively, content marketing can help build your brand, attract new business, support SEO initiatives, and improve your reputation across the industry. Thankfully, there are many online marketing tools available that can help to save time and bring strategies to the next level. Here are 20 of my favorites. BuzzStream.

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Tools Content Marketing Marketing Analytics Tools Work Management 120

Valasys

MAY 6, 2021

Virtual marketing can be a boon for B2B marketers, especially in the post-pandemic wake to the next normal, where the common formats of virtual advertising including email marketing, social media marketing, display advertising, blogs, and other digital formats are gaining precedence due to the accelerated rate of digital transformation.

B2B Marketing 52

B2B Marketing Planning B2B Digital Transformation 52

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 26, 2011

It’s the interconnected nature of today’s social networks like Facebook or microblogs like Twitter and the way they broadcast their messages to the world but also in the process creating permanent search friendly records that make them so powerful and also potentially dangerous.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Broadcasting PR 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Any business that primarily relies on customers within it’s local geographic area—which includes not just restaurants and dentists but also some types of b2b vendors, such as IT services and of course marketing and PR firms—needs to understand the ins and outs of local search engine optimization (SEO).

SEO 100

SEO Digg Consulting Social Networks 100