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Marketing Infographics
Influencer Outreach Versus Brand Advocacy
Jay Baer is one of the leading social marketing speakers and authors that I pay attention to. He recently penned a fantastic blog post and infographic that provides a great comparison of influencers versus brand advocates. Influencer outreach is a key element of many social media and modern public relations programs. But they often prove ineffective at driving behavior beyond…
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Content Marketing
Embrace Your Inner Ray Liotta
As we were waiting on our layover from LA to San Francisco, Ray Liotta walked up to the flight. He chatted with some of the staff and sat down with a colleague. It was one of those moments that you don’t know what to do… do you be that guy and go ask for a photo? Or do you leave…
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Content Marketing
Automate Influence Marketing Campaigns with TapInfluence
TapInfluence debuted its new cloud-based software platform for automating all aspects of influencer marketing campaigns. If TapInfluence sounds new… it’s because it is. TapInfluence was once BlogFrog but has been rebranded with a new focus and platform. TapInfluence automates the process of identifying and engaging with large numbers of social influencers (content creators on blogs, Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and other…
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Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Three Buckets of Social Media Marketing Speakers
What an amazing week this has been at Social Media Marketing World! I moderated a session on corporate blogging with Justin Levy and Waynette Tubbs. Justin leads the charge at Citrix for their social and content strategies, and Waynette leads the help of SAS content strategy efforts. Two amazing people that are running enormous strategies efficiently and practically. Since I…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Five Ways Responsive Design is Changing SEO
Responsive design is obviously a big deal; such a big deal that Mashable has hailed 2013 as “the year of responsive design.” Most web professionals understand this — responsive design is changing the way that the Internet looks, feels, and works. There’s something less obvious going on, though. Responsive design also changes SEO. When we look beyond the CSS of responsive design,…
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Content Marketing
Diners Club Interview: Building a Social Brand
Diners Club is a sponsor of Social Media Marketing World and was interviewing some of the speakers yesterday (and will be doing more today). I had the pleasure of speaking with Eduardo Tobon and discussed the advancements that I saw in the online marketing space. The first question was about corporate blogging and 3 tips that I’d provide. If I…
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Content Marketing
Stop Killing Cause Marketing
When a student needs money for a school lunch, it’s of little or no consequence to them where the money is coming from. They’re just hungry and need funds. It’s not just school lunches, it’s student grants and scholarships, medical goods, tutoring, daycare, and so much more. The list of needs is infinite and, in a downed economy, it continues…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Citations and Co-Citations for Local SEO
The pagerank algorithm was largely gamed because all it required was a black-hat SEO person building keyword-rich links back to a site. Over time, regardless of where the links were built, the site would rise in rank. Google knew that their search engine results were being gamed and subsequently strengthened their algorithms to pick up other quality queues. The quality…
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Email Marketing & Automation
With Mailbox, I Might Make Inbox Zero
When I hear professionals like Michael Reynolds of Spinweb discuss Inbox Zero (reaching a point where you have no emails in your inbox), I quietly snicker and mumble “Your mother is a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries!”. My inbox has over 3,000 messages. A couple months ago it was over 20,000 messages until I accidentally deleted 17,000. I…
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Content Marketing
Survey: Is Collecting or Engaging More Crucial?
As marketers, we produce content on a weekly (or even daily) basis geared towards our targets markets, encouraging our prospects to seek out and read our content. On one side of the coin, we’re hoping that they will engage and comment on our content so that we can start a (permission-based) conversation with them. On the other side, we also…
