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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day
We’ve got quite a large following on social media and we share and respond a ton throughout our audiences on different social mediums. We’re a small team, just a handful of folks, but I think we do a great job…
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Social Influencers
I think too many marketers look at social influence as if it’s some kind of new phenomena. I don’t believe it is. In the early days of television, we used the newscaster or the actor to pitch items to the…
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How to Integrate Your Content Strategy & Social Media Campaigns
The Age of Content Strategy It’s the age of “content strategy” and “content marketing.” Wherever you turn, more and more often, that’s something you’ll hear. In truth, content has been a core part of online marketing ever since the earliest…
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Rant: The US Government Will Destroy Internet Commerce
The economy is in shambles in the United States. With record spending, the wealth gap continues to increase, poverty is climbing, the number of citizens dependent upon unemployment, food stamps, disability or welfare is at record levels. There’s only one…
