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The Value and ROI from Conferences
The first conference I went to was a regional industrial technology show. I was an industrial electrician at a Newspaper and my boss wouldn’t pay for it. So I paid my own way in. We had a conveyor system with electronic magnetic proximity switches that had to have such a close margin to the equipment that they would get tore…
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LinkedIn Basic Boot Camp
LinkedIn has over 135 million members internationally and the average household income of a LinkedIn user is over $100,000 annually! The first thing I do returning from a business trip or meeting is to enter all my contacts in LinkedIn, review their profiles, and see which ones I should follow up with. In fact, I don’t even accept resumes… if…
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Analyzing Social Streams with DataSift
DataSift is a powerful real-time social media data-filtering platform and is one of only two companies in the world with a license to make Twitter data commercially available for non-display purposes, allowing users to search for posts using metadata contained in tweets. And it does so with an incredibly beautiful interface as well as a developer console and robust API…
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3 Things Run-DMC Taught Me About Social Media
Call me a product of a liberal arts education, but I firmly believe one’s worldview should be informed by as many sources and experiences as possible. Reading the latest book by an expert in your field is great. Consuming as many blog posts and news articles as you can about your industry is helpful. Attending conferences and sitting in on presentations to…
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Advertising and Return on Investment
Marketing pioneer John Wannamaker once said, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted… The trouble is, I don’t know which half.” Still today, most marketers don’t know which of their advertising channels are most effective. Investment in online has increased due to an improved ability to track success, yet offline channels will continue to dominate spend for the…
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WordPress: Add Social Media Profiles to Your WordPress Theme
WordPress offers user profiles with settings for social links; however, additional social sites offer opportunities for your entire site or blog to have a presence within those networks. We were working on a client site this week where we wanted to make it easy for them to set and add their site’s social links, so we added additional options to…
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Geosocial and Location-Based User Adoption
Some pretty amazing stats on adoption of Geosocial and Location-Based Services (LBS) via mobile devices have been revealed in this inforgraphic from Flowtown – Social Media Marketing Application. Over 58% of smartphone users are utilizing these services. The infographic defines each of the services as: Geosocial Networking – this type of social networking uses geographic services and capabilities, such as…
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The Importance of Fresh Content for SEO
I’ve told people for a long time that the old adage for marketing applies to content, too. Recency, frequency and value of the content are key. This is why blogging is so key to a content marketing strategy… it allows you to write often. The chart below is from one of our clients. We optimized their site and, combined with…
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Add a Links Page to your WordPress Template
We were working on a client site today to add an iPad Cover Review list to the site. Rather than listing them all out in a page or a post, we decided to build a template page that pulled one link category from WordPress’ build in Links section, called “Reviews”. The WordPress API already has a built in function, called…
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Email Best Practices for the Holiday Season
Consumers love email marketing. In fact, when surveyed, consumers state that email is one of their favorite means of getting offers and discounts from the businesses that they work with. This holiday season will be no different and you need to plan accordingly. Test, segment and increase the frequency of your emails this holiday season and you can drive a…
