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- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
The Real Reason to Hire a Social Media Guru
Over the last decade, I’ve worked tirelessly to build an online following, authority, and eventually a thriving business. Now, I’m faced with people who wish to hire my services so I can help them do the same. At times it’s a great company with incredible talent and I’m able to deliver. Sometimes that’s not the case and I provide a…
- Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Have You Set Up Parameters in Webmasters?
This week, I was reviewing client sites utilizing webmasters tools. One of the oddities it identified were that many of the internal links on the site had campaign codes attached to them. This was great for the client, they could track each of their calls-to-action (CTA) throughout the site. It’s not so great for Search Engine Optimization, though. The problem…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
Social Media Is the New PR
I recently had lunch with some of my fellow public relations professionals, and as always the conversation turned toward tactics and techniques used in our industry. As the only one in the group utilizing social media as the sole form of communications for clients, my portion of the conversation would seemingly be the shortest of the group. This turned out…
- Content Marketing
Remember Me?
I'm terrible with names. I wish I could install your cookie in my brain so every time I see you in public it recalls. I suppose that's one way that computers are more "intelligent" than humans. But, due to this glaring weakness of mine, I'm very impresses when others can so easily remember me after just one chance encounter. It's…
- Content Marketing
The Only Truly Global Email Service Provider
NOTE: Emailvision is now part of SmartFocus. While it’s true that our hometown heroes, ExactTarget, are now expanded into the United Kingdom and Australia, they’re still fairly limited to English-speaking countries. Earlier this year, we had the incredible opportunity to meet the talented leadership team of Emailvision. Centered in Clichy, France (just outside of Paris), Emailvision may truly be the…
- Social Media & Influencer Marketing
West vs Midwest Round II
PREAMBLE Last week, I was on a panel at The Combine – 2010 called Go West: Former Midwesterners that have moved to the Silicon Valley share their stories. I was one of four people discussing our personal stories and it set off a firestorm on Twitter and went Cat 4 when Douglas Karr posted his reactions when he recapped the Combine 2010 here.…
Social Media Survey Part 2 – A Closer Look at Facebook
In June we conducted a brief survey to understand how owners of small businesses ( 1 – 25 employees) used social media. While there have been a number of surveys looking at how Fortune 500 firms are entering the world of social media there was little content about smaller firms. We wanted to know if smaller firms were leading or…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
Stop Hiding from Your Visitors
It still amazes me how many companies hide from their customers. I was doing some research last week on iPhone app developers because I have a client who is in need of an iPhone app. I asked some people on Twitter. Douglas Karr gave me some referrals and I also knew of one referral from a previous conversation with another…
- Analytics & Testing
Social Media + Analytics = Inaccurate
If I were to ask you which source provided more traffic to your site, Twitter or Facebook… how would you determine that? The majority of web analytics users would log in and look at their referring sources and come up with the value. That’s a problem. Some companies simply add “twitter.com” as a referring source and think that it does…
