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Content Marketing
WordPress Plugin: Advanced Admin Search With Title, Slug, Content, or Tag
Finding content in the WordPress admin panel can quickly become a chore, especially for sites with hundreds or thousands of posts. By default, the search box in the All Posts screen is limited in capability—it only checks post titles, and there’s no built-in way to search specifically by slug, content, or tags. If you’re a developer, editor, or content manager…
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Killing Me (Blog) Softly
Visitors: Down 33%Pageviews: Down 18%RSS Subscriptions: Up 5%Adsense: Down 70%Technorati Rank: Down 4%. These are some of my statistics for the last two weeks on my blog! For my regular visitors, you’ll notice I’ve not been blogging consistently – one of those cardinal rules that you should never break. Blogging is all about momentum. Once you lose momentum, there’s no…
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Content Marketing
Blogging for Business
If you weren’t at the Webtrends Engage 2010 conference, you missed an incredible business intelligence conference. Engage is unlike any other company conference I’ve been to. The objective is to provide customers and industry professionals with exposure to some of the best and brightest experts throughout the online industry. Register for next year’s Engage in San Francisco – they always…
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Analytics & Testing
Social E-commerce with Moontoast
With more people depending on social networks and blogs for news and updates, the focus is on engaging customers and potential customers through social media. However, for companies, such engagement or brand building initiatives remain an exercise in futility if they do not ultimately translate to added revenues. Enter Moontoast, the first socially distributable commerce platform, allowing companies to engage…
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Marketing Infographics
A Field Guide to Navigating Social Media
This infographic from Lemonly and 9clouds providing insight into how to navigate social media is quite unique. The goal was to paint a clear picture to answer three questions that 9clouds always received – What networks should I be using? Why should I use Pinterest or Google Plus or [insert network]? What network is best for my business? The social…
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Content Marketing
The Key to Your Brand Regaining Control is Personalization
Every prospect and customer are motivated differently, arrive at your business through different mediums, with different levels of intent, are seeking different information, are at different stages of the customer journey, and expect to immediately find what they need. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting held up when you’re trying to take the next step. Perhaps it’s something as simple…
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Content Marketing
Are Online Software Directories a Platform’s Friend or Competitor?
A friend of mine asked me to review their platform on a third-party directory site this week, stating that the site drives quite a bit of traffic to other vendors in the industry. I did a quick analysis of the directory site and it’s true, they have earned some solid rankings in my friend’s industry. It seems only logical that…
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Sales and Marketing Training
The Monkey’s Fist: A Practical Sales Approach to Building Trust and Driving Conversions
Sales is as much about psychology as it is about persuasion. The best sales professionals don’t just sell; they guide, educate, and build relationships. One particularly effective technique in this space is the Monkey’s Fist strategy, which helps reduce friction in the buying process while building trust. In the Navy, when a ship approaches a dock, the crew needs to…
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Review Me! Blogging for Dollars
Sponsored Post: ReviewMe When PayPerPost and ReviewMe first popped up on, I was pretty disappointed. I really felt as though ‘blogging for dollars’ was going to take a turn for the worst. Tonight I noticed a few posts on other blogs that ReviewMe was actually utilizing their own system to pay bloggers to review themselves. It caught my attention so…
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Content Marketing
Digital Body Language at The Online Marketing Summit
As of today, my list of books to read just got one deeper. I had the pleasure of speaking at the Online Marketing Summit in Houston on behalf of Compendium. At the summit was also Steven Woods of Eloqua. Steven’s keynote and panel conversations were insightful and thought provoking. Steven has released the book, Digital Body Language – Deciphering Customer…
