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    Five Tips for Online Public Relations Success [Slide Show]
    by Allie Gray Freeland
    It's 2012. Advances in the digital world have revolutionized media—and how public relations professionals do their jobs. Are you keeping up? Here are five tips for mastering the digitization of public relations. more
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    How to Influence the Influencers [Slide Show]
    by Christian Gulliksen
    Getting influencers on your side is a major feat that can help exponentially amplify your message. But how can you win them over? Here is a five-point plan for effectively influencing the influencers. more
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    Most Marketers Can't Measure ROI of SEO, Social Media
    More than four in five marketing executives (82%) say they expect campaigns to be measured, yet few can effectively evaluate the ROI of key channels such as public relations (18%), search engine optimization (24%), and social media (26%), according to a survey from Ifbyphone. more
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    2012 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends
    Some 9 in 10 B2B marketing organizations, regardless of company size or industry, say they've used content as a form of marketing in 2011, according to a study by the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs. Moreover, those marketers also say they employ on average eight separate content marketing tactics to ... more
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    Three Tips for a Pitch-Perfect Pitch
    "Journalists are bombarded with pitches every day, all day long," writes Mary Reed at MarketingProfs. "The pitches arrive via phone, fax, email, and even social media sites. Because of the high volume of pitches they receive, journalists cannot consider them all and get their work done, too." To catch their ... more
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    Tradeshow and Event Marketing Lessons From Facebook [Slide Show]
    by Kristin Veach
    Facebook recently hosted its annual f8 conference to make announcements about the social network. But the event provided four invaluable tradeshow and event marketing lessons for forward-thinking marketers. more
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    A Cautionary Tale: Four Pitching No-Nos  [Slide Show]
    by Christian Gulliksen
    If you regularly pitch story ideas to influential bloggers, you know there's a right way to do it—and a very wrong way to do it. Consider what happened when a hapless PR firm crossed swords with Jenny Lawson of The Bloggess. more
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    How to Be a Great Panel Moderator
    Got your social strategy off the ground? Want to draw more attention to it? Consider increasing your business's profile at an industry conference. Even if you aren't ready to keynote, you might consider getting your feet wet as a panel moderator. A moderator hosts a panel of experts, asks leading questions ... more
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    Tool Identifies Top Influencers Based on Topic Area, Keywords
    by Vahe Habeshian
    Marketers can now identify their various industries' top 10 influential voices across blogs, articles, and social networks—and also see their own influence ranking vs. other voices in a given market—with the help of a free tool released this week. more
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    Fortune Global 100 Social-Media Savvy, Getting Savvier
    Twitter is emerging as the leading social platform among the world's largest corporations: 77% of the Fortune Global 100 (FG100) have a Twitter account, whereas 61% have a Facebook page, according to a report by Burson-Marsteller. more
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    Brands With Most Online Impact: Apple and Google
    The Apple and Google brands had the most significant impact online in the fourth quarter of 2010, generating "impact values" of $941.5 million and $875.8 million, respectively, based on high volumes of online media buzz and social media conversation, according to a study by General Sentiment that assigns a dollar ... more
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    Five Easy Ways to Gather Client Testimonials
    "When used properly ... testimonials can help you build a list of engaged email newsletter subscribers and increase sales," Rebecca Swayze notes in a post at the Inbox Ideas blog. But how do you collect worthwhile feedback when you haven't ever focused on it? Easy, Swayze says: Just go online. ... more
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    Turning Thought-Leadership Content Into Cash
    In June, The Wall Street Journal reported a surge in social-media use by law firms interested in connecting with potential class-action plaintiffs. But if you take a closer look, you'll see that many of the approaches used provide viable marketing lessons for businesses of all types. more
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    How to Become a Newsmaker
    When you're ready to position yourself as a media resource, says blogger Nettie Hartsock, you can hire publicists who pitch your expertise to journalists—or you can start making news at your blog. "The media is constantly sourcing blogs and the experts who write them to feature in both online and ... more
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    Content Marketing Vital to B2B Marketers
    Content marketing is now a well-established, core marketing strategy in the B2B marketplace, with B2B marketers considering content integral to their marketing mix: fully 9 in 10 organizations say they market with content, according to a new study from MarketingProfs and Junta42. more
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    Brand Marketers Not (Yet) Sold on Social Media
    With brand awareness cited as their primary brand-management goal in 2010, most corporate brand executives say online communications and traditional public relations—not social media—are still the most effective channels to reach their audiences, according to a survey from MiresBall and KRC Research. more
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    Pick-Up in Communications Spending Forecast for 2010-2014
    Driven by gradual economic recovery, advances in digital technology, and secular shifts in business and consumer spending, total communications industry spending is on pace to increase 3.5% in 2010 and post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.8% from 2010 to 2014, reaching $1.4 trillion in spending by 2014, ... more
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    Social Media and SEO Integrated via New Platform
    To help drive viewers to online content, a just-launched platform uses linguistics technology and search marketing best-practices to integrate social media with search engine optimization (SEO). Search engine marketing and design firm Zog Media launched the platform, dubbed Project Redline, in partnership with social media press release builder PitchEngine. more
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    If We Do Say so Ourselves
    "You might have noticed a trend in more and more marketing," writes Rohit Bhargava at the Influential Marketing Blog, "where large brands are featuring real people and actual employees in their ads." Heavy hitters like Intel, Best Buy, Dominos, IBM and GE have all used real team members to tell ... more
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    Trust in Facebook Tanking After Privacy Changes
    Trust in Facebook as a company has been shaken as a result of controversial changes it has made to its privacy policy, and that loss of trust may lead up to one-quarter of its users to curtail their usage or drop Facebook entirely, according to a new poll by MarketingProfs. more
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    Foolin' Around
    If you use Google on a regular basis, you've seen playful manipulations of the search engine's multicolored logo. The temporary tweaks often appear during holidays—harvest tones and a cartoon turkey might welcome Thanksgiving, for instance, while green hues and shamrocks might herald St. Patrick's Day. Visitors on April 1 were greeted ... more
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    The Devil in the Details
    Since October of 2009, the menus of 1,500 Denny's restaurants have invited customers to join the social-media conversation at Twitter. So far, so good. But there's a serious problem: The @Dennys account listed on the menu is registered to Dennys Hsieh—a Taiwanese individual—and not the American restaurant chain. "One would think ... more
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    You Never Get a Second Chance
    "Your introduction is one of the most important sections of your white paper," says Jonathan Kantor in a post at the White Paper Pundit blog. "The degree that your introduction engages your reader serves as the 'make or break' point for the rest of [the] paper." How do you create ... more
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    Study: Social Media Use by Fortune 500
    The adoption of social media is growing among the nation's largest corporations: 22% of the 2009 Fortune 500 companies have public-facing blogs with a post in the past 12 months, and 35% have active registered Twitter accounts with a tweet sent within the past 30 days, according to a study ... more
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    Most Journalists Use Social Media for Reporting
    Most editors and reporters depend on social media as a source: 55% of print and Web journalists say social media is important or somewhat important for reporting and producing the stories they write, according to a survey conducted by George Washington University and Cision. more

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    Unhappy customers are typically more vocal than satisfied customers, which means that new prospects coming to the market will more likely hear negative things about your brand. Here's what you can do. more
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    We are facing economic challenges the likes of which many of us have not experienced before. As professionals, how do we break away from this stagnation and take advantage of opportunities to grow your business? more
  • 10 Tips for Using LinkedIn to Generate LeadsPRO Contentby Brian Carroll
    You need to rethink the way you use LinkedIn. Without some of us even noticing, it has developed into a useful lead-generation tool for marketers and salespeople who are looking to build relationships with prospects. more
  • Four Case Studies: How These (Very Different) B2B Organizations Are Succeeding With Social MediaPRO Contentby Christina "CK" Kerley
    Even though B2C companies get the lion's share of coverage about the benefits of social media, B2B organizations of vastly different sizes and industries are making striking gains in employing these technologies to increase their market share and solve revenue challenges. more
  • Five Social Media Tools You Can't Afford to IgnorePRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Sure, social media is big. But even if your company doesn't have the resources for a dedicated social media strategy, here are five social media sites and tools you can't afford to ignore. more
  • How To Generate Blogger Buzz: Eight Proven TipsPRO Contentby Kimberly Smith
    For those accustomed to traditional PR, the blogosphere seems an entirely different beast—but one that has the potential to turn your message into a viral sensation. The following eight tips will help you capture the right kind of attention from bloggers. more
  • A Corporate Field Guide to Social-Media Policy DevelopmentPRO Contentby Kimberly Smith
    Your employees are already on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and the like... so isn't it high time for companies to acknowledge that activity and implement a protective framework that will assist them in mitigating the risks related to employee productivity, confidentiality, brand representation, and company reputation? more
  • Why You Are Unpopular Online: Six Ways to Doom Your Community-Building EffortsPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Companies are increasingly looking to create vibrant and healthy online communities for their businesses. But many companies are seeing their efforts fail or produce flat results. Here are six reasons why many online communities never materialize, and what you can do to improve your own efforts to build online communities. more
  • Special Report: How the 'Obama for America' Campaign Used Digital Media to Turn Ordinary Citizens Into Campaign EvangelistsPRO Contentby Kimberly Smith
    How did the Obama for America campaign do it? By its adherence to several game-changing strategies. more
  • Big Impact from Seemingly Small Changes: How Multinationals Are Starting the Sustainability JourneyPRO Contentby Rachel Botsman
    We are awash in "green" articles that highlight examples and best-practices of companies such as Patagonia, Stonyfield Farm, and Timberland—businesses that have had sustainability as part of their DNA from the outset. But what is the right approach for large, multinational brands? more
  • How Your Business Can Benefit From Using Twitter: Four Proven StrategiesPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Business are flocking to Twitter, but many still aren't sure how to leverage the tool to grow their business. Here's how Comcast, Dell, The Home Depot and others are using Twitter to reach their customers and nurture their businesses, and how you can, too. more
  • What Do Your Marketing Communications Reveal About You?PRO Contentby Becky Carroll
    Every touch from every department is marketing. Each customer interaction, whether via phone, email, direct mail, or Web, leaves an impression about your brand. Are your marketing communications self-serving, or are they serving customer needs? more
  • Four Lessons for Fostering Employee Brand AmbassadorsPRO Contentby Elaine Fogel
    Marketers spend gazillions on branding. But what is often missing is a focus on the people who carry the brand around every day: The front line folks who answer phones, sales reps who follow leads, the custodians.... Every word they utter is part of your brand. Yet, how many of ... more
  • How to Launch an Effective Blogger-Outreach Program in One DayPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Too many organizations have made bad impressions on bloggers by trying to reach them on their terms, instead of the bloggers'. But the process of engaging bloggers can be surprisingly easy. Follow these steps to launch a simple but effective blogger outreach program... in one day. more
  • Eight Fast-Acting, Low-Cost Marketing Tactics That Can Make a Difference NOWPRO Contentby Michael Goodman
    Effective marketing campaigns don't necessarily require big-company budgets. By being smart in the up-front planning stage, you can maximize the greatest value from your budget, regardless of its size. Here are eight low-cost tools you can use immediately to give your marketing program an instant shot in the ... more
  • Five Key Considerations Before Launching a Company BlogPRO Contentby Carrie Shearer
    Consider this: Every business, company, and organization is made of a unique group of people functioning in a unique culture. Accordingly, every organization considering a blog must address its own unique set of circumstances before it can determine whether a blog is the right step. Here are five key considerations ... more
  • How to Get the Web Content You Want From the Employees You HavePRO Contentby Jonathan Kranz
    With the growing significance of the Web as an integral part of the long B2B sales process, companies are more aware of the value of content: meaningful communications material that attracts and holds prospect attention. But... where will that content come from? It can (and should) come from you and your ... more
  • Eight Ways Your Company Can Benefit From BloggingPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Blogging takes advances in marketing one step further by allowing businesses to initiate conversations with their audience. Gaining a better understanding of your customers allows you to more effectively and efficiently market to them. This, of course, lowers your marketing costs. more
  • 10 Steps to Building a Better Blogger-Relations ProgramPRO Contentby Brian Solis
    The best communications strategies will envelop not only authorities in new and traditional media, but also those voices in the "Magic Middle," who help carry information and discussions among your customers directly. Here's the foundation that will help you and your company engage with bloggers more effectively and genuinely. more
  • 30 Tips for Creating a Digital Press KitPRO Contentby Gail Martin
    Given the ease of online publishing, there's no excuse for a company not to have a current, effective press kit. But why are press kits missing from so many Web sites? What's their real value? What must absolutely must be in your press kit? And what should you leave out? ... more
  • Seven Ways to Monitor Blog ConversationsPRO Contentby TJ McCue
    Do you know what your customers are saying about you? If not, you (and your brand!) are at a distinct disadvantage. Take the opportunity to participate in the blogosphere -- even if only on a small scale -- and you'll help shape your brand, rather than having it be shaped exclusively ... more
  • How Social Media Is Changing the 4Ps of Marketing: Stories from Real CompaniesPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Anyone who has taken Marketing 101 knows the 4 Ps of Marketing: Product, Price, Place and Promotion. But what you may not know is that some companies - including these four - are turning these Ps over completely to customers. (Graphic: David Armano.) more
  • Eight Steps to Creating a Successful Online CommunityPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Online social communities are all the rage. Sites such as MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook have grabbed headlines over the past year or so as examples of how to create successful communities. As a result, many businesses have tried to emulate these sites and create vibrant online networks... with mixed results. If ... more
  • What Song Is Blasting on Your Company iPod?PRO Contentby Jill Griffin
    Suppose you survey a company's employees and ask them to select just one tune that expressed their true feelings about their company's culture, their work experience, and their satisfaction as employees. What song would each of them choose? And what employee behaviors would likely parallel such a song choice? Frivolous ... more
  • Ten Steps to Creating a Brand Ambassador ProgramPRO Contentby Mack Collier
    Brand ambassadors are similar to brand evangelists in that they also have a vested interest in seeing their favorite brand succeed. It's not so much that they attempt to influence other customers to buy a product, but that they share their passion for a brand with their fellow customers. Whereas ... more

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