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Five Ways to Quickly Build Backlinks (and Get Relevant Traffic)by C. Wise
If you're a small business, building backlinks to your website can be an effective way to gain traffic and increase revenue—no matter what your industry. Here are five ways to kick off your link-building with ease.
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What I Did Right: How I Averaged 80 Comments and 135 Tweets in My First Week of Bloggingby Lisa Petrilli
My first-ever two blog posts have received 159 comments and have been tweeted 272 times. I'm simply stunned. But my foray into blogging has shown me that it can be a Herculean task to keep up with responding to comments ...
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Measuring What's Meaningful in Social Media
by Mack CollierHow do you measure the effectiveness of your social media efforts? Many companies are not properly tracking the right metrics. Or they are tracking the right metrics but aren't applying those metrics to their full effect. Here's a look at ...
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Trust Agents: The New Digital Nativesby Chris Brogan, Julien Smith
What are so-called Trust Agents? Trust Agents have established themselves as non-sales-oriented, non-high-pressure marketers. They are digital natives using the Web to be genuine and to humanize their business. They're interested in people (like prospective customers, employees, and colleagues), and ...
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How To Generate Blogger Buzz: Eight Proven Tips
by Kimberly SmithFor 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 ...
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Why All the Talk About Dog Food?by Aaron Strout
Have you ever heard the expression "eat your own dog food"? It's a concept that essentially means that one is "walking the talk," or leading by example. Many companies have talked about being "customer-focused," but how many really are? Unfortunately, ...
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Why You Are Unpopular Online: Six Ways to Doom Your Community-Building Efforts
by Mack CollierCompanies 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 ...
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Four Reasons Why You Should Be Obsessed With Your Blog's Traffic
by Mack CollierWhen a company launches a blog, it wants to know all it can about the traffic coming to the site, particularly the amount of traffic. But is traffic volume the best way to measure the performance of your blog? Here ...
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Honest to Blog: 5 Tips For Developing a Corporate Blogging Policy
by Kimberly SmithThe key to a corporate blog's success lies in a company's ability to earn the trust of its readers, and a well thought out blogging policy can provide the necessary foundation. Here are some of the factors any organization should ...
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Seven Steps to a Successful Marketing Blogby Connie Reece
How do you start from scratch yet create a top-ranked marketing blog in less than a year?
If the author had anything close to a foolproof formula, she'd be making an infomercial right now rather than writing this article. Nevertheless, here ...
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Blogging Baby Steps: How to Join the Conversation Without Starting Your Ownby TJ McCue
There is a healthy respect and fear-factor surrounding the blogosphere, een for those of us with some background in online community building.
So let's start with some baby steps. Step one: Listen first, and then join the conversation.
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Eight Easy Ways to Grow Your Blogby Mack Collier
The social media landscape over the last year or so has changed dramatically. Companies that were once skeptical about tools such as blogs are now blogging or considering starting one. Unfortunately, many companies that do so still have little idea ...
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The Dark Side of Blogging: Warnings From Leading Bloggersby Michael Stelzner
Many businesses and individuals have leaped blindly into the blog pool. Countless bloggers have found the water a bit too chilly and have abandoned blogging altogether. Still others are barely keeping their heads above water as they grapple with the ...
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Eight Ideas for Revitalizing Your Company Blogby Mack Collier
After hearing all the buzz about blogs and how popular they are becoming, your company decided to dive into the blogging waters. But that was months ago, and even though you've posted a few times, your blog has gotten little ...
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Brand Marketers, Meet Social Networks: Building Communities Without Jeopardizing Your Brand
by Joe LichtenbergConsumer-generated reviews. Blogging. MySpace. Viral marketing. There's no doubt about it, Web 2.0 is booming. And it's putting the power of the Web into the hands of individuals.
At the same time, this shift in power is wreaking havoc with ...
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The 12 Tenets of Social Media Marketing (and Why You Need to Learn Them)by BL Ochman
The delicate relationship between management and marketing is a dance roughly akin to that between fox and hen, but with far less goodwill. To management, you're only as good as your last campaign.
So let's look at the 12 tenets of ...
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Seven Lessons From a Blogging Yearby Ann Handley
Chief Content Officer Ann Handley takes a look back at the blogging year that was for the MarketingProfs Daily Fix blog—and the lessons learned from launching a group blog for marketers.
If you're thinking of starting your own blog, or if ...
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Ten Steps to Starting a Company Blog
by Mack Collier
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Ten Steps to Starting a Company Blog
by Mack CollierBlogs are continuing to grow in popularity, and they are no longer merely a way for angst-ridden teenagers to express themselves. Today, progressive companies are communicating with bloggers in their industries—and even creating their own blogs as marketing communications tools. ...
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What's Your Google Identity?by William Arruda
To be successful today, you must have a clear and compelling online identity.
People are googling you and making decisions about you from what Google reveals. Whether you are an employee looking to advance in your company, a professional seeking your ...