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Thirty Ideas to Help You Tackle Blogger's Block by Amanda Maksymiw
A corporate blog can be a key component of any marketing strategy. It can help generate leads, demonstrate a customer-centric culture, and engage your audience. Here are 30 ideas for creating a well-rounded corporate blog.
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Why Your B2B Website Needs Social Interactionby Bob Egner
If your idea of giving your website a social life entails having a "follow us on Facebook" link on your homepage, you might want to take a second look at your analytics. Learn why and how B2B marketers should socialize ...
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10 Ways to Entice Your Whole Company (Not Just Marketing) to Blogby Ann Handley
It's a lot easier to maintain a robust, active blog when you have many contributors—not just one person responsible for writing compelling content, day in and day out, rain or shine, in sickness and in health. One place to look ...
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Take off Your Twitter Goggles: Why Marketers Still Need a Blogging Strategyby Clay McDaniel
Twitter may be the all the rage, but it's not yet time to pull the plug on your corporate blog and stop monitoring all the blogs where people talk about your brand. The emergence of Twitter as a hyper-popular social-media ...
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Put Your Site Search to Work, Part 2: Add Rich Content to the Search Experienceby Shaun Ryan
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed leveraging site-search data about the terms your customers use on your site and the items they click on most in your search engine optimization and paid-search efforts, email marketing, and other promotional ...
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Social Media's 'Gee-Whiz Factor' Must Die: Time to Get Down to Business
by Chris BroganSocial media is cool! Blogging and podcasts are cool! We're so cutting edge! Yeah, whatever.
The people looking at social media long and hard fall into a few camps, and this article is for those who are scrunching their noses up ...
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Open Letter to the Would-Be CEO Bloggerby Todd Defren
Dear CEO: Welcome to the blogoshere! So, umm, how do you really start? How do you get started blogging, and do it well? Let's avoid the technical requirements. (You've got people who can figure that stuff out!) Instead, let's focus ...
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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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Top Five Rules for Creating a Successful Video Blog for Businessby Brent Altomare
Blogs provide rich opportunities for organizations to interact with customers. But now marketers are wondering how to create even more dynamic content and "stickiness." That next level of intimacy has already started to emerge with video blogs, or vlogs.
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Five Key Considerations Before Launching a Company Blog
by Carrie ShearerConsider 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 ...
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Eight Ways Your Company Can Benefit From Blogging
by Mack CollierBlogging 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 ...
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Corporate Blogging: Getting Past 'No' If You're Not the CEOby Rich Julius
When Bob Lutz of GM or Jonathan Schwartz of Sun set up their blogs, they probably didn't worry too much about the review with Legal. But how does, say, a midlevel corporate marketer or product manager set out to create ...
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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Company Blog
by Mack CollierOne of the biggest hurdles that many companies face in adopting a blogging strategy is that they aren't sure how to quantify the results of their efforts. But as blogging has evolved, and it has become much easier to accurately ...
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Which Comes First: The Policy or the Blog?by Christine Whittemore
Should a marketer simply start blogging or wait instead until all of the blogging policies and procedures are established before beginning?
In other words: Which comes first the policy or the blog?
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Getting Old-Fashioned Buzz With New Media: Q&A With Paul Dunayby Mack Collier
Paul has earned his keep over the past 20 years by building buzz for heavyweights like Google, IBM, and Microsoft. These days he's immersed himself in social media, which serves him well as the director of Global Field & Interactive ...
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Seven Ways Your Company Can Harness the Power of Blogsby David Felfoldi
Blogging is a phenomenon that can no longer be ignored by today's competitive companies.
So how does your company best harness the power of blogs? Here are common-use cases for any organization.
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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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Charting the Waters of the Blogosphereby G.A. 'Andy' Marken
The major problem with blogs is that they are a relatively new—albeit rapidly growing—Web phenomenon. As a result, they constitute a more or less uncharted realm for companies, with few official policies or guidelines.
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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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Ten Steps to Starting a Company Blog
by Mack Collier