I read lots of marketing blogs. Some are good; some are less good. But a few stand out for consistently outstanding content. Post after post, year after year, they teach, challenge, and inspire readers with insightful perspectives and actionable advice. I’m not sure how they keep doing it, but as…
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
5 Must-Read Marketing Blogs (Besides the Daily Fix)
Tags: Blogging, blogs, Content, Marketing
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Tuesday, July 5, 2011
17 Content Creation Ideas to Inspire You [Infodoodle]
In a MarketingProfs University course for Marketing Writing Bootcamp, instructor Ann Handley answered the oft-asked question “What do I write about when there’s nothing to say?”
And so, I pulled out the color Sharpies and doodled Ann Handley’s answers for y’all.
Brightly doodled, the 17 conten…
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Monday, June 20, 2011
Make Sure You’re Blogging for Cannes, Not Hollywood
A guest post by Matt Krautstrunk.
Developing a blog takes time. Finding your niche is something very few bloggers are able to do in the first few months of blogging. This failure to capture an audience can be attributed to what I call “blogging for Hollywood.” A phrase that refers to bloggers…
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
13 Tips for Creating a Top-Ranked Blog (Even If You Think Your Company Lacks the Time or Resources to Pull It Off)
“Sure, I know we need a company blog, but nobody has time to do it.” I hear this a lot. It’s the No. 1 pain point of clients who know they need to start a blog—but are time-starved and resource constrained. The short answer is that any company can pull off a successful blog, even a smaller…
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Monday, May 16, 2011
7 Reasons Your Blog Sucks (and What to Do About It)
Wherever I go, I find companies are not happy with their blogs and social media programs. They’re wondering why readers are not rushing in, engaging with them, becoming loyal fans, and buying their products or services.
Usually, the problem is their content. It’s weak, weak, weak. Actually, it …
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Monday, April 25, 2011
On Blogging, Customer Love, and Selling Social to the C-Suite: An Interview with Bazaarvoice’s Brant Barton
Bazaarvoice just wrapped up its annual Social Commerce Summit, its fourth (and largest) client event in its hometown of Austin, Texas. Bazaarvoice helps all types of businesses capture, share, and analyze customer conversations online; more than 1,200 brands use its ratings and reviews platform–…
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
10 Questions to Ask When Creating a Persona
Your site has hordes of visitors every day clamoring to check out the vintage comics you sell. But what do you know about your visitors? Are they die-hard fans of specific series? Older folks caught in childhood nostalgia? Rather than make assumptions, create personas of your users.
A persona …
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
You Scratch My Virtual Back, I’ll Scratch Yours
A guest post by Duncan Heath of Extreme Sports Trader.
The “Pay with a Tweet” marketing model is a relatively recent, but highly effective, form of viral marketing that revolves around the concept of paying for a product or service with a social mention. As the name suggests, it started on Twitte…
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Use the (Work) Force to Build Brand Awareness
A guest post by Jason Miller of Zoomerang.
If your employees are already engaging in social platforms, why not empower them as brand advocates? Encouraging your employees to openly discuss your brand online can have a “humanizing” effect, ultimately increasing positive consumer perception.
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Monday, February 28, 2011
Lessons From a Corporate Insider: Dream Big, but Think Small
Bringing about significant change in a company isn’t easy. I know this from having recently left Hewlett-Packard, where I led an ambitious, new program starting in late 2009 to help drive the giant technology company’s social media activity across its Enterprise operations.
It was an interesting …
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