Pennsylvania Railroad crash led to 1 st press release, which was created to get as much info out to as many outlets as possible (to prevent false rumors about the accident).
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How Much Time Should I Spend On Social Media
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How much time should you spend on social media? In some ways, the answer is: “how long is a piece of string?” And yet, you can set up some simple guidelines. They might be a bit different than you think. By the way, I’m writing these from a business perspective, but remember that I [...]
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Stephen Gates
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Stephen Gates
Orange smartly uses social media to create Friend-o-Meter
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The U.K. mobile provider Orange has created one of the most interesting uses of Facebook and Twitter connect that I have seen recently. To promote the launch of the social media focused Motorola DEXT mobile phone they have created a site that quizzes you on ten questions to see how well you know your friends [...]
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Viaspire
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Viaspire
The Social Media Landscape for the Classroom 2.0
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We mentioned last week that we spoke at the CASBO CBO Symposium on Social Media - Using new technology to deliver information to staff, students and the public .The session was very beneficial to school business officials who have opportunities and challenges presented with how and when to leverage social media to reach, inform and engage. Much ...
Shawn Collins
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Affiliate Marketing Blog
DailyBooth is Social Media that is Truly Social
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I started noticing DailyBooth links on Twitter a month or so ago, and didn’t really get it at first. I would click through and just see pictures of people doing stuff. I figured it was just another place to post pictures. So what? But then I realized the photos on DailyBooth was the start of conversations, and [...] This post originally ...
Rajiv Dingra
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WATBlog.com
Foursquare Launches For Mumbai – India – Opportunity For LBS Driven Mobile Social Network In India
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If you have been tracking the social media scene globally then its very likely that you might have heard of Foursquare which is a location based game and social network mobile app. International blogs have been going gaga over this new app and some have even gone to the extent of labelling it as the [...] Follow us on: Twitter | Facebook | ...
Jay Deragon
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The Relationship Economy
The Power Of Social Distribution
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Social distribution has become the most powerful force ever to influence markets and how they operate. To ignore it is means your business will be ignored or worse yet negatively influenced by it Related posts: Is Social Media Relevant & Relative? Where, What and Who are just the beginning stages of... How Do You Sell Social Media? If you ...
MelC
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Mel Carson
Will Carling Video Interview on Social Media, PR & Rugby
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Not everyday you get to meet and chat to a Rugby legend, so watch his face as I describe him as one! Suffice to say Will is a gentleman, extremely articulate but at the same time very self-effacing for someone who knows and has achieved so much. More on the interview on the Microsoft Advertising Blog Tweet This!Share [...]
Frank Reed
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Frankthinking.com
Can Social Media Make People Act Crazier Than They Need To?
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I was just checking out a piece of video from a student ‘demonstration’ at UCLA about a 32% hike in tuition. A big number, no doubt, but look at this video and ponder a question or two. Are the police that these kids are yelling at responsible for the tuition hike? Rhetorical question I realize but [...]
Jeff Glasson
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PerkettPRsuasion
Persuasive Picks for the week of – Focus on Social Media Guidelines and Policies
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Hey B2B marketers: It’s okay to have fun! Marketing strategist and author, David Meerman Scott reminds companies that B2B marketing still means communicating with people and doesn’t need to be boring. What makes a blog successful? Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk shares stories of blogging success straight from her own experiences. Create ...
Jye
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A Digital Perspective
Social Media & Search
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Social Media & Search – Jye Smith View more documents from Jye Smith. Search Engine Room 2009 Last week I was lucky enough to be presenting at Search Engine Room 2009. I was giving the opening thoughts on social media, what the latest stats were, what happened to web 2.0, and my thoughts on search – some of [...]
Unbound Edition
The Social Media evolution: Your Time is Now
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The Future of the Social Web is here today and we’re learning that engagement is not a matter of if or when, but to what extent, how and what value can we deliver and derive from it. The Social Web is much more than a window into information and interaction, it is a completely transformative medium that is changing how we forge relationships, ...
Morgan McLintic
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Morgan McLintic on PR
Seven ways social media changes crisis management
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Social media is changing crisis management. Here we look at seven ways that's happening, for good and bad, right now.
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Daniel Scocco
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Daily Blog Tips
This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. Just use the contact form if you want to submit a question. Irman asks: I want to know how many blog posts in percentage normally Google indexes from a blog. I have been running a blog for a year, and I noticed only 30% of my posts are indexed by Google. What steps should I take to improve that? ...
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Prateek Waghre
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WATBlog.com
Google Releases Chrome OS – Source Code!
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Last week, there was a well sourced news that Google could be launching a part of Chrome OS. On 17th November, they announced an event to be held at their headquarters, Googleplex, Mountain View, California, to give a ‘technical background’ and some demos. Sundar Pichai, Google’s VP of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Google ...
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Jordan McCollum
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Andy Beal
Why People Love Google
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In a word: branding. As a brand, both through their own efforts and through sheer luck, Google has been able to position itself as the #1 online brand in the US according to Forrester Research. Others among the top ten, including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft, have generated some of the same emotional responses from [...]
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Erik
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ExpertSEM
Google Maps: Not even the Whitehouse is safe.
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Being one of the local search specialists around here, people often forward me articles and blogs they think I might be interested in. Today I was forwarded this article from NYTimes.com that really caught my attention. It’s been awhile since I stopped everything else to voice my opinion, but this one seemed to not represent [...]
Googlemobile.blogspot.com
New Google News for mobile
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At Google, we are committed to giving you a consistent user experience across products and devices, and we really value the feedback you've given us about Google News for mobile. Today we're excited to announce a completely new Google News offering for iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. (We already offer a mobile-optimized version of Google ...
Sugarrae
PRWeb Review
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I’m often asked when I mention doing press releases for website promotion, branding and visibility what online press release distribution services I recommend, if any. The truth is that I’m a longtime user of PRWeb , have spent thousands of dollars running press releases with them and am pretty pleased with their services. When I ...
Bryan Eisenberg
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the Econsultancy blog
How to use Google Voice to increase reorders
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I just received an email from nutritional supplement retailer� Jigsaw Health , about a new program they offering their existing customer base. After speaking to President and Co-Founder Patrick Sullivan Jr, I learned that 80% of their monthly revenue comes from returning customers (and they don't even offer an auto-ship program). How? By setting ...
Noreply
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Web Analytics World
Free Google Analytics iPhone App
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Online optimization firm Mark Red has released Analyze This!, an iPhone application that makes it possible for stressed managers to monitor revenue and conversion on the go. Information about goal completions, ecommerce, and campaigns is fetched from Google Analytics and presented in a fast, simple way. It's possible to compare daily, weekly, ...
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Oodles Love Google, But Wouldn't Exactly Call It 'Fun'
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Drum roll, please. Search engine Google topped Forrester Research's survey of consumers' favorite online brands, though respondents ranked the company low on qualities like "trustworthy," "relevant" and "fun." Forty-four percent of consumers rate Google as their favorite online brand in 2009, compared with 36% in 2007. The search engine dominates ...
Danny Sullivan
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Search Engine Land
Google Tackles Its “UI Jazz” Problem, Tests Streamlining Search Options Feature
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Sometime later today, a small number of Google users will see a new look to Google’s Search Options feature. If all goes well, the cleaner display may be launched across Google after the New Year. And it’s all because Google’s vice president of search product and user experience Marissa Mayer doesn’t like [...] ....
Matt McGee
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Search Engine Land
Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine
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While the National Association of REALTORS® is planning to launch its own national property database sometime next year, Google seems to have just stolen the NAR’s thunder. How? By rolling out individual “place pages” for every property that’s listed in Google Maps. Like this one for a home in Seattle: The real estate ...
Bill Slawski
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SEO
How Google Might Insert Artificial Named Anchors into Web Pages
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Usually, when you click on a link in a set of search results at Google, the search engine will deliver you to the top of a web page. But what if it didn’t? What if it brought you instead to the place on a page where your query terms appeared, or just above [...]
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Today, Pete Cashmore had a piece on CNN "Next Year's Twitter? Foursquare" predicting that FourSquare will be the darling of 2010.FourSquare is a is location-based social network service overlays your Twitter network with an added layer of social gameplay. FourSquare...
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Wadd
How to turn your Twitter network into an Amazon affiliate business
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Here’s an application of Twitter that will generate hard cash for you. Amazon has made its affiliate programme Twitter-friendly. Members of the Amazon Associates programme can share products with their network by clicking on a Twitter icon within the affiliate menu bar or stripe. This generates a tweetable message and unique URL. When people ...
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Jordan McCollum
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Andy Beal
Twitter Premium Accounts Coming by Year’s End
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Speaking at a Nesta panel this morning in London, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone stated that long-rumored premium corporate accounts for the most popular microblogging service will come by year’s end. Although business accounts have long been a source of speculation for the site’s monetization plans, it’s not true that all ...
Brian
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Brian Solis
On Twitter, What Are You Doing Was Always The Wrong Question
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What are you doing? Perhaps, Twitter asked the wrong question all along. In all honestly, who cares…it was really never about “what you were doing” that inspired your network to stay connected nor was it the siren for attracting new followers. We chose to follow you because you moved or encouraged us to do so – with [...]
Jeffrey L. Cohen
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Social Media B2B
Retweet Your Way to B2B Influence
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Twitter has now rolled out the new retweet function to all users, so here are some thoughts about how it works and how it relates to B2B marketing. These are changes on the Twitter.com web site and have not been implemented on the clients that many people use to interact with Twitter. If you use [...] Related posts: Are Top B2B Agencies Worth ...
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Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com.
Daniel Scocco
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Daily Blog Tips
Looking To Get More Twitter Followers? Then Check Twitfever.com
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Twitter is probably the largest Internet phenomenon we have seen in a while. Everyone is using it these days. Affiliate marketers are using it to promote their affiliate offers. Companies are using it to sell products and services. Webmasters and bloggers are using it to drive traffic to their websites. You name it. Original Post: Looking To Get ...
Andy Beal
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Andy Beal
Ou Est La Twitter? La Twitter Et Voici!
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Quick, you’re lost somewhere in France, it’s cold, dark, and all you have is your smartphone, a signal flair, CB radio, map, flashlight, French/English dictionary, and some french fries. What do you do? OK, first, eat the french fries–you look hungry. Then throw all that other stuff in a trash can, because all you need is your ...
Sugarrae
Commercial Twitter Case Study Revisited
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About a year ago I did a case study on the use of Twitter by BBGeeks.com – a site I own about BlackBerry phones. We were using Twitter as sort of a guerrilla marketing tactic to increase traffic to our site and more importantly, promote our brand. The results were encouraging – we’d acquired 500 followers in a short period of ...
Wadds
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Wadd
Twitter as a tool to track competitive intelligence
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In the last 10 days I have had three different conversations with businesses that are using the social networks to gather commercial intelligence. A corporate finance team in the middle of due diligence efforts that is tracking conversations on Twitter amongst staff and customers of a target investment A Westminster lobby journalist tracking blog ...
Unbound Edition
Next year's Twitter? It's Foursquare
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As 2009 draws to a close, with Twitter undoubtedly this year's media darling and Facebook continuing on its path to global domination, you may wonder which social-media service will become tech's poster boy in 2010. Among the Web's early adopter set, the answer is nearly unanimous: Foursquare. While the technology landscape is ever-changing, I'd ...
Unbound Edition
On Twitter And Social Networks, Brands Benefit From Conversations
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A recent study revealed 20 percent of tweets published are actually invitations for product information, answers or responses from peers or directly by brand representatives. Now we learn that Twitter users are actively paying attention to brands on the popular information network. According to research conducted by Performics and ROI Research, ...
Brian Carroll
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B2B Lead Generation Blog
How to Get the Twitter Username You've Always Wanted
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Don't forget to secure your Twitter name! I signed up for twitter a year an half ago but that wasn’t soon enough to get my hands on my company's Twitter name of choice of @intouch. So if you were late...
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Ski/snowboard equipment and apparel brands Black Diamond, Burton, K2, Obermeyer and Smith are featured in the new shopping section of the REI Snow Report application for iPhone and iPod touch.
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The Coming Darwinism of IPhone Apps
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I've been fortunate to be at the forefront of apps. Prior to starting my company, I was leading the charge for the app's predecessor, the widget, and this led to my fascination with Facebook's 2007 move to open its API to third-party developers and publishers. And what I've seen on Facebook -- a winnowing down of the number of apps -- will soon ...
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Drew McLellan
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The Marketing Minute
A creativity whack for your head...and your iPhone!
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Roger von Oech is responsible for whacking me upside the head more times than I can count. 20+ years ago, he created a fantastic creativity tool called A Creative Whack Pack. It's an illustrated deck of 64 creative thinking strategies that will whack you out of habitual thought patterns and enable you to look at your life and actions in a fresh ...
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A Quebec woman on long-term sick leave is fighting to have her benefits reinstated after her employer's insurance company cut them, she says, because of photos posted on Facebook.
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Hitwise Intelligence
Bebo out from downunder?
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This morning’s online news reported that Bebo is about to close its Australian operations. But what does that really mean? To Australian Bebo users it means very little, there will be no change to their interaction with their social networks, but to AOL, who purchased Bebo in March 2008, it means a whole lot more, it is a response to not being ...
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Sugarrae
Affiliate Summit West – Day 2 Recap
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…And we’re back with another day of blog coverage for Affiliate Summit West . If you missed Day 1, feel free to go check it out . Otherwise let’s get on with today’s big takeaways. This blogger hasn’t eaten since last night’s French fries dinner and her tummy is starting to rumble. Ready? Okay. Facebook’ ...
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NE Creative
IKEA Facebook Showroom
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To promote the launch of a new IKEA store, Forsman & Bodenfors , created a Facebook profile for the new store's manager and uploaded showroom photos to his photo album. The first people to tag the IKEA items with their name won the item which helped to grow IKEA's Facebook fan base and spread around photos of IKEA products. (Via The ...
ClickZ News Blog
Facebook Ads Product Has Customer Service Issues
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A few stories ClickZ's editors are reading: Facebook Ads Has Customer Support Problems aimClear Blog A rant about one agency's struggle to obtain decent service from Facebook. The Counterculture Club FT.com A compelling profile of Vice, the multiplatform media and advertising company that started as a hipster magazine. Google Promotes Content ...
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As you might recall, Pogoplug is a nifty hardware/service combo that turns any USB hard drive into a NAS. Geek.com posted a review of the original package as well as the Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar, which uses Pogoplug’s online service but Seagate’s hardware. Pogoplug’s strength always seemed to lie in its software, not its ...
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Online a business can either succeed or struggle based on their web design and content. Due to the vast amount of businesses online it is easy for a website to go completely unnoticed, leaving its earning potential virtually untapped.
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That's our goal at ChangeThis. To respect your intelligence. To make it easy to spread ideas that respect individuals and their communities. To respect the ability everyone has to make a difference.
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Of course, we are quite used to digital maniacs declaring the death of everything they can't click on. But when are we going to make these idiots pay for their mistakes? When are they going to be held accountable for the nonsense they engender?
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In the bid to choose a flyer printing company for the production of the flyers that will work best for your advertising needs, there are some factors to consider. They include their printing quality, graphic design services and flyer printing packages. Evaluate these three factors very well in relation to your needs.
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Bronto Blog
Bronto Blog’s exclusive “Email Industry Experts Speak Out” series continues with a great Q&A session with Deirdre Baird, President & CEO of Pivotal Veracity. Deirdre launched Pivotal Veracity in 2003 to help email marketer optimize the deliverability, design and reputation of their digital communications. I recently ...
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Blackberry, Lotus Notes, Yahoo? Ensure uniform rendering & functionality across all mobile, desktop & web email clients.
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How many minutes will your customers spend on your email if it: fails to pass the sniff test in the list view, doesn't captivate them in the preview pane, renders in a funky way, has broken images or links, takes too long to download, is incomprehensible with images off...? From Outlook, to Yahoo, to Orange, to the Apple iPhone, your customers ...
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Steve O'Bryan
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Web Marketing Advice
Strategies for Email Advertising
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One of the best ways to promote your company is through email advertising and email marketing. It allows you to stay in contact with prospective customers, current customers, and anyone else who might be able to help you make more money. Most companies do not have the resources to manage professional marketing campaigns, but with email ...
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Take a look at EA Sports new pop-up training centers that encourage better personal fitness.
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If the Associated Press Stylebook is “the bible of the newspaper industry” (as it declares on the front cover), then Twitter’s @FakeAPStyleBook is the bible of comic relief for writers who count on the reference book for definitive answers on grammar and style questions. It is also RaceTalk’s pick this week for #FollowFriday. With ...
My post last week introduced the idea that Outbound Marketing techniques are no longer cost-effective in reaching B2B buyers, and suggested that we use Inbound Marketing and Marketing Automation to replace it. This post provides a brief overview of what Inbound Marketing is, and then outlines the software techniques used to automate it. The ...
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Video Project Planning & Management – Market7 Overview
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Market7 wants to be your online collaboration service and video project planning solution and of course make money off of you while doing it. They have free trial accounts to check it out and offer a range of product packages to help you get all your creative from talent to post-production in the same place [...] This is a post from ReelSEO ...
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Shari Thurow
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Search Engine Land
Understanding Orienting Search Behaviors For SEO & Conversions
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Website owners and search professionals alike often overlook finding behaviors after a searcher clicks on a link to a website from a search engine results page (SERP). One of those finding behaviors is called orientation or orienting. Orientation is a search behavior that no SEO professional, search engine advertiser, or website owner should ...
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This track makes me wish I was 18 and stupider. Loving the no-budget promo video. It made me chuckle, but I am a sucker for funny dancing. I’ve just downloaded the Future Sound Of Russia compilation from whence this came. It seems like there’s some great music (and dancing) coming from over there.
According to Watson Wyatt's newest communication survey for 2009/2010, companies that are effective communicators "have the courage to talk about what employees want to hear," "redefine the employment deal based on changing business conditions," and have "the discipline to plan effectively and measure their progress effectively." Does this really ...
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S.Swaminathan
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Customer World
Driving relevancy in customer communication
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CMO council has come-up with an interesting report that many marketers have faced as consumers themselves - irrelevant communication! Many of these marketers talk about it but do nothing about it for their own brands or products. Here are some...
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The problem with being an amateur scientist is precisely the reason that marketers relish the opportunity to sell to us, the amateurs: we make stupid decisions, easily manipulated by those who might choose to do the manipulation (on their behalf or on ours). The news here is not that people are irrational, giving too much credence to the dramatic ...
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Seth
The amateur scientist
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Many people buy a car (probably their single biggest discretionary purchase) based on slamming a door, kicking a tire and judging the handshake of a salesperson. We choose a surgeon based on the carpeting in his office and a politician by his hair cut. During the first week of swine flu vaccines in New York, most parents (more than half!) chose ...
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Posterchild has embarked on a new project which envisions a new future for the underused and abandoned pay phone booths which dot the urban landscape.
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