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A 5-Step Guide to Blog Outreach Marketing
Finding and befriending influential bloggers is one of those things that’s easy to say, but quite hard to do. Bloggers (including this one) can be prickly when riled, so there’s good reason for taking a cautious approach. That said, an appreciative post on a popular blog can outweigh the best efforts of any PR agency. So here’s our 5-step guide to getting blog outreach right. We hope it saves you a lot of time, effort and heartache.
How to Find Influencers on Twitter
Following a tip-off from webmetricsguru (Marshall Sponder), I’ve been trying out Tweepsearch as a method of finding influencers in various vertical industry niches. He suggested that Tweepsearch’s results, combined with an Excel spreadsheet, is the most effective free method of quickly identifying the movers and shakers in a specific industry or for a chosen topic. And you know, I think he’s right.
7 Things You Never Knew About Re-Tweets
A passionate believer in the power of re-Tweeting, I spent a worthwhile half hour today reviewing Dan Zarellas “Science of Re-Tweets” presentation (below). It’s well worth a look and, for a bit of fun, I’ve extracted seven things you probably never knew about re-Tweets in my analysis below. Enjoy!
The Top 10 Viral Video Adverts of 2009 And Why They Worked so Well
I spent a greatly amused hour watching Mashable’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2009” today. The list includes slick agency produced ads, amateur films, bloopers, spoofs, a protest video and a wonderfully botched Windows 7 video from Microsoft. My favourites are the BooneOakley ad and Dave Carroll’s musical demolition of United Airlines, who callously broke his guitar (allegedly), but I also like the fact that the dancing baby’s dad is using the huge popularity of his video to raise donations for his college fund. Smart fella.
What is Inbound Marketing?
Inbound Marketing is designed to harness the three most powerful elements of Internet marketing into a single, connected, trackable process. The starting point is to create and publish high-quality content, either in words, pictures, audio or video. Next, you need to optimise this content for search engines, so that it appears in natural (i.e. free) search. Finally, you need to share the content via social networks such as Twitter, flickr, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn, to stimulate the viral spread of your conte
Monitoring Social Media 09 – Photos & Presentations
Over 200 delegates from around the world attended our conference Monitoring Social Media 09 yesterday in London, including more than 100 PR and marketing execs, 40 leading brands and 15 social media monitoring companies. We managed to squeeze 12 presentations and 3 panel sessions into the day without everyone losing the plot – and, with a little help from the energetic Giles Palmer (and his extravagant tache – see the flickr photos) energy abounded throughout the day.
Preview of Monitoring Social Media 09, London, 17th Nov.
Monitoring Social Media 09 (#msm09) is upon us! Tickets have sold out and we are preparing for an excellent conference with over 200 delegates from around Europe and the world. Late additions to the Programme include Emmanuel Vivier (Vanksen) who is stepping in to replace Amelia Torode in the “What’s Wrong with Social Media Monitoring Services?” discussion. We also have Jon Moody (ASOMO) joining the “ROI of Social Media Monitoring” panel discussion. Jon’s already been active in our LinkedIn Group, so I’m expecting more powerful insights on the day.
Top 5 Budget Social Media Monitoring Tools
In the run up to Monitoring Social Media 09 I’ve been checking out some of the free or low-cost social media monitoring solutions. I’ve been hearing that many of the top marketing agencies still use free monitoring tools: but which ones? And how do they compare to the high-end paid-for solutions like Visible Technologies, Brandwatch etc?
Visible Technologies Sponsors Monitoring Social Media 09
We are delighted to announce Visible Technologies as our Lead Sponsor for Monitoring Social Media 09. Recently identified by Inc. Magazine as of the fastest-growing companies in the US (#170 on the Inc. 500 List), Visible Technologies provides social media listening and engagement tools for some of the worlds biggest brands, including Microsoft and Xerox.
How to Use Social Media for Customer Services
Most of the buzz around employees using social media has been negative. News stories have focused on bored desk-workers wasting hours on Facebook, Domino’s pizza employees posting revolting videos on YouTube, or idiots bad-mouthing their bosses on Twitter, thus earning their P45 form. Now that we are seeing the officially sanctioned use of social media by employees – largely in the form of company Twitter accounts – these are being siloed into “Customer Services”, giving them the aura of that overly-transactional, inhuman user experience we all know and loathe.
