Archive for March, 2010

2010 LeadingRE Conference: TopRank Digital Marketing Sessions

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Last week, I was in Las Vegas for the LeadingRE annual conference and marketing technology event speaking on social media and SEO strategies for real estate professionals. It’s always interesting to see where different verticals are at with their willingness to embrace social channels, and I’m pleased to report […]

5 Ways to Electrify Your Social Network

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

A typical situation for many marketers when it comes to social networks is this: Setup LinkedIn profile, check. Corporate LinkedIn page, check.  Facebook profile, check. Facebook Fan Page, check. Twitter account, check. Corporate blog, check. Check check check!
But where’s the buzz? Where are the fans, friends, followers, comments, links, traffic, search engine rankings? Where’s […]

Shutterstock Voted Best Royalty Free Stock Photos Site for Bloggers

Monday, March 15th, 2010

A great photo can really add a lot of flavor to a blog post and in our own analysis at Online Marketing Blog as well as with clients, including quality images with a blog post can boost traffic and referrals 30-50%. To make posts more personal, I try to use my own photos as […]

12 Tips on Live Blogging & Content Marketing at SXSWi

Friday, March 12th, 2010

So here I sit in the DFW airport hanging out with David Berkowitz and Joe Morin waiting for my connection to Austin. What better way to spend that 45 min than to write a helpful blog post? A big part of my “mission” for SXSXi is to create content after all.
I have several other […]

5 Social Media Tips for Ecommerce Marketing

Friday, March 12th, 2010

If you run an ecommerce business, chances are your customers – regardless of their age, gender or economic status – are active on social networks and social media sharing sites.
Just consider the statistics from social media monitoring site Pingdom:

Males and females almost equally use social sites (47% vs. 53%)
61% of Facebook users are middle aged […]

BIGLIST Social SEO Blogs Update 031110

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Welcome to the post-Winter/pre-Spring version of the BIGLIST review of SEO blogs.  Snow is starting to melt and you can actually walk around outside (in Minnesota) without your eyelashes freezing together. We have a nice group for you to review so fire up your RSS reader and subscribe.

LyndiT blog gets our attention for great design and user […]

11 Free Tools for Social Media Optimization

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Plenty of bloggers are talking about the inevitable intersection of social media marketing and search engine optimization. Keyword optimized social content and channels of promotion provide abundant signals to search engines for improved visibility on standard, social and real-time search.
The changing nature of social media marketing and optimization create the need for tools whether for […]

Ford’s Focus on Social Media: Scott Monty Interview

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

When you think of successful consumer brands in the social media space, names like Dell, Zappos and Pepsi come to mind. Another is Ford. Last year the Ford Fiesta movement generated tremendous amount of awareness (and pre-orders) for a vehicle that wasn’t available to the public yet. At the same time, it inspired a […]

Poll: Best Royalty Free Stock Photo Sites for Bloggers

Monday, March 8th, 2010

As with many bloggers, we’ve been using royalty free images for many years.  Many bloggers make use of images from Flickr and we have too but you can’t always find the right image there. I’ve even made a point to take more photos of people, places and things while traveling for later use in blog […]

5 Ways to Weave LinkedIn Into Your Marketing Mix

Friday, March 5th, 2010

From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers and prospects, and build positive brand awareness.
LinkedIn, however, stands apart from the crowd. The roots of popular sites like YouTube and Facebook are founded on the entertainment side of things. […]