A few weeks ago I conducted a webinar entitled, “How to Social Media Optimize Your Website”, where I provided a short list of ideas for enhancing websites by making them more social media friendly:
Let your website visitors share and bookmark your content with “add-this” www.addthis.com or “share this” www.sharethis.com
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Now that so many organizations – both commercial and non-profit – have begun to at least experiment with social media, if not make a serious commitment to it, standing out among the cacophony of posts, comments, tweets, requests, invitations, updates, podcasts, images and video clips calling for attention is no easy task.
On the one hand, much of the [...]
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Now that most brands and businesses have finally dipped their toes into the social media waters and are making themselves heard on Twitter, Facebook and throughout the blogosphere, many of them are wondering what to do next with these relatively new communications platforms.
In fact, besides an obvious – and understandable – fear of social media, [...]
Now’s the time to register for tomorrow’s (Tuesday, May 19, from 12 PM-1 PM EST) complimentary one-hour webinar, “Website Optimization for Demand Generation and High ROI.”
Led by my colleague, Justin Barton, a fellow Creative Director at Nowspeed, this webinar will be based on the content of Justin’s exciting, new eBook, “Is Your Website Optimized for [...]
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I recently had the pleasure of watching my Co-Creative Director, Bob Cargill, honored with the prestigious 2009 NEDMA Direct Marketer of the Year Award. The festivities took place on Wednesday evening, May 6 with a dinner and ceremony at the LaCava Center at Bentley University in Waltham, MA.
With Bob as the honoree, I think it’s [...]
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On Wednesday of this week (April 29), our own Dave Reske will be participating in a panel discussion led by Chris Brogan on “Innovative Marketing Programs Using New Media” at the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco, California.
In his presentation, Dave plans to talk about how you can leverage new media tools to develop and execute innovating marketing [...]
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From Lance Armstrong to Shaquille O’Neal (The Real Shaq), Demi Moore to Yoko Ono, Arnold Schwarzenegger to Barack Obama (and, oh, let’s not forget Oprah), it seems almost everyone who’s anyone is now using Twitter, the micro-blogging service, to reach out and touch someone in 140 characters or less.
Twitter’s hit the big time, no question, [...]
You once had first page placement, maybe even the number one spot…but now all of a sudden you don’t. So what happened? Does Google hate you? No, probably not. Here are five reasons why you may have lost your ranking, including a few quick-fix steps to getting back in the game.
1. New Competition- It’s entirely possible a new [...]
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Laying out a lead nurture program in a way that your marketing team, sales team and external designers or developers can understand can surely be challenging. When tackling this challenge, be sure to build out the five Ts of lead nurture strategy - Tracks, Touches, Triggers, Timing and Tracking:
1. Tracks – How can you break down [...]
As a veteran copywriter and creative director, someone who’s made a living for over two decades putting together direct mail, email and direct response advertising campaigns that pitch practically every product and service imaginable, I may not fit the mold of the typical blogger.
But I’ve been helplessly hooked on blogging since my first post in 2004, never [...]
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