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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

Both Sides of the Table

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? What should you blog about?

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7 Keys To An Engaging Framework For Social Media Mktg

Startup Professionals Musings

Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

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Understanding the Underbelly of Online Marketing & Why You’ll Lose if You Don’t

Both Sides of the Table

SEO / SEM are promotional techniques for marketing through the Google distribution channel, which have yielded huge benefits to many companies – Yelp being a prime example. When I first started blogging Digg was still at its peak. How do people drive SEO growth? Simply write a great book? Why would somebody do this?

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Start With a Business Blog as Your Website

Startup Professionals Musings

Blogging has come a long way in the past few years, from a social release for narcissists, to today’s required vehicle for promoting your business and gaining valuable online exposure, ultimately bringing in more customers. Here are some tips I’ve gleaned from experience: Make your blog your website. Anchor blog in your domain name.

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7 Steps To A Winning Social Media Marketing Campaign

Startup Professionals Musings

Ric Dragon, an expert in online marketing, in his classic book. More important than finding a community, is creating one, with your blog and other social media engagement. Good action plans include a listening plan, channel plan, SEO plan, and a content creation plan, with activities and metrics.

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Guerilla Marketing, Brad Feld Style

InfoChachkie

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="[link] frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The catalyst for Brad’s evolving view of marketing was THIS blog entry by Chris Moody in which he pointed out that much of Foundry Group’s thought leadership efforts are essentially a form of guerilla marketing.

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