May 3, 2010 - Social Email Marketing

Building online brands: the influence sphere of brand communities

Some companies use social media as a new way to broadcast advertisements. Wrong, of course. Social media marketing is not about one-way distribution of promotional content.

Social media marketing is about listening, talking, participating and sharing. Not just talking. People do not accept broadcast techniques in the social space. Well, in fact, they increasingly do not accept them anywhere anymore.

That does not mean that everyone who uses social media will literally talk to you. There is only a relatively small group of people that really actively participates.

Michele Linn’s 5 ways to find the perfect keywords for your B2B content

Here is another great post from Michele Linn. This time, she looks at how to find the keywords for your business-to-business content marketing strategy.

Something easily overlooked in content creation is the importance of keywords. Marketers often think about keywords when optimizing a website for search, but keywords are equally important is for ALL content you create, such as blog posts, white papers, eBooks, press releases, etc.

It’s a great idea to develop a list of keywords that you use consistently throughout all of your content. Of course, this begs the question: how do you know what the right keywords are? As a starting place, consider these five tips.