Still Debating Social Media Strategy? While You Were Sleeping In 2009, Here’s What Happened!

Still trying to build the case for a social media marketing budget?Here are 2 videos that will get your board talking.

Social Media ROI & Socialnomics:

Produced by “Socialnomics” author Eric Qualman, this video highlights some of the big successes for Social Media Marketing in the past year across the B2B and B2C spectrum. If you’re looking to get your board excited …

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2010 Social Media Marketing Budgets Soar Despite Downturn

2009-12-22-Social_Media_Marketing_BudgetsIn Marketing Sherpa’s latest study they found that social media marketing budgets are taking a massive leap in 2010 while traditional budgets continue to go down.

While they don’t make any concrete conclusions about why this is, we have certainly seen that SMM campaigns generate significant return on investment and return on effort for businesses of all sizes. Despite all the arguments of great ROI, …

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SEO Kickstart: Step 1: Developing Keywords

Developing keywords is the first step in a successful SEO strategy. keywords-tag-cloud2

Here is a quick keyword development strategy you can do yourself:

1. Know What Your Keywords Are! Brainstorm Your List:

Keywords are the words that internet users are using in order to find you on a search engine. It is important to get together with your team and brainstorm as large a list as …

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Webinars for B2B Lead Generation: 6 Keys to Engagement & Thought Leadership

b2b-webinarsWebinars are powerful tools in lead generation. But to generate leads, you have to keep your webinar attendees interested from beginning to end, and even after the webinar ends. One of the things that makes webinars under-produce is if they’re simply boring! Attendees are talked at and told things, and will often drift away to find something else to do before the webinar is over. …

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IMC Vancouver This Week! Hope to See You There

In case you’re still on the fence, here’s my top-five reasons to come to IMC Vancouver: Vancouver2009_participationbanner_180x180px

1. Make good use of your time

If you come to IMC, you will get absolutely the best, the latest and greatest of thought leadership, best practices for everything from web analytics to social media marketing. So you can start the quarter right and not spend all your time …

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Overwhelmed With Google Analytics? 10 Reports to Get You Started

google_analytics_v2_dashboard_smIf you feel a little overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data in your Google Analytics, don’t worry you’re not alone.  It is important when you first take on the task of using your analytics that you approach it like you would any other area of your business; so after your initial gathering session, isolate your baseline (your current key metrics) and then write down …

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Email Benchmark Statistics Are Handy!

Mail Chimp Email BenchmarksI always get the question.. “what is a good read rate? click-through rate etc.”

For read rates, my typical answer was more than 20% and more than 30% is great. As it turns out that rough estimate was pretty accurate.

In terms of click-through rates, we always seem to play in the 8-12% range.. which by industry standards according to this publication are on the …

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