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Why Can’t PR Do Digital?

June 2nd, 2009 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Why aren’t PR firms offering digital marketing services to their clients?
On Sunday, David Anderson from Off Madison Ave and I presented this roundtable at the PRSA Counselor’s Academy conference in Palm Desert.
The title is: Revenue.com: Launching Digital Marketing Services to Grow Retainers. Note we only had ~30 minutes, so this isn’t as comprehensive as I’d [...]

Tagged as: counselor's academy, digital marketing, PR, PR 2.0, PRSA, public relations, search engine optimization, SEO, social media

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Customized Internet Marketing Training for Agencies

September 11th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Convince & Convert launches new training program series to help agencies improve their digital capabilities
Addressing the needs of ad agencies and PR firms to improve their digital marketing competency, Convince & Convert is now providing a series of customizable, in-person training programs.
We are offering 5 intensive, all-day sessions to train ad agencies and PR firms [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, digital capabilities, digital marketing, email marketing, Internet Advertising, internet media buying, jason baer, marketing audit, online media planning, ppc programs, pr agencies, PR firms, search engine optimization, SEM, SEO, social media, traditional agencies

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7 Critical Questions When Outsourcing SEO

August 11th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Many agencies without full service digital marketing departments choose to outsource any SEO work to a specialist. While I believe that the present focus on good content makes SEO easier, not harder for traditional agencies (especially PR) to handle in-house, many will continue outsourcing this critical service (or at least until I launch a “How [...]

Tagged as: competitor analysis, digital capabilities, digital marketing, keyword selection, outsourcing SEO, search engine copywriting, search engine optimization, search management, search marketing, search optimization, search terms, search volume, SEO, seo campaigns

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The Truth About Publicis Buying Performics

August 6th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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In a sign that major advertising agencies are continuing to recognize the long-term profitability of search marketing, Publicis Groupe bought Performics from Google today.
One of the largest search marketing agencies, Performics will join Digitas and other Publicis entities as part of VivaKi Nerve Center (no, I am not making this up) the new strategic collective [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, agency self-promotion, digital marketing agency, google, pay-per-click, performics, ppc, publicis groupe, search engine optimization, search marketing, SEM, SEO, traditional agencies

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Agency Advantage Tools #1 – Website Grader

July 23rd, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Welcome to Agency Advantage Tools, a regular blog series at Convince & Convert that spotlights inexpensive or free digital marketing tools.
There are literally thousands of different Web sites, applications, plug-ins, widgets and more devoted to helping digital marketers do their jobs better or faster. Most advertising agencies and PR firms are too busy doing actual [...]

Tagged as: agency self-promotion, blogs, competitive intelligence, competitor analysis, keyword research tool, keyword selection, search engine copywriting, search engine optimization, search marketing, search volume, SEO, tools you can use, Web site Analytics and Metrics, web site KPI, web site metrics, web site statistics

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UPDATE: GoDaddy and the .Me Domain Disaster

July 17th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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UPDATE:
Well, the .me registration was a complete and utter fiasco. Speaking from personal experience, and reporting from Mashable (soon to be joined by a lot of other reporting, I predict) – this was one of the worst examples of customer experience in my 15 years online.
It took one full hour to check out. After having [...]

Tagged as: .me, agency self-promotion, digital marketing, domain names, godaddy, marketing tactics, pr agencies, PR firms, search engine optimization, top level domain, Web site promotion

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Flash Now Readable by Search – Usability Experts Panic

July 7th, 2008 | Written By: Jay Baer
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After a LONG waite, Adobe announced this week that Flash files are soon to be readable by search engines. This removes a major impediment to using Flash for Web sites, as previously all files created in Flash were essentially invisible to Google, Yahoo! and the rest.
So, we now have the classic good news/bad news scenario [...]

Tagged as: ad agencies, advertising agencies, agency self-promotion, flash intro, flash sites, flash usage, flash web site, pr agencies, search engine optimization, search usability, using flash, Web Site Strategy

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Black Magic: What You Need to Know About the Dark Art of Search Engine Marketing

August 1st, 2004 | Written By: Jay Baer
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Thirty six percent of site visits come from a search engine or other Web link, according to Web measurement firm Web Side Story. Betting 36% of your site traffic on the outcome of an ongoing epic duel between geeks who work for search engine companies and the geeks who try to outsmart them seems akin [...]

Tagged as: keyword selection, search engine copywriting, search engine optimization

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