How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy

If you’re blogging for business, rather than blogging about your cat, baby, fashion addiction, or crush on Taylor Swift, you need to set some success metrics.
Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?
However, [...]

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Does Your Corporate Blog Measure Up

There’s a fair amount of agreement on principles on an effective blog, and even widespread head nodding regarding what success metrics are important. However, there’s very little available with regard to blog metrics benchmarking, and how your blog compares to others.
I’m hoping to change that. And you can help by taking this short survey.
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Should Facebook Dominate Your Social Media Strategy?

Chris Brogan, Darren Rowse, and Kyle Lacy popularized the idea that companies in social media need a home base (Web site or blog), outposts (major customer engagement platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube) and frontiers (lesser, experimental options like UStream, 12 Seconds).
But now, companies are starting to experiment with using Facebook as their social media [...]

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4 Critical Steps for Marketing in a Recession (video)

Greetings. I’ve put together another video blog post, this time on a subject that’s on everyone’s mind: How to Market in a Recession. Do you believe?

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3 Absurdly Simple Ways to Tie Together Social Media and Email

Increasingly, active email marketers are wondering how they can engage with their subscribers in social media.
It’s a bit scary, because most email is still of the “batch and blast” variety, and that dog will not hunt in social media, where the marketing is conversational and the name of the game is relevance.
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Digital Agency Toolkit – Use CrazyEgg to Test Web Layouts

Do you need to know whether people on a Web page are clicking on the navigation, the logo, photos, or links in the text? Of course you do. And ideally, you should be tweaking your pages and testing often to maximize results. (that’s why we’re on version 3.2 of the Convince & Convert Web site [...]

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