Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by Carl-Johan
Recently, I have seen some bad and some good examples of marketing on Linkedin. Like Seth Godin mentions in his Meatball Sundae book, the new type of marketing is not interruptive, like broadcasting to an audience.
What not to do when marketing on Linkedin
Do not post blatant self-promotion in the Answers section. Here’s a real world [...]
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Posted on April 19th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
For Internet Marketers in the Travel industry, there are plenty of opportunities to get engaged in Social Media Marketing. Here is a list of 25 travel specific social networking websites that let you get engaged with your audience.
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
Like I’ve mentioned, pictures are a great idea in a blog, and thumbshots of websites add credibility to a website. Here is a short tutorial on how to add thumbshots to the comments you get on your blog:
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Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
There is a great value in pictures. The majority of human beings are visually oriented, and we use pictures on a website to get a quick orientation of the content.
To make it easier for visitors to evaluate content, add pictures to your blog posts or website’s articles. Flickr lets you save and share your pictures, [...]
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Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Carl-Johan
The contributors to the Forrester Marketing Blog are taking their own advice and getting more personal with their readers. An excellent initiative, adding a picture of the author to each post, so you can get a view of who actually wrote it.
Professional bloggers like Problogger and marketers like Seth Godin all let you get [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
The latest hype in Social Media is FriendFeed, where you can aggregate all (or many of) your social media tools. There are a lot of practical applications to this, such as using the Imaginary Friend function as Master Aggregator.
I’ve put it to the test, and I’m pleasantly surprised. I have talked about social media fatigue [...]
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Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
I have tested Twitter for a while, with a Tweet once or twice daily, from Google Talk, e-mail and through this blog’s plugin. Smart ways to microblog, easily integrated with various channels.
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Posted on February 18th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
I recently received an invitation to try the new Trackur tool for managing you reputation online.
Right on the front page, Trackur makes big claims about making reputation management easy for you.
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Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
On ProBlogger today, guest author Skellie posted a great article on How to Write Posts That Set StumbleUpon on Fire. Skellie is a web-only freelancer, writing on Anywired, among other places. Here is a quote from the post:
These are tips and ideas I use on a daily basis to get anywhere between a few hundred [...]
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Posted on February 13th, 2008 by Carl-Johan
This is the continued guide to Getting started in Social Media. In the previous post, you learned how to attract attention in Social Media.
This time, we’re moving on to some more details in Social Media Marketing. The question is, can you use Social Media for business purposes or is it just does it fit best [...]
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