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Traditional Media for Content Marketing: Pros, Cons, Examples and Best Practices

TopRank Marketing Editor
TopRank Marketing Editor
Content Marketing, Integrated Marketing, Online Marketing, User Generated Content

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How many times has traditional media been pronounced dead in the past decade? We’ve lost count, right? While there is no denying that TV, newspapers and radio have lost a ton of ground to digital, the fact of the matter is traditional media still matters. Even to digital marketers.

In fact, some marketers are finding that traditional media is a becoming a great platform for engaging buyers. Consider brands like Doritos, Coca-Cola and others that are asking for consumers to submit short video clips via their company websites and social media channels. Those clips are curated into commercials that are airing during major events like the SuperBowl and the Academy Awards. In fact, 20% of ads in Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 included some form of crowdsourcing from major brands like Coca-Cola, Audi, Doritos, Pizza Hut and others. The incentive to participate in these contests is big for consumers willing to give up names and multiple forms of contact information just to take part.


Traditional Media for Content Marketing: Pros, Cons, Examples and Best Practices

Tips for Pictures That Generate Breakthrough Results in Social Media Marketing

Brian Larson
Brian Larson
Facebook, Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, Search Engine Strategies, Social Media, Social Media Smarts, Social Networking, User Generated Content

Visuals in Social #SECHI

What picture of your brand are you painting in social? I don’t mean metaphorically, I mean what visuals are you using to represent what you do and what your audience cares about? Study and after study indicates that visual content is far more impactful in social than its text-only counterpart, and yet a majority of brands interacting in social aren’t adjusting their content mix accordingly.

Cliches are Cliches Cause They Work

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” We’ve all heard the phrase, and for good reason. Especially when it comes to engaging your audience in social. Laura Roth, of Incisive Media, moderates today’s session focused on ‘harnessing the power of visuals’ in social.


Tips for Pictures That Generate Breakthrough Results in Social Media Marketing

How To Run A Winning Online Contest – #PRSADIConf

Jolina Pettice
Jolina Pettice
Marketing PR Conferences, Online Marketing, Social Media, User Generated Content

Sandra Fathi - PRSA Digital Impact ConferenceIf you flip through your TV channel guide, it’s hard not to notice the number of contest-based shows. Whether people are competing to be the next music icon, lose weight or play games using household products the common theme is competition and a chance to win big.

TV producers are smart and continue to find success from audiences who like to compete and love to win.

This same idea can be leveraged in online marketing to get a community excited, find new audiences and keep your brand top of mind.

At the PRSA Digital Impact Conference Sandra Fathi, president and founder of Affect and Ben Pickering, CEO of Strutta guided the audience through the process to create a winning online contest.


How To Run A Winning Online Contest – #PRSADIConf

7 Ways to Improve Your Online Reputation Management Strategy

Ashley Zeckman
Ashley Zeckman
Online Marketing, Search Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Social Networking, User Generated Content
Effectively Manage Your Online Reputation

Is your reputation management strategy a turn off to your customers and critics?

Should we respond, get angry, fire back, ignore the situation, censor comments, or just see what happens?  Those are some of the many questions that marketers are faced with today.  With more and more consumers and customers turning online to share what they think of a particular brand or company it has become increasingly difficult to capture everything that is being shared.

In April of this year Yelp.com reached 50 million users with over 17 million reviews on their database.  If you are a professional responsible for online reputation management it makes you wonder how many other means are there for your customers and critics to share their opinion about your company.


7 Ways to Improve Your Online Reputation Management Strategy

20 Social Media Marketing Do’s & Don’ts

Ashley Zeckman
Ashley Zeckman
Content Marketing, Online Marketing, Social Media, Social Networking, User Generated Content
Social Media Do's & Don'ts

I think I just might!

It is no longer a question of IF companies should execute a social media strategy.  The question for most companies is HOW to best execute a meaningful and engaging approach that generates results.  With so many social media marketing options available, marketers must also decide best practices and what tactics to avoid.

We all make mistakes as marketers and it’s important that we not only learn from those mistakes but share  with others so that they can avoid them.  I hope that the 20 Social Media Marketing Do’s and Don’ts that I’ve provided within this article not only entertain you but make you think about your current social media strategy. Which tactics are you happy to say you’ve implemented and which mistakes will you admit to?


20 Social Media Marketing Do’s & Don’ts

Basics of User Generated Content for Search Engine Optimization

TopRank Marketing Editor
TopRank Marketing Editor
Online Marketing, SEO, SEO Tips, Social Media, Social Networking, Social Search, User Generated Content

User-generated Content [Note from Lee: User Generated Content for SEO is something we haven’t written about in a while, but now more than ever, marketers need to find efficient ways to generate content assets for search engines as well as the ability to meet customer needs to interact and share. Michelle takes an updated look that I think companies would do well to consider.]

You’ve heard it before: Content is king. But there won’t be much of a kingdom unless that content is optimized. But who is going to create it? Useful, relevant content doesn’t come cheap, especially when your goals are to publish on a consistent basis. As an internet marketer, if you haven’t tapped into the power of user generated content, you may be giving up a goldmine of SEO assets to your competition.


Basics of User Generated Content for Search Engine Optimization

SES SJ: Igniting Viral Campaigns: Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content

TopRank Marketing Editor
TopRank Marketing Editor
Search Engine Strategies, User Generated Content

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Being somewhat of a fan of buzz marketing, day two starts with a panel I’ve personally been looking forward to.  Igniting Viral Campaigns:  Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content promises to unveil the “secret techniques” and technologies that enable companies to stand out and be talked about through a viral word of mouth buzz.

Aaron Kahlow, Chairman & Founder, Online Marketing Summit moderates this panel of speakers:

  • Brian Ellefritz, Senior Manager, Social Media Marketing, Cisco Systems
  • Matthew Liu, Product Manager, YouTube Sponsored Videos
  • Greg Finn, Director of Internet Marketing, 10e20
  • Barbara Coll, CEO, WebMama.com Inc.
  • Bill Leake, President and CEO, Apogee Search

Will they give away their secret sauce?

Each presenter shared a presentation, and following all 5 was a quick Q&A:


SES SJ: Igniting Viral Campaigns: Leveraging Consumer-Generated Content

What Can You Do With MyBlogLog? Tips from 18 Members

Lee Odden
Lee Odden
Social Media, Social Networking, User Generated Content

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MyBlogLog Glamour Shots

As both an active participant (first and foremost) and a consultant in the ways of social media, it occurred to me that we should engage the communities of interest we’re involved with for tips. Who better to get tips on social media from than people who are actually USING social media?

Online Marketing Blog, which has a top 50 MyBlogLog community, is fairly active and even interviewed MyBlogLog CEO Scott Rafer. Today I pinged the members of our MBL community and within a very short period of time received about 20 responses. Here are 17 that made the cut and one of our own.

Our first tip on MyBlogLog is from none other than Robyn Tippins, Community Manager at MyBlogLog and a blogger at Practical Blogging.


What Can You Do With MyBlogLog? Tips from 18 Members

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