Blogs Can Convert Visitors into Leads for Ad Agency New Business The chief benefit to your agency from using social networking is “getting new business leads.” Creating a community of followers through Twitter and a regularly updated stream of content on a blog builds engagement, can boost your agency’s presence on Google and ultimately bring in more [...]

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rebecca on February 9th, 2010

If you are in business development, it’s important to stay connected to the buzz in the marketplace.  One of the hard things is to find a single place to gather all your news sources.  Biz dev can be written about in marketing magazines,  books, industry magazines, online in blogs and forums.  It’s a disparate subject [...]

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rebecca on February 6th, 2010

The development of online money-making by bloggers and early-adopter affiliate marketers has progressed from stage one – write stuff and hang adverts around it; to stage two – use affiliates to promote it on your behalf and is now moving into a third stage. Building closed spaces where you can pay a bit to get  [...]

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rebecca on January 21st, 2010

Te 26 organisation is run by Ben Afia among others.  A great group of mostly copywriters who have regular meetings in London.  Here is the first webinar they are hosting, on blogging. 26 Blogging Webinar, 26 January, 11am GMT Having packed a room full of enthusiasts at our blogging for business event last year, we’ve [...]

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rebecca on January 7th, 2010

Image by rustybrick via Flickr A handy list compiled from the AdAge master blaster Power150 and nicely edited by the 77PR team Top UK marketing blogs list Nice to see a few we subscribe to listed up at the top there. If you have a marketing blog, you can submit it to AdAge and ask [...]

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I think businesses should take new year resolutions as seriously as business planning. Many of us have track records of starting something that is life-improving with great enthusiasm as a new year resolutions only for it to fizzle out and fade during the first 60 days. Organisations could do well to think up their own [...]

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rebecca on October 22nd, 2009

Here’s what I do weekly with blog comments – check the spam and delete.  Daily I check the actual comments and manually publish those that contribute to the discussion on CAS. I do have the site set up so if I’ve previously approved you, your comment automatically posts. But take a look at Outside Line [...]

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rebecca on October 5th, 2009

Image by Nikita Kashner via Flickr Bloggers seek amplification of their message. How to get more of that is no mystery. write interesting stuff recruit readers get others’ to amplify and share your work Now one of the best ways of achieving the third is to get your work automatically shared on aggregator websites. You [...]

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rebecca on September 19th, 2009

Most of usre in the digital world now and most of you, the readers of this blog work in the space.  I am a member of the Open Rights Group (ORG) and here's what they say about the issue. Can you help protect open access to digital information by supporting this petition ? Thanks to [...]

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rebecca on September 14th, 2009

Image via CrunchBase I have a lot of time for Technorati – the original search site for blogs.  A lot has changed since I first joined them (December 2006, in case you're interested). They do an annual survey "The State of the Blogosphere".  Here is the 2008 survey findings.  and are asking for respondents for [...]

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