Image via CrunchBase With a business blog, there are many different ways to get people to become a “lead” from a visitor. For example: including buttons in the sidebar to talk to a representative, or text links within content to whitepaper landing pages or to download content. HubSpot has found it successful to add calls … Continue reading B2B Social Media And Lead Generation
Category: Blogging
Are these Mindsets Holding You Back from Achieving Blogging Success?
This is a question I’m asked a fair bit on panels or in interviews, and it’s one that I suspect the people asking the question would like a technical answer to. The reality is that the biggest mistakes I see bloggers making are usually things that are going on in their minds, rather than on … Continue reading Are these Mindsets Holding You Back from Achieving Blogging Success?
5 Steps to Reduce the Pain of Starting a Business Blog
Image by kk+ via Flickr Blogging can be intimidating for someone who hasn’t done it in the past or grown up in the age where everyone has a personal blog. It is, however, critical that business owners and marketers ‘blog for business.’ Putting pen to paper or more appropriately, putting fingers to your keyboard is … Continue reading 5 Steps to Reduce the Pain of Starting a Business Blog
The Future of Online Media Is Video [?]
"At Monday’s IAB Mixx conference in New York, Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton took the stage with AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka to discuss the future of the blogging network — and that future is all about images and video. “People don’t really want to read text,” Denton said. “They want videos, they want images, bigger, more … Continue reading The Future of Online Media Is Video [?]
400 posts redux; Lesson #1
Image via CrunchBase This is the first post in what I anticipate will be a 7 part series... 11 months ago, I posted this introspective piece on the results I was getting from blogging... Yesterday, I passed the 400 post mark. 400 posts over 18 months. Wow! Roughly a post a day for a year … Continue reading 400 posts redux; Lesson #1
The Rev. Robert Barron takes to TV, blogs, YouTube as a new-media Catholic priest
The Rev. Robert Barron, a Chicago-based Roman Catholic priest, has made himself a new-media messenger for the church, bringing a Catholic perspective to topics from “Avatar” to atheism to the use of steroids in baseball. The author of 10 books, he has posted more than 180 cultural commentaries on YouTube and delivers a weekly homily … Continue reading The Rev. Robert Barron takes to TV, blogs, YouTube as a new-media Catholic priest
Blogging is Alive and Well, Says Report
via readwriteweb.com You can follow the 'via' link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you'd like to dig a little deeper...
21 Creative Blogger Bio Pages
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Blogging is NOT for Everyone!
Let's be honest... BLOGGING IS NOT FOR EVERYONE. Blogging works for me, and I enjoy it, but I can't say the same for some other proven lead-generating activities often used by real estate agents: Cold calling (I just don't do it) Farming (I'm not consistent or patient enough) Print advertising (I'm too cheap to do … Continue reading Blogging is NOT for Everyone!
Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust [?!]
Image via CrunchBase Rising social media rockstar Kelly Neuville of Envano sent me an article from ReadWriteWeb [you can follow the 'via' link below the graph to the source and read the rest of the article if you're interested] that would seem to suggest at first glance that I should abandon my love of the … Continue reading Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust [?!]