Blogs and RSS feeds may sound like a lot of nerdy buzzwords, but President of Netconcepts Stephan Spencer wades in with his thoughts for webpronews.com, particularly when it comes to driving search engines to one’s site. It’s all about personalizing the content they receive he says.
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In order to achieve maximum search engine visibility, you need to think a bit like a search engine when writing the copy for your website.
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University of Wisconsin Executive Education - Integrated Customer Communications — Madison, WI
Technology continues to revolutionize the sales and marketing efforts of firms worldwide. Businesses must either adapt or put themselves at risk. Companies and customers communicate and interact with each other in substantially different ways than 10 or even 5 years ago. Direct and interactive marketing are converging, financial metrics are increasingly mainstream, and customers expect channel “silos” to be broken down. Learn how to benefit from the new tools and thinking in managing customer relations to increase sales, improve strategies, and reach online and offline markets.
Search engine marketing
- Make your site “search engine friendly”
- Explore “Pay-per-click” search advertising
- Analyze benchmarking, competitive intelligence and ROI
- Identify trends in contextual, behavioral and local advertising
Create a buzz - viral marketing
- Explore blogs, RSS feeds, forums, wikis and more
- Harness “word of mouse” to enhance your brand
- Discover the “sneezers” who will spread your viral message
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An RSS feed is merely an XML file that you host on your Web server — it kind of looks like HTML code. But don’t let its simplicity fool you; in the hands of a sophisticated marketer, the potential applications for RSS are huge.
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Effective search engine optimization (SEO) starts with keyword research. If you chase after the wrong keywords, your search engine optimization efforts will be a waste of time.
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Links are the currency of the Web, so it is important to have a plan in place to improve the number and quality of the links to your site from the outside.
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Blogging is one of the hottest trends on the net. A blog (short for “web log”) is a web-based diary where the author can ruminate on whatever strikes his or her fancy. The blogger may share photos, poetry, political views, gossip, industry trends, business advice, or the latest on their personal life. By definition, blogs are organized in reverse chronological order. Many are updated daily. They can have one or multiple authors, such as a community blog.
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DMA Annual Conference — Atlanta, GA
Is something missing in your marketing mix? New channels are opening doors to the increasingly, tech-savvy consumer. RSS feeds and alerts, blogging, mobile communications and “mapping and monitoring” online conversations are among the newest marketing tools available.
- Understanding these new channels
- Leveraging them for customer retention and acquisition
- Building rapport with bloggers, and promote your products and company in the blogosphere
- Personalizing the content in the RSS Feed to each subscriber
- Tracking readership and response
- Advertising on blogs and within RSS feeds
- Podcasting (think: on-demand Internet pirate radio)
- Distribution channels (RSS search engines, directories, Web-based aggregators, RSS news reader software)
- Not just for bloggers and news sites — e-tailers embrace RSS as a channel
Moderators:
Stephan Spencer, Founder & President, Netconcepts
Marc Tramonte, Director of Integrated Marketing, Microsoft Corporation
Panelists:
Royal Farros, Chairman and CEO, MessageCast
Gard Gibson, Account Group Director,VML Inc.
Mark Goldstein, CEO, Loyalty Lab Inc.
Mark Grindeland, Co-founder, m-Qube
Dana Vandenheuvel, Director of Business Development, Pheedo
Debbie Weil, President, WordBiz
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The most important aspect of buzz marketing is being able to create a story that consumers as well as the media will find interesting and relevant. That story can be simple—but it must be visual. It can start with a product, but it must have a contagious element added in. The reason that people talked about the Palm Pilot, for example, was its “wow” effect—and it was visible. Some may say this is not part of marketing. Our panel disagrees.
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