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Forbes Survey shows BI is cloud bound
"In our current hyper-competitive global economy, business intelligence and analytics stand out as tools and technologies that can help organizations keep ahead of markets while keeping in tune with customers."
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This is downright spooky. It's an interactive infographic all about why your brain craves infographics. Food for thought! Via Gust MEES, Sanisha Hurrisunker
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
This Is Your Brain, This Is Your Brian On Infographics
Angela Goldsmith's curator insight,
June 13, 4:41 PM
People are most definitely driven by visuals. That is why the saying, "A picture is worth a thousand words" holds true!
Venkatesh Iyer (venkyiyer.com)'s curator insight,
Today, 1:24 AM
Infographic on how your brain is wired into infographics Delete the scoop?
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Links Are Not Born Equal
Some links come from pages that don't help your SEO (described on the left). Some links REALLY help your SEO (those from PR4 or above websites) and others hurt your SEO (links from spammy neighborhoods or link farms).
Post Panda a link from a PR8 or PR9 website could hurt to if it is all alone. A single link with the proper anchor text from such a highly ranked website must have social signals. Without Facebook likes, shares and other links that PR9 site will stick out like a sore thumb.
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Google Plus Hangouts On Air: Why SO Important?
One MAJOR trend we see is the closer our Internet marketing is to NOW the better it does. Google Plus Hangouts on air may be the most under utilized NOW marketing tool out there.
Under utilized becuse the tech is still TOUGH. This post shares WHY G+ Hangouts are important and a linked Slideshare from @1TalkingMoose shares DIY tips for how to run a successful Hangout On Air.
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Forget waiting for big data to make a big impact on industries; the future is here according to Wikibon, and they've got the data and infographic to prove it. H/T to Ritu Pant. Via Wikibon. Like in...
Big Data is happening everywhere now thanks to the intersection of social media marketing and predictive analytics.
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SEO Audit Checklist Tasks Infographic (I would run an error report too).
I would do a few more things to check SEO such as:
* Webmaster tools to check errors.
* Watch heuristic KPIs like a hawk and pounce when they wobble.
* Check competitor sites for terms you want.
* Evaluate links.
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If you aren't using Google authorship tags you are making a SEO mistake. That mistake is costing you something now and will cost you much more later as this study shows.
Easy fix, just add a single line of code to your content and you will be using Google authorship tags.
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Keywords Are Your Friends
When people ask how teams I managed made over $30M in online e-commerce I usually say we did what we were told. This is NOT to say I didn't have an amazing creative team (I did).
Yes we could riff like jazz musicians, but we only improvised where we know there was GOLD to be found (to mix a metaphor lol). One way to know where the GOLD is in them there search marketing hills is to steal a simple keyword secret - Keyword Efficiency.
What Is Keyword Efficiency
I stole the idea from WordTracker. I couldn't afford their tool and they weren't letting "scholarship students" in (this is on my return from Martin's Ride to Cure Cancer my bicycle ride across America when I had NO MONEY LOL).
Wordtracker's Efficiency is a valuation, a fancy algorithmic SWAG, that estimates the chances of getting your PPC money back. My Keyword Efficiency is a ratio showing and ranking keywords revealing the priority you should attack them.
My Keyword Efficiency is a ratio between DEMAND (I like global monthly broad match since large numbers HELP this model) and competition (documents returned on a Google search for that key). Formula is simple:
DEMAND / COMPETITION
Don't get lost in the tiny numbers. The number is only there to help you model one keyword against another. use Excel's (or Google docs) magical sort tool and you have a prioritized list of keys with BLUE OCEANS at the top and RED OCEANS at the bottom.
Blue Oceans = you have a chance to rank especially if you go a little further out in the long tail of search (just make sure there is search demand and remember Google has been cutting back and not supporting terms with few searchers).
Think of Blue Oceans as OVER SEARCHED and UNDER PUBLISHED. BTW, Q&A content consistently has high efficiencies ACROSS business verticals (as it does in this example from the BI vertical).
Some Red Oceans you and your content marketing MUST swim in, so close your eyes and swim. Focus your content marketing on keys that are efficient - keys that are OVER SERCHED and UNDER PUBLISHED and life will be good :).
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Which Social Network Is Right For Your Business? [INFOGRAPHIC]
Hepful infograhic for SMBs.
You want your business to get into social media and you don't know with which social network to start? Check this out!
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The work-life balance of small business owners is out of kilter, research shows. Time to tweak how your SME operates (Enlist specialist help!
Interesting article here from Great Britain about how to relieve stress in trying economic times by innovating policies and procedures. My favorite recommendation is the simple BYOD (Bring Your Own Device).
BYOD allows workers to access secure intranets with their laptops and iPads. Amazing how such an easy and simple thing as showing workers you trust them enough to treat them like adults who care and are careful can do.
Reminds me of one of my favorite books: How: Why How You Do Anything Means Everything by Dov Seidman.
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Why is Scoop It Kicking Paper Li's Rear End?
Isn't it the same concept? You create your own online newspaper. Why is Scoop It generating so much more…
Paper.li + Scoopit Better Then Either Alone
This link is to a thread on Google Plus, but it represents a dangerous way of thinking about Internet marketing. There is an active thread about @Scoopit vs. Paper.li in an either or way.
I don't believe in "either or" much. As an Internet marketer I believe in "X and Y" especially when both X and Y provide different benefits. Here is what I just wrote on Google Plus:
"I like the hands on nature of Scoop.it and the hands off nature of Paper.li. Paper.li's model is constructed off of existing followers. Every now and again I tune my Paper.li. I do this by adding and subtracting feeds. I watch the changes for a few days to see if I have the mix I want and then let it play.
Paper.li is HIGHLY DYNAMIC so how I mix my feed salad today is no guarantee of anything tomorrow. At a macro level feeds tend to wobble in the same general space, so there is some predictability about the content mix...some.
I also use the manual Paper.li tool when I want to build specific content into my paper. Paper.li's efficiency has to be greater than Scoop.it due to the feeds, but that efficiency also means the tuning sensitivity isn't as high as a curator's ability to manually curates a Scoop.it magazine.
I know I am more powerful content marketer and curator because I use both Scoop.it and Paper.li. I also know my friends at Small Rivers and Paper.li well enough to know they are working on cool new things as I write this."
Anything I can use to create engagement and advantage needs to be used and these tools compliment each other so much there is no doubt any Internet marketers creations or curation is made stronger by using them in concert with one another.
:).Marty
Jesse Wojdylo's thread on Google Plus with my comments: https://plus.google.com/116024884086268367178/posts/bsnKug2ZpSi
This conversation keeps getter better. Here is the latest question and my answer:
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Booz & Company is a global consulting firm that creates and delivers essential advantage to the world’s top businesses, governments, and organizations.
Connection Economy Touching Everyone
I just took a fun ride around the top consulting firms such as:
McKinsey (http://www.mckinsey.com/ )
Boston Consulting Group (http://www.bcg.com/ )
Bain (http://www.bain.com/ )
and Booze Allen (http://www.booz.com/ )
If you feel a thaw in the corporate icebox you are right. The clear trend is toward the real and away from the canned. People are IN and candid moments and stories are attempting to do what every Internet marketer knows we must do - Win Hearts and Minds.
If your B2B website is stuck in canned photography land it is time to RETHINK, connect and Get Real!. We live in the time of the connected conversation. If the top consulting firms know it so should you.
Check the top consulting firms easily here: http://www.stormscape.com/inspiration/website-lists/consulting-firms/
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3 Secrets, 12 Years
Internet marketing isn't about what most think. One thing you learn early as an Internet marketer is what the mob thinks is rarely right and never useful. Here are 3 Internet Marketing Secrets realized the hard way after more than 12 years of Internet marketing:
1. Internet Marketing Isn't What You Think It Is.
2. Source Of IM Greatness Isn't What You Think It Is either.
3. Save The World.
Hope these secrets help you create awesome Internet marketing.
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Great infographic showing the cascading waterfall of SEO and Google's river responds to a changing Internet.
Great infogrpahic of Google's waterfall of changes and their consequence on SEO and Internet marketing.
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In this infographic by BlueGlass Interactive, you will find a ton of useful data and information about the power of content marketing.
Marty Note
Using this infographic in a presentaiton today. There are three implicaitons hidden inside these numbers including:
* Your Content's 'half-life" is going down.
* More content doesn't work anymore.
* Content must be great to cut through the clutter.
* OR content must we well supported to cut through clutter.
I'm writing up an analysis of whey content marketing is missing an important fulcrum - reviews. "Comments" aren't as engaging as the chance to leave a "review", have those reviews curated and voted upon ("review the reviewer").
Reviews are a game system. Comments can be made into a game system, but making comments convert as well as the immediatley understood reviews AND creating a game system based on comments is harder and a lot to ask.
As an Internet marketer I know it is good to use convention and "reviews" comes with very helpful built in conventions.
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In an earlier post for paidContent, I looked at the broad similarities between the automotive-manufacturing industry and the media business — specifically newspapers — and how disruption has affected both in some fairly similar ways.
Entropy Is Our Content Marketing Future
Guilluame Decugis has some great insights. I wrote about how disruptive platforms were to "websites" and by extension any other for of information aggregation several years ago (platforms vs. websites http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2011/09/internet-marketing-platforms-vs.html ).
Now I think platforms are in danger. Platforms aggregate User Generated Content. That aggregation creates a virtual cycle - the bigger it gets the bigger it gets and faster and faster.
Entropy is what will undo even the most stalwart platform. When I wrote How Entropy Is Creating Web 3.0 Right Under Our Noses (http://scenttrail.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-entropy-is-creating-web-30-right.html ) I wanted to share a LESS defined and more TAGGED future.
Look at the Huffington Post. As they push the boundaries of content co-opting more and more writers into their fold they also begin to untangle their own web. As any platform reaches some "point of diminishing returns" point it must begin to eat itself.
Once any website is HUGE becoming that much more dominant doesn't make financial sense. Sure there are virtual cycle rewards. The compound interest of the web is LINKS and the bigger you are the easier links are to accrue.
As any content play becomes HUGE its ability to create a relevant relationship with any new or existing customer is under greater stress. The Huffington Post can keep adding writers but then you are just reading my blog with their masthead (makes no sense and adds no value).
Our old friend entropy says Huffington is about to regress to some lesser mean In fact, I think the creation of mega-platforms as a concept (despite my love for it up until TODAY lol) is over.
Let's call our emerging "lean content" trend rich mobile snippets with gamification. By mashing up what is already out there in the water tomorrow's hubs will curate in multiple dimensions: writers, keyword density and rich tagged snippets. All of this curating will create more free-formed "mesh-like" structures (to quote Lisa Gansky).
What is the difference between a mesh and a platform? Platforms aggregate UGC, curation and content creation to a PLACE. Meshes are less proprietary. Meshes will trap anything from anywhere based on the algorithms used.
Being content agnostic but tag specific is a Google-ization of content, a flexible keyword and behavioral (who cares about what content and why) mesh more responsive, open and flexible than even the most aggressive and currently dominant hub (like the Huffington Post).
The future will be as hard on the Huffington Post as it has been on the New York Times. As an aggregator Huffington may have more pivot capacity than their print cousins, but no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition :).
The Tesla of the Media Industry...a great thought...
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Women control Word-of-Mouth and about 90% of purchases in most households. If an Internet marketers communication doesn't resonante with women the idea, campaiign or website is SUNK.
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Like this graphic as it approaches the issue of disruption from a more macro view.
Quizás sería esperable que las Renovables tuviesen más impacto en los próximos 12 años.
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#Google Search - How Important Is It to Be on the Top? (Really, with the float, #1 isn't what it used to be since multiple websites could be #1 depending on the receiving computer.
Marty Note
Couple of important things to remember when looking at this infographic:
`1. Since the Google float* several websites can be presented as #1 depending on the RECEIVING IP.
2.Only way to know true absolute reference in SEO is use a tool like Mike's Keyword Checker (free) or SEOmoz (paid).
3. Match Mike's or SEOmoz with your Google Analytics to see the VALUE of being #1 (how much traffic your website received).
All of that said, I still fire Mike's at critical keywords to see where we stand. It is helpful to be able to trend especially not that "Not Providing" is climbing past 50% (Not Provided in GA is the growing group of people that visit your website signed into Google).
* Google Float - Google's index now "floats" based on the receiving device. You and I can type the same search at the same time and receive different results. This infographic, while helpful, speaks as if we exist in the old static Search Engine Result Pages days.
Top SEO Listings Yes, No & Maybe Because ...
The key to knowing IF a top listing matters and if you have one is NOT looking at the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) with your computer logged in since you will see SERPS manipulated to look like what Google thinks you want to see.
At the very LEAST log out. Logging out helps some, but your IP still has a shadow, so if you want to know the truth use a tool to know your position and then check your analytics to know how many times you were shown and how many searchers came to your website as a result of that key.
SO, Yes top listings matter. No they don't matter as much as they used too. Maybe they matter, but it depends on the term.
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LinkedIn holds a lot of value to marketers as a business focused on B2B, as it gives the opportunity to connect with potential clients and partners. S
LinkedIn feels like the mostly undiscovered diamond in the rough in Interent marketing.
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From the day that babies are brought home and cradled in their pink or blue blankets, implications have been made about gender and color. Let's take a look at what they say about color and gender.
Find first Color Is Master of Us All Infographic here: http://sco.lt/7FcZ4T
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What Is Wiki-ization of Marketing
When claims unsupported by social signals are considered "spam" marketing has been "wiki-ized". Content marketing is NOT solipsistic. Content marketing is a conversation. Lecture and you lose.
Create content unsupported by social media love (shares, links and links) and you lose. Do enough of this kind of one-sided unsupported marketing and you could lose BIG, be labeled a spammer, lose your place in Google or worse.
The wiki-izaiton of marketing brings new rules about The ASK and The GIVE important for any Internet marketing team to grasp and use. Don't forget Father Time since Google certainly doesn't. Follow tips outlined here and your marketing will be "wiki-ized", tribal and fun.
Denying marketing's undeniably social present and future at this late date is a sure prescription for disaster. Don't do that is my advice. Do understand how to wiki-ize your marketing.
I really like this article about how some companies are dooing a poor job at marketing in the social media world. One good example is the infographic that TechCrunch shared yesterday on Facebook. They fixed it now (kind of) by attaching a link to a site where you can see it better. However, they shared an infographic that nobody could read. Yet, it attracted 60 likes and 62 shares in less than an hour. Because Social Signals seem to trump common sense, they still have not taken down this hideous infographic. They are using the negative attention of unpleasant comments to get into newsfeeds and hope that people will click the link. I don't think it was their stragety, but they have chosen to not take down this infographic (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151684959417952&set=a.114456157951.118433.8062627951&type=1&theater)
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Timing Social Media Doesn't Work Life would be so SIMPLE if timing publication was important enough to matter. Not so much as it turns out.
Great followup conversation with David Amerland and Lyndon NA on Google Plus:https://plus.google.com/u/0/102639884404823294558/posts/4duDZbUQM9s
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The Race for Semantic Search
Search really is a problem that's far from solved and the search market is beginning to get crowded as search verticals come…
Love talking Semantic Web with friends like @DavidAmerland. David is brilliant and a great writer (FOLLOW HIM). I loved weighing in on his Google Plus post about the Semantic Web race.
You better believe there is a race. There is a race because everyone involved can ADD (lol). Semantic web is going to change everything...again. Shared some thoughts on HOW.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/115620878851836664537/posts/KYTw7MNxq4p
Sorry about the length of my rant (lol). Semantic web is pretty exciting to THINK bout much less actually start to program for :).M
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Presentation by Lisa Rhodes of Verne Global, and Pawan Deshpande, CEO of Curata. Published on SlideShare in April 2013.
"There's a good reason why content curation is such a hot topic these days: It works! Explore real-world examples of how leading B2B marketers identify, find, organize and share relevant content with their core markets via content curation, and learn why curation delivers strong ROI for today's marketing organizations."
Original Presentation on SlideShare:
http://www.slideshare.net/G3Com/the-role-of-curation-in-content-marketing
Excellent Slideshare on the curation and marketing.
This is a very good explanation on how important the role curation plays in improving the overall content of a website. This gives reason for staying on a website and getting bookmarked for return visits.
Curation sites are becoming hugely important in our online marketing campaigns. Additionally, often times blog posts that are nothing more than a list of currated links on a certain niche tend to do really well.
Interesting take to curate content of your competitors or curating content that offers a different editorial from your content. I do agree, it will lend to you being more of a thoughts leader without the agenda.
The presentation picks up a lot of steam with their curation tips in the final third of the slides. Enjoy
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