Thursday, February 9th, 2012

Klout 14 Months Later: Still Unreliable and Erratic

The Klout Score Remains Unreliable Klout Fails to Convince: Perks, Influencers, K+ are Questionable Over the past several months I have used Klout, analyzed Klout, scrutinized Klout! I embarked upon a year long study after ripping Klout in August of 2010. See: Inbound Marketing Week in Review: A Hard Look at Social Media Klout: Inbound [...]

Inbound Marketing Overview and the Central Hub Strategy

Inbound Marketing and Social Media: A Recipe for Success Online Inbound marketing is successful when you view it in terms of a combination of permission marketing and search driven marketing. In other words, you want to be where your potential clients are….when your potential clients are searching for your services. If you are not, you [...]

The Simplicity of Search: Understanding Search and Inbound Marketing

Inbound Marketing and Search-based Targeting Chasing Traffic is About Getting Them to Uncover You! The point of Internet listings, complete with creating effective domain names, is to get in front of as many searchers as possible. They aren’t looking for you, they’re looking for a service based on a simple search term that expands as the [...]

How to Succeed at Inbound Marketing: The Secrets to Prospecting Part I

Building an Inbound Marketing Consultancy… …or Social Media Management Firm Prospecting is one of the major stumbling blocks to inbound marketing consulting and social media management success. Paradoxically, prospecting is crucial for success because, in order to help others build their businesses, we must simultaneously build ours. If we do not find and develop inbound marketing and/or social [...]

Homogenization, Commoditization, and Mediocrity in Inbound Marketing

Social Media, Inbound Marketing, and The Mediocre Majority Whether you are listening to Earl Nightingale in Lead the Field, Dan Kennedy in No B.S. Business Success, or Mark Twain just being Mark Twain, there is consensus among all three of these gentlemen. Interestingly, it is an observation I made for myself a long time ago! [...]

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