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 [...]

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! [...]

Interview with Chris Arnold: Social Media, Twitter, and TweetPivot

Follow Up with Chris Arnold, Founder of TweetPivot Imagine the pleasure and surprise when I received an @Reply from Chris Arnold, founder and the brains behind TweetPivot first thing this morning! Chris was responding to a feature I added to this week’s Inbound Marketing Week in Review: A Hard Look at Social Media Klout, a [...]

Inbound Marketing Consulting and the Central Hub Model

Inbound Marketing, the Central Hub (spot), and The Ultimate Internet Image The focus of recent blog posts here at The Ultimate Internet Image (UII) has been on the initial inbound marketing consultation and competitive assessment with prospective clients. However, while discussing much of what we cover with new UII clients, we left out a critical [...]

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