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20 Ways To Get Your Content In Front Of Early-Stage B2B Buyers

Sometimes you hear the argument, social media is great for B2C but not B2B. This article lists ways to use social media for B2B marketing.

But notice also the recommendation to use traditional tools such as press releases and email newsletters.

I worked on two Scrum projects this year.

In one of them I was the Product Owner. I think this check list is helpful.

I stumbled across this article on big data and marketing.

In a nutshell, it says try stuff and measure what works. And AIDA is back in a big way.

Here’s a screenshot:

Too funny.

I like:

“also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in
your SEO optimization”

Blogging isn’t dead (yet).

Here are my slides from long ago:

Remember: Your economic situation isn’t everything.

It is the worst country when it comes to making friends (37th), and scores poorly among expats for social life (33rd), making local friends (32nd), entertainment (32nd), local work culture (30th) and learning the local language (32nd).

Expat explorer

Despite Twitter’s handling of third party apps and API changes, some tools are still around or re-emerging.

Noteworthy:

If you don’t know what a hashtag means, go to Tagdef.
http://tagdef.com/
Long time ago, Twitter client Brizzly used to do this.

I briefly clicked into Tagboard. It looks like a useful search tool.
http://tagboard.com/

I am quite excited about POSSE. I’ve added a plug-in called Hum to shorten URLs. And I activated the corresponding WordPress app for Twitter via Publicize. And that’s it. Voilà. My own personal tweet machine is up.

Advantages compared to publishing an RSS feed on Twitter? I guess it has a very similar end-effect to distributing a RSS feed via IFTTT or Twitterfeed. The URLS are shorter and I can define a shorter domain name if I want.

Next thing to explore is the Webmention plugin.

A couple of weeks ago, I got this idea to build a local SEO network for private use. Now I have a good idea how I’ll build it and still keep my sanity. Back to the future. I could set up a local-hosted WordPress site and then blast away. Reaching out to Linkedin, Twitter, G+ and Facebook. In a way, it’s very similar to good old RSS.