Month: January 2017

  • Almost Timely News for 15 January 2017

    A belated Happy New Year to you! I’ve had some technical difficulties recently while migrating to a new server. There’s also a possibility I cross-mixed databases, so if you’re receiving this newsletter and you don’t want to be, please click the unsubscribe link below. Food for Thought In this week’s Food for Thought, a few

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  • Online Reputation Management and SEO: Dealing With Bad Reviews

    Dee asked, “How do I deal with a negative ranking for a keyword? A page that I don’t know reviewed my product negatively; that page ranks really well for an important keyword of mine.” Online reputation management with a negative ranking on a site you don’t own is not an impossible scenario. It is possible

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  • Do People Share More Than They Read?

    Chris Brogan suggested recently that people share more than they read. While his statement was born of instinct, I wanted to validate it with data. Let’s look at the truth of it with a sample of nearly a half a million URLs. Data and Methodology Over the past year in my work at SHIFT Communications,

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  • New Free Software: Extracting Bounced Marketing Emails

    Bounced emails are the bane of every marketer. When an email address goes bad, it causes damage to our marketing efforts in several ways. Bad Rep A bounced email address is one of the signals that email deliverability services use to indicate we might be spammers. The more bounced email addresses we have on our

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  • Almost Timely News for 8 January 2017

    Happy New Year! Over the holidays, I moved servers to deal with a massive cost increase by my marketing automation provider; the trade-off is that I’ve had to spend more time on systems administration as a consequence. That’s why the newsletter is a day late. Food for Thought In this week’s Food for Thought, a

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  • Future-Proof Your Social Media Audience with Social Sync

    A number of years ago, I recommended that you take the time to synchronize your social networks (Social Sync). By synchronize, I mean cross-promote. This is more important than ever today. Why Synchronize? Social Sync is an insurance policy for us. Those who remember the old days of social media likely remember all the effort

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  • Your 2017 Marketing Quick Tuneup Checklist

    As the new year casts off from the docks and we launch into our marketing, make sure to run down this brief checklist to ensure your marketing is seaworthy. Is this a comprehensive list? Not at all. But this is the bare minimum to ensure you’re not leaving the dock with gaping holes in the

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  • My Three Words for 2017

    At the start of each year, I follow the exercise that my friend Chris Brogan first instituted over a decade ago, the tradition of writing down 3 words that guide our year. It’s something of a mantra, something of a phrase we used to remind ourselves what we are supposed to be focused on at

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