Marketing
Posted on August 30, 2011. Filed under: Blogging, Business Strategy, Communications, Content, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter, Uncategorized | Tags: Billy Costello, Blogging, Ellie Becker, Inbound Marketing, Music, Social Media, Twitter |
Welcome to Tuesday Tweets for August 30, 2011 — where we take a look at tweets from my Twitter feed for do’s, don’ts, best practices – and sometimes just for fun. Keep in mind that what we examine here is in no way personal. We’re all learning about building audiences online. In that spirit, if [...]
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Posted on August 29, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Inbound Marketing, Jazz, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media | Tags: Adobe Business Catalyst, Drupal, Ellie Becker, HubSpot, Inbound Marketing, Jazz, Joe Sample, Joomla, Marketing, Online Marketing, SEO, Small Business, The Crusaders, WordPress |
I was in the mood for some music today. This post is about embracing new systems for managing your own website. Listen to the upbeat, funky instrumental Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda by The Crusaders with Joe Sample on keyboards. Hope that’s not us! Today the way to reach customers, prospects and other key audiences is to connect with [...]
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Posted on August 23, 2011. Filed under: Content, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: @alexshrugges, @benjaminstrong@muse4now, @chase_thehour, @georg_grey, @paulhelmick, @petershankman, @shashib, @typeamom, Ellie Becker, Inbound Marketing |
Welcome to Tuesday Tweets for August 23, 2011 — where we take a look at tweets from my Twitter feed for do’s, don’ts, best practices – and sometimes just for fun. Keep in mind that what we examine here is in no way personal. We’re all learning about building audiences online. In that spirit, if [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Communications, Content, Human Business, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: Ellie Becker, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter |
People use Twitter in different ways. Some go for volume. Get as many followers as possible. This is often part of a monetization strategy and utilizes some automation program or builds from following others’ lists, which is fine. I’ve made the decision to build a smaller community on Twitter based on mutual interests and the [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2011. Filed under: Business Management, Business Strategy, Communications, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Small Business, Social Media | Tags: Ellie Becker, HubSpot, human business, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Pat Morrow, Small Business, Social Media |
Every time we hit a moment when the stock market crashes – or worse, fluctuates wildly – it’s predictable that smaller businesses will instantly turn off their marketing engines. This is just as short sighted as selling off stocks the day of the crash and similarly forfeits the upside. The smartest investors and [...]
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Posted on August 9, 2011. Filed under: Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: Ellie Becker, Rand Fishkin, Rick Griffin, Social Media, Twitter |
Welcome to Tuesday Tweets for August 9, 2011 — where we take a look at tweets from my Twitter feed for do’s, don’ts, best practices – and sometimes just for fun. Keep in mind that what we examine here is in no way personal. We’re all learning about building audiences online. In that spirit, if [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2011. Filed under: Business Strategy, Communications, Human Business, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Small Business, Social Media, Uncategorized | Tags: Caramoor, Ellie Becker, Inbound Marketing, James Farm, Jazz, John Coltrane, Johnny Nartman, Jose James, Joshua Redman, Juan Carlos Formell, Mark Murphy, Marketing, New Media, Small Business, Social Media |
I read a recent study revealing that only a small percentage of small businesses are using social media and other online tools for their marketing. Of those who have used or are using online marketing, even a smaller fraction considers the new tools essential. These statistics support what I’ve been recognizing anecdotally as I speak [...]
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Posted on August 4, 2011. Filed under: Business Management, Business Strategy, Communications, Human Business, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Marketing Strategy, News, Online Marketing, Small Business | Tags: Ellie Becker, human business, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Online Marketing |
The Dow fell more than 500 points today. Bad news was exuding from every media outlet. I had an opportunity to get some perspective on it in my weekly networking group meeting from members who are highly sophisticated financial experts. Then I came home, shared some conversation with my neighbor on her garden swing, pulled [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2011. Filed under: Business Management, Content, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media, Uncategorized | Tags: Brian Halligan, David Meerman Scott, Dharmesh Shah, Ellie Becker, HubSpot, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, SEO, Small Business, Social Media |
Inbound marketing has been around for several years now. It’s the subject of bestselling books by David Meerman Scott and HubSpot founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah. In fact, HubSpot has surpassed the 5000-customer mark for the Internet-based content management system they invented to put all of the pieces of inbound marketing together. Yet, when [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2011. Filed under: Communications, Human Business, Inbound Marketing, Marketing, Networking, Online Marketing, Small Business, Uncategorized | Tags: Ellie Becker, human business, Inbound Marketing, Networking |
Today was a marathon networking day with both online and offline communities that are important to me – and to my business. Early this morning I read blogs I subscribe to including Chris Brogan, Seth Godin, my ethnomusicologist Sociosound and my rock ‘n roll management guru Peter Cook who posted a brilliant satire on blues [...]
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