I recently got to talk with Joshua Davis during his Reddit AMA the other week. Joshua writes for Wired.com as well as GQ and Mens Health.Josh has had an interesting road as a journalist which has led him to produce The Underdog: How I Survived the World’s Most Outlandish Competitions
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Paddy Moogan created a post where he aggregated a list of places to submit infographics. This list is very helpful for promoting infographics and I’ve found similar success when using clients high quality photos.
This strategy works especially well for companies that already produce high quality photos for their clothes, gear, equipment, food, etc. Again please use this list as a means to find the right communities to connect with your audience and not to spam the internet for weeks.
Read MoreBack in September I had the opportunity to talk content with Anthony Pensabene or you might know him better as Content Muse. Anthony’s tweets and blog posts continually inspire me with examples on how to use social media to build real connections and communicate with a network of people online. This post is just 1 example of how he has done it.
For most companies the goal of marketing online is not to get traffic, but to turn that traffic into conversion. This is where Conversion Rate Optimization ( CRO ) can be extremely important. To help explain the basics of CRO I talked with Nick Eubanks from SEONick.net. Hope you learn as much as I did.
Ben’s Note: Ryan was one of the first people I met at SEER Interactive and has always impressed me with how he finds ways to get things done in less time and effort. He continues to teach me a lot and am excited that he was willing to share these tips. He is a great online marketer and am glad that for his guest post.
Outreach is a balancing act between delivering quality pitches and maximizing your time. High caliber link builders send out a lot of emails and are always looking for ways to speed up the process. Here are a few techniques to help you save time during your next link building campaign.
I know what you are thinking, “Ben how did you get to talk with Jonathon Colman about Agile Marketing? Are you twins separated at birth, did you bribe or black mail him?”
Well none of those are true, simply Jonathon is a great marketer and person who is hard not to hear about and gravitate to in our industry. I’ve learned a lot from him through Twitter and would definitlely suggest following him on Twitter and Slide Share. Well I won’t hold you up any further from hearing what Jonathon Colman had to say, Enjoy! 
Today a lot of marketers are struggling to find ways to stay on top of social media marketing. Being able to connect with those who are talking about your brand or sharing your content can be extremely powerful, but also extremely time consuming. Most of us don’t have time to monitor Twitter, but wouldn’t it be great to be able to quickly answer questions like:
Well today I’m going to be showing you how to answer all of these questions in minutes with Topsy a free instant social search tool.
One of the perks to working in online marketing is brushing shoulders with great people like Anthony Pensabene who is a twitter networker, marketing strategist, and content muser. In this interview you’ll get to see the refreshingly witty writing style and spunk of Anthony, enjoy.
I had the pleasure of meeting John at the SEER Interactive Moz Event. He is passionate about photography, hacking excel, and of course SEO as a consultant in NYC for Distilled. He is a great SEO with some great advice so without further adieu I give you John Doherty.
The other day I was getting ready to write a blog post and got it started in Google Docs. While I was writing in Google Docs I stumbled upon several tools that they provide that have helped me to complete more quality blog posts in less time. So I figured I’d share what I’ve found.