http://www.mixx.com Mixx of items from the Learning SEO Basics collection en-us Not every big company is dumb. There are actually a decent number of big smart companies that do things we can learn from. But big, well-capitalized companies have a mortal enemy: inertia. It’s very hard to change the direction they’re already headed. Fri Oct 10 05:06:13 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2393785/7_things_big_dumb_companies_do_that_you_can_t_afford_especially_now thingy_2393785 himangin http://www.remarkable-communication.com/big-dumb-company/ List of annoying things people do on Twitter and some of the ways you can avoid these same Twitter mistakes. Fri Oct 10 04:24:20 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2393370/5_things_on_twitter_that_annoy_the_crap_out_of_me thingy_2393370 himangin http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4329/5-Things-On-Twitter-That-Annoy-the-Crap-Out-of-Me.aspx When you sit down to write a blog post, what’s your purpose? Are you just trying to fill space so your blog doesn’t go without being updated for more than 24 hours? Are you interested in promoting a product, or convincing your reader to buy something? Fri Oct 10 03:50:16 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2393204/are_you_blogging_with_purpose_if_not_5_ways_to_fix_that thingy_2393204 himangin http://www.copyblogger.com/purposeful-blogging/ Direct mail marketing Campaigns have amongst the highest cost per lead. Here is why you should take that extra step to scrub or cleanse your data before the campaign. Fri Oct 10 03:36:46 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2393046/5_reasons_why_should_you_use_a_list_scrub_for_direct_mail_campaigns thingy_2393046 himangin http://blog.readycontacts.com/5-reasons-why-should-you-use-a-list-scrub-for-direct-mail-marketing-campaigns/ There has been a spate of posts recently that talk about spammy SEO agencies offering guarantees, trying to con webm... Thu Oct 09 09:06:46 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2381965/youmoz_small_business_seo_it_s_about_education_and_empowerment thingy_2381965 tahirt http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/small-business-seo-its-about-education-and-empowerment talk about good and bad newsletters...how newsworthy are your newsletters? Wed Oct 08 11:42:34 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2370809/how_newsworthy_are_your_newsletters thingy_2370809 tahirt http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-newsworthy-are-your-newsletters We now have work well underway on an Active Contacts IT Security Contacts Database and hope to have it launched in the next month weeks. We will be working heads down over the coming weeks to develop this data which should provide IT Security marketers wi Wed Oct 08 03:28:56 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2366594/its_good_news_for_it_security_marketers thingy_2366594 himangin http://blog.activecontacts.net/its-good-news-for-it-security-marketers ZoomInfo, the most comprehensive source of business information on people and companies, reports exceptional growth in its Sales Intelligence business unit, as companies look for ways to identify and connect with buyers... Tue Oct 07 06:13:02 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2355114/zoominfo_sees_strong_demand_for_sales_intelligence_to_drive_sales_marketing_times_of_b2b_lead_generation thingy_2355114 rupalik http://www.timesofleadgeneration.com/ZoomInfo-Sees-Strong-Demand-for-Sales-Intelligence-To-Drive-Sales-Marketing/news-blog-article/8628 I am sick of social media. Social this. Social that. Everyone asks me whether I ‘do social media’, and it's hard to resist the urge to caper around like a lunatic yelling “Am I being social? Am I?! Then quick, call the media!!!!” I hate the phrase Tue Oct 07 04:03:12 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2354025/5_daily_social_media_builders_in_less_than_10_minutes_total thingy_2354025 himangin http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/09/5-daily-social-media-builders.htm What in the world does the cheeky cable fashion show What Not to Wear have to do with effective blogging? Have I finally pushed this analogy thing too far? Tue Oct 07 03:45:04 UTC 2008 http://www.mixx.com/stories/2353852/the_what_not_to_wear_guide_to_breakthrough_blogging_copyblogger thingy_2353852 himangin http://www.copyblogger.com/what-not-to-wear/