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by Mohit Maheshwari

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Agenda
• Build and grow your website
• Attract traffic to your website
• 25 Practical strategies for Digital Marketing
for SMBs and Startups
• Tools and Resources

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Some pointers for Webinar
• Webinar is being recorded and will be available
on NEW MEDIA GURU’s blog
• Recording will be available in 2-3 days
• Slide deck will be uploaded on Slideshare.net
• Follow up on email for further learning and
details (mohit@newmediaguru.co.uk)

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Speaker
• About Mohit
• Managing Director of NEW MEDIA GURU (NMG)
• 13+ years in the Internet Industry
• Practicing and training Digital marketing
• Worked with clients in more than 25+ countries
• Clients range from large established brands to agencies and start ups globally
• Member of TiE , SEMPO , IAMAI
• Active speaker , writer and digital enthusiast
• About NMG
• Team of 85+ digital professionals
• Established in 2007 in London with primarily UK clients to begin with
• Full service Digital marketing agency offering Web Solutions , Search Engine
Marketing , Social Media marketing , mobile app development and cloud based
services.
• Presence in US , UK , Australia and clients in over 30+ countries
• Member of IAMAI ,Microsoft partner network (MPN ) , Amazon Consulting
Partner (APN) , Google Certified Adwords Partner , SEMPO Member

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Challenges for SMBs and Start ups
• Need to focus on the core business
• Product line are evolving
• Senior Management time very limited for approvals
• Website and Digital marketing not a priority in some
cases
• Marketing strategy not evolved
• Limited Budgets

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Building your website

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Ground Rules for Website Project
• Needs Assessment
• The website must meet the needs of the
client
• A website is not an event.
• It is a flexible, extensible communications
tool which evolves with your business

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Role distribution
Role Source
Internal Stakeholders In house
Project manager In house or consultant or agency
Copywriter
( Editor)
In house or consultant / agency
Website designer In house or consultant / agency
HTML coder
(HTML , CSS , js)
In house or consultant / agency
Web or CMS Developer
(Open source , .net or others)
In house or consultant / agency

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Role distribution
• One person can play multiple roles
• Big web team is not necessarily is a QUALITY web
team. Small one on one teams are equally effective
if not more
• Focus on planning and project management
• You don’t need to do everything in house
• You don’t need to outsource everything
• You don’t need a DEDICATED team for everything
• Be smart. Spend wisely. As you will see DIGITAL is a
long ongoing journey and not an EVENT .

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Project Management
• There is no project management without a project
management tool
• Basecamp http://goo.gl/LG5m8Z

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Project Management
• Trello http://goo.gl/xQyarg

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Build your customer persona
Tool to build persona
• Upclose and Persona http://goo.gl/Wi4Gs1

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Example of customer persona

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Content is Marketing
• Content is NOT just text !!
• Images
• Documents (PDFs)
• Audio
• Video (i.e., embedded from YouTube or Vimeo, or self-
hosted)
• Adobe Flash files (for animated tutorials)
• Content feeds (from other websites, news sources, social
feeds )
• Photos(stock pics, original photography , user generated )
• Social Streams (Facebook ,Twitter ,Linked In ,Pinterest
etc)
• User generated content ( guest post , conversations
,industry round ups)

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Quality Content = VALUE to user
• Good photography
• Good Videos
• Good Writing

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THINK LIKE A MAGAZINE
BUSINESS OWNER

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Digital can learn from Magazine business
• What a magazine has
• Scheduled distribution ( adhere to deadlines)
• Note from Editor
• Structured table of content ( you know what to find where as a regular
reader)
• Dedicated writers to dedicated topics
• For example a tech magazine has separate writer for laptops , pcs and separate for
mobile computing / tablets and separate for consumer electronics
• Latest news from Industry and happenings
• Interviews
• Guest columnist ( industry speakers , industry voices)
• Insightful coverage of things really important
• Surveys
• Annual report of industry
• Rankings of industry players
• Awards
• Letter to the editor (user feedback)
• Fun sections relevant to the audience
Take inspiration about your website , social , marketing content from
magazines and you will not go wrong !

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Sitemaps , Wireframes and Content structure
• Think of various sections of your website
based on your customer persona
• Do some keyword research with your
SEO team before finalizing the sitemap
• Tools to help you build easy sitemaps
• Slickplan http://goo.gl/TTVjNz
• Tools to help you build easy wireframes
and mockups
• Creately http://goo.gl/7qu44D
• Wireframe.CC http://goo.gl/TmAz1z
• Tools to help you write content
• Scribe SEO http://goo.gl/NMvvaa

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Value of Good design
• A great design is half the battle won
• A great design feedback and
its implementation is the WAR

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How to give and get design feedback
• Smart sophisticated pixel by pixel feedback using design feedback tools
• Designing by committee don’t do it
• How to give feedback to designers ( tools)
• Invision App http://goo.gl/JnH8HG
• Red Pen http://goo.gl/93Lrlc
• Bounce App http://goo.gl/9VxjHY
• Prevue http://goo.gl/m4MV2V
• Go Visually http://goo.gl/ITzbYj
• How to get user feedback on designs ( Before launch , Post launch - tools)
• Critique the site http://goo.gl/0GjThN
• Please critique me http://goo.gl/Z40TyJ
• User testing.com http://goo.gl/amAb6t
• Feedback Army http://goo.gl/fRLIuF
• Usabilla http://goo.gl/ISjKZl
• Five second test http://goo.gl/x4ErQ7
Detailed review of some tools here http://goo.gl/88WpZF

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Example of Pixel by pixel feedback

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Improving design based on Actual user data
• AGAIN .Website is NOT an event. Its an ongoing process.
• Design is not an event. Infact your conversion rates (CTRs, CPAs)
are hidden in your design ….Looking to be optimized..
• How to measure real time audience interaction with your
website design , landing pages and how to improve them
• Lucky Orange http://goo.gl/YgUqsA
• Chartbeat http://goo.gl/d93Rzu
• Session Cam http://goo.gl/2xo3cD
• Clicky http://goo.gl/HR6Zql
• Woopra http://goo.gl/qP4nI7
Designing by committee don’t do it

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Example of Real time visitor data analytics

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Simple Pre launch Checklist
• Finalize hosting ( Cloud based AWS , Rackspace recommended , Cheaper options
Godaddy)
• Check Browser compatibility ( IE , Chrome , Safari for Mac and PC, Firefox)
• Check mobile version of website ( if responsive website check on mobile devices and
tablet devices)
• Check if all Internal and external links work
• Check if interactive features work
• Check all forms and designated email ids for auto emailers
• Images are sized properly
• All placeholder content has been replaced by the final copy
• All stock images have been purchased
• Check integrations for third-party software, such as
• Email Marketing (Like mailchimp)
• Payment gateway
• CRM ( likes Salesforce)
• Shopping cart (if 3rd party)
• Google Analytics set up
• Goals set up
• Google Webmaster set up
• SEO Tools set up
• All content is proof read and ready .

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Build Anticipation and Virality (Pre launch)
• Strategies
• Viral loop
• Exclusivity and scarcity
• Glimpses of the beta
• Social proof
• Viral content
• Methods
• Create coming soon pages and video introductions
• Incentivize early sign ups on facebook , twitter , coming soon page , build
email list
• Offer never before or never ever to be offered deals only for pre launch
members
• Build sign up widgets ( to be used for email marketing later)
• Integrate sign up via facebook , Twitter , Google+ 1 for social sign ups
• Start talking about your product , service business and build key critical
mass

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Build Anticipation and Virality (Pre launch)
• Pre launch promotion tools
• LaunchRock http://goo.gl/UGma51
• Launch Effect app http://goo.gl/aXuUHr
• Kick off labs http://goo.gl/MCB3XG
• Hello bar http://goo.gl/
• Email Marketing tools
• Mail Chimp http://goo.gl/iYcePK
• Constant Contact http://goo.gl/yY6VFA
• Aweber http://goo.gl/BxSTUl

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Great Examples of building Pre launch audience

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Great Examples of building Pre launch audience

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Great Examples of building Pre launch audience

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Great Examples of building Pre launch audience

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Great Examples of building Pre launch audience

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Great Examples of building Pre launch audience

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Grow Traffic to your website

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Marketing Strategies
Type Content oriented marketing Media spend oriented
marketing
Digital Organic Search
(SEO , Local SEO , Social SEO , Video SEO ,
Multilingual SEO )
Paid Advertising
( Paid Search , Display ads
/Banners , Video ads
Contextual ads )
Digital Social Discovery , Influencing and Publishing
(Facebook pages , Facebook groups , Twitter list ,
Linked In Groups , Youtube )
Question and Answer websites (Quora etc)
Paid Social Marketing
( on FB , Twitter ,Linked
In,Youtube )
Digital Content Marketing
( Blog ,Whitepapers , Ebooks , podcasts , Videos,
Webinars , Info graphics)
Sponsored sections
on popular industry websites
, industry , webinars ,
whitepapers
Digital Opt in Email list Paid Email list
Offline Speak at events ,conferences , Meet ups with
bloggers , Write for newspapers , magazines
TV , Radio , Print , magazine

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SMBs / Startups get more value from content oriented marketing
• Helps build knowledge assets and marketing
collateral
• Can be used repeatedly
• Benefits are life long once established
• Builds brand of the company and personal brand
of the founders / leadership team
• Builds perception in industry of thought leadership
for the company and brand
• Effort driven marketing and not media driven
marketing helps save limited budgets

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Why Organic Search is important

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Keyword research is foundation to content
• Most people don’t do enough good quality keyword
research.
• The best place to go to learn keyword research for free
Distilled University http://goo.gl/ATQBFy

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Keyword Research
Tool name Tool link
Google Keyword Planner http://goo.gl/YfmvKd
Ubersuggest http://goo.gl/GVcJ8v
Google Trends http://goo.gl/s2l3Bj
Google Correlate http://goo.gl/ZEYoeM
Merge Words http://goo.gl/Ln2rrt
Word Tracker http://goo.gl/9X6Bqe
Hittail http://goo.gl/7V7TBo
Detailed review
http://goo.gl/W7ZeFh

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Forms of SEO
• Onpage SEO
• Site speed Optimization
• Mobile Site optimization
• Local SEO ( Google+ Local , Bing Local , Yahoo Local , yelp , etc)
• Video SEO ( youtube videos optimizations , video marketing)
• Social SEO ( Social media optimization for SEO benefits)
• Multilingual SEO ( for targeting other languages and search engines)

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Universal search “paris hilton”

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Universal search “paris hilton:

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Wait there is more “paris hilton:

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Onpage SEO
Visual guide to keyword targeting by MOZ (2013) http://goo.gl/npt8YY

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Site Speed optimization
• Tools for Site speed measurement
• Gtmetrix http://goo.gl/hdVnYm
• Pingdom Tools http://goo.gl/xQoTgh
• Google Webmaster on Site speed http://goo.gl/wYExX6

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Site Speed optimization
Before
After

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Local SEO

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Local Search Ecosystem (US)
• Source : David Mihm’s The 2013 Local Search Ecosystems http://goo.gl/AgXzNJ

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Importance of optimizing G+ business pages

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Local SEO
• Google’s official guide to optimizing for
Google+ business http://goo.gl/rN42Kf

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Make customer review gathering simple

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Optimizing Onpage for Local SEO
Source http://goo.gl/aHEFhj

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Local SEO Ranking factors
• Local SEO Ranking factors http://goo.gl/O3Wv4b
• Proper category associations
• A physical address in the city being searched
• Consistent, high-quality citations from sources that are:
• Authoritative
• Trustworthy
• Industry-relevant
• Your Company Name , Address , Phone (NAP)
information featured clearly on your website
• Your location as a keyword in title tags and headlines (for
website)
• Some good (long ) reviews on both Google and third-
party sites
• A handful of high-quality inbound links

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Why Blogging is important

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Example of Good business blogs

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Example of Good business blogs

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Why Facebook marketing is important

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Example of building Pre launch audience on FB

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Why Tweeting is important

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Twitter is your new research database

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Innovations of a tweet – Pay with a tweet (real world stuff)

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Scheduling Social Media Content

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Content Marketing ideas for SMBs
• Make stuff people want
• Educational ebooks
• How to videos / Education video series
• Online Tools , small apps and calculators
• Planning tools and templates
• Answer to common questions
• Build trust and credibility and goodwill
• Share and give to community
• Give great direction
• Great landing pages
• Clear call to actions
• Compelling offers
• Invest wisely

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Example of content marketing in niche verticals
Howto videos on youtube

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Example of Long term content asset
in niche verticals

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25 Marketing ideas for
SMBs and Start ups

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Being interviewed (Or help a Journalist)
Find Interview Opportunities
industryName + intitle:interview -job
industryVertical + intitle:interview -job
competitorName + intitle:interview -job
industryName + inurl:interview -job
industryVertical + intitle:interview -job
competitorName + inurl:interview -job
Keyword + intitle:”experts
interview”/talk/discuss/answer
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/06/03/look
ing-for-entrepreneurial-inspiration-meet-your-
new-media-guru/

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Tools for PR outreach and Media Mentions
• HARO – http://goo.gl/cpQitY
(Detailed guide on HARO http://goo.gl/1XsXEz )
• Muck Rack - http://goo.gl/dBC3KN
• Reporter Connection - http://goo.gl/BG1X2k
• Media Kitty - http://goo.gl/7cZegb
• Profnet by Prnewswire ( PAID) -
http://goo.gl/eRJ41j
• Source Bottle http://goo.gl/rqiGNQ
• Pitching notes http://goo.gl/iiChMF
• Mediaspot.me http://goo.gl/mpLdFy
• My local reporter http://goo.gl/4EXbZh
• Expert Engine http://goo.gl/xPG4G0

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Interviewing an authority on your blog
http://lighthouseinsights.in/in-conversation-with-pradeep-
chopra.html

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Crowd source a book ( or book bait)
http://goo.gl/W2JQQE

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Crowd source a book ( or book bait)
http://goo.gl/r74b3r

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Broken link building
Broken Link building guide : http://goo.gl/sgcr0X
Broken link buidling from noob to novice http://goo.gl/u7kefu

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Building a tool / app

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Getting links that your competitors
have
Competitor link building with OSE and Buzzstream http://goo.gl/bcUzWm

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Getting links from your copied images
Google Search Operators which work with Google Image Search:
allintitle:, allinurl:, filetype:, inurl:, intitle:, site:
Google Advanced image search http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

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Guest Blogging
• Guest blogging helps build thought leadership
and brand
• It helps reach to customers we would not usually
reach through our blog
• Helps build readership of our main website
• Tonnes of traffic
• Helps participate in industry round ups and build
industry relationships

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Guest Blogging : Tools
Myblogguest Website http://goo.gl/mlgjqo
Guestr Website http://goo.gl/P7QRAx
Blogdash Website http://goo.gl/Bo2GQ1
Bloggerlinkup Mailer http://goo.gl/gX1HuW
Buzzstream Tool http://goo.gl/cUyD80
Guestblogit Website http://goo.gl/7x6oGT
Outreachr Website http://goo.gl/4Ztik2
Blogsynergy Website http://goo.gl/HUlbbR
Triberr Website http://goo.gl/Qk089M
Post Joint Online tool http://goo.gl/DOy1QQ
Inkybee Online tool http://goo.gl/hVhqpK
Bloggers Required Online tool http://goo.gl/ryrs19

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Queries to find Guest blogging oppurtunities
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest blog”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest blogger”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest Column”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest article”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + guest post
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + guest author
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “write for us”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “write for me”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “become a contributor”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “contribute to this site”
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + inurl:category/guest
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + inurl:contributors
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest blog” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest blogger” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest Column” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “guest article” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “write for us” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “write for me” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “become a contributor” + inanchor:contact
Keyword/yourCompetitorName + “contribute to this site” + inanchor:contact

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Guest Blogging
Keyword + site:wordpress.com
Keyword + site:blogspot.com
Keyword + site:typepad.com
Keyword + site:edublogs.org
Keyword + site:livejournal.com
Keyword + intext:”powered by
wordpress”
Keyword + intext:”powered by typepad”
Google Search Operators which work with Google Blog Search
You can use following search operators with Google Blog Search:
inblogtitle:keyword – restricts search to blog titles
blogurl:keyword – restricts search to blog URLs
link:http://www.abc.com – find blogs linking to the given page
inpostauthor:”Author Name” - find blog posts written by a specified author

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Example of a guest post

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Infographics

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Tools to build Infographics
• Ease.ly http://goo.gl/ggJ0oo
• Google charts http://goo.gl/fe6k2c
• Piktochart http://goo.gl/uLaemj
• Info.gram http://goo.gl/Bv2Gvo
• Visua.ly http://goo.gl/Ay19uG

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Industry roundups

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Industry Social Round up

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EGO BAIT

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Link bait (infographics , social round ups , ego bait)
industryName + intitle:tools
industryName + intitle:badges
industryName + intitle:widgets
industryName + intitle:infographics
industryName + inurl:tools
industryName + inurl:badges
industryName + inurl:widgets
industryName + inurl:infographics
industryName + top/recommended/useful/favorite/amazing/awesome
tools
industryName + top/recommended/useful/favorite/amazing/awesome
badges
industryName + top/recommended/useful/favorite/amazing/awesome
widgets
industryName + top/recommended/useful/favorite/amazing/awesome
infographics

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Live blogging and tweeting an event

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Link reclamation
“your-company-name-without-space”
“your-company-name-with-space”
“your-1st-product-name-with-space”
“your-1st-product-name-without-space”
“your-2nd-product-name-with-space”
“your-2nd-product-name-without-space”
“your-Nth-product-name-with-space”
“your-Nth-product-name-with-space”
“company URL”
“key-employee-name”
“your-1st-website-name/url”
“your-2nd-website-name/url”
“your-Nth-website-name/url”
“http://www.yoursite.com”
“www.yoursite.com”
“yoursite.com”

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Monitor for brand mentions without a link
• Google Alerts -
http://www.google.com/alerts
• Social Mention -
http://www.socialmention.com
• How Sociable -
http://www.howsociable.com

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Monitor for social shares of your content

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Press release with a purpose
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/06/03/look
ing-for-entrepreneurial-inspiration-meet-your-
new-media-guru/

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Take bloggers to an event

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E-book Promotion

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Giveaway promotion

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Monthly newsletter (build your email list)
• Build email in house db with a mission
• Set target numbers to achieve for opt in emails
• Use Amazon Simple Email service , Mail Chimp
, Constant Contact ,Aweber as email marketing tools
• Use marketing automation tools like Acton , Infusion
Soft or others
• Send monthly blog round ups , industry news , conduct
polls or surveys .
• Use it as a brand recall tool
• Simple text email work – don’t go for high end design
• Focus on power of content

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THINK LIKE A MAGAZINE
BUSINESS OWNER

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Thank You
Mohit Maheshwari
mohit@newmediaguru.co.uk
www.facebook.com/newmediaguru
@new_media_guru
@mohitinhere
http://in.linkedin.com/in/mohitinhere
www.newmediaguru.co.uk