Marketing Pilgrim

I’m heading out to Microsoft on Wednesday to provide an internal presentation on the topic of online reputation management. While it’s a brief trip–I return Friday morning–I will have Wednesday evening free to meet-up with any Seattle MP readers.

I’m staying in Bellevue and should be at the hotel by 7pm. If anyone wants to grab dinner/drinks Wednesday evening, send me an email andy.beal@gmail.com. Hopefully we can get a group together–somewhere in the area.

I hope to meet-up with some Pilgrims face-to-face!

I’m excited to announce that we’re rolling out free Trackur buzz-tracking widgets. The widgets are designed to allow anyone to monitor the discussion surrounding a popular topic, company, or person.

As part of the roll-out we’re starting with widgets that are the most requested: Presidential candidates.

We’ve created Trackur widgets for Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain. Each widget uses Trackur’s powerful reputation monitoring technology to scour the web for mention of each presidential candidate.

If you’re so inclined, you can add these widgets to your blog, Myspace or Facebook profile, Netvibes, Ning, iGoogle and many other social networks–all for free!

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A little over a year ago, I asked readers to share their RSS feed with me.

I did this out of concern that my news sources would consist of nothing but “A-listers” and I’d miss out on the insights of those that wrote fantastic posts, but hadn’t yet found the spotlight.

It’s time to do it again!

Here’s how it works. You leave your RSS feed URL in the comments below (no other links please, just the RSS feed). I’ll subscribe to the first 100 and will continue to do so for the next two weeks. After the two weeks are up, I’ll keep subscribing to anyone that really added value to my daily reading.

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Every now and then, I like to take a peek through the Marketing Pilgrim job board and see who’s hiring and for what positions. If you’ve not checked out the job board, I can tell you that–according to my stats–the right job listing can attract lots of job applicants.

You can post you job listing for just $57 for 30 days. To further entice those that haven’t yet tried it–and thank those that know how well it works–you can use the coupon "TRACKUR" for a $27 discount (good until the end of April).

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Does your internet marketing agency have it’s business strategy figured our for 2008? Do you know how you’ll grow your revenues this year?

Since becoming a consultant, I’ve been blessed to be able to work with some of the smartest search marketers around, and help them grow their business.

I don’t always get to reveal which companies I work with, but thanks to Lance Loveday of Closed Loop Marketing for sharing this testimonial:

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Did you know that if you read Marketing Pilgrim, you are 2.4 times more likely to be an “affluent American” earning over $100,000 a year?

In other words–for the benefit of marketers–buying advertising on Marketing Pilgrim will help you reach a highly valued segment of web users.

Compete.com has just named Marketing Pilgrim as one of the top sites to “Find Affluent Internet Users.” What does that mean?

These sites, although usually under-leveraged by ad networks and underused by media buyers, reach valuable niche audiences and can be efficiently and effectively used by creative brand advertisers to achieve success. Among the top torso websites that accept advertising and whose audience is overrepresented by affluent Americans are:

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While at SXSW it was a pleasure to sit down with Kimberlie Dykeman and record a video interview for Web 2.0 TV.

Being given the chance to chat about Marketing Pilgrim and Radically Transparent was an honor. Getting to chat with someone as cool as Kimberlie was the icing on the cake.

If you follow my Twitter conversations you’ll already know that the 3rd Annual Search Engine Marketing Scholarship is coming later this spring.

In the past two contests we’ve given away more than $15,000 worth in prizes and helped find the rising superstars in search and social media marketing. We’re hoping this year’s contest will be even bigger, with all-star judges, and awesome prizes.

The contest will start early May and we’ll announce full details as we get closer to the start date. In the meantime, there are two reasons why we’re given you some advance notice.

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Want to reach some of the most savvy, deep-pocketed, internet marketers around? Over 9,000 of them each day?

We have a number of advertising slots available and we think your company would be a perfect fit! In addition to the ads listed on our advertising page, I’m also making available the highly-clickable "peel away" ad you see in the top right corner of your screen and RSS-only ads (contact me if interested).

I’m also toying with the idea of selling the entire ad inventory to a SINGLE company–effectively giving you exclusive sponsorship of Marketing Pilgrim. Any takers?

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I fly back from Hawaii this Wednesday night, so while I’m still on the Big Island, I thought I’d post a big "Mahalo" to our advertisers.

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I hope you’re enjoying your Easter weekend. Seeing as I’m in Hawaii, I thought I’d share this photo taken on Maui’s famous road to Hana drive.

Happy Easter!

(photo credit Go Visit Hawaii)

Having successful launched Trackur–and watching it withstand 700+ users–it’s time to make it even more affordable to the masses. There’s no reason why every individual or company shouldn’t be monitoring the internet for discussions about their reputation.

So, I’m pleased to announce that you can now monitor your reputation, competition, industry trends, conference news, etc for just $18 a month!

Think about how much you spend to market your company, advertise on Google, or keep investors happy. Now ask yourself how can you not afford to spend sixty cents a day to protect that investment?

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