CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-13 14:49:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This is not the G+ profile you are looking for. Find me (Lee Odden) on G+ here: https://plus.google.com/+LeeOdden

2013-01-13 17:55:46 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

I've moved! As of Jan 2013 find me here:

2012-12-27 16:10:40 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 12 +1s)

SEO Myths: Press Releases are No Good for SEO, Only SEOs Can Perform SEO Tasks, Sites That Do Not SEO Are Doomed to Fail and the biggie: SEO is Dead. Read how these 4 Myths about SEO are BUSTED! 

This is the 3rd in a 3 part series of blog posts that preview my upcoming presentation at +New Media Expo Jan 8th in Las Vegas. Hope to see you there!

2012-12-22 10:05:01 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Happy Holidays!  Make & share your own snowman card here: http://www.toprankmarketing.com/holiday12/

2012-12-20 11:13:30 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Google 60, transforming Google into an older computing machine.  So fun! 

http://www.masswerk.at/google60/

2012-12-17 16:17:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

BIG THANKS to +Rick Calvert and +Dave Cynkin for taking time to do this pre NMX conference interview on what's new with NMX, practical tips and some crystal ball action with the future of social, content and community. 

Will I see you at New Media Expo?

2012-12-13 16:16:34 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Honored to be on this list with +Ardath Albee +Lee Odden  +Chris Brogan 

2012-12-13 16:09:39 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

What are some of the biggest myths you've heard about content marketing? Here are my 3 pet peeve content marketing myths busted. Would love to know yours.

2012-12-06 19:13:57 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

Insights on the ROI of business blogging after 9 years and 1.2 million words:

2012-11-28 12:42:34 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

For those about to rock (the social web) here are 20 awesome tips from Dell, Intel, JESS, Weight Watchers and the team at +TopRank Online Marketing 

2012-10-29 16:31:32 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 10 +1s)

What do +Amy Porterfield +Arianna Huffington +Connie Bensen +Ekaterina Walter +Jennifer Leggio +LaSandra Brill +Lisa Barone & +Justine Ezarik have in common? They ROCK the social web.  Check out the 2012 Edition: 25 Women Who Rock Social Media http://tprk.us/25rock2012

2012-10-25 21:27:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Nice speaker lineup at the BusinessNext Conference (via BlogWorld) in Vegas next year: Guy Kawasaki, Dana White, Michael Brito, Amy Jo Martin, Amy Porterfield, Robert Scoble & moi.

2012-10-24 21:02:41 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Brand-spankin'-new B2B Content Marketing research from +MarketingProfs and CMI: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends. Check it out! Enjoy. And embed, if you wish!

2012-10-24 20:53:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Is Your Content Marketing Investment Paying Off?
A lot of companies are hard pressed to get more value from their content investments. Here's an approach outlining 4 content types that help gain big impact with modest resources. It includes a link to a basic editorial calendar for a blog and examples for: Repurposed, Curated, Co-Created and Evergreen content. 

2012-10-23 16:59:23 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

With the help of my Marketing Manager at TopRank, +Ashley Zeckman, we finished the excruciating task of filtering down all the nominees for the 2012 edition of "25 Women Who Rock Social Media" published at Online Marketing Blog.

This is the 3rd year we've published such a list. Here's the list for 2010 which included social media pioneers like: Katie Payne, Charlene Li, +Amy Jo Martin, +Tamar Weinberg, +Mari Smith, +Sarah Evans and many others:
http://www.toprankblog.com/2010/01/25-women-that-rock-social-media/

The 2011 list includes social smarties like +Ann Handley, +Francine Hardaway, +Kristie Wells, +Liz Strauss and 21 more women making an impact on the social web:  
http://www.toprankblog.com/2011/06/25-women-rock-social-media-2011/

There are many amazing accomplishments summed up in the 2012 edition, it's pretty impressive. We'llbe... more »

2012-10-18 18:42:10 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Here's a newly uploaded presentation on the evolution of Digital Public Relations from my session at the PRSA International Conference. "If you want to get into the media, become the media"

2012-10-17 15:52:16 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Need better B2B marketing performance? Here are 5 principles and an infographic to boot: The B2B Lead Generation Manifesto (from +Unbounce )

2012-10-09 18:51:35 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you missed the +MarketingProfs B2B Forum last week, you can still catch (Most of) The Best of B2B on demand at this Friday's virtual conference. Killer lineup: +Lee Odden +Michael Brenner +Eric Granof +Adele Revella +DJ Waldow +Tim Hayden +Kevin Green and more! Check it....

2012-10-09 18:46:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

5 Types of Content That Your Community Craves - my guest post at the totally awesome @toprank blog by +Lee Odden  http://www.toprankblog.com/2012/10/content-your-community-craves/ 

2012-10-04 13:57:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Key stats on integrating Content Marketing, Social Media and SEO from my presentation at MarketingProfs #mpb2b  Forum

2012-09-28 17:10:38 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

If you want to break free of boring B2B marketing, check out our new eBook on B2B Marketing Innovation. My agency +TopRank Online Marketing partnered with the awesome +MarketingProfs to create a collection of 33 tips from #mpb2b  Forum speakers on how to be more innovative with #b2bmarketing  And they delivered!  

"This isn't your father's B2B Marketing" sets retro tone of this eBook which offers tips, insights and plenty of first hand advice from practitioners, brands and thought leaders speaking at next week's B2B Forum in Boston. 

A BIG thanks to +Ann Handley +Joe Pulizzi +C.C. Chapman +Susan Emerick +Paul Gillin +Amanda Maksymiw +Tim Washer +Tom Fishburne +Ellen Valentine +Matthew T. Grant +David B. Thomas +Marti Konstant +Corey O'Loughlin  and many more B2B smarties for participating.  

Check out the eBook at the linkbelow and share whi... more »

2012-09-24 20:10:54 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Business looking for qualitative answers on how to best optimize advertising and measure the business value of Facebook will want to read this comprehensive post by 
+Avinash Kaushik

2012-09-20 20:49:42 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Is your B2B Marketing innovative? Share your best tips in the comments here http://tprk.us/b2btips and win two great marketing books: "Content Rules" by Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman and "Optimize" by moi. 

The best 3 tips will be published in the new B2B Marketing Innovations eBook from +TopRank Online Marketing and +MarketingProfs for the B2B Forum conference coming up Oct 3-5 in Boston. 

See your B2B awesomesauce advice right next to the likes of Paul Gillin, Amber Naslund, Joe Pulizzi, Michael Brenner, Shelly Kramer and Amanda Maksymiw. B2B brand champions from Cisco to IBM to Sliverpop and Eloqua are also contributors. 

We'll be accepting innovative B2B marketing tips until next Wednesday 9/26 with 10 book winners announced the next day.

Share your best tip on being innovative with B2B marketing here and pick up a few new tipstoo: ... more »

2012-09-20 19:34:21 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Amazing. I just shared a post here on G+ and it disappeared...

2012-09-13 08:44:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Relationship Marketing tips and ideas for you here! :) 

Woohooo -- honored to have my book and interview featured on +Lee Odden's fabulous TopRankBlog.com! Thanks to +Ashley Zeckman for the write up.  

2012-09-12 10:49:13 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Notre Dame Cathedral, Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, 281m high, Birthday girl #Paris

2012-09-10 00:22:01 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Great time walking around London today.

2012-09-07 20:33:07 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Content Marketing and the integration with Search and Social Media was the topic of my presentation at Content Marketing World this week. Here's a link (http://tprk.us/cmworld12) to the slides which also include details on how we developed an ebook that gained 43,000+ views and over 1,000 PDF downloads in 6 days.  

2012-09-07 11:02:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-09-05 22:08:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looking forward to presenting at Content Marketing World #cmworldon  Thursday, at 3pm. A topic that is near and dear to all digital marketers: content that is findable, meaningful and sharable.

2012-09-05 13:38:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Content Marketing World opening keynote. #cmworld

2012-08-31 17:23:06 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 7 +1s)

Among CEOs of the world’s Fortune 500 companies, a mere 20 have Twitter accounts.  According to an analysis of 4,200 companies by McKinsey Global Institute, social technologies stand to unlock from $900 billion to $1.3 trillion in value. 

2012-08-31 15:02:30 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)

Great content marketing shouldn't be a secret!

That's why +TopRank Online Marketing and +Joe Pulizzi's Content Marketing Institute  tapped 29 of the top "Content Marketing Undercover Agents" for their best secrets. Then we turned it into an e-book. Check it out:

2012-08-29 15:30:52 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

"Boring" is the death of corporate content marketing. If you want to know how to Create Content that's Always Spot On, Right Now, & Never Ever Boring check out Julie Fleischer from Kraft Foods at #cmworld

Julie shares her "secret agent" content marketing tips in this next interview of our Content Marketing Secret Agent series:

2012-08-29 14:25:27 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Need another example of Social Media ROI? Or return on effort and value from Facebook? Check out this story on Slim Jim: 

2012-08-28 17:54:36 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

How to create social media marketing opportunities in the "real world" on and offline:

2012-08-28 17:42:17 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Such an honor +Lee Odden Thanks for including me on the series!

2012-08-27 21:44:56 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Check out Content Marketing secret agent +Pam Didner as she shares her smarts on global content marketing in this interview for #cmworld -

It's a preview to the upcoming Content Marketing World eBook "The Secrets of Content Marketing and the Undercover Agents Who Shared Them" from +TopRank Online Marketing in partnership with +Content Marketing Institute.

2012-08-24 17:47:00 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 1 +1s)

This #applesmack  is hilarious. Nom nom.  h/t +Ann Handley on FB

2012-08-23 20:22:49 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Good stuff from +Lee Odden ...

2012-08-21 07:57:22 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Chronological and real-time consumption of content (such as on Facebook or Google+) just doesn't work anymore. It's time for topic pages to add a layer of organization on top.

2012-08-14 16:50:30 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 6 +1s)

Awesomesauce keynote from +Avinash Kaushik at #SESSF - Optimize for complete economic value, across channels and devices.

2012-08-14 15:18:58 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Nice! TopRank CEO +Lee Odden is interviewed in +Forbes by +Dan Schawbel on the importance of social integration with modern SEO and what it really means to "optimize". Nice peek into #OptimizeBook too.

2012-08-13 13:48:52 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

My newest column on +ClickZ is all about integration and optimization of online media: #Optimize360  

2012-08-09 19:58:32 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Quick Poll: What is your preferred service to run webinar presentations? #webinarsoft

2012-08-08 20:02:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hey Minnesota based marketers, get B2B Marketing Smart with TopRank's +Jolina Pettice at the #GotoExplore Minneapolis event August 16-17.  Win a free ticket and a copy of the new #OptimizeBook just by commenting on the blog post! 

2012-08-06 08:27:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Always good to see your shadow, especially when it is on MARS!  Congrats NASA.  Just watched part of the press conference and the excitement is contagious.  I can't imagine the feeling of relief after years and years of hard work and a lot of inherent risk.  I hope we see a lot more missions like this. It would be amazing to see the other planets and moons up close and we would learn a lot, I'm sure.

2012-08-03 19:18:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

If you need to improve your digital marketing performance, then get 360 degrees of optimization at the +SES Conference & Expo in San Francisco Aug 13-17.
Learn online marketing best practices from innovative digital marketers including: Adobe, Radian6, Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, SAP, Deloitte Consulting, Procter & Gamble, Lyris, Red Roof Inn, BabyCenter, AOL, NCR, Cisco and the Oakland Raiders.

TopRank's CEO +Lee Odden and Senior Technical SEO +Thom Craver will be there providing their expertise on B2B Sales Cycle Optimization and Web Analytics, respectively.  

2012-08-03 00:23:06 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Take the time to read this post by +C.C. Chapman about someone he finds inspiration from. It's a great article and the story about how they became friends is hilarious.

Beyond being an awesome post that you should read, stop by and leave a comment on the post and share it with your communities. Every comment left on the post will initiate a $20 donation to help immunize a child in a developing country.

2012-07-31 16:38:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Here's some great advice on how to use knowledge of personality types and behaviors to improve organizational effectiveness from +Ashley Zeckman. The post also describes several great opportunities to join the team at TopRank Online Marketing.

Yes, we are hiring! Social Media Strategist, SEO Copywriter, Client Account Manager, & Online PR Specialist.

If your personality thrives in a dynamic environment with all personality types in a stable and well-respected agency, then we should talk:  hr at toprankmarketing dot com