Guest post: email marketing; the SEO, keyword and content viewpoint

This week’s guest post comes from Corry Cummings, an experienced SEO copywriter and online marketer (email, social media, SEO, etc.) who runs ContentCustoms and MarketingCustoms.

Here is Corry’s take on email marketing, of course with a lot of search engine optimization and copywriting going on.

Some companies still make the mistake of assuming that, as email advertisements are typically short, there is no need to spend a great deal of time developing them.

On the contrary, email marketing campaigns can actually often be more difficult than marketing through full article search engine optimization or web promotion.

As they are indeed usually quite short, a good content developer must be able to express the main keywords and points of the email in as little space as possible while not providing such a low amount of information as to no longer be effective.

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PR expert Sarah Evans on social media marketing: “emerging media is about two-way communication”

Sarah Evans Last week, contributor Chris Hall, who blogs on CowBell and is one of the administrators of the Social Marketing Forum and its Facebook page, interviewed Sarah Evans.

Sarah is a public relations and new media consultant, working with many non profit, social good and technology companies.

A self-described “social media freak,” Sarah initiated and moderates #journchat, the weekly live chat between PR professionals, journalists and bloggers on Twitter.

She is also a guest writer for Mashable and runs her own blog at PRsarahevans.com. Finally, she shares a daily resource for PR professionals called Commentz.

A busy bee, if you ask me. Below you can read the full interview.

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