Getting Granular: The DigitalGrit Blog

DigitalGrit - The Best Place to Work in America

...okay, one of the best places to work in America.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) announced the list of the 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America -- and we are on it.

Our co-founders, Dan Lynn and Scott Goldthwaite accepted the honor on Monday in front of 12,000+ adoring fans. (Okay, make that 12,000+ human resources professionals. It's still pretty cool!)

Congratulations to Dan, Scott and everyone at DigitalGrit. It isn't easy to be both a fastest-growing company AND a 'Best Place to Work.' This is an honor not only for our founders, but for all of us.

Let's keep up the great work -- and keep having a great time doing it. Yea, us!

DigitalGrit - The Best Place to Work in America

...okay, one of the best places to work in America.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) announced the list of the 50 Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America -- and we are on it.

Our co-founders, Dan Lynn and Scott Goldthwaite accepted the honor on Monday in front of 12,000+ adoring fans. (Okay, make that 12,000+ human resources professionals. It's still pretty cool!)

Congratulations to Dan, Scott and everyone at DigitalGrit. It isn't easy to be both a fastest-growing company AND a 'Best Place to Work.' This is an honor not only for our founders, but for all of us.

Let's keep up the great work -- and keep having a great time doing it. Yea, us!

Vote for DigitalGrit -- last chance!

Last chance -- voting for MarketingSherpa's Reader's Choice Blog & Podcast Awards ends today.

Cast your vote for the DigitalGrit Blog. Some of our favorite blogs are among the competition, but fortunately, you can vote for as many blogs as you like!

Vote here before midnight tonight, June 26th.

Vote for DigitalGrit -- last chance!

Last chance -- voting for MarketingSherpa's Reader's Choice Blog & Podcast Awards ends today.

Cast your vote for the DigitalGrit Blog. Some of our favorite blogs are among the competition, but fortunately, you can vote for as many blogs as you like!

Vote here before midnight tonight, June 26th.

DigitalGrit's Blog Nominated for MarketingSherpa Award

Yea, us! Getting Granular: The DigitalGrit Blog has secured a nomination for the annual MarketingSherpa Best Blog award!

Yeah! It's time for *you* to cast your vote for
the 3rd Annual Best Blog & Podcasts at:
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=28308
(voting ends this Friday midnight)

This is a "Reader's Choice" so only you can determine
which bloggers and podcasters will bask in the glory
of Sherpa fame.

Lots of great blogs on the list, including many of our favorites. Voting closes at midnight on June 23rd, so please get your votes in today!

DigitalGrit's Blog Nominated for MarketingSherpa Award

Yea, us! Getting Granular: The DigitalGrit Blog has secured a nomination for the annual MarketingSherpa Best Blog award!

Yeah! It's time for *you* to cast your vote for
the 3rd Annual Best Blog & Podcasts at:
http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=28308
(voting ends this Friday midnight)

This is a "Reader's Choice" so only you can determine
which bloggers and podcasters will bask in the glory
of Sherpa fame.

Lots of great blogs on the list, including many of our favorites. Voting closes at midnight on June 23rd, so please get your votes in today!

Free, On-Demand Business Blogging Webinar Now Available

Wondering whether blogs really are essential to your business? 

We've just published an on-demand webinar that can help you see that they are. Even if you're not ready to dive headlong into the blogosphere yourself, you probably should be listening to what the blogs are saying about you (or your brand). And if you are ready to start blogging, we've got some common-sense tips to help you hit your stride.

Take 32 minutes and check out this webinar led by our SVP & GM Scott Delea and Lori Arnold of relevantNOISE. If you thought blogs were just a trend, they'll persuade you otherwise.

Just a reminder: The Webinar is free, but registration is required. (The form's short and we totally respect your privacy.)

Free, On-Demand Business Blogging Webinar Now Available

Wondering whether blogs really are essential to your business? 

We've just published an on-demand webinar that can help you see that they are. Even if you're not ready to dive headlong into the blogosphere yourself, you probably should be listening to what the blogs are saying about you (or your brand). And if you are ready to start blogging, we've got some common-sense tips to help you hit your stride.

Take 32 minutes and check out this webinar led by our SVP & GM Scott Delea and Lori Arnold of relevantNOISE. If you thought blogs were just a trend, they'll persuade you otherwise.

Just a reminder: The Webinar is free, but registration is required. (The form's short and we totally respect your privacy.)

What Search Engine Feeds has done RIGHT with their best blog contest - besides nominating us!

Search Engine Feeds has proven they're worth their salt by launching an SEO-friendly, viral campaign...and they've nominated us as one of their "Featured Feed Sources" in the process.

Before I go any further with this post, be sure to vote for us.

The SEF blog has employed a time-tested and always smart marketing tactic -- the contest. This is the kind of marketing idea I love. It's clever, it's easy, it's cheap (or free) and it's effective on so many levels. Just a few of the things Search Engine Feeds has done -- and that anyone can do -- to make an online contest work.

Capitalizing on the fact that everyone wants to win something, SEF made their contest a battle for "most useful" engine marketing blog. Here are some of the crafty tactics they've employed. Read and learn:

1. They created a hyperlinked list of contestants -- Outbound links are an SEM staple, and key for attracting spiders.

2. They asked everyone to include a link to the contest post on their blog. Assuming their request is honored by all nominees, this brings in the ever-so-important inbound link, the "ying" to the outbound link's "yang."  By having an abundance of both, your site becomes very attractive to spiders. Lots of relevant inbound links also raise your Google page rank, which brings me to ....

3. They've kept they're contest extremely relevant. This is a Search blog creating a contest (and inbound and outbound links) for other Search blogs. Does it get anymore SEO-smart than that?

4. Of course they've syndicated their contest post via RSS, which will ensure that the contest appears in any relevant searches in both Google and Yahoo news.

Add the fact that they've created a viral element by emailing notification to the nominees -- and encouraging us to email it to our friends and colleagues...and you've got a very clever and no-cost marketing campaign.

When you get down to it, good marketing boils down to creativity, hard work, and common sense. This campaign just reminds me of how much fun it is to roll up your sleeves, put your thinking cap on, and create something from nothing.

What Search Engine Feeds has done RIGHT with their best blog contest - besides nominating us!

Search Engine Feeds has proven they're worth their salt by launching an SEO-friendly, viral campaign...and they've nominated us as one of their "Featured Feed Sources" in the process.

Before I go any further with this post, be sure to vote for us.

The SEF blog has employed a time-tested and always smart marketing tactic -- the contest. This is the kind of marketing idea I love. It's clever, it's easy, it's cheap (or free) and it's effective on so many levels. Just a few of the things Search Engine Feeds has done -- and that anyone can do -- to make an online contest work.

Capitalizing on the fact that everyone wants to win something, SEF made their contest a battle for "most useful" engine marketing blog. Here are some of the crafty tactics they've employed. Read and learn:

1. They created a hyperlinked list of contestants -- Outbound links are an SEM staple, and key for attracting spiders.

2. They asked everyone to include a link to the contest post on their blog. Assuming their request is honored by all nominees, this brings in the ever-so-important inbound link, the "ying" to the outbound link's "yang."  By having an abundance of both, your site becomes very attractive to spiders. Lots of relevant inbound links also raise your Google page rank, which brings me to ....

3. They've kept they're contest extremely relevant. This is a Search blog creating a contest (and inbound and outbound links) for other Search blogs. Does it get anymore SEO-smart than that?

4. Of course they've syndicated their contest post via RSS, which will ensure that the contest appears in any relevant searches in both Google and Yahoo news.

Add the fact that they've created a viral element by emailing notification to the nominees -- and encouraging us to email it to our friends and colleagues...and you've got a very clever and no-cost marketing campaign.

When you get down to it, good marketing boils down to creativity, hard work, and common sense. This campaign just reminds me of how much fun it is to roll up your sleeves, put your thinking cap on, and create something from nothing.