It’s almost time for the Super Bowl – a bonanza for marketers, beer drinkers and football fans alike! Seeing as many of us Ravens are all three, we’re pretty excited. Way back in the summer of 2011, we started a few fantasy football leagues that have been the source of lots of fun and smack …

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If you’ve been in the Internet marketing industry for a while, chances are you’ve heard of writer, marketer and consultant Joe Hall. Whether you’ve seen him speak at a conference, read his writing on Marketing Pilgrim or his own blog or had the good luck to spend some time with him in person, you might …

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Dear Raven customer, A little more than a year ago, I wrote that I was astonished by how quickly Raven had been adopted by Internet marketers. Since its inception, Raven has transformed from an SEO-only toolset to a full-fledged Internet marketing platform. What astonishes me today is the continuous dedication of the Raven team. The …

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Raven Tools is scheduling our editorial calendar for 2012 now, and we want you to write for us! In 2011, we had amazing guest posts from smart Internet marketing folks like Joe Hall, Sean Dolan, Justin Briggs and lots more. In 2012, we’re looking for even more Internet marketers to join our guest posting ranks. …

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We held our first-ever #Ravenchat Nov. 30, and if you weren’t there, you missed out! It’s always fun for us to talk to our super-smart customers and help them dive even deeper into Raven Tools, but it’s even better to watch them talk and share with one another. Below, you’ll find a timeline of all …

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In the swirl of holiday events and year-end resolution-making, Ravens will mostly be staying put in December, working on tweaks to our recently-announced social media tools and Research Central. But you can find us at one conference in December… SMX Social Media Marketing Community Manager Courtney Seiter (that’s me!) will be talking social media tools at SMX …

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We’re hiring again. Raven’s talented Art Director Jeff Crump, who designed (and re-designed!) Raven’s marketing website, is now working on our product design full-time. Raven is busy releasing so many new tools (think real-time social media management tools), application improvements (think in-product Help screencasts like the one for Research Central) and user-friendly design features (think …

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It’s a question we get a lot. If Raven has a main company Twitter account—@RavenTools—then why do Raven employees use Raven Twitter handles, too? Like this… @RavenArienne (that’s me) @RavenJon (Jon Henshaw) @RavenPratt (Taylor Pratt) @RavenCourts (Courtney Seiter) @RavenGiant (Brannan Atkinson) …and so on. (There are more. Go follow them if you like.) This question …

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All work and no play just isn’t Raven’s style. So while we worked pretty hard at PubCon 2011, promoting our brand-new social media tools and premiering another new tool that’ll be rolling out soon, we also had some fun. We rented out the MGM Grand’s poker room for a private tournament with 100 of our …

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For regular people, November is all about fall leaves, football and Thanksgiving. For Internet marketers, November is all about conferences, panels and furious note-taking. Yes, it’s the most wonderful time of year, when conferences like BlogWorld, PubCon and SES Chicago all mush together in a glorious haze of SEO, booze and late nights. Here’s where …

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