Raven Internet Marketing Blog

Four Free Raven Tools Training Webinars

Whether you’re a new or longtime user, you’ll benefit from at least one of the upcoming Raven Tools webinars. Here’s a sneak peek: “White Labeling with Raven Tools” Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 3 p.m. CST Raven Tools has a variety of white-labeling features that allow you to completely customize ...

Case Study: How BancVue Interactive Uses Raven

Timothy Nobles is the Director of SEO for BancVue Interactive (formerly FIRST ROI), based in Austin, Texas. Timothy used Raven Internet Marketing Tools since its inception at two different companies with reseller models that focused primarily on local search. Both companies operated under fast-paced, high-stress environments, and we were curious ...

How (and Who) to Ask for Help with Raven Tools

As Raven’s User Experience Manager, my goal to make sure that every single one of our users receives the best support possible. If it weren’t for you, there would be no us, and that’s something I take extremely seriously. When you need help: If you’re working in the system and ...

Personal Branding is Bullshit

Let me rephrase: “personal brand” is a made-up term for “person.” A company needs a brand, an identity. A company is paperwork filed with the government. A logo, a slogan, a design style, an advertising or marketing campaign — these things help create a personality for the company. This week ...

How to Manage Privacy for Facebook Places

I continue to count the days until Diaspora becomes a reality. While it’s still somewhat vaporware, I love the idea of having a privacy aware, personally controlled, open source social network. For now, though, we have Facebook to contend with. Facebook has been taking a beating lately in the privacy ...

Tip Tuesday: Team Link Building with Raven Tools

For many of us, there is more than one cook in the link building kitchen. Link building with multiple people generally is inefficient, and as a result, reduces the amount of time those people could be spending building even more links or some other value-added online marketing effort. Raven provides ...

Feature Friday: Updates to Link Manager, Twitter, SERP Tracker and AdWords

The big news this week was the launch of our new Twitter tool! The tool automatically monitors Twitter accounts, schedules tweets, provides interactive views for the timeline, mentions and your profile views, and also outputs professional campaign reports for clients and managers. We have several updates to tell you about: ...

My Face Builds Links! So Should Yours!

If you aren’t building and leveraging a personal brand as part of an overall business strategy, then you are wasting your time. Brands, whether personal or corporate, exist to make money, not get free drinks at the next conference. There are many ways to leverage a personal brand for business ...

Stress Balls and Army Squirrels at SES San Francisco and Affiliate Summit East

Next week the Raven Tools team will attend Search Engine Strategies (SES) San Francisco and Affiliate Summit East in NYC, and we’d love to meet with you! SES San Francisco Stop by our booth (No. 817) and grab some awesome Raven swag! We’ll have Raven T-shirts AND Matt Cutts stress ...

Tip Tuesday: Display Settings

As we roll out new features to Raven Tools virtually daily, we’re mindful of how these new additions are displayed for you to see and use. Because our customers use the tools in a myriad of ways, we wanted display settings that were as flexible as possible. But sometimes these ...