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Content marketing can be an extremely complicated, time-consuming, and expensive proposition! So I came up with content options for the time-starved! Let’s face it. Content development can be a complicated, time-consuming, and expensive proposition! So I started thinking about this in the context of my friends and small business customers who simply can’t afford that kind of effort. It led to this idea: micro-content, or creating small bits of marketing content when you don’t have time to blog, create videos or spend all day on Facebook. Let’s examine ideas about using micro-content for your social media strategy, assuming you are testing the water and only have 15 minutes a day to devote to this activity. Hey, I’m up for a challenge! Preparation Like any marketing initiative, you must have a firm idea of your strategy, selling points, and target audience... Read more: http://bit.ly/LEiFKi
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Value is the currency on the Web, and the more value you create, the more people will flock to you. It has been said give till it hurts and you will receive it back in spades. There are some secrets regarding social media that I’d like to share.
I’m a bit of a hard-core social media user and I’ve been doing web and content development for many years now. Because I have been online for a very long time (pre-graphical Web), I am pretty attuned to what constitutes authentic and cooperative behavior online. There are things that set apart the altruistic contributor (check out this cool thing!), for instance, from the self-serving ones (buy my stuff!).
If you do nothing else this year, consider shifting your social media strategy to encompass increasingly pro-social guidelines. The more you give, the more the community will give back, but it needs to be done with a sensitive hand. Read more: http://bit.ly/LvDTsm
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How small business can perform better than brands in social media by focusing on simple goals, being human, ensuring satisfaction and measuring ROI... I currently have the fortune to experience two different fronts of digital marketing. Under Plural, I work with brands and, with SocialMouths I mostly jam with small business, personal brands, and bloggers. One of the reasons I absolutely love this setup is that they are two different worlds in how the social web is approached, how it’s handled and how success is measured. So I’m here to tell you that, despite the ridiculous budgets and unlimited resources, small business has a huuuge advantage over brands when it come to social media. Here are my thoughts: Strategy. Or Not? Read more: http://bit.ly/JkdIDq
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What do you use as your daily Social Media dashboard every day?
Most likely not Twitter.com I am guessing.
Yet, in recent months, there were a great number of browser extensions released, specifically for Twitter.com. They help you create a much greater experience right inside Twitter.com. What I like best about this is that you are in charge regarding how many bells and whistles you are adding. You can basically fully customize your own Social Media dashboard. So here are my top 5 finds you can use to make Twitter.com a truly powerful Social Media tool for you:... Read more: http://bit.ly/IjmxO3
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Have you become desensitized and disillusioned with Twitter? Do you feel like you are suffering from Twitter Tiredness? Do you feel like you are “tweeting in the dark”, spending more and more time on Twitter but getting less and less out of it? I know the story. A few months (or years) ago, you signed up for a Twitter account. You dutifully wrote a clever bio, uploaded your picture and started tweeting. Maybe you followed some accounts and learned a bit about the culture and etiquette of the network before sending your first tweet. After following a few people and building a following of your own, you started following more and more and retweeting more and more, all while spending less and less time engaging in conversations and writing original tweets. Read more: http://www.business2community.com/twitter/how-to-spend-less-time-on-twitter-and-get-more-out-of-it-0160103
Via Martin Gysler
A tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products... You can start right now with your Google+ [note mg] Taking full advantage of the SEO and PPC benefits associated with a strong Google Plus presence requires creating a complete Google Plus Brand Page. The following post serves as a tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products. For more detail on the SEO benefits of Google+ for individual user accounts, check out AJ Kohn’s amazing and comprehensive post.
Creating a Brand Page
Brand Pages are created only after logging in to an existing Google+ personal account. Read more: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/google-plus-brand-pages-complete-guide/06042012/
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This question should interest every entrepreneur and someone who is active in one way or another on social media. These different options will give you the necessary support. [note mg] Imagine that you’ve spent years building a business and growing a website. You launch a promotion to email a list of potential customers with exciting new opportunities to save lots of money by doing business with you. Did you email too many people, or did you email the wrong people? Did someone turn you in as a “spammer” to one of the many spammer blacklist organizations out there?
Everyone hates real spammers, and the last thing you want to do is get labeled as one. That’s one kind of blacklist. The other kind is worse – the search engine blacklist. That’s the one that is basically a death sentence for your site because Google and other search engines stop crawling your site or even listing it in search results. No blacklist is good to get, because ISP’s and many content filtering services access Internet blacklists to figure out not only what email to block, but also what websites to block or to mark as potentially dangerous.
How do you know you’re on the Google List or any other database of blacklisted sites? Read more: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-ways-find-google-list-blacklisted-sites/
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Congratulations, you’ve made it.
You’ve worked hard and paid your dues, and finally you have a blog with healthy traffic and a large list of engaged subscribers.
You know what they need, and you’ve invested the time and energy to create a product that will meet and exceed their expectations. Now all that’s left for you to do is launch the product, and rake in the cash. I mean, at this point, what could go wrong? Well, the truth is that a lot could go wrong. Even with a great product and an engaged audience, success isn’t guaranteed. You still have to launch the thing properly. Here’s how to do it… Read more: http://bit.ly/GLVVGS
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A great post from Mari Smith. After reading this 21 key points, you'll know all what you need, to set your Facebook fan page in a professionnal way. [note mg] If you have not yet converted your Facebook fan page over to the new Timeline design, your page will automatically convert on March 30th, 2012 which is coming up fast. This post covers the majority of basic settings and features you need to know. Even if you’ve upgraded, you’ll find some tips here! First, review this marked up screenshot for a tour of most of the features — click the image to view full size (you may need to click again on the image on the next page):... Read more: http://www.marismith.com/facebook-timeline-for-business-pages-key-points-know/#
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Twitter was never designed to be a social network but it has become one.
In fact it was designed initially in 2006 to used by individuals as an SMS type service to communicate with a small group at the podcasting company Odeo.
When I first joined Twitter in 2008, I was underwhelmed and wondered as to its usefulness. Its early attraction to me was its novelty factor. It has overcome this challenge and four years later it has built an impressive resume. Over 140 million active users as of 2012 Generates over 340 million tweets daily Handles over 1.6 billion search queries per day Tenth most visited site on the internet In the nearly six years since its founding over 600 million users have registered Twitter accounts. Read more: http://bit.ly/LmNT9N
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With the connection of AdWords to Google+ Pages via Social Extensions, Google is enticing advertisers to build a presence on the site. As expected, Google continues to advance its efforts to make Google+ a success as it further integrates the social platform into its core products to encourage adoption and increase activity. With the recent connection of AdWords to Google+ Pages via Social Extensions, Google is enticing AdWords advertisers to build a strong presence on the social site. By enabling Social Extensions, consumers will be able to see all recommendations a brand has received, whether they are viewing a paid ad, a search result or your Google+ Page. There are currently two types of Social Extensions: Personal and Basic. Personal shows you the number of people within your Google+ Circle who have +1’d your landing page or your Google+ Page, while Basic shows how many people across the web have +1’d your page. Read more: http://bit.ly/KUBskC
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Want the skinny on using Pinterest to promote your b2b marketing? Follow these five tips and kick-start your brand’s expansion into this emerging social media phenomenon. 1. Advertising and infographics rule the b2b marketing pins Today, B2B marketers can get tons of great examples of award winning infographics and advertising campaigns on Pinterest. For that alone it’s an amazing resource. However, for other types of marketing, well, my fellow marketers, we have some work to do. Imagine a Pinterest page filled with pins of amazing fashion, inspirational interior design, stunning landscapes, and a screenshot of your low production value product demo video…um, it’s nice you have a presence, but how does that pin of a crappy screenshot of a crappy video look next to the rest of these other magnificent pins? Read more: http://bit.ly/Jc8ObA
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Maybe you’ve been distracted lately by Tupac’s hologram stealing the show at Coachella, but if you’ll allow me, I’d like to turn the conversation to content marketing for a moment. Okay, maybe a few moments—get comfy. From the bold strategy Coca-Cola shared with the public, to debates over whether content marketing sucks, content marketing has captured quite a bit of Internet attention, and it doesn’t seem to be letting up. But one thing I’ve noticed is most people are focusing on the marketing part, and not so much on the content part. The general consensus is that quality content is the way to high rankings, traffic, and conversions. But while I’ve read a lot of posts that say you need quality content, I haven’t seen many that outline exactly how to create it. There seems to be a disconnect between copywriting advice, and content marketing how-tos. So let’s connect those dots. Read more: http://bit.ly/HW3YDc
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A tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products... You can start right now with your Google+ [note mg] Taking full advantage of the SEO and PPC benefits associated with a strong Google Plus presence requires creating a complete Google Plus Brand Page. The following post serves as a tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products. For more detail on the SEO benefits of Google+ for individual user accounts, check out AJ Kohn’s amazing and comprehensive post. Read more: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/google-plus-brand-pages-complete-guide/06042012/
Via Martin Gysler, Robin Good
A tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products... You can start right now with your Google+ [note mg] Taking full advantage of the SEO and PPC benefits associated with a strong Google Plus presence requires creating a complete Google Plus Brand Page. The following post serves as a tactical guide for Google Plus covering page creation, daily management, and key optimizations with other Google products. For more detail on the SEO benefits of Google+ for individual user accounts, check out AJ Kohn’s amazing and comprehensive post.
Creating a Brand Page
Brand Pages are created only after logging in to an existing Google+ personal account. Read more: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/blog/google-plus-brand-pages-complete-guide/06042012/
Via Martin Gysler
Some very interesting ways to improve your business in this year. [note mg] Social media is big in business circles and every business is scrambling to implement social media strategies to take advantage of this new opportunity. If your business is not already on the social media bandwagon, you still have time to create a social media strategy and start getting social. Here is a list of the top 30 ways your business should leverage social media this year. The list is by no means exhaustive and any other ideas you may have are welcome. Read more: http://www.instantshift.com/2012/03/28/30-ways-your-business-should-leverage-social-media-this-year/
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Wow, an amazing way to start or improve your social media strategy. In this post you'll find all what you need to do a great job! [note mg] Clarify your objectives and discover your route to social media success. This step-by-step guide will take you from tentative novice to intrepid explorer, and help you make the right decisions unique to your business. Read more: http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/microsites/guide-to-social-media-success/
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Here are ten concrete steps to finding and growing the social media influencers in your particular market. Because, as you know it's often the most difficult step in our business. [note mg] Why is an influencer strategy so important? It can help drive your social media execution. It can be a core part of your search engine optimization strategy. Ultimately, if done correctly, it will drive sales and position your organization as one of the leading experts in the field. There is no right way to developing and cultivating relationships with the influencers in your industry, but here are 10 steps to get you started in the right direction. Read more: http://blog.junta42.com/2011/02/finding-social-media-influencers-market/
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