Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Image via BigStockPhoto.com Virtual conferences just may be my favorite marketing tactic that I have clanging around in my tool box. The recent Outreach Marketing Virtual Summit took place at the end of the September and was our best online event yet! It featured over 30 presentations from thought leaders in the marketing.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 9, 2014

Content calendars can be an excellent tool to plot out your social outreach strategy for creating and sharing content over time. It may be tempting to fill in the calendar with all the marketing info you possibly can and call it a day. Schedule it in Sprout Social or Hootsuite and you’re done. All good right? Yes and no.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 4, 2014

I post a lot of updates on social media some for marketing and others for social selling activities. It was a rough life so I decided to do a bit of research and find a social marketing hack or method that would give me shortened URLs in bulk. Bulk URL Shortening Tool for Social Marketing.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Instead of paying for marketing, an army of volunteers spreads the word by hitting the “share” button and that content is seen repeatedly for who knows how long. I know I’m not surprised when I see something come around social media again, because it happens all the time. What Makes Content Sharable?

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Absolute PA

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Working with other small business owners on their modern marketing strategies, I’ve noticed that the same fears and frustrations come up – no matter how unique as individuals they are, or what type of business they own. You don’t have to be on 2, 3, 4 or even 5 social networks. Stick to ONE! Streamline and K.I.S.S.

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Diva Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2014

South Wired is the longest on-going social media/digital marketing conference in Atlanta. South Wired is 5 days packed with smart people talking about issues of how to succeed in the ever changing and challenging world of digital marketing. We''d start at ground zero, or the heart of social media, the people. .

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Devumi

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Instagram hashtag marketing instagram marketing online marketing social media marketing' Photo credit to Rosa on Flickr. The post New Instagram Embedding – Great News for Businesses on Instagram! appeared first on Devumi Blog.

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Absolute PA

OCTOBER 4, 2014

And, as we develop our skills to serve others, we think the marketing and selling will simply fall into place…. Another mistake I see is this… Thinking that you’re doing the right things to attract new clients – using social media, paying for an expensive website re-design, blogging regularly.

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Diva Marketing Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2014

South Wired is the longest on-going social media/digital marketing conference in Atlanta. South Wired is 5 days packed with smart people talking about issues of how to succeed in the ever changing and challenging world of digital marketing. We'd start at ground zero, or the heart of social media, the people. .

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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 8, 2014

It was amazing what happened and I contribute my rankings to two things… First, high quality content creates user engagement because I had more social shares then any of my competitors which ranked my content higher than them. When I look through my report, I’ve noticed I’m ranking for keywords WITHOUT any link building efforts.

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Social Media Network Marketing

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Let''s see if you can name The 10 Most Used Social Media Websites As Of October2014 You will be able to name many - Like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn. VK stands for the Russian Social Media Platform. VK is the largest Russian Social Networking Platform in Europe. but did you think of Vine?

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Social Media Network Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The Never Ending Problem in Social Media = Content The Never Ending Solution To This Problem = UGC [User Generated Content] Agree?'

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Devumi

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Try to match your username from Twitter or other social platforms so that things look like they lining up. Maybe they don’t want to follow you on SoundCloud, but if they dig your tracks they will follow you on one of the above social platforms and they will come back and listen to you again. Start getting social.

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Danny WhatMough

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Here’s my weekly round-up of things you need to know and might have missed this last week in the world of digital PR and social media. The final of Bake Off saw plenty of opportunities for real-time social marketing. Want this in your inbox each week? Subscribe here. Buzzfeed adds a ‘buy now’ button.

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Visually SM

OCTOBER 7, 2014

With news outlets like Forbes, The Washington Post, and even the New York Times welcoming brand journalism with native advertising opportunities, marketers need to be careful that they aren’t misleading or blurring the lines between “real journalism” and straight advertising. Good for awareness-level activities. This is a controversial one.

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