Convince & Convert

APRIL 1, 2015

Please stop wasting your money promoting your social media accounts. Now, I stood here and looked at this sign for quite a while to see if anybody would actually pause to note what this sign was, and jot down one of the social media accounts. The fact that you actually exist in social media is irrelevant.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 30, 2015

20 Sites to Get Free Stock Images for Commercial Use by Social Media Today. ” 53+ Free Image Sources For Your Blog and Social Media Posts by Buffer Social. Reviews of Free Image Sites. ” His recommendations include Realistic Shots , Free Nature Stock and Kaboompics.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 3, 2015

I thought of this when reading How a Simple Online Marketing Strategy Resurrected Molem Kgomo’s African Doll Business on Destiny. So the dolls sat in Kgomo’s garage, being marketed by word of mouth and door-to-door sales. Social media is a great marketing platform if it is used with care.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 30, 2015

unmarketing Tweet This Go Negative Scott Stratten’s viral, social, and authentic marketing agency, UnMarketing , keeps him pretty busy. So do his books , like UnMarketing and UnSelling, his UnPodcast , and being one of Forbes’ top social media power influencers.

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Firebelly

MARCH 30, 2015

By now social media campaigns are an integral part of many businesses. So if you are a restaurant who focuses solely on local and seasonal items, it would be in your best interest to garner relationships on social channels with those who are influencers in that space. Are you a all-natural, gluten free granola bar company?

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Firebelly

MARCH 30, 2015

By now social media campaigns are an integral part of many businesses. So if you are a restaurant who focuses solely on local and seasonal items, it would be in your best interest to garner relationships on social channels with those who are influencers in that space. Are you a all-natural, gluten free granola bar company?

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Influencer Engagement Sample Samples 100

Convince & Convert

APRIL 2, 2015

In their haste to produce marketing messages that demonstrate the value of their products and services, many companies default to the text-heavy, jargon-loaded, spec-focused content they relied on in the analog days. Visual Marketing Magic. The Programmatic Mind educates marketers and explores programmatic advertising trends.

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Rebekah Radice

MARCH 30, 2015

Ever wonder how to connect, engage and create meaningful social media conversations ? Social networking has revolutionized the way your business is making connections. Today, building relationships is as simple as logging into your favorite social network. 25 No-Fail Social Media Questions. Sure you have!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 31, 2015

And the Convince & Convert Media division provides digital advice to marketers and business owners via this blog (10 posts per week), our daily email ( The One Thing ), our 4 podcasts, ebooks, books, speaking and beyond. Super easy to use, great way to work with guest contributors, and automated social when new blog posts go live.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 31, 2015

On July 1 of 2014, the world’s biggest advertiser officially killed marketing. As part of a big reorganization at Proctor & Gamble (P&G), every marketing team was renamed “brand management” and hundreds of marketing directors shifted titles to become brand directors. Consumers don’t like to be marketed to.

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Ari Herzog

MARCH 31, 2015

Related Stories How to Be Productive on Facebook Strategies and Tips on Social Media Marketing Like, Comment, or Share This. Media Productivity Facebook LinkedIn' If you use one over the other, feel free to invite me to be your connection or friend and I’ll gladly say yes. Thanks for reading.

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Devumi

APRIL 3, 2015

This is the basis for a concept called ‘social proof.’ The most extreme case of social proof is viral videos which become famous for being so famous! This is the social proof concept discussed above. You will very, very rarely get any clicks to other videos, to your website, or to other social channels.

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Net-Savvy Executive

APRIL 2, 2015

Shortly after last month''s announcement of the new Facebook topic data service from DataSift , another kind of change showed up in my inbox: the impending disappearance of Facebook post data from social media monitoring tools. Social media analysis' It''s meant for broad analysis, not monitoring or engagement.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 30, 2015

While the zombie apocalypse isn’t a reality, online marketing is, and there are actually striking similarities. This is a quote from A Survival Guide for the Overwhelmed Online Marketer from Search Engine Journal’s SEO 101 Series. That’s P for Priorities , those basic online marketing survival strategies.

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Proactive Report

APRIL 3, 2015

The 2015 Media Trends Affecting Online Newsrooms highlighted 9 areas where companies, both large and small, are missing opportunities. The public and the media want visual content. Connect to the brand’s social media channels. SEO is no longer a mysterious skill the IT or internet marketing people have.

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Proactive Report

APRIL 1, 2015

The 2015 PRESSfeed/SNCR Media Trends report shows that almost 100% of companies – large and small – are using some form of social media marketing. Probably the biggest, and most costly, mistake is to just jump in and start posting content on social sites without a plan. It holds true in social content.

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Danny WhatMough

MARCH 30, 2015

Because “everything is now digital”, there is pressure on marketers and PR professionals to give clear metrics to measure campaign success. But I think there are equally vacant metrics in the social space too – engagement or reach are increasingly bandied around as proof points for the success of campaigns. marketing'

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Social Media Network Marketing

MARCH 30, 2015

Building Your Community On Social Media I Work As Freelance Social Media Network Professional And Review OnLine Earning Opportunities. ? HERE ARE COUPLE OF LINKS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE EARNING QUICK REFERENCE: 1. T SU the Social Media Network has crossed the 3 million Users mark! ?

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 31, 2015

A well-written and consistently updates business blog is a vital core element of a successful content marketing program. Yet blogging requires considerably less expense and effort than other top marketing tactics like live events, webinars, and video. How can you increase your content marketing footprint through guest blogging?

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 28, 2015

Professional marketers and communications from around the world got a preview of a new brand identity at the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Leadership Institute (LI) conference that took place in Orlando recently. Related posts: Branding you: using social media to find a job. Branding turkeys.

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Social Media Strategery

MARCH 29, 2015

According to a 2013 Forbes survey , 68% of CMOs and marketing executives put integrated marketing communications ahead of “effective advertising” (65%), when they were asked what the most important thing is that they want from an agency. you’ve got an integrated marketing team. The paid media guy wants a paid media solution.

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Kikolani

APRIL 3, 2015

Each week, I’ll share with you the top posts on online marketing and productivity. Content Marketing. 7 Companies That Are Dominating Content Marketing by John Rampton. Search Engine Marketing. Social Media Marketing. 6 Ways to Market Your Small Business for Less Than $100 by Victoria Treyger.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 1, 2015

In business, it’s easy to silo operations like marketing into a single, separate function. Marketing that isn’t really integrated with the rest of the company is like this. In today’s easy social media platform, an irritated customer can vent online and the fire of their discontent spreads rapidly.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 2, 2015

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