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Sock Monkeys Against Cancer Reaches Tipping Point

Waxing UnLyrical

WTF? (for lung cancer). Earlier this month, Jennifer Stauss Windrum wrote a moving guest post on her campaign to generate awareness around lung cancer. If you haven’t yet read it, please do go read it, because she tells her story much better than I ever could. Long story short, her mom contracted lung cancer without ever having smoked. She is dying from this disease – yes, dying.

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How to Reach Social Success with Contextual Marketing

Mindjumpers

The following post is part of the Mindjumpers Network series and written by our Community Manager, Sara Hansson. Mindjumpers Network is a global network of local country community managers enabling international companies to execute and maintain brand communities in a structured, quality assured and cost effective way across markets with the aim of creating effect and value.

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5 Must-Reads On Social Media & Cyber Monday

Firebelly

Take a look at the impact (or lack thereof) social media has on Cyber Monday in today’s must-reads. Cyber Monday: Facebook Adds Social Gifting Service. By Nick Trenchard Facebook is gearing up for the holiday season and expanding its roster of online retailers to help the social media giant transition into the world of e-commerce. Social networks fail Cyber Monday test.

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Social Advertising: Growth of Native Ads To Outpace Display

The Realtime Report

Spending on paid social media advertising will reach $4.6 billion in 2012 and is expected to double over the next 4 years, reaching $9.2 billion by 2016, according to a new report from BIA/Kelsey. For the first time, the report broke out spending on native social advertising vs. display social advertising ( Adweek ). Native ads running on social media sites (ex.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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A Guide to Multilingual SEO Strategy

Idaconcpts

With foreign languages experiencing exponential online growth, it’s important to consider whether or not multilingual SEO might be of benefit to your company. There are still many opportunities to carve out niche footholds in foreign language sectors by utilizing top performing keywords to attract international attention, in domain names, URLs and within the content of your website itself.

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Instagram Users Share Over 200 Photos Per Second On Thanksgiving

The Realtime Report

photo credit: Instagram user @yo_randyjackson. Thanksgiving set a new record for Instagram, with users of the mobile app sharing photos at a rate of 226 per second at the peak of the holiday. A whopping 10 million photos were shared on the platform, and for several hours users were posting more than 200 photos per second “that mentioned Thanksgiving-themed words in their captions.” It was Instagram’s busiest day ever, and saw double the number of shared photos from the day befo

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The Pixar Guide to Feel-Good Blogging

Kikolani

This is a guest post by David Masters. Is your blog sending out subtle signals for your readers to unsubscribe? Most top bloggers will tell you that to hold on to your readers, you must give them value. Value means the providing information they need to solve their common problems. For example, a photography blogger might write a blog post on choosing a new camera, which is a common dilemma for photographers.

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Look, It’s Cyber Monday!

Small Business Mavericks

Cyber Monday is the Monday that follows Black Friday. It’s also traditionally the biggest online shopping day of the year. And ever year it keeps growing as more and more people go online to make purchases, presumably for the coming Christmas season and multiple holidays that take place this time of year. So what happens if you own an online store and haven’t planned any specials for Cyber Monday like your competition has?

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How many social networks can you handle?

Jeff Esposito

I like to consider myself pretty tech and social media savvy. However, I have recently found myself pondering how many networks I could realistically handle on a personal basis. In my day job, I am constantly evaluating networks and what resources would be needed to add them to the company’s mix. Unfortunately, that due diligence and tightening of the belt rarely happens when I am farting around with my phone or playing on a computer.

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5 Off-Line Marketing Tactics Equally Effective Online (And Lower Cost!)

The Social Media Incubator

In the old days, (say, 7 years ago), small and mid-size businesses relied on simple yet effective ways of promoting themselves and reaching the customers they wanted to reach. Some of these promotional tactics can also be accomplished online. Here are 5 old-world marketing ideas that can be carried over to your online marketing strategy , some at a lower cost than their more traditional fore-bearers, with a new-world spin: Newsletters – Remember when you had to write your newsletter, get it desi

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Cartoon of the day

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Blog Design for ROI Rule 2: Highlight Your Key Content

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Gab Goldenberg, author of The Advanced SEO Book. Previously in the Blog Design for ROI series , I discussed the importance of prioritizing your email optin form within your page layout. The next best use of space in your design is to highlight your key content. Why does highlighting your key content matter? There are a few reasons why this is important.

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How Social Media is Changing Customer Service

Akamai Marketing

Stay Akamai: Employee Policy and Social Media – A Change. Social media is changing employee policy and customer service and not just because there are now new platforms for customer service. One of the more disruptive effects of social media has been the head-on collision at intersections of business, consumers and employees. In today’s world, everyone is a publisher.

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How to Target 25-40 Year-olds Online

ProBlogger

This guest post us by Genevieve Flintham of www.stagweb.co.uk. Pictures of the day’s events, winter landscapes, and memorable quotes. Titles laden with puns, facts, and intrigue. An architectural layout that’s accomplished, savvy, and uncomplicated. Each target group demands a different set of things when it comes to websites and blogs, but in this instance we’re going to look purely at users aged between 25 and 40.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.