Fri.Nov 02, 2012

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How Social Media Reflects Human Behaviour

Mindjumpers

How to successfully connect and engage with your customers and consumers via social media is the natural focus point of our blog, as this is Mindjumpers’ field of expertise. We guide and advice brands on how to take on the challenges of brand communication on the various social media networks and platforms. But to be truly successful, you initially have to think beyond the business aspect.

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How To Go Viral Gangnam Style: Great Content, Great Marketing, Or Both?

The Realtime Report

South Korean rapper Psy’s music video Gangnam Style became a viral phenomenon across the globe, racking up video views and spurring remakes, parodies and dance performances worldwide. The video debuted on July 15, 2012. By September 20th it had received the most likes of any YouTube video, according to Guinness World Records. What fueled this meteoric rise in popularity – the content, the marketing, celebrity tweeting, or some combination of these elements?

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Should Everything be Free Online?

Direct Marketing Observations

Chances are, you have given away more than you have charged for…. For a lot of people, what they expect and get from their digital experiences isn’t even close to being reality. Want a few easy examples? OK. One of the most prevalent business models in the online world is to build a product or service and then give it away for free. Another prevalent business model in the online world is to build a product or service, give it away for free while trying to make money on people buying “other” thin

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Social Networking Stats: LinkedIn Tops 187 Million Active Users, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook. Twitter: over 500 million users. via Twopcharts. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. via TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 368 million users. via China Daily. Renren: over 170 million users. via iResearch iUser Tracker. LinkedIn: 187 million active users. via LinkedIn.

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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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Smartphone Marketing Is On The Rise

Small Business Mavericks

You know how I feel about mobile marketing. It’s here and it’s time to start using it. Well, a recent report indicates that Smartphone click traffic has gone up 105% year over year. The same study shows that tablet traffic has increased 339%. This is just more evidence that mobile marketing is coming into its own. And it’s just the beginning.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup & Share Your Best Post

Kikolani

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+ , retweeted on @kikolani , and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Blogging / Content. 21 Business Blogging Tips From the Pros – Business bloggers, follow these hot blogging tips from top experts to craft a strong content strategy and create the

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The Microsoft Surface's Beauty is Only "Surface Deep"

Stay N' Alive

As a long-time Microsoft fan (my first computers were all PCs), and with all my excitement about Windows 8, I was very excited about the Microsoft Surface. In fact, I was so excited that despite Press not getting complimentary Surface tablets (or even trial ones) at Microsoft's recent Windows Build conference, I went out and bought my own. With all the hype Microsoft was giving it - run all your Windows apps across every Microsoft device, in a beautiful, comfortable environment - I was anxious t

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The Responsibility Of Twitter

Twist Image

What is Twitter doing to ensure that the information we read and share is accurate? This is the crux of a New York Times article posted on October 31st, 2012. It could well be one of the most important reads about Twitter (and, social media) in a long, long time. The article titled, On Twitter, Sifting Through Falsehoods in Critical Times , looks at many of the false tweets and information that were being floated around on Twitter during Hurricane Sandy.

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12 Lessons from 4 Inspiring Local Business Blogs

ProBlogger

Earlier this week I explained why every business needs a blog. Today I want to show you just how much potential there is for businesses to connect with their customers through a blog. Image courtesy stock.xchng user zd The blogs I’ve chosen here are all for small businesses I know of. I’ve tried to look at local businesses, so most of them are Melbourne-based, though the lessons they teach should be useful for any business thinking of starting a blog.

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School PR, give Google a chance & bad salt water

Jeff Esposito

What a roller coaster of a week. First there was Sandy (thoughts and prayers are still with friends and family in Jersey/NY) followed up by a sick day and now ending the week with a few days alone with baby Espo. Hopefully your week was good and if you were impacted by Sandy that things are starting to get back to normal. Have a great weekend and catch you on Monday.

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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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How to Future Proof Your Website or Blog

Idaconcpts

There is a lot written online about the importance of ‘future proofing your SEO’. What’s meant by this of course is protecting your SEO practices against potential future changes to Google’s algorithms, and of course this comes in the wake of the recent big changes Google has made that go by the Penguin and Panda handles respectively. This was a great demonstration of the fact that it’s not good enough to just market your website according to current marketing principles – you also need to do it

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