Thu.May 24, 2012

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Promoting A Small Business Blog Through Social Media

Small Business Mavericks

A small business blog has a number of benefits, however, it can also be a tax on valuable time resources. Having a blog is, too a certain extent, a waste of time if you don’t have the resources to actually promote it, to put the content in front of readers. Once you build a readership, you can spend less time promoting your blog’s content, however, in the early days, promotion is as equally important as publishing the content.

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Twitter Analytics… we’re waiting

Josh S Peters

The Twitter Analytics we were promised. in 2011. and never got. I wrote a post for WebProNews, Dear Twitter Analytics… You’re Late , that was 1/2 rant and 1/2 informational. The rant is about how long it’s been that Twitter has promised us analytics, but never delivered. It’s truly a gross tale of broken promises and underachievement.

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Happy 5th Birthday to My Blog

Ari Herzog

May 14 marked the fifth birthday of my blog. It’s seen two URLs, multiple names, and numerous iterations. If you’ve never visited the archive , you can trace my beginning blog posts about apartment life and the environment and discover my first posts about social media. Despite writing about the death of blogging one month ago, this blog is not dying.

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Every Little Detail

Twist Image

"I'm not a very detail-oriented person." I find myself saying this to many people all too often. The funny thing is, that I have been lying. Yesterday, at the C2 MTL event being held in Montreal, Ian Schrager (world famous for Studio 54 and the boutique hotel movement) said this (and I'm paraphrasing here): "You never know which little detail is going to be important, so they all have to be great.

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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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Digital PR: Finding Brand Ambassadors

Proactive Report

In the last post 10 Tips to Increase Earned Media the first tip was to find and partner with brand ambassadors. A recent report from SODA – the Society for Digital Agencies - clearly shows that earned media is king. So what, or who, are we looking for to increase this earned media? What exactly is a brand ambassador? You need to find people or groups who already love and support your brand and would be delighted to forward your message.

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14 Proven Ways to Simplify Your Blogging and Get More Done

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Nick Thacker of Livehacked.com. We’ve all had that feeling of impending doom: “My readers are expecting me to post tomorrow, but I haven’t even answered my emails, check my Analytics stats, or responded to the Twitter shout-outs. There’s just no way I can get it all done…”. Or something like that. If you’ve ever felt like the pressures of maintaining a blog—not to mention the rest of your business—are becoming too much, it could be time to simplify what you’re doing.

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A Technophobe’s No-tears Guide to Podcasting

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Carol Tice of Make a Living Writing. You’ve probably heard that adding multimedia to your blog is a great way to grow your audience. But if you’re like me, and technology makes you assume the fetal position and cry like an overtired baby, you may have put off the idea. The good news is that after pulling out half of my hair grappling with a half-dozen different podcasting platforms and audio-editing programs, I discovered there is a simple way to create, embed,

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How People Spend Their Time Online [Infographic]

Mindjumpers

Tweet On our blog , we have previously written about an infographic that illustrates how social networking accounts for a huge amount of time spend online and relates content sharing to brands , but this new infographic from Go-Gulf takes a slightly closer look at how people around the world split their time across different online activities. It also predicts the most popular online activities and trends of the future.

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Infographic: Pinterest Best Practices

Firebelly

Edelman , a global PR firm, recently released an infographic highlighting the best practices of social media marketing on Pinterest. This is an excellent supplement to an earlier post on our blog, Pinterest: Early Best Practices From Firebelly. Are there any additional best practices that you would include?

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Best Use of Social Media: The Winners of Bees Awards

Mindjumpers

Tweet The Bees Awards – one of its kind international social media marketing award, is held for the third time this year. And what a great year! On the 1st edition, 23 countries participated. On the 2nd edition, 33 countries. This time, no less than 40 countries joined the competition. The list of campaign entries has been as impressive as for the past awards, with big international brands such as Nike, Volkswagen and McDonalds.

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Social Media Automation 101

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