Wed.Aug 31, 2011

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14 Guiding Principles of Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

I live in Florida and hard times are visible everywhere. I’ve seen businesses open with promise and flair only to close within a year with nary a sound and barely an announcement. This extends to the houses in my neighborhood, the families that occupied them, and the jobs that the people who lived in them once had. All Gone. Empty. It sucks. I know some of these families.

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Austin Beckons

Waxing UnLyrical

There’s been a lot of chatter recently over conferences that have a voting component to their submissions. That’s because the “panel picker&# part of the 2012 South by SouthWest Interactive conference is currently in progress, ending on Friday, Sept. 2. I remember the first year I paid attention to SxSW. I wasn’t anywhere close to attending, but it was new to me, and I was in awe of people who were submitting proposals.

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When In Doubt, Turn To Twitter

Firebelly

When my office did a “shaky dance&# last Tuesday afternoon, I couldn’t tell if what I had felt was real. I didn’t turn on the TV. I didn’t even turn to an online newspaper. I picked up my Blackberry not to text, but to click on my friendly blue bird icon and asked, “Did anyone else in Midtown just feel that shake or do I just need to eat lunch?

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The One Marketing Technique that’s Best for Your Launch

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post from Mukund Mohan. When Brian Solis and I launched BuzzGain in January 2009, we had 5 primary blog(ger)s who covered us out of the top 10 influential ones that we targeted and 27 other blogs that made a mention of our launch. Chris Brogan , Louis Gray , Mashable ( Jennifer Van Grove ), TechCrunch ( Jason Kincaid ) and Brian Solis covered us over 2 days.

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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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How Social Media Helped Get Top Search Engine Rankings with 2 Hours

Bill Hartzer

Today, I performed a really simple test to see if Likes from social media type websites could contribute to a top search engine ranking in the search engines. Granted, there are a lot of various factors here to take into account–but after analyzing the results, it appears that social media “likes&# contribute a lot when it comes to search engine rankings.

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The Reason You Might Not Be Making Money from Your Blog

Kikolani

This is a guest post by Paul B. I suppose I could have chosen a more positive title like 7 great new ways to make money from your site , but something in my psyche is always looking to the negative, oh well. There’s a practical side to it too though. I see so many bloggers and webmasters making crazy assumptions about getting rich from the internet.

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Your Most Important Blogging Move

Small Business Mavericks

So you’ve decided that your small business needs a blog. Now you’re ready to move and get it going. You’ve designed it, you’ve SEOd it, and now you’re ready to write it. Did you know the most important thing about your blog is yet to come? What exactly is the most important part of your blog? Do you know? The most important aspect to your small business blog are your blog post titles.

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Social Media Is Growing Up: You Can Stop Copying the Cool Kids Now

Bare Feet Studios

My partner @Shane sent me a link today “ Why They Stopped Using Foursquare &# by David Berkowitz. It summarizes a number of my social media friends and peers who have weaned themselves off this geo-location social network also known as a check-in service. As Shane reminded me, he stopped using them almost a year ago: yet again he changes his behavior in advance of many of his peers.

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PR coup? Steve Jobs saves the best for last

Danny WhatMough

Tweet. The news that Steve Jobs has been forced to step down due to illness is incredibly sad. He was without doubt one of the business and technological pioneers of our age and the tech industry will be worse off without him. But perhaps the best legacy Jobs could leave is a company that will continue to go from strength to strength. And I saw all the hallmarks of what has made him a great businessman and marketer in his resignation announcement last week.

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9 New Productivity Tools to Simplify Your Online Life

ProBlogger

This guest post is by Leo Widrich of Buffer. After Google+ entered the social networking scene not so long ago, the number of online distractions hasn’t really decreased. At the same time, innovations and smarter solutions to handle your actions online have fortunately continued to thrive too. Instead of the usual to-do lists, news readers, or sharing tools, they tackle things in new and more helpful ways.

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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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Can you pick NFL games better than Social Buzz can?

Jeff Esposito

In exactly one week from today, the most exciting season on TV starts up. No I am not talking Real Housewives or Big Bootied Weddings, but the hard hits of the National Football League. Now as with any season, there will be folks making their weekly predictions based on everything from their gut to uniform colors and cold hard football facts. This season, I have decided to make my picks based on the social buzz surrounding the teams squaring off each week.

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Boost Your Blog #3: Optimize Your Advertising Page

ProBlogger

Continuing our discussion of things you could be doing right now to improve your blog , today’s tip is: 3. Optimize your advertising page. When I mentioned I was writing this post on Google+ (connect with me here ), Nick Roshon suggested auditing your advertising page. If monetization through selling advertising is part of your business model, then this one should be a task you build into your regular schedule of pages to update.

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Cartoon of the day

Jeff Esposito

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How to Use Social Media for Event Marketing [Presentation]

Mindjumpers

Tweet We are all at least knee deep into social media now while some of us are waist high, the rest have fallen head long in the world of social media. All day round I see people hooked on to social media in one way or the other – either through Facebook, Twitter or people like me who work with social media, so that’s their life! So the point here is, since we are all forever following whats the latest around the world through social media, there is actually no better way to reach th

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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.

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My “Methods” for Building a Successful Online Business

ProBlogger

Today I received an email from someone asking what my “methods&# are for building an online business. That’s always a tough question—particularly because I got the sense that it was asked by someone looking for an easy and quick answer. Here’s my response. I’d love to hear what you’d have added or said. Thanks for the email.

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