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Social media management services: 9 agencies your brand should check out

Sprout Social

The agencies in our Agency Partner Directory , for example, use Sprout Social to power publishing, reporting and more for their clients. 9 stellar social media management agencies for your brand. Narrowing down which ones are right for you, your team and your brand can feel like a challenge. Full Blast Creative. We live it.

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8 Marketing Trends to Implement in Your 2012 Marketing Plan

yMarketingMatters

What a year was 2011 for social media and marketing! I think these marketing trends are a must for your SMB this year, following how the landscape “ended” in 2011 and are going to be very powerful in 2012. And surprisingly, so much marketing and branding today lacks personality! Things moved at the speed of light, right?

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

What brand marketers can learn from PR by iMedia Connection. Rebecca Lieb, author of one of the best SEO books ever , observes that “Press releases don’t work (the way they used to) any more.

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5 Crucial Link Building Strategies After Google Panda 4.1

ProBlogger

Many people have been affected by the chain of Google Panda updates which began to roll out in February 2011. Just to give you a better understanding of Google’s efforts, they have been focusing on eliminating black hat techniques from February 2011-to-now where they rolled out the latest update recently. After Google Panda 4.1,

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17 Content Marketing Trends to Keep an Eye On

Writtent Blog

Example: one of my Internet marketing buddies’ content marketing campaign was built heavily around article directory submissions (think Ezine Articles ). Another fellow marketeer heavily invests in an up-to-date, regularly updated blog and complementary social media; and his traffic and brand authority are skyrocketing. After Yahoo!

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SEO is Dead. Content Marketing = Guaranteed SEO

Writtent Blog

The most recent Hummingbird update to Google’s search algorithm was a final nail in the coffin of an industry that had been in decline since the major Panda update in 2011 that affected as many as 30% of all search results. Submitting Content to Article Directories. SEO as we know it is actually gone forever. Ignoring User-Experience.

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The Definitive Guide to Setting Up and Marketing a Podcast to Help Grow Your Blog

ProBlogger

I’ve had three separate shows, but nowadays tend to focus on just my New Business Podcast , which goes along with my brand as a blogger and entrepreneur. The volume of podcasts has remained fairly steady since 2011 (source ). Dimensions change from time to time, according to the directory your listing in. Planning Your Podcast.