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LinkedIn Offers New Publishing Opportunity

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If your business is a business-to-business business, then you’ll soon be able to reach more potential customers through LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn blog will be visible publicly and to anyone who is not already a follower of yours. LinkedIn has published an overview of its publishing platform. I highly recommend you read it.

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The Best Five Social Media Websites For Meaningful Comments

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The best sites for meaningful comments include: LinkedIn – if you are looking for indepth conversations on particular topics then it’s hard to go past LinkedIn. Although a more B2B social media site, it can be a great resource for gathering new information, solving problems, and sharing solutions.

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2014 Is The Year Of Social Metrics

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If you’ve been paying attention to the rise of social media in the past few years, then you know that Facebook has risen to be the No. 1 site online, and you may know that social media traffic has been on a steady rise, as well. LinkedIn delivers a lot of traffic to B2B sites. Social Media'

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Google+ Gets A Facelift, But How Social Is It?

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Sure, you can create your circles, and you can share content, but it doesn’t have the same social feel as Facebook, or Twitter for that matter. Social media seems to be polarizing. They claim that 170 million people have upgraded to Google+, big numbers, but still not a patch on many of the other social media sites.

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5 Ways To Get Good Content Ideas

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Another great source of content ideas is Twitter or Facebook if you are a B2C business (LinkedIn if you are B2B). People will ask questions on social media that they may not ask in person or on the phone. Find out what questions your fans and followers on social media have and write your content around that.

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Essential Tactics for Effective Inbound Marketing

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Social media. Inbound Marketing Through Social Media. There are a lot of social media channels. But if your primary target is other businesses, then LinkedIn could be more effective. Twitter can be effective for both B2C and B2B businesses, but you have to have a strategy. Search engines.

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How Many Share Buttons Should You Use?

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If your website is a tech website, for instance, then you might want to display tech-centric social icons such as Delicious, Digg, and Technorati. Nevertheless, there are certain social media icons that would benefit every type of website. A small business flower shop, on the other hand, would want to display other icons.