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Social Media Marketing for Beginners: 10 Tips

Hootsuite

It’s time to take your first steps into social media marketing. billion people are social media users. Worldwide, social users spend almost two and a half hours on social platforms each day. Find more eye-popping stats about social media here !) More than 4.95 The good news?

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Is blogging still relevant in 2019?

Sherrilynne Starkie

In 2019 we are experiencing a resurgence in corporate blogging. For the first time in nine years, a greater proportion of Fortune 500 companies use blogs compared to that of Inc. The blog post below was first published on July 12, 2006, about six months into my blogging journey. Yes, in 2006 blogging did work.

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Real and Spam Blog Comments

Ari Herzog

Heed the advice of social media consultants and promote your blog by commenting on other blogs. Be active in their blog communities, link to their blog posts, and submit guest post ideas. Being transparent and honest will bring you blog traffic. Meet spam comments on my blog.

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Guide on How to Start a Business Blog Part 2

Writtent Blog

You’ve probably heard that blogging can do wonders for your business–improve your SEO, attract more visitors to your website, build trust and brand loyalty, generate more leads and sales, and more. The problem is that figuring out how to start a blog for your business isn’t as easy as starting a personal blog.

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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

SocMed Sean

I decided to update it this, year to add additional focus for us “one-person shops” who supplement our income or drive our primary income from blogging. 2) Listening and Engagement Tools like Hootsuite, Curata, Sprout Social, Brandwatch. 2) Listening and Engagement Tools like Hootsuite, Curata, Sprout Social, Brandwatch.

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An Open Letter to a New Social Media Consultant

Direct Marketing Observations

Below is an email response I gave to someone I did not know who is determined to reinvent themselves and reposition their very talented skills in the social media arena. But before you can start selling yourself as a social media consultant. Don’t do that. Be transparent. Be authentic. It takes time.

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Social Media Consultants & Companies-The truth can be found in their numbers

Direct Marketing Observations

I read an article in Wired’s Epicenter from a couple of days ago titled- Gaming the System: How Marketers Rig the Social Media Machine and the article caught my eye for a number of reasons. The first reason is that when I first “dabbled&# in social media 5 years ago-I was that marketer. And it was cool.