Janet Fouts

JANUARY 28, 2018

Evergreen content queue. Content categories, which are a life-saver for those who, like me, tweet a lot on a daily basis. When it comes to Instagram, since you can’t actually schedule any posts, you can instead prepare your content in advance via desktop or smartphone, and then get a reminder when it’s time to publish.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 23, 2011

So you built a new blog , set up a Facebook page and started tweeting and STILL you’ve got virtually no friends? Sure, there may be a half life if somebody sees it and re-tweets it or links to it in a blog post or another network. Create good quality content people care about and want to share. Create content regularly.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

The idea is to pull together respected content producers and sort them so they are easily digested by topic, concept, tools or type of content. Take a look at the site and see what you think, or use the search box in the bottom right sidebar on this blog to search the Social Media Informer. Online community ?

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 15, 2016

Earned media is media (or content) you don’t own and did not pay for. Typical examples might be a blog post about your brand or product or a Tweet about how awesome your customer service is. Let’s start wth the basics here. What is earned media? Earned media is free, out of the goodness of […].

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Some of them I know in person, but many I know through their blogs and Twitter personas. By the way, instead of just linking to their blogs I linked to some of my favorite posts, so make sure you visit those links! BlogDiva Liza blogs on culture, tech and online communications. You should probably get to know some of them too.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 29, 2012

You may want to start by searching only blogs, or only Twitter or videos for example. Do they get comments and do people share their content through social media? Take the list and search their names, their blog title, URLs to find out how many mentions there are online. Will you share their blog posts?

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 24, 2013

Content Marketing. Overall everyone on the panel agreed that content is crucial to your automated marketing, but not just any content will do. The content must be relevant to the target market it’s intended for. Content must have a high level of quality. What content generates the most interest?

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 19, 2012

But I never really got around to updating my own blogs until yesterday, when I realized two of them were no longer working. Now, this blog is syndicated on several sites and I send the RSS feed to Triberr and quite a few other places and they seemed to be getting the feed, so what gives?

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

If you read my blog very often you know that I love to teach people how to get the most out of social media. Hello, I’m a social media coach…) Whether it’s in groups, bootcamps,webinars, one-on-one or right here on my blog, this is my passion. I also want to know more about what format you want to learn in.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 13, 2014

Maybe a blog post or shared item triggered a flurry of views? You’ll also see suggested skills or content suggestions to add to your profile that would get you more views for people looking for that skill or service, even groups to join and company pages that fit with your profile contents.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 28, 2013

If you have a WordPress blog there are plugins you can add to easily add a “pin it” button when they mouse over an image on your blog. <meta name="pinterest" content="nopin" /> Just include that in your meta tags and Pinterest will not allow pins from that page thorugh their PinIt browser add on.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 31, 2011

Not only do you get a bigger picture of who is visiting a site or reading a particular blog post, you get to wander around and see where they’ve been recently and thought was important enough to share too. VERY cool way to find relevant content and see what people are thinking about. I think there’s some SEO potential here.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 9, 2012

On Facebook you can create tabs and then iframe in content from websites or create apps that display specific content to the user. Facebook has Facebook Insights, which, although meager at best, does give you some data about who your users are, how often they share your content and some other minimal statistics.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

We all *think* we’re doing great when the Twitter alerts are rolling, Email’s pinging, Facebook is always open and your RSS feeds are pushing you new content to share. Keep a file where you save every possible blog topic. Create these posts with your buyer personas in mind to make sure the content is truly useful to them.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I went into my Google reader and deleted every blog that hadn’t posted within the last 30 days. Now I can quickly scan the headlines of the blogs who really do add value on just one page. This works well with blog posts too. Need a blog post edited and pictures added to it? Liberating is the only word for it.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Blogs were in their infancy and we used bulletin boards and comment streams on posts to communicate with our user-base and we loved every second of it. Businesses flocked to both networks and created free accounts to market their wares as well as paying a nominal fee to get their content in front of interested users.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 12, 2015

Here’s an example of how I use it for blogging. I just tell SIRI to email Evernote with my special upload address, I make the subject line “blog post” and then dictate the idea, or sometimes even most of the post. I can finish what I’m doing and come back to my Evernote file full of blog posts, ready to finish.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It may sound like a recipe for disaster for any CEO edgy enough to take center stage in a content marketing strategy…except when it works. The lesson is clear: CEO’s that are active in social media and content marketing efforts ignite conversation. By Frank Strong. His sleeves were rolled up. His tie was loose. He swore.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

Personally, I find Google+ useful for surfacing content that I don’t find on Twitter or Facebook. Steveology Blog. Google has already made several announcements signaling their clear intention to integrate Plus content and comments in results. The traffic we get from Google+ also sticks longer than other social media referrals.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 10, 2010

The one I just dealt with on this blog (and 23 of my own and client blogs) was called JohnnyA. It created new users with admin permissions on some of the blogs affected. Should you change blogging platforms? I had updated several blogs to the most recent version and they still got hit. Probably not. WP S3 Backups.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 13, 2012

I don’t begin to have enough room to do this in a blog post, so I’ve got a handy-dandy free e-book on Facebook Timelines for you to download that will give you lots of details, specific rules to know and ideas about how to make your Facebook timeline really pop. All that is changing. Pinning news.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 29, 2013

Linkedin is becoming a more vibrant place with richer content. Now with more and more content going through LinkedIn there is an opportunity to be seen as an information resource for your LinkedIn connections. h/t & love to dear friends @ meghanscibona @ monkeyprime @ smixel for helping w/ my #TwitterResume vine.co/v/b6wxtwrwP7P

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 5, 2010

It’s no secret that I think Wordpress is the best blogging platform, and I recommend it for Websites too. Wordpress can enable you to create an online presence for a fraction of what a traditional web site costs and have an easy to use content management system (CMS) to boot.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Make your content rich and interesting. If you want a particular user to follow you then reach out to them on a one-on-one level, not with a demand, but with a question about what they do, a response to something they posted, a compliment about something they have achieved or a great blog post. If you want more followers on Twitter.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

It’s also got monster potential for Search Engine Optimization since your profile is your Google Profile, and Google just launched changes to some of it’s services to add even more power to the new network: Changes to analytics gives you more information on users who have +1′d your content in Google Analytics.

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Janet Fouts

JANUARY 27, 2011

Is one of the best blog metrics tools out there, and now they’re reaching deeper into your traffic incorporating Google Analytics and Feedburner. Is one of the best blog metrics tools out there, and now they’re reaching deeper into your traffic incorporating Google Analytics and Feedburner. Postrank Analytics. Peer Index.

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Janet Fouts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Of course you’ll find lots more, but these are 10 people I can always rely on to have useful and interesting content. He’s super smart, his blog is a gold mine of knowledge and yesterday, it turns out, he shared his “top 99″ people circle. 10 people to circle who will add value to your experience.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 14, 2011

Because they may never find you, and if you can’t create shareable content they won’t tell their friends about you either. We’re doing a series of webinars over the next 4 weeks that should really help you create compelling content, build your network and start some sharing and participation among your networks.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 25, 2010

For a while you’re addicted to watching who re-tweets you, mentions your brand on their blog or says something about you on a Facebook page. Are they writing content relevant to you and your brand? Maybe Radian6 , SM2 , Trackur or one of these social media listening tools I mention when I give talks on social media.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 5, 2014

Follow them on Twitter, read their blogs. Chieftain of the blog {grow} and social media bouncer. Consultant, educator, podcaster, author of Return On Influence, Born to Blog, and The Tao of Twitter. holtz.com/blog. Specialties include #SocialMedia, #Blogging, #SEO and #minestrone soup. marketo.com. Mark Schaefer.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

You did, and that, my friend, is User Generated Content. User Generated Content (UGC). According to the Sprout Social study, 41% of Millennials want to have their content shared by the brand, while only 23% of GenX and Baby Boomers do. Can you use user-generated content whenever you want wherever you want? I bet you did.

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Janet Fouts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The Hubspot brand is well known for blog posts chock full of actionable information about marketing online. Whether it’s how to create a landing page that really converts, fine tune your email marketing , or how to make sure nobody misses your next webinar , Hubspot puts out great inbound content to learn from.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 31, 2011

He didn’t waste any time gathering as much data and content as he could so people could get a better picture. She blogged about it and then posted on the wall of the Chapstick Facebook page. He opened his talk with the video of the arrests followed by the video of what was going on inside which prompted the staff to call 911.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 14, 2010

FYI profile images link to Twitter and names link to blogs or websites. Since time is precious, it’s essential to create a system for repurposing your best blog content so you can syndicate it to multiple platforms in multiple formats (text, audio and video). Michael Martine.

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Janet Fouts

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

On her blog Beth Kanter mentions the term “Lethal Generosity&# as defined by Shel Israel in his book Twitterville. When someone shares your content or says something about your brand let them know you’re paying attention. Links in your blog. Use guest blogging. Ask them to guest post on your blog.

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 28, 2011

Make sure there’s real content there too, but the occasional cat doing the macarena is going to get your page shared. Good content. Show off their blogs and products, help them grow their pages and they’ll help you grow yours. Be polarizing. Start lively discussions. Post pictures, videos and jokes. Feature users.

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Janet Fouts

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Drop a link to your blog, twitter stream or any RSS feed into Wordle and see how the word cloud produced relates to your brand. OK don’t unsubscribe from MY RSS feed, but really, how many emails do you get that turn out to be rss feeds or newsletters that rarely have valuable content? Is your message being delivered? Unsubscribe.

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