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. Step by step videos, strategy, tips and tricks, webinars and downloads.

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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

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

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

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

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. Here are a few tips to make the time you spend working on social media marketing tasks, and your entire day, more useful to everyone. Efficient right?

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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. Social Media Networks Social Media Tips and Tricks' v/b6wxtwrwP7P #HireDawnSiff. Keep your profile up to date.

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Janet Fouts

MAY 30, 2012

First it was the meteoric rise of the new platform and social media types rushed to learn it and get those tips and tricks posts out. Personally, I find Google+ useful for surfacing content that I don’t find on Twitter or Facebook. Steveology Blog. There’s been a lot of noise about Google+. Steve Farnsworth.

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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.

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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

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

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. Steve Farnsworth Has lots of good tips about social media, marketing, PR and business. They may not all work for you, but hey, diversity makes the world go round. Louis Gray I can’t say enough about Louis.

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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

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

JULY 5, 2011

Make sure you add links to your other networks, your blog and your syndicated content ( here’s how ). The other interesting thing is Google will use this data to “see relevant content your friends share on the web.&# Google+ Hacks and tips. Fill out your about section. OK, now you can start using it.

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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

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 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. Some topics REALLY resonate. Melanie Notkin.

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Janet Fouts

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

See, it turns out that not only does the TOU state “Cold Brew Labs and its licensors exclusively own all right, title and interest in and to the Site, Application, Services and Site Content, including all associated intellectual property rights”, (that means the pins you post too!) Follow them, re-pin something of theirs.

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