Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 7, 2015

When LinkedIn acquired Pulse and added blogging to its platform, it was a huge improvement for LinkedIn users. Today, many people use their LinkedIn Pulse blogs as an additional blog to draw attention to their businesses and drive traffic to their websites. Twitter is not the odd ball out.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 7, 2015

When LinkedIn acquired Pulse and added blogging to its platform, it was a huge improvement for LinkedIn users. Today, many people use their LinkedIn Pulse blogs as an additional blog to draw attention to their businesses and drive traffic to their websites. Twitter is not the odd ball out.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 21, 2012

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. Like LinkedIn, you can find some very useful conversations taking place on Google+. Another great place to leave meaningful and insightful comments.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 21, 2015

Post snippets of your e-book on your Facebook page and LinkedIn Pulse blog–just long enough to be blog posts–and drive people back to your landing page for the e-book. Start a Pinterest Blog – Pinterest is a highly visual platform. Offer something for your readers when they land on your blog.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 21, 2015

Post snippets of your e-book on your Facebook page and LinkedIn Pulse blog–just long enough to be blog posts–and drive people back to your landing page for the e-book. Start a Pinterest Blog - Pinterest is a highly visual platform. Offer something for your readers when they land on your blog.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 28, 2015

For social networking, you should join LinkedIn. You should also post in LinkedIn groups that are related to the niche you are marketing. That’s what all the best LinkedIn marketers are saying. You should also read the websites and blogs that your target audience is reading. People still use them.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 17, 2014

Your Blog – Add a blog to your website and update it every day, or as often as you can publish valuable content. Third-Party Niche Websites – Guest blogging and writing guest articles for other sites within your niche allow you opportunities to reach your target audience where they are already hanging out.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Start a free blog about your business. WordPress, Blogspot and other free blogging platforms offer step-by-step tutorials for setting up your business on a blog. You can post your blog to several websites that will send your blog to many areas of the internet. Start a fan page on Facebook.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 4, 2013

LinkedIn will become more important. Just as blogs increased in power and importance with the addition of images, so too will social media engagement be enhanced with images. LinkedIn is in a steady climb. Going forward, LinkedIn will be a great place to manage your entire professional life.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 8, 2013

Share to LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. After that, start blogging. Blog every day for the first 30 days of your website’s life. But it could take longer, so make sure you blog. As you blog, share your blog posts once daily to your Facebook and Google+ pages.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 28, 2013

Frank Reed highlights the value that small business owners place on various social networks, including Google+, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Interestingly, more small business owners see value in Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogging, and YouTube than in Google+. Google+ comes out ahead of only Pinterest and Forums.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

If you have a business blog or you need website content, or even if you do any guest blogging or publish articles at various places around the Web, you need a way to come up with constant content ideas. The next time you write an article or blog post, answer a question you’ve heard from one of your customers.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 18, 2013

If you’re concerned that the demise of Google Reader will kill your blog, rest your eyes. In fact, I’m confident that it won’t – especially if you do these three things to increase your blog readership right now. These are not the only means you have of promoting your blog, but they are a good start.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 16, 2013

Google will notify you when those keywords are mentioned online – in a blog post, on a website, in social media, or wherever. With Google Reader you can keep track of certain blogs in your niche – competitor blogs as well as third-party news blogs that report on important news. Klout is an influence monitor.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 11, 2011

Among the services that Klout now tracks are: Tumblr – A blogging platform somewhat like a cross between Twitter and Blogger. It’s been measuring the activity on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for some time now. Flickr – The photo sharing platform. Blogger – Which needs no introduction.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Write better titles/headlines – Blog post titles and article headlines are some of the most important elements on your web pages. But put it out there on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ too. Just do some guest blogging or post articles in other places around the Web. Bloggers will even blog about your content.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Blog – A blog is simply another way of organizing a website. A blog lists web pages in reverse chronological order, but you can also navigate between the pages by tags and categories. Popular social media websites include Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 14, 2012

Here’s my rundown: Linkedin – currently the premier B2B site, and that’s where it will maintain it’s strength. Blogs – and yes, blogs are social media, and they provide the real one-to-one interaction that customers look for. Myspace – the art channel, particularly music aimed at youth.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 26, 2012

There are two primary reasons you should link from your website or blog to social media websites : It builds your social authority. This includes your website and blog, but it also includes social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc. It’s good SEO. Your Social Authority. They build trust. Social Media As SEO.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Company and third-party blogs are considered less risky than Twitter or Facebook, which indicates that businesses are warming up to blogging. LinkedIn is considered slightly risky by 43% of businesses and not risky by 35%, making it more trusted than Facebook, Twitter, video sharing sites, or blogs.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 16, 2012

Other blogs – You should write to your own blog as often as possible, but don’t be afraid to be a guest blogger too. That includes Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and several others. That’s a good question. You’ll get a bio and a link back to your website.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 10, 2012

I see ‘gurus’ insisting that every online business should be active on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and, in some instances, specialist social media sites such as LinkedIn. Add in a blog and you have a fairly active social media approach. Blogs are slightly different. However, even a blog requires planning.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Create social media backlinks – Create backlinks to your branded Facebook page from your blog, your LinkedIn account, and other community profile pages. Most businesses don’t do this, but it can increase your search visibility locally. Even from your Google+ profile.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

All Facebook has a blog post titled “5 Ways To Fail At Facebook.&# It’s a great article except that the five ways shared can apply to any social media – Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, you name it. Here they are in a recap: Fail to understand your audience. Fail to use your imagination. Fail to build relationships.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 20, 2011

Let’s see – there’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and a whole host of other websites that have both a global reach as well as a local reach. So what is meant by social media? Conduct a little survey and choose the sites that have the most potential for helping you grow your business where you want it to grow.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Guest blogging. When it comes to marketing online, here are a few of the channels you have at your disposal right now, today. Google+ (still in beta, by invitation only). The search engines – Bing and Google organic listings. Pay per click ads. Article directories (yes, they still work). Knol pages. Etsy, if you are a crafter.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 15, 2011

At the same time, the survey also suggests that 70% of all small businesses do use Facebook over any other social media like Google, LinkedIn, Yahoo and Myspace just to name a few. If you can consistently write a blog, interact with people on social media and do traditional advertising, chances are your business will grow even bigger.

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 27, 2014

Ostapenko wrote “ Ecommerce 101: What you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask ” on his LinkedIn blog. Recently, Sergei V. It isn’t a big article, but it is a helpful look at some of the stuff that can be helpful to a business trying to figure out selling online.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Whether you were on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, or somewhere else? Let’s say, for instance, that you share a post from your blog. Have you ever wondered where your social media posts went after you shared them? Well, Google+ is making that possible. It’s really a recycled idea from the Wonder Wheel.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 11, 2011

You can link to your Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other social sites around the Web from your About.Me You can set up an About.Me profile page in about 10 minutes, whereas a website will take at least a couple of hours and probably longer depending on its complexity. profile page.

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 6, 2016

SEO means writing your website content, blog content, and other branded content in such a way that it stands a better chance at obtaining high search engine rankings. But if your primary target is other businesses, then LinkedIn could be more effective. Not all of them will be effective for your type of business.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 31, 2011

You can use the comments on your blog, Twitter stream, LinkedIn and Facebook walls, and anywhere else online to get real-time feedback on your business, your service, and your products. However, by the time a traditional television show reaches its audience, the next several shows have already been filmed.

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 24, 2011

That doesn’t mean that the number of users on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn will start to decline. But at some point, that rapid growth is going to slow down. After all, there are only so many new people to enter the market. It means that they won’t increase at the same fast rate.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

These might include: Your website Twitter LinkedIn Social bookmarking HubPage or Squidoo Lens Facebook advertising Online display advertising Your blog Mobile phone apps The list could go on, I’m sure. I would bet that you do most of it online through your other Internet marketing channels. Offline marketing still works.

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