Wed.Feb 03, 2016

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Teamwork Is a Contact Sport

Waxing UnLyrical

We’ve all heard the old… very old…saying, “There is no ‘I’ in team.” As a youngster growing up in rural Georgia, I was constantly chided by my elders… “Don’t always be talking about yourself; pay more attention to others.”. There are good lessons to be learned from both of these statements. Yet, time and again, we read about or see examples to the contrary in our workplace or even ( gasp!

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How to Take an Audience-Centric Approach to Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

One of a marketer’s goals is to make meaningful connections with consumers. This is also one our biggest challenges. Content marketing is meant to be a strategic way to reach and attract a defined audience. Lately, it seems to have moved to a dangerous place of ROI, subject lines, and vanity metrics. We’ve lost the most important piece of the puzzle: understanding your customer.

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Moving Site from Static Home Page to Latest Posts

Bill Hartzer

Well, as you probably know, or at least if you read my blog (this site), or follow it, you’ll know by now that I’m always testing various things on the site. I was one of the first ones to move to HTTPs, for example, and even tracked my rankings and traffic…just to show that moving to HTTPs helps, and doesn’t hurt, traffic and rankings.

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How to Create Customer Personas for Your B2B Marketing

Convince & Convert

It’s All About the Customer. Ardath Albee, author, persona creator, and digital story strategist, was running a tech start-up in 2000, during the first-ever iteration of marketing automation. Companies came to her frustrated that their websites, which were just a copy of their company brochure slapped up online, weren’t getting any traction.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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BitCoin Will Not Vanish just Because It Is Virtual - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Bitcoins are Digital Currency which are sent easily through the Internet, without the hassle of seeking a third party. The Transactions are secured. They are irreversible by design. They are fast. Funds received are available for spending within minutes. They cost very little, especially compared to other payment networks. The supply of Bitcoins is regulated by software and the agreement of users of the system and cannot be manipulated by any Government, Bank, Organization or Individual.

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3 Facebook Tips For Restaurants & Coffee Shops

Firebelly

Here are three tips for restaurants or coffee shops struggling to manage their Facebook pages. 1) Promote your page. You’ve got a Facebook page, but what you really want is fans—right? Surely you have many happy customers who’d love to like your page. But do they know about it? If you build it, they will not come. You’ve got to promote it.

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Lawyers: Do These Questions About Social Media Sound Familiar?

Myrland Marketing

I write a lot about Social Media and Social Networking because I find that lawyers have many questions. Many of you have shared those questions with me, such as: Where do I start? Who do I follow? Which sites should I use? How do I find the time? What should I say once I’m there? How do I sign up for the individual sites? What is the correct terminology?

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5 Striking Characteristics for Successful Logos

Harp Interactive

Categories: Branding Tags: branding , identity , logo design How many brand logos do you think you see in a single day? Probably more than you can count. Strive to create a logo that stands apart and turns heads by keeping these five characteristics of a striking logo in mind. ( Read more. ).

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How to Create and Use Infographics to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Luke Guy. Let me start this post by telling you a quick story: I once created this niche site that I thought would do really well. I wanted to flex my SEO skills, and see if I could a new site ranked rather quickly (I talk about how I perform outreach with sites like this at Lukeguy.com). The new site would solve a problem like no other in its field – I had created this site for insect identification purposes, and it would help people with identifying bugs

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Musing About U.S. Media and Presidential Politics

Ari Herzog

There’s a story in Gawker — an internet news magazine launched in 2003 that promotes itself as the source of daily media news and gossip — about presidential candidates and their expenses for pizza. It’s a story you won’t read anywhere else. It’s a story that Gawker and its ilk are known to publish. On the other hand, everyone (and I do mean everyone) is reporting that Donald Trump is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders agre

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.