Fri.Nov 14, 2014

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Is it Shortsighted Not to Host Your Own Blog?

Waxing UnLyrical

'Alison Kenney asked this question yesterday in a Facebook group I belong to: “When it comes to your own website, do you think a blog is a must?” You’re reading this blog on a business website, so you already know what my answer is. However, let’s examine this a little more closely. Why do people ask whether or not you should host your own blog?

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Facebook Like-Gating Is Gone: Should You Still Run Contests?

Firebelly

'Since Facebook no longer allows brands to require people to like a Facebook page in order to enter a contest, I’ve heard many question whether they should ever run another one on their Facebook page. They should. Below are four reasons why. Show your fans some love. They’ve liked you, now show them you like.

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Quantification Fascination

Saying It Social

'The ability to quantify the human experience offers great promise for businesses and marketers. This week, I would like to explore the phenomena now known as the “Quantified Self” and why brand marketers should seek ways to take advantage of personal trackers in their advertising strategies. The post Quantification Fascination appeared first on.

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37 Speakers To See at State of Search 2014

Bill Hartzer

'After all these years, I still cannot believe that it’s come this far. Back in 2004, I hand-picked about 16 of the best Search Marketers in Dallas to join me at a hotel conference room to talk about search. It cost me $87 to rent that conference room for a few hours that evening, and DFWSEM was born. Now, 10 years later, I’m writing a post on my blog about the State of Search, an awesome conference where DFWSEM is pulling in nationally-known speakers for a two day conference about s

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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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How Century 21 Creates Award-Winning Real-Time Social Media

Convince & Convert

'Tweetable Moments Today’s consumer wants it right now. MattGentile Tweet This. Earbud Giveaway. For the launch of MarketingPodcasts.com earlier this week, we’re giving away a pair of $600 earbuds! Visit the website, poke around to discover new podcasts, and enter to win. The site gives you the ability to search for new podcasts based on the topic or even based on the host’s name(s)!

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How to Create a Social Media Holiday Campaign

Devumi

'It’s mid-November, your social media holiday campaign planning has to start now. As with all things in social media, you need a solid plan to make it work. Virality, new followers, increased brand exposure, and cash registers ringing like church bells don’t happen by accident. A solid social media holiday campaign plan is an essential, and I’m going to take you through a few tips you’ll need.

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Wonder How Will Your Post Get On Top Of Facebook News Feed ?? - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

'Do you wonder how will your Post get on top of News Feed? News Feed is already a competitive place – as more People, Businesses and Pages are posting content, the competition to appear in News Feed has increased. Simply put: All of this means that Pages that post promotional creative should expect their organic distribution to fall significantly over time.

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The Internet As A Utility

Twist Image

'And access for all. In a post- Edward Snowden Internet, it''s hard to believe any politician who lays claim to the notion that we need the Internet to be treated as a public utility - much in the same way that we have railroads, electricity and more. The public will require more trust, at this point. With that, we have seen the rise of an era when the Internet must be considered a birthright (which is something that I blogged about in 2010 ).

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How Century 21 Creates Award-Winning Real-Time Social Media

Convince & Convert

'Tweetable Moments Today’s consumer wants it right now. MattGentile Tweet This. Earbud Giveaway. For the launch of MarketingPodcasts.com earlier this week, we’re giving away a pair of $600 earbuds! Visit the website, poke around to discover new podcasts, and enter to win. The site gives you the ability to search for new podcasts based on the topic or even based on the host’s name(s)!

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Media Redefined

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'When you think of someone who understand the state of media, who do you think of? One of the most interesting media characters I follow is Jason Hirschhorn. I''ve been subscribing to his e-newsletter (yes, I still enjoy getting these fascinating emails in my inbox that are filled with fascinating links and thoughts), MediaREDEF for a very long time.

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Social Media Automation 101

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

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Facebook Page Promotions Guidelines and Tips

Lucy Hall

When administering a promotion via facebook it's hard to know what you can do or can't, often if you break the rules you may find yourself in hot water with facebook and even have your page taken down (and trust me, it's very hard to get hold of a facebook rep to put it back up again!) Here are the rules! Extract taken directly from facebook: E. Promotions 1.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #230

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'Is there one link, story, picture or thought that you saw online this week that you think somebody you know must see? My friends: Alistair Croll ( BitCurrent , Year One Labs , GigaOM , Human 2.0 , Solve For Interesting , the author of Complete Web Monitoring , Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks and Lean Analytics ), Hugh McGuire ( PressBooks , LibriVox , iambik and co-author of Book: A Futurist''s Manifesto ) and I decided that every week the three of us are going to share

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ICYMI – Twitter updates, Echo and Instagram

Danny WhatMough

'Here’s my weekly round-up of things you need to know and might have missed this last week in the world of digital PR and social media. Want this in your inbox each week? Subscribe here. News. Twitter announced a whole host of tweaks , including Instant Timeline and new changes to DMs. Facebook launches ‘say thanks’ – a new video tool for sending personal thank you messages to friends.

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What’s Missing in Your Content Strategy? 10 Things!

Writtent Blog

'There’s nothing simple about creating a content strategy. Maintaining and improving a content strategy over time? That’s even tougher. However, the odds are definitely in your favor. Only 44% of marketers have bothered to document their publishing strategy. Your efforts to refine and improve will give you a serious advantage! Here are 10 of the most common things marketers fail to include in their content strategy: 1.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.