Fri.Oct 17, 2014

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Offline Expectations from Online Engagements are Unrealistic

Direct Marketing Observations

'Picture this: You’re at a stop light. It seems to be taking forever for it to turn green. You become impatient. You start yelling. You’re wondering why it hasn’t changed. Finally it does change and you peel out. You’re angry because it took entirely too long. It’s been an astounding and unfathomable 3 minutes. Here’s another scenario: You’re at your computer, you’re on Google and you’re searching for something…The screen freezes, you s

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Firebelly CEO Presenting “Next Generation Social Media” At BOLO Conference

Firebelly

'Our own Duncan Alney will be presenting “Next Generation Social Media For Agencies” at the 2014 BOLO Conference, a conference that brings together thought-leaders and change-makers of the agency world, in Scottsdale, Arizona on October 20th. Session description This session will focus on emerging trends that will effect most agencies in the near future.

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Make It Fun: Gamification & Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

'I’m going to take a quick, unofficial poll — if you have played some sort of game on your phone today, raise your hand. Why did you pull your phone out and start playing that game? I’m guessing because it was fun. If it wasn’t fun, you probably wouldn’t do it unless you wanted to get past a level, which is the other side of gamification: competition.

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Aim True With AdWords

Saying It Social

'Read our review on the October 2014 Google Partners Connect event featuring two of Google''s in-house AdWords experts - Allan Thygesen & Frederick Vallaeys. The event provided valuable insight to how new features of AdWords can help businesses to generate more sales and stronger connections with customers. Video link included! The post Aim True With AdWords appeared first on.

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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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Do Salespeople Make the Best Social Advocates?

Convince & Convert

'Tweetable Moments Small business owners waste a lot of time on a lot of things. ducttape Tweet This The Customer Journey From John Jantsch’s perspective, marketing has changed so completely in the past years not because of social media but because buying has changed. The focus, therefore, should not be on the tools or the tips for marketers. Marketers and small business owners should instead be changing their approaches to selling and to marketing.

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Online Music Marketing with Tweets: Twitter and SoundCloud Finally Team Up

Devumi

'There have been rumors of Twitter and SoundCloud working together for months. I reported on Twitter’s interest back then , but now we know for certain that the two titans of rapid fire social media, and online music streaming, are going to work together. Twitter announced it on their blog yesterday, and SoundCloud followed up with an announcement on their own blog.

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What I REALLY think about blogging (you’ll be surprised!)

Absolute PA

'Being in the business of modern marketing means I write a lot: Blogs. Guest blogs. Sales pages. Website copy. Marketing emails. Training and workshop scripts. Writing takes up most of my working week, fo’ sure. But, can I tell you a secret? Writing is not something I love to do. Before I started my business I hadn’t written much more than a shopping list since I left school.

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Our Digital Lives

Twist Image

'Don''t blame technology. Technology is ambiguous. Yesterday, I blogged about a new documentary that was being aired on TVO titled, Life After Digital. The documentary depressed me on many levels. Yes, it''s a dystopian view of how bad people seem to be doing terrible things online, while the culture of rubber-necking is pushed further ahead by other bad civilians hiding behind their keyboards and screens egging these terrible things on.

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32 Resources to Write Great Blog Headlines

Writtent Blog

'Image source. 2 million blog posts are written every day. As the web becomes more crowded with content, it’s becoming harder and harder to draw people’s attention to your blog posts. Don’t know how to keep up? Create an amazing headline and your chance to win readers’ hearts will grow. Peter Koechley from Upworthy states that headlines can affect web traffic by as much as 500%.

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Life After Digital

Twist Image

'Social media and digital technology are ruining everything. Is the selfie the end of civilization as we know it? Have we become heartless meme generating morons that are tearing apart the moral fabrics of our society? Has digital technology and social media impacted the way that we experience our lives? Are we less human because we don''t just experience events in real life, but record, share and create content around them?

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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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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #226

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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