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My Proust Questionnaire

Direct Marketing Observations

In the back of every Vanity Fair edition is the Proust Questionnaire which is devoted to the answers of someone who is fairly well known. The answers never cease to make me think about my own mortality and legacy. The questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature.

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Happy Belated 9th Birthday to My Blog

Ari Herzog

May 2016 marked the ninth birthday of my blog! It’s seen three URLs and numerous designs. You can visit the archive and read my initial blog posts about apartment life, later posts about digital marketing, and ultimately about minimalism and productivity. For instance, here’s a piece from May 2007 critiquing a website. Today, I’d write that much differently with screenshots and an accompanying video.

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My Proust Questionnaire

Direct Marketing Observations

In the back of every Vanity Fair edition is the Proust Questionnaire which is devoted to the answers of someone who is fairly well known. The answers never cease to make me think about my own mortality and legacy. The questionnaire has its origins in a parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, the French essayist and novelist, who believed that, in answering these questions, an individual reveals his or her true nature.

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Using Social Media Data for Targeting – How to Locate and Action Real Audience Insights

Kikolani

The internet has ushered in a great era for marketing: the analytics era. Pretty much everything you say and do on social media is trackable in real time. With a large enough group, insights can become really valuable in allowing marketers to directly target their most likely customers. There are lots of ways to generate leads from social media , this just takes it to a whole new level.

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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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Word of Mouth Marketing Is Important: This Is Why

Meltwater

Influence, referral, and social media marketing are not synonymous, but they are all key aspects… Read More.

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Using Social Media Data for Targeting – How to Locate and Action Real Audience Insights

Kikolani

The internet has ushered in a great era for marketing: the analytics era. Pretty much everything you say and do on social media is trackable in real time. With a large enough group, insights can become really valuable in allowing marketers to directly target their most likely customers. There are lots of ways to generate leads from social media , this just takes it to a whole new level.

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The Data-Backed Guide to Event Marketing on Social Media: How to Get People Talking About Your Event

Buffer Social

Taking an event from idea to sell-out is no easy feat. And half the battle of organizing an event is marketing it. When it comes to the marketing channels that drive attendance, hype, and engagement, social media is right near the top. Best of all, social media event marketing isn’t as time-consuming as you may think. You can do it! One of the greatest feelings in the world is walking into one of your own events and seeing it jam-packed with people.

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How to Staff for Social Success

Ignite Social Media

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past decade, I’m sure you have seen the growth of social media for individuals, brands and organizations. Various organizations and companies, big or small, have set their sights on social media to reach their audience. Social media provides an unrivaled capability to reach millions of people instantly and to build that loyal community around your brand.

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PB147: Tips, Tools and Techniques for Managing Incoming Email

ProBlogger

Tips on How to Manage Incoming Email. Is email sucking away all of your time, and taking away from your blogging? Today’s topic comes from one of our readers. Phil says, “I’ve been blogging a couple of years now and in the last 6 months have seen quite a bit of growth in traffic to my blog. This is great but I’m noticing with it is coming a significant rise in the incoming emails I get.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #322

Twist Image

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 o

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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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PB147: Tips, Tools and Techniques for Managing Incoming Email

ProBlogger

Tips on How to Manage Incoming Email. Is email sucking away all of your time, and taking away from your blogging? Today’s topic comes from one of our readers. Phil says, “I’ve been blogging a couple of years now and in the last 6 months have seen quite a bit of growth in traffic to my blog. This is great but I’m noticing with it is coming a significant rise in the incoming emails I get.

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Social Media Content: Quality > Quantity

Ignite Social Media

It’s well known that driving traffic, leads and revenue can simply boil down to the social media content your brand deploys to the digital world. But, only if it’s good content. And, as with most things in life, quality trumps quantity and more isn’t always better. Posting social media content simply for the sake of posting will likely be a waste of energy and can actually do more harm than good, especially to your search engine optimization (SEO) results.