Sat.Sep 19, 2015 - Fri.Sep 25, 2015

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14 Tweetable Reasons to Include Facebook Advertising in your Marketing Plan

Harp Interactive

Categories: Social Media Marketing Tags: facebook ads , Facebook Advertising , facebook marketing , facebook statistics , Social Media Marketing Almost every type of business can benefit from a solid Facebook advertising strategy. From local shops to enterprise B2B companies, Facebook ads are proving to be an important. ( Read more. ).

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How Brands Should Prepare For Facebook’s Dislike Button

Firebelly

For years, people have been asking for a dislike button on Facebook. It seems that Mark Zuckerburg is finally ready to give the people what they want. In a Q&A last Tuesday, Facebook’s founder said “I think people have asked about the dislike button for many years. Today is a special day because today is the day I can say we’re working on it and shipping it.”.

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Monday Roundup: #PRAXIS2015

Waxing UnLyrical

I’m leaving… on a jet plane… … Do know when I’ll be back again… I head to India tomorrow for more or less a month abroad (India + UK, all work!). I’m excited – this is my first time keynoting at #PRAXIS2015 , as well as teaching multiple workshops around India and the UK. I also wonder where the scheduling gods were when we started working on this trip, because on the first leg of my trip, I will be in 7 cities in 9 days.

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5 Key Words to Trigger Emotional Responses on Social Media

Convince & Convert

Do you have a social media strategy? Of course you do. Everyone does—or so they say. But what everyone doesn’t know is that you can’t simply write awesome content and hope that it will draw people like flies to honey from social media. Mark Schaefer says that writing content is the starting line, not the finish line! You have to learn how to ignite that content to bring about a better response when it’s time to share it on social media.

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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 To Become An Ethical Blogger

Kikolani

Blogging is growing at an unprecedented rate. As this happens, the chances of corrupt blogging practices increase too. Therefore, bloggers should be made aware of the do’s and don’ts of blogging, both, the new and seasoned ones. Fulfilling this need, I bring forth a framework of the norms of ethical blogging to inspire every blogger, especially the newbie, to help become ethical bloggers.

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Facebook Audience Insights: 5 Groups You Should Analyze

Jon Loomer

If you’re a marketer, you need to do your research. It’s imperative you understand your audience so that you can craft the right message to reach the right people. Smart marketers are using a free Facebook tool called Audience Insights. It allows you to break down audiences to learn a whole lot about them, including: Age and Gender. Lifestyle.

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4 SEO Tactics That Damage Your Brand’s Reputation

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. From a marketing perspective, you’ve got to feel at least a little sorry for SeaWorld for the utter devastation of its sterling brand. For decades, its parks were a fun, wholesome place to take the kiddos. Then, the movie Blackfish ruined our collective joy from watching Shamu shows, and SeaWorld has been in PR damage control mode ever since.

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How to Promote your Music When Using SoundCloud

Devumi

If you’re on SoundCloud, and you want to know how to promote your music digitally, you’re going to have to be prepared to put yourself out there. While SoundCloud itself is an excellent music promotion tool, and I’ll look at that in this article, it works best when it’s being used alongside other online marketing […]. The post How to Promote your Music When Using SoundCloud appeared first on Devumi.

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12 Websites Blocked by the People’s Republic of China

Bill Hartzer

This week I am Beijing, China doing a keynote address about SEO and domain names. There is free internet access here at the China World Hotel in Beijing, but is it really free? Maybe I should say that it is “restricted” There is a card in each hotel room on the desk that looks like this: On the card, it says: “Please be advised that the following popular websites listed are prohibited in the peoples Republic of China and are blocked by Internet service provider.

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Why You Should Not Give Up On E-mail Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

In August, Smart Insights published some statistics on e-mail marketing for various sectors within the UK and U.S. markets. You’ll find these insights useful, but more importantly, they say something about how important e-mail marketing really is. Let’s take a look at some of the stats: Of 46 business sectors, e-mail open rates range from 13.9% to 29.4%.

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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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10 Blogging Tips We’ve Learned from International Idioms

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Let’s face it: You’re not Neil Patel or Gary Vaynerchuck. I’m not saying you completely suck at blogging, but there’s always room for improvement. But nobody likes to hear that they’re doing it wrong—even if they are actually doing it wrong. So instead of telling you everything you’re doing wrong, I thought I would sweeten the deal.

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Social Media Network Marketing

Social Media ​ ​​ I Work As Freelance Social Media Network Professional, Blog ​ Article Writing, OnLine Research And Also Help People With The Knowledge Of Internet To Earn Money Via The Online World

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Tweet Containing Swear Word Appears on Yahoo! Homepage

Bill Hartzer

I’ve always considered the Yahoo! home page a place with family-friendly content. But lately it’s becoming more family un-friendly. So much so that I’m reconsidering my usage of Yahoo! as a home page for my web browser. Especially because my school age kids use my laptop from time to time to browse the web. How is it that a Tweet from Twitter, along with a pretty nasty swear word gets listed as a news story on the site’s home page?

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Video Marketing: Over- Or Under-Used?

Small Business Mavericks

One might be tempted to think that, since YouTube is the second largest search engine online, video marketing is an over-used–or, at least, widely used–form of online marketing. In fact, while it is used quite extensively (as of November 2014, 300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minutes), I’d say it’s still a bit under-used.

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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.

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Which Makes Social Work: Inspiration or Perspiration?

Convince & Convert

Social Pros on the Road. First, it should be noted that this episode of Social Pros is brought to you from the car, where I am driving Scott Stratten and myself from Content Marketing World back to Indiana. The audio quality is not the best, but the conversation is pretty great. Scott Stratten has published four books, produces a weekly podcast (including video), and has speaking gigs lined up nearly weekly to talk about marketing (or un-marketing, as he refers to what’s really effective i

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The Brand Flip

Twist Image

Episode #480 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. I have read loved and re-read every little book that Marty Neumeier (he's also the Director of Transformation at Liquid Agency ) has written. You should too. I use the word "small" in a physical way (it has nothing to do with his content). Marty writes books that you can read in a few hours.

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When your biz feels like last year’s stilettos (and what to do next)

Absolute PA

You’ve invested a lot into your business, time, money, late nights and most likely, tears. But do you ever feel like, well, it just doesn’t seem to fit anymore? Like when summer fades and you get out last year’s jeans which you LOVED, and made your legs look hot, if you say so yourself. But wait, now they feel all wrong? They aren’t YOU enough. Something’s changed… You have a nagging feeling of dissatisfaction.

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#76: How to Be Happier (and More Profitable) with Gretchen Rubin

Amy Porterfield

My guest today is a New York Times bestselling author, as well as a speaker, blogger, and recognized expert on the topic of happiness. A happiness expert? Oh yes, there is such a thing. Gretchen Rubin takes the topic very, very seriously. She put her Yale education to work with the goal of finding out systematic ways […]. The post #76: How to Be Happier (and More Profitable) with Gretchen Rubin appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Should Your Marketing Strategy Include PR?

Convince & Convert

PR! It’s powerful. It’s magical. It’s mandatory. For everyone. But wait—is it? No matter what your colleagues or favorite websites tell you, PR isn’t always a must-have —not for every business at every stage. For some very young companies, it can be a waste of money. For others, it can be the move that makes the company happen. Let’s take a look at how to determine when a PR investment is a smart decision and when it’s premature.

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ICYMI – Instagram, The Pope, 360 Video & $48

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. Instagram hits 400m users. Twitter rolls out special emojis for the Pope’s visit. 360 video comes to the Facebook newsfeed. How much are you worth to Facebook?

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Study Shows: Blog Posts Published on Weekends Get More Social Shares

ProBlogger

This is a guest post from Lior Levin. You work hard to create relevant, engaging content for your blog and you want to be sure that it has as many eyeballs on it as possible. Sometimes, getting the job done can be discouraging and leave you feeling like you are completely reliant on your audience to do the job by engaging with your post on social media.

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Top 15 Editing Tools for Bloggers

Kikolani

There are many talented bloggers worthy of admiration, but no one has ever written an absolutely perfect first draft. You have to spend hours of researching through facts and figures, considering the opposing arguments, organizing your notes and resources, and writing a brilliant post that would attract tons of views, shares and comments. That’s not enough.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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Prior Planning Prevents a Poor Performance

Convince & Convert

When I was in the 6th grade, our history teacher Mr. Dougherty used to stress the importance of being prepared–for pop quizzes, research papers, or whatever else may have come along. He reasoned, “Prior planning prevents a poor performance.” As 12 year-olds, we thought it was corny and put it in the back of our minds. As cliched as Mr. Dougherty’s phrase may have been, it’s entirely true, and I had a chance to put it to the test earlier this week.

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The Continuing Evolution of the Indian PR Landscape

Waxing UnLyrical

As the Indian PR landscape continues to evolve, it is fascinating to see clients adapt to the integration of digital efforts. For example, a press event is not restricted to just calling reporters on the ground. It also means creating content for a tweet stream per the flow of the event, and continuously engaging with the reporters online and offline.

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7 Crucial Parts of a Successful Outreach Strategy

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Jonathan John. If you’ve been reading how-to blog and content marketing blogs for very long, then you’ve no doubt come across this buzzword: outreach. Nowadays, all the big guns are talking about outreach and how it’s gonna revolutionize content marketing and take your latest blog posts from 0-100 real quick.

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22 Expert Guides and Reviews of 200+ Social Media Tools

Webbiquity SMM

As social media marketing has become ubiquitous ( 88% of marketers say social media is important for their businesses), hundreds of new tools have developed just in the past few years: tools for social media management, monitoring, measurement, automation, identifying influencers, creating graphical content, and more. Image credit: Buddy Media. No one has time to put every one of those tools through its paces.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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How the Blog Post Op-Ed is Changing News

Convince & Convert

Last month, Google announced the creation of its new parent company, Alphabet , which will house the Google we know along with lesser-known experiments like Calico and Google Fiber. This isn’t news to you, but here’s what makes it interesting: If you were to search LinkedIn for “Google Alphabet”, you’d find a collection of articles written by CEOs, Presidents, and Ph.Ds.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #274

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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If Blogging Were a Sport, Here are Three Things I Learned While Playing the Game

ProBlogger

This is a guest post from Laura Forde from Life of the Differently Abled. When I think of blogging, I think of a sports stadium with a game being played on the field. It truly doesn’t matter the sport in question for this analogy to work, what matters is this: What matters is that the sport has many moving pieces and each one has an important role to play in the completion of the match.

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Writing Challenge: Write a ‘How I Do It’ Blog Post

ProBlogger

Today’s podcast episode is a little bit different – a throwback of sorts to one of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Podcast challenges. I think it’s important to offer challenges like this, as it’s very easy to read or listen to what to do , but actually doing it is a totally different thing all together. In fact, absorbing knowledge without putting it into practise is one of the 21 mistakes I see new bloggers make fairly consistently.

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Do You Recognize These 21 Blogging Mistakes?

ProBlogger

While the pathway to blogging is different for everybody, and you could argue there’s no “wrong” way, in today’s ProBlogger podcast I discuss some of the mistakes I made when first starting out, and the most typical mistakes I see newer bloggers making. I wonder if any of you recognize yourselves in these behaviours that could very well hold you back?

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