Sat.Dec 26, 2015 - Fri.Jan 01, 2016

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12 Steps to Producing a Podcast

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. Here at Convince & Convert Media, we produce three podcasts. Most frequent is my nearly-daily video show Jay Today (read this post to see how we make 8 pieces of content out of each episode ). We also produce Social Pros , the podcast for real people doing real work in social media.

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Firebelly Begins Work With Cornerstone Bread Company

Firebelly

We’re excited to announce that we have recently started working with Cornerstone Bread Company. Cornerstone Bread Company makes every item from scratch—using nothing less than high-quality, all-natural ingredients shaped by hand. Because of their belief that every chef knows what kind of bread will best showcase his or her culinary art, they work with them to make that perfect match.

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15 Tips for Effectively Managing YOUR Precious Time

Kikolani

Time. It’s one of our most precious commodities. There never seems to be enough of it (especially for bloggers and writers), and yet, sometimes time seems to stand still. There’s a ton of information on the web that claims to provide “helpful” information, but doesn’t really. Once you read the tips, you end up falling back into the same old rut. Good news.

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How to Create Your Social Media Strategy

Rebekah Radice

When it comes to building a solid social media strategy , there are many things to consider. From goals, to content, branding and audience engagement, it can feel complex. But the good news? Designing a winning strategy doesn’t have to be hard. In fact, I’ve seen businesses succeed with as little as a 3-part strategy written in 300 words or less.

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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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88 Marketers You Need to Follow on Twitter

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. On my Jay Today video podcast (iTunes), I gave a shoutout to someone who I respect and admire each episode; a person I believe you should be following in social media. Although I’m at episode 132 of the Jay Today show, sometimes I don’t include a shoutout, and several extra-awesome people have been given the nod on multiple occasions.

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Marching Forward Into a New Year

Ari Herzog

As I write this sentence, 2016 arrives in about 10 hours. I’ll either be curled under my covers sleeping or maybe watching a late-night movie. I once dreaded spending New Year’s Eve alone; but, at 40 and uninterested in crowds and drunkenness (in part because I rarely drink these days), I’m fine with the solitude. In years past I attended First Night parties, gawked at ice sculptures, applauded the Times Square ball dropping, watched fireworks, drank champagne, played board gam

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Do You Optimize For Google Or For Your Reader?

Small Business Mavericks

After nearly two decades of Google’s consistent algorithm updates, many content producers continue to chase after keywords in hopes that they will be warmly rewarded for the right mix of optimized gobbledy-gook. Trust me, you’d be better off simply writing content. Forget about keywords. But the truth is, keywords matter. They just don’t matter as much as a lot of small business owners convince themselves they do.

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How to Spark Emotion Through Social Media

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note : This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. 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!

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How My Journey Continues in 2016

Ari Herzog

Among my iPad apps is a quote-of-the-day rolodex of positivity and motivational thoughts called Transform Your Life — and the quote for December 28 is stuck in my head. It’s from Nelson Mandela: “There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.” If you can identify with being a stranger in a familiar space, then you can identify with my sensations on the first day of a new year.

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Visual Bookmarking: A Better Way to Browse the Web

Idaconcpts

When you’re on the Internet, you can fall down the rabbit hole of searches. You’re clicking from one topic to another without pause. When you started, you might have been searching for grilling recipes, but when you’re done, you’re on a page about the latest celebrity story. While you might not want to save everything you skim in a day, there’s no way you would be able to replicate the trail you just created, or the interesting articles you want to read later.

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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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9 Magic Social Media and Marketing Tools to Transform Your 2016

Socially Sorted

The year is drawing to a close and I want to share some magic tools I have discovered recently. . These are social media and marketing tools I will be taking with me into 2016. Now YOU can use them in 2016 and benefit from them too! . Image by Shutterstock. But first, let’s discuss my criteria for this post. I wanted to share social media and marketing tools I haven’t mentioned much before and that I have only really started to use (or use in smart ways) in the last year.

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A Marketer’s Guide to the Perfect Headline

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. Let’s start with a fundamental question: How are posts shared? It’s not the blog post, tool, or resource that gets shared. That might be what motivates the person who is sharing it, but all that ends up getting shared is the headline. The headline is what you share with your subscribers, it’s what people see in search results, and it’s what gets passed around.

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YouTube Music Promotion Ideas: Be Famous Already!

Devumi

You’ve read every SoundCloud marketing article on our blog, and applied them as well as you can. Good job! The big elephant in the room, however, is YouTube. We all know that musicians are building a great following there, and making a bit of money. The problem is that no one ever talks about YouTube […]. The post YouTube Music Promotion Ideas: Be Famous Already!

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The 11 Business Books That Shaped 2015

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Another list. Sorry. I tend to shy away from lists (especially ones that recap the year), and here I am breaking my own rules. Why? Well, in case you have not noticed, it's getting easier and easier to spend your time trolling Twitter feeds and Instagram images, and flicking your way through the Facebook newsfeed. For the most part, we think that we're more informed when - in reality - our knowledge is increasingly falling into the category of "a mile long and an inch deep.

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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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#90: 7 Ways to Work Smarter in 2016

Amy Porterfield

Can you believe 2015 is over already? I know, it’s a cliche thing to say, but it’s true–I feel like the year has just flown by! Maybe you can relate. I know when a year is packed with as many projects, launches, milestones reached and lessons learned as 2015 has been for me, it makes […]. The post #90: 7 Ways to Work Smarter in 2016 appeared first on Amy Porterfield | Online Marketing Expert.

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10 Ways to Improve Your Editorial Calendar

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. How satisfied are you with the way you manage your content right now? Do you use a content marketing editorial calendar but it still kind of… well… sucks? Chances are, you know there are things you can improve with your editorial calendar. But you just don’t want to change what you’re doing.

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Listen & Learn

Diva Marketing Blog

As we close out 2015 and begin the circle dance anew, there will be lots of predictions of what 2016 will hold in terms of marketing trends and must dos. This is not one of those posts. Time brings perspective. So instead, I'd like to look back at one aspect of social/digital media marketing that was suppose to change the marketing game: from gaining a better understanding of our customers’ emotional profiles, to casual research insights, to more responsive customer care. .

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The Subtle Art Of Negotiation

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Episode #494 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. The last time that I saw Misha Glouberman was in the mid-eighties. We went to high school together (he was three years older than I was). I had not heard his name until the other week, when our Executive Creative Director at Mirum , Jon Finkelstein , asked me if I ever read the book, The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City , which was co-authored with Sheil

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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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Discover the Secrets of Productive Bloggers with 50% Off Our Blog Wise eBook

ProBlogger

Greetings from ProBlogger HQ where I’m currently recovering from a fun Christmas with my family. I hope those of you who were celebrating this week had a happy time too and that your preparations for the end of year celebrations are going well too. Here in Australia many of us take time off for this summer period between Christmas and New Year so things will be a little quiet here on ProBlogger until the new year but I know many ProBlogger readers use this time to get productive with their

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My Favorite Things 2015 Edition

Jason Yormark

Every year I like to write a blog post that recaps some of my favorite products or services I experienced that year. While I didn’t host a talk show announcing my favorite things and giving them away to a screaming out of control crowd, I am posting them here for you to get for yourselves. Feel free to scream if you’d still like. AirMail – I’ve struggled to find an email program on the Mac that I can get behind.

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Social Media Listening. Will We Learn?

Diva Marketing Blog

As we close out 2015 and begin the circle dance anew, there will be lots of predictions of what 2016 will hold in terms of marketing trends and must dos. This is not one of those posts. Time brings perspective. So instead, I'd like to look back at one aspect of social/digital media marketing that was suppose to change the marketing game: from gaining a better understanding of our customers’ emotional profiles, to casual research insights, to more responsive customer care. .

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5 Tips to Land Quality Press Links Using HARO

Kikolani

A great way of getting quality links is by using the HARO platform. This is short for “Help a Reporter Out” and it has been around for years now, but some experts don’t know what it is or how it works. Even if they do, they may not be using the platform as well as they could. Getting featured in one of these stories can earn you some incredible exposure and a great backlink to your site.

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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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Why You Should Tweak Your E-mail Marketing Strategy

Small Business Mavericks

Every business needs to take another look at its marketing strategy from time to time. That includes specific tactics within the overall strategy. In this case today, I’d like to discuss why might consider re-envisioning your e-mail marketing plan. There are a number of reasons why might consider revising your e-mail marketing strategy. Today, I’m going to talk about three: Your list is outdated.

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4 Strategies for Improving Social Engagement

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. Simply too many brands use social media as a free advertising platform where they can sell, sell, sell. While the drive to push sales on whatever platform available is admirable, social media (as most of us have realized by now) plays by different rules. It’s not like broadcast television, where you buy spots on primetime, talk about your brand, and see sales walking in the door.

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My Top 10 Gadgets of the Future That You can Buy in 2015

Stay N' Alive

Recently I was asked to appear on my local Fox affiliate, Fox 13 to appear on their weekly lifestyle show, “The Place” They wanted me to talk about my top 10 favorite gadgets of 2015. I agreed to take on the challenge, which really wasn’t a challenge since I already own most of them! You can see some of my reviews over on Youtube.com/TheSocialGeek (where I’ll post more in the future as well).

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #288

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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 o

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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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4 Studies on the State of Influencer Marketing

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. I read influencer marketing blogs and newsletters every day. Don’t get me wrong—a good tips post has helped me greatly over the years. But I’m a sucker for posts containing facts, strategies backed up with data , and most of all… charts! There is always good research coming out in the world of marketing, but in the past few weeks, the quantity and quality of data published has increased greatly.

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My Top 10 Gadgets of the Future That You can Buy in 2015

Stay N' Alive

Recently I was asked to appear on my local Fox affiliate, Fox 13 to appear on their weekly lifestyle show, “The Place” They wanted me to talk about my top 10 favorite gadgets of 2015. I agreed to take on the challenge, which really wasn’t a challenge since I already own most of them! You can see some of my reviews over on Youtube.com/TheSocialGeek (where I’ll post more in the future as well).

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My Top 10 Gadgets of the Future That You can Buy in 2015

Stay N' Alive

Recently I was asked to appear on my local Fox affiliate, Fox 13 to appear on their weekly lifestyle show, “The Place” They wanted me to talk about my top 10 favorite gadgets of 2015. I agreed to take on the challenge, which really wasn’t a challenge since I already own most of them! You can see some of my reviews over on Youtube.com/TheSocialGeek (where I’ll post more in the future as well).

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My Top 10 Gadgets of the Future That You can Buy in 2015

Stay N' Alive

Recently I was asked to appear on my local Fox affiliate, Fox 13 to appear on their weekly lifestyle show, “The Place” They wanted me to talk about my top 10 favorite gadgets of 2015. I agreed to take on the challenge, which really wasn’t a challenge since I already own most of them! You can see some of my reviews over on Youtube.com/TheSocialGeek (where I’ll post more in the future as well).

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105 Ideas to Add to Your Editorial Calendar

Convince & Convert

Editor’s Note: This post is one of Convince & Convert’s Top 10 Posts of 2015. From our research at CoSchedule , we found that planning awesome content is a major challenge for most content marketers. That’s why we recently launched a new feature for our content marketing editorial calendar tool that helps marketers plan any type of content they could possibly want to publish.

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