Sat.Mar 14, 2015 - Fri.Mar 20, 2015

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Will private conversations change Twitter?

Sherrilynne Starkie

'Social network Twitter has introduced a new feature: Private Conversations and it just might be a game changer. Recognize these models? #unfinishedbusiness. The group function lets users start conversations with their followers and all participants are not required to be following one another to take part. Twitter says that users can create groups in just a few taps and when someone is added to a group, he or she will receive a notification.

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The One Mistake Every Marketer Makes with Social Media Every Day

Direct Marketing Observations

'I promise you that what I’m about to say is worth reading. Before I elaborate though, let me stress that I am qualified to post something so link-baitish as this. I’ve been knee deep in social for the better part of 8 years. So much so, that it seems that not a year goes by now where I either hear or read about how social media doesn’t work or is useless or is dying.

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Monday Roundup: Celebrating Your Community

Waxing UnLyrical

'As you read this, you might be gearing up to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow, even if you don’t have Irish roots. I find this “holiday” very interesting, because regardless of their religion, so many, many people come together around the world to “wear the green.” Talk about a religious celebration that’s gone mainstream… and one that engenders a feeling of community among those who celebrate the day.

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How to Be a Storyteller

Convince & Convert

'Creating good stories is how companies convince preoccupied, information-overloaded consumers there is something worth their time and interest. Whether a company’s stories engage, educate, or entertain, they encourage a consumer to pause, even if for a short time. But here’s the key question: How do companies get started with storytelling? The answer: a five-step process that any company can embrace.

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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 Get Insanely Productive with Social Media Updates to Scale Your Referral Traffic

Kikolani

'Life can get crazy… Holidays, trips, family and personal life: There are lots of things that may stand in your way to being consistent with your (and your business) social media presence. Therefore making some sort of social media editorial calendar to keep yourself accountable is a great idea. Like with any productivity hacks, the most important thing to keep in mind here: Keep it very simple.

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The Content Paradigm Shift

Direct Marketing Observations

'I’m cutting to the chase. and feel free to disagree with me at any point when you think I’m wrong. Content curation tools are great. No really, they are, except all they do is pull the content in and that really is just half the battle. The content game played by every brand, everywhere, in some way, shape or form, is finding that content, every day, manually interpreting it and then tailoring it to their audience and then pushing it out.

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Why Relationship Marketing Is the Key to Your Content

Convince & Convert

'Content is king. You already knew that, though. If you’ve been in the content marketing industry for any amount of time, you’ve heard this statement. Content marketing is an abyss, a black hole that we fall into every day because we’re trying to build a congregation and a fellowship of readers. We already know that content is king.

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How Not to Invite Speakers to Speak at Your Event

Bill Hartzer

'I could have written so many different titles for this post. I could have written a title like “Click It Summit Fails at Inviting Speakers” or maybe even “Click It Summit Spams The Internet Marketing Community” But in all fairness, I decided to just leave it as the current title, showing that this is a lesson how NOT to invite speakers to speak at your next event.

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Why is the Customer Experience so Hard to Deliver On?

Direct Marketing Observations

'You’d think brands would know what the customer wanted at this stage of the game, right? It’s 2015 and companies left and right keep talking about their new mandate of delivering on a quality customer experience. delivering a powerful customer experience. It’s almost as if what has happened up to this point didn’t matter. I guess I want to know, what have I been getting all of these years?

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The Most Important Thing About Social Media

Small Business Mavericks

'Internet marketing and social media are intertwined because the technology is overlapping. It is amazing when you think about it: we can connect on an individual basis to people scattered all over the world. The message we want to communicate can be individualized down to the greeting on an email and we are accustomed to this fact. Facebook has established the idea that we can be ‘friends’ with people we never see.

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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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Influencer Marketing Just Hit the Big Time

Convince & Convert

'Brands’ ability to directly message to customers and prospective customers continues to diminish and/or become more expensive due to audience attention fragmentation. As a consequence, companies are making three key changes to their marketing approach: 1. Change the Target. Adoption of marketing technology to makes it financially and operationally viable to message in a hyper-targeted, 1-to-1 fashion, eschewing reach for relevance. 2.

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How to Be Productive on Facebook

Ari Herzog

'Facebook productivity increases when you read a status update from a profile or page and opt to like, comment, or share. When you don’t click those options, you are stuck in lurker mode and eventually get bored. It is a misnomer that you need friends to be productive. You only need to see content. It can come from your friends but it can also come from pages you like and other profiles you follow.

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Introducing Bloom: A New Way to Grow Your Email List

Kikolani

'There are lots of plugins for WordPress users to help grow your email list. If you are looking for a plugin that offers all of the features you need to increase the size of your list, then you should add Bloom to your website. Developed by the team behind ElegantThemes , Bloom offers multiple opt-form placements and designs. Best of all, it’s simple to use.

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7 Smart Small Business Strategies to Get Noticed on Social Media

Rebekah Radice

Marketing your small business on social media continues to evolve. As consumers actively look to sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus prior to making purchase decisions, it’s no longer a matter of if you should get active, but how fast you can create a viable presence. In fact, if you’re a local or small business, you can no longer afford to avoid social media.

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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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How Mophie Saved the Day at SXSW

Convince & Convert

'If you’ve ever been to SXSW, you know that a well-charged phone is a necessity. Even with numerous charging stations, most attendees have a moment where they find themselves low on juice. Inspired by St. Bernard rescue dogs in the Swiss Alps, mophie came to SXSW with a plan to save attendees in need. Dubbed “ mophieRescue ,” the team dispatched St.

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Why (and How) I Forced 912 People to Unfollow Me on Twitter

Ari Herzog

'This screenshot, courtesy of TwitterCounter , shows a 3-month tally of my Twitter followers from early 2014. Notable milestones include 4,721 on January 14, 2014; and 4,887 on February 2, 2014. Do you see the downward slope on the far right? Notable numbers there include 4,832 on February 18; 4,503 on February 20; and 3,975 on February 22. Fast forward a year and I had 2,117 followers on March 18, 2015.

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How to Use Viraltag to Schedule to Pinterest, Tumblr, and More

Kikolani

'If you’ve been looking for a Buffer-equivalent for visual content, then Viraltag is the platform you have been searching for. In a nutshell, Viraltag allows you to create a schedule and schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook (profiles and pages), LinkedIn (profiles and pages), Tumblr, and Pinterest. How to Setup Viraltag. Setting up Viraltag is easy.

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A Sad, Familiar SEO Story

Small Business Mavericks

'I was talking with someone who works in a company specializing in helping local businesses become effective in their internet marketing. She told me that she’d spent all day working for one particular client. For over a year, they’d been painstakingly repairing the results of some really bad advice. This particular company had done what so many small businesses used to do a few years back — they bought links.

SEO 101
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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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Convergence of Content Marketing and Social Media Is Here

Convince & Convert

'Get all JayToday episodes at [link] Are we finally at the convergence of content marketing and social media software? I’ve written a lot about content marketing software and the content marketing software and tools industry. I believe it’s overbuilt. I believe it’s too frothy. I believe there’s too many startups with too much venture capital.

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To increase Your OnLine Brand Page Remember To Have An Offline Spread Of Your URL

Social Media Network Marketing

'To increase Your OnLine Brand Page Remember To Have An Offline Spread Of Your URL I Work As Freelance Social Media Network Professional And Review OnLine Earning Opportunities. ? HERE ARE COUPLE OF LINKS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE EARNING QUICK REFERENCE: 1. T ?SU the Social Media Network has crossed the 3 million Users mark! ? Use This As Invite Click Here Join Me: [link] ?

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Firebelly Begins Work With American Red Cross

Firebelly

We’re excited to announce that we have recently started working with American Red Cross of Indiana. The American Red Cross of Indiana serves 57 counties in Indiana—preventing and alleviating human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. Firebelly will be providing a combination of social media strategy, advocate identification and influencer outreach services.

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Using The Right Numbers For Analysis

Small Business Mavericks

'Do you have the difference between Google Local/Google My Business listings and Google Localization straight in your mind? That difference is barely mentioned in Loren Baker’s How To Compete In Localized Google Results on Search Engine Journal. But the difference between the two reminds me of how easy it is to miss something important. Listings are where your business is located — localization is where the searcher is located.

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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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How Automation and Emotion Can Work Together in Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

'Tweetable Moments We all create content in one fashion or another. racheltruair Tweet This. It’s About the Customer Journey. PetRelocation.com is a door-to-door pet moving service. Rachel Truair , Chief of Staff, and Caitlin Moore, Content Marketing Specialist, are in Texas where the company is based. However, PetRelocation provides services for pets that are moving all over the world.

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Content Curation And Social Media Integrity

Social Media Network Marketing

'While working on Social Media it is important to maintain integrity and ethics. Blatant copy pasting someone else''s hard work is just not correct. It could mar your professional credibility. You could loose out on potential clients and start to give out an image of yourself as not being genuine. This could lead people to perceive you as not knowing much about the field you are working in.

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Firebelly Begins Work With American Red Cross

Firebelly

We’re excited to announce that we have recently started working with American Red Cross of Indiana. The American Red Cross of Indiana serves 57 counties in Indiana—preventing and alleviating human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. Firebelly will be providing a combination of social media strategy, advocate identification and influencer outreach services.

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Are You Making This Common PPC Mistake?

Small Business Mavericks

'Joe Putnam said something interesting on Search Engine Journal in 5 Lessons From Expertly Designed PPC Landing Pages : …make sure you don’t send visitors to your homepage, which may be the biggest advertising faux pas a lot of businesses make when it comes to PPC landing pages. It’s a very common mistake you don’t want to make. That was #5 of a very good addition to SEJ’s Paid Search 101.

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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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Using Square To Boost Domain Authority

Bill Hartzer

'Well, this is interesting. Or embarrassing. Apparently, somehow Square is associating me, of all people, with boosting Domain Authority. I mean, according to Square, who sent me a marketing piece in the mail, I run a company called To Boost Domain Authority. Does this indicate that you can use Square to Boost Domain Authority? Take a look at what Square just sent me: So, either this is some sort of cruel joke that someone in the Search industry is playing on me, or maybe using Square will reall

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10 Tips To Gain More Friends/Fans/Followers On Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

'10 Tips To Gain More Friends/Fans/Followers On Social Media I work as Freelance Social Media Network Online Professional. My Business Page is on Facebook at: [link] Do join me.

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10 Twitter Best Practices For 2015

Firebelly

Some best practices are timeless, others change as frequently as Twitter does. Here are 10 that will help you improve your efforts on Twitter in 2015. 1) Keep tweets short. Tweets that are around 100 characters get the most retweets and replies. 2) Don’t just sell. You don’t want to be that guy. Engage with your audience first, win them over with your charm, and then when they ask you about your product, it’s not really selling. 3) Tweet after lunch.

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Bloggers Are Not Journalists – But They Are Abducted, Imprisoned Tortured and Assassinated the Same #HowManyMore

Laurel Papworth

'Shares Extract: George Brandis today said that “Bloggers are not Journalists” meaning they don’t need the same protection. It’s probably worth investigating the number of bloggers killed in the “Line of Duty”… Today, George Brandis Attorney General for Australia stated that “ bloggers are not journalists ” in regard to the #metadata debate (Government accessing Big Data vs Privacy debate).

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PPC Landing Page vs Doorway Page: Be Careful

Small Business Mavericks

'Jennifer Slegg of The SEM Post makes a valuable point about PPC landing pages in her post on What SEOs Need To Know About Google’s Doorway Pages Search Ranking Adjustment. Here’s what she says: Pay per click landing pages – particularly ones that take a minimalist approach – can also be mistaken for doorway pages by search engines. And with this change having the potential to impact an entire site, you should definitely block Googlebot from these landing pages (but do allow the AdW

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