Sat.Jan 16, 2016 - Fri.Jan 22, 2016

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5 Questions to Ask your Web Development Team on the First Date

Harp Interactive

Categories: Branding , Inbound Lead Generation , Website Development Tags: branding , lead generation , responsive design , SEO , web design , web development , website development Building a website is no stroll through the park; it requires extensive planning and coordination. Ready for your first date with a web development team? Kick off the relationship by asking these five key questions. ( Read more. ).

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5 Tips to Incorporate Design Elements Into Your Marketing Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

Guest Post by Sara Theisen. Design elements can play a big part in the success of your marketing strategy… and there’s a lot more to that than meets the eye. Here are five main contributors to launching a successful project: 1. Identity/Branding. It is important to keep your design elements visually cohesive with the identity and branding that you already have established.

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Using Social Media To Promote Your Products & Services

Firebelly

Firebelly CEO Duncan Alney recently appeared on an episode of Living By Design to discuss how businesses can use social media to promote products and services with host Cathy Holloway Hill. You can watch his interview in its entirety below. [Video URL: https://youtu.be/vpff-9xJwEk ]. Need help promoting your brand’s products and services on social media?

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The 3 Social Media Rules for Death and Tragedy

Convince & Convert

Image via Unsplash. When David Bowie died last week (and by the way, f*ck cancer) companies hither and yon decided to hitch their social media exposure and engagement wagons to Ziggy Stardurst , thinking that the strategy of “riding the hashtag” gave them license to use a person’s death as suitable fodder for social content. Many of these posts were either commercials wrapped in the false cloak of tribute, or the companies doing the posting were so far removed from anything to

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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 Does Social Listening Change the Way You Do Business (and Create ROI)?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

This week I moderated another Social Media Today webinar as part of their Best Thinker webinar series, this time on the topic of How Does Social Listening Change the Way You Do Business (and Create ROI)? This webinar featured Mikael Lemberg ( @ Lemberg ) Director of Product Management at Falcon Social, Andrew Ashton ( @AndrewLAshton ) Digital Marketing Specialist, Pizza Hut and Greg Gerik (@ ggerik ) CEO at Gerik & Company.

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47 Superb Social Media Marketing Stats and Facts

Webbiquity SMM

Social media use isn’t quite universal—but it’s getting close. 70% of the U.S. population now has at least one social networking profile; more than half use two or more social networks. The number of worldwide social media users is projected to grow from 2.1 billion last year to 2.5 billion by 2018. Image credit: The CMO Survey. And that usage isn’t all selfies and cat videos; both consumer and B2B purchases are influenced by social content.

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Why You Need Design Thinking and How to Use It

Convince & Convert

My daughters are fluent French-speaking wonders, and they’ve taught me something amazing about linguistics and communication: French speakers implement a specific salutation for different people holding different stations within society. It seems obvious, and there are some remnants of it in English, but we might have forgotten the lesson it was supposed to teach us.

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How to Make a Facebook Cover that Markets Your Business

Rebekah Radice

Looking to visually market your business on Facebook? Want quick and easy ideas to promote your product or service? While there are countless ways to create differentiation on Facebook, your cover photo is the first thing most fans will see. Designing a customized Facebook cover will help you instantly stand out. Whether you’re a local, online or small business, your cover should instantly resonate with your audience.

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Should the Phrase Link Juice Go Away?

Bill Hartzer

I ran across an interesting conversation on Twitter, started by Ashley and her tweet: “Sign my petition to get all SEOs to stop using the term “link juice” ” Do you think that the term “link juice” is gross? Does it relay un-professionalism in the SEO community? Well, let’s first take a look at a definition of “link juice” and what it means, according to Woorank : “Link juice is a colloquial term in the SEO world that refers to the powe

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Where Does Your Business Fit In?

Small Business Mavericks

One of the key components to marketing–and this applies to any type of business–is defining exactly where you fit in. Of course, we have to define “fit in.” What does that apply to exactly? Fitting in, in a business sense, applies to several key areas of business dynamics. Here are the key areas where I think business owners and managers–marketers especially–should consider: The marketplace – Local, national, global?

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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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5 Lessons from 1 Million Views on SlideShare

Convince & Convert

Image via BigStockPhoto.com. If you’re interested in learning how to create SlideShare presentations that generate thousands of views and downloads, this will be one of the best blog posts you’ll ever read. Two years ago, I set out on a mission to uncover insights that would allow me to unlock the power of SlideShare marketing. I started out with very little knowledge of what worked well, and my only presentation was one created back in 2012.

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How to Prevent Your Emotional Insecurity

Taylor Marek

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

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Finding Teacher On Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Finding Teacher On Social Media With the latest Indian movie 'Chalk N Duster' touching emotional chords of Indians - people have started using Social Media Platform to connect with their Teachers. The #ToOurTeachersWithLove is being used as more people are connecting with their yester-years gurus. Go check out #ToOurTeachersWithLove - are you searching too - for your Teacher?

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How’s Your Website Look on a Tablet?

Small Business Mavericks

One of the biggest challenges to modern website design is ensuring that your site looks good on all devices. By “devices” I mean. Desktop computers. Laptops. Smartphones. Tablets. Television screens. Future technology. Naturally, we can’t predict what will become popular in the future in terms of technological advancements, so it’s difficult to predict what website design practices are going to be necessary five or ten years from now.

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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 IHOP Turned Pancake Art Into an Unforgettable Customer Experience

Convince & Convert

How IHOP Turned Pancake Art Into an Unforgettable Customer Experience. Ever wondered what your portrait would look like on a pancake? If so, this campaign is for you. In celebration of the return of “All You Can Eat Pancakes,” IHOP commissioned pancake artist Nathan Shields to turn fan photos into real-time pancake portraits. Hosted on Twitter from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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Online Learning Glossary

Taylor Marek

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

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Free Search Engine Submission Get Your URL Listed On Google, Bing, Yahoo And More! - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

With business going all out on Social Media it is time that you have a good understanding of Search Engines. Search Engine Optimization is one of the clear ways in which you do things On Page and Off Page so that you feature a little higher in searches. Apart from this you can have simple OnLine Submissions that do not cost anything. Just put your URL and that is it - you are set in the queue.

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Does E-mail Marketing or Blogging Produce More Results

Small Business Mavericks

You don’t have to search hard for people online these days who talk about the difficulty of reaching your core audience with blog content. In fact, I know this is for book authors (probably fiction), but you could just as well make this argument for any type of business. And the author is talking specifically about social media, but many book authors (and business owners) write blog posts then share the through social media as a part of their overall marketing strategy, so I’m going

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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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3 Banner Ad Best Practices Debunked

Convince & Convert

Advertising has always been about creativity and addressing the pain points of your consumers, and it still is today. Throughout the years, advertisers have developed guidelines for most industries (including banner advertising), and those guidelines are often regarded as absolute by any advertising professional. Rarely do we question the so-called “best practices” of advertising, and when problems start to come up (not enough conversions, bad CTR, etc.), people often look for solutions in the w

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Relaxing after work

Taylor Marek

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.

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What'sApp Brings In ‘Starred Messages’ Feature And Has Prolonged Free Subscription Period - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Now here are 2 updates on What'sApp. The much used App. 1: Introduction Of Stared Messages 2: Free Subscription Period extended. Why is this taking place? 1: What'sApp introduces ‘Stared Messages’ Feature that lets you bookmark important messages. What this means is if so far you were taking Screen Shots of important messages then you do not need to do that anymore as per the company.

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Using Digital PR to Top up Your Sales Funnel

Proactive Report

The two goals every company has are increase sales and reduce costs. Increasing sales depends on a consistent flow of people interested in your product or service. In the past the sales funnel was fairly straightforward – get qualified leads, and convert them to customers. The Internet changed that. Now the public has access to a wealth of data about products and companies and they can easily find reviews from other like-minded folk who have already used your product and experienced you

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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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60 Steps for Your Content Writing Checklist

Convince & Convert

The first thing everyone finds out about me is that I love lists and checklists. Shopping lists, to-do lists, reading lists—I am always thrilled to make them. It’d be a shame if I didn’t have a detailed checklist for my #1 activity: content writing. For all my industry peers who face the daily challenge of keeping in mind all aspects of content creation, this list breaks down a content marketing process step-by-step.

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A Truly Shocking Reason To Adopt Meditation

Taylor Marek

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.

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Becoming a Twitter Celebrity – Starting at $19/month

Devumi

In the early days of Twitter, being popular meant having lots of followers and nothing more. Your only goal was getting more and more and more followers with little regard for how your content was performing on the 140-character platform. Worse still, there was little understanding of how you would actually get more followers to […]. The post Becoming a Twitter Celebrity – Starting at $19/month appeared first on Devumi.

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4 things you need to do in 2016 to be a better content marketer

Janet Fouts

4 things you need to do to make 2016 the year you rock content marketing.

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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 Visuals are Telling the NAIAS Story

Convince & Convert

Politics: State of the Union. President Obama delivered his final State of the Union address last Tuesday, and Twitter was all abuzz with #SOTU chatter. Overall, there were more than 950,000 Twitter mentions during the hour-long speech : While Obama addressed a host of issues, it did not include the sharp focus on gun violence that many expected. Here’s a look at the top issues mentioned on social media throughout the telecast: Looking at who was driving #SOTU chatter, the White House was

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #291

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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#94: Using Periscope to Grow Your Business

Amy Porterfield

By now you’ve probably heard about Periscope, the live streaming social media platform that lets you talk to your fans in real time. It’s the fastest growing social media platform of all time! Since Periscope launched in March 2015, it already has 15 million users. And get this: those users upload three years’ worth of video content […].

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My Language-Learning Toolbox

Net-Savvy Executive

In the last year or two, I've rekindled an interest in learning languages. I follow a lot of industry blogs from all over the world, and it's nice to give Google Translate a break sometimes. In the process, I've discovered an amazing variety of resources that weren't around when I was taking classes in school. It's worth a try if you're interested, and you should be—the science says that learning another language is good for your health.

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Why Content Experience Matters

Convince & Convert

Crafting a Nuanced Experience. This week’s episode of Content Pros is a special hosts only show with your favorite hosts, Chris Moody and Randy Frisch. After hearing Chris and Randy interviewing the top content marketers in the industry each week, it’s time to turn the microphone back on them and hear their own thoughts on a multitude of content marketing topics.

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