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How to be smart on Twitter

Sherrilynne Starkie

'Twitter has gone mainstream as people, brands and organizations flock to the social network. They set up profiles, find people to follow, start tweeting their hearts out and start to attract followers themselves. It takes time but as follower numbers continue to rise, we know the effort is worth it, right? Image via CrunchBase. Well, maybe not. Maybe all this tweeting, retweeting, following and friending is just so much spitting in the wind.

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Understanding Twitter: Best Ways to Tweet

yMarketingMatters

'Twitter is a remarkable social media platform for your business. It’s a way to connect with or find your customers, partners and vendors, follow thought leaders, and keep up with what your competition is doing! In short, it’s an easy way to get your message out there and be on top of what is going on in your industry. . But if you’re new to Twitter it can be more than a little confusing.

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Your Digital Tattoo: Guidelines On What (And What Not) To Tweet

Firebelly

'Editorial Note: this is neither a condemnation or an endorsement of the @veevee example used here. Social media has become a digital tattoo. What kind of tattoo do you have? Are you concerned about what people are seeing and can find? Are you prepared for your email (tweet, facebook update, instagram photo) to define the rest of your life – you better be #doubleeffin sure.

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The Pros and Cons of the Top Web Browsers

The Social Media Incubator

'What web browser do you use? Do you frequently have problems viewing websites or updating your own site? These issues can stem from using an outdated web browser. There are four major web browsers that are most utilized: Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari. Over the last few years, the popularity of the web browsers has shifted.

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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 Network On Social Media Without Being a Stalker [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

'Ed: WUL is still on vacation, but here’s an oldie-but-goodie from our vault that originally ran on Sept. 28, 2012. It might answer a question you ask or have been asked, so here it is again. Enjoy! I got an interesting question from someone I know (name withheld on request) recently. I was asked: “I would like to reach out and connect with a professional contact that I have made via Twitter/Facebook /LinkedIn.

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Book Preview: The Social Employee

Webbiquity SMM

'In an era of increasingly transparent pricing, interchangeable products, and uniformly adequate service, the only remaining differentiator may be the “soul” of a company: is your organization the type of enterprise that people want to do business with? What do you stand for? How do you treat your people (which in turn determines how they will treat your customers )?

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Social Media for B2B – 3 Top Tips For Generating B2B Leads Online

The Social Media Incubator

'When it comes to generating B2B leads online, do you have a social media strategy or are you just “winging it?” Here ar our top 3 tips for helping your B2B business to thrive using social media: Develop a strong LinkedIn presence – LinkedIn is the B2B go-to place online. This is the social networking site for business people. That’s why you don’t see a lot of Zynga games on LinkedIn.

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Can I Have a Word? Five, Actually

Waxing UnLyrical

'Don’t worry, I’m not going to launch into a diatribe or give you something really heavy to read. I just wanted to update you on what has been, and will be, going on on the WUL front (as well as my own). Also, there is no particular reason for the gecko photo, in case you were wondering… I just felt like using it! Here goes. I’m going on vacation!

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25 Random Observations about #MozCon Speakers

Adam Sherk

'I attended MozCon 2013 last week. It’s really become a big production with a three-day agenda, large stage and space-age theme in the main room. I hadn’t been to one before and I came away pretty impressed. I don’t think I’ve ever done a conference recap, but I had a good experience at MozCon and wanted to write something up. Rather than getting into the specifics, I thought I’d share some random observations about the speakers and presentations that I enjoyed.

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Why You Should Care About Gmail’s New Tabs as a Blogger, Marketer, Freelancer, and a User

Kikolani

'Are you a blogger, Internet marketer, freelance writer, or just someone who likes to get their email? Whether or not you use Gmail, you should be concerned. Here’s why Gmail wants you to be excited about their new tabs. It’s supposed to help you only get the emails they deem as important in your primary inbox. The rest gets sorted in tabs for Promotions, Updates, Social, and Forums.

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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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This Week in Social Media – 7/17/2013

Social Media Marketing

'How to turn customers into advocates, a surprising number of people won’t take action based on TV ads, the progress of social business, WeChat is in the sites of Chinese telcos, measuring sponsorship effectiveness, the role of PR in sponsored content, the #2 concern of the C-suite and more, it’s This Week in Social Media. Each week, I compose a newsletter for our team that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communication

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Tweet After Death: How to Use Social Media to Live Forever [Redux]

Waxing UnLyrical

'Ed: This post originally ran on June 4, 2012. Waxing UnLyrical is on vacation, so we’re re-running it since it’s still relevant… and it’s a great post! I don’t believe in ghosts. I know, that seems rather snappy and off-handed to say, so immediately like that, but I don’t. I’m not saying I don’t have views on the universe, spirituality, whatever ….

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Social Media: Not a Stand-Alone Strategy

The Social Media Incubator

'The most common misconception about social media for business is that it can be done as a separate entity. However, that statement couldn’t be further from the truth. It should be looked at as a tool and component of your overall business strategy, not a standalone strategy. First, you need to make sure the implementation of your social media campaign isn’t sporadic.

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Dating in the Millennial Era

Firebelly

'Being a junior in college and almost 21 years old, I am surrounded by dating and fresh relationships. My peers and I are starting to get to the age where relationships seem good, are wanted, and appear as a maturing act. Even though we are starting to date and take relationships more seriously, just like everything else, us Millennials have redefined the way ‘courtship’ happens.

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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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Understanding Twitter: Best Ways to Tweet

yMarketingMatters

'Twitter is a remarkable social media platform for your business. It’s a way to connect with or find your customers, partners and vendors, follow thought leaders, and keep up with what your competition is doing! In short, it’s an easy way to get your message out there and be on top of what is going on in your industry. . But if you’re new to Twitter it can be more than a little confusing.

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Why You Should Care About Gmail’s New Tabs as a Blogger, Marketer, Freelancer, and a User

Kikolani

'Are you a blogger, Internet marketer, freelance writer, or just someone who likes to get their email? Whether or not you use Gmail, you should be concerned. Here’s why Gmail wants you to be excited about their new tabs. It’s supposed to help you only get the emails they deem as important in your primary inbox. The rest gets sorted in tabs for Promotions, Updates, Social, and Forums.

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High Quality Content: What It Is & Why Your Website Needs It

The Social Media Incubator

'You’ve likely heard people refer to “high quality content” online. This phrase is typically used in reference to website content, and you’ll often hear people say that if you want to rank high in Google’s search index, then you need to produce high quality content. But what does that mean? Most importantly, “high quality” content should be unique.

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4 Tips to Fuel Your Instagram Campaign to Success

Convince & Convert

'Sometimes deepening the relationship between your brand and your fans is as simple as giving people a way to engage on a new level. Instagram is a great tool for capturing fan and customer excitement in the moment, but in order to understand the magnitude of the effectiveness of visual marketing, it helps to take a look at the numbers: 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual, and visuals are processed 60,000X faster in the brain than text. [ source ]. 40% of people respond better

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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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Understanding Twitter: Best Ways to Tweet

yMarketingMatters

'Twitter is a remarkable social media platform for your business. It’s a way to connect with or find your customers, partners and vendors, follow thought leaders, and keep up with what your competition is doing! In short, it’s an easy way to get your message out there and be on top of what is going on in your industry. . But if you’re new to Twitter it can be more than a little confusing.

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How to Organize Finances with FreshBooks

Kikolani

'When I was approached to do a review of FreshBooks , it couldn’t have come at a better time. I have to admit, I’ve never been good with organizing my finances beyond Excel. I tried another name brand accounting product on two different occasions, and both times gave it up because I could never reconcile my accounts correctly. Not to mention that there was no suitable import option for PayPal with it either.

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How to Create a Viral Post in Social Media

The Social Media Incubator

'Article guest-authored by Craig Robinson, an online writer for Qwaya , a Facebook ad campaign tool. Craig writes different topics about social media tips and strategies. To go viral on the Internet is to have a piece of your content explode in popularity, getting passed around from person to person and from site to site. A great meme, a funny video clip, a facepalm-worthy story – these are all very common viral posts online.

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How to Uncover Meaningful Social Data

Convince & Convert

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Call it the Analytics Effect: People get so hooked on cheap-and-abundant data from sources like Google Analytics that they ignore useful data from other sources. Interesting as a concept, but does it really exist? This question occurred to me after reading Jay Baer’s post revealing that social media sites have an an e-commerce conversion rate of.71 percent — a pale shadow of the conversion rates for email and search.

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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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One Simple Way To Manage PPC Keywords

Small Business Mavericks

'Pay per click advertising is tedious work. You have to ensure that every keyword you invest in pays its way. How do you do that? Today, I’m going to share with you a simple though not perfect way to find unprofitable keywords that you can eliminate from your inventory. In order to use this method of keyword management you have to establish some history.

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The End Of Writer's Block

Twist Image

'I don''t believe in writer''s block. Do you? Have you ever had a moment in time when someone says something that stops you dead in your tracks? It happened to me. It happened to me live on stage. The other week, I held a private book launch for my latest business book, CTRL ALT Delete. The event was held at the Google offices in New York, and I was joined on stage by Seth Godin (you can see the full conversation right here: Don''t Be An Anonymous Cog - CTRL ALT Delete With Seth Godin ).

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Why I Returned My New Macbook Air and Replaced it With a Chromebook

Stay N' Alive

'As we enter the era of the server in your pocket , our habits of computer use are going to change. They already are. As I''m buying new products (I don''t get free stuff like some bloggers ;-)), I''m finding the things that used to be important in products just aren''t any more. The elements of the hardware ecosystem we each live in are constantly changing, and so are their importance in our lives.

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How Not to Win Any Marketing Awards Ever

Convince & Convert

'image from BigStock.com. Lately, I’ve been asked to judge quite a few marketing awards competitions. Mostly digital awards, but some traditional/offline categories, too. The specific awards and contests don’t matter, because the affliction I see is universal. It is that most marketing awards entry write-ups are absolutely terrible. Look, I get it.

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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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Why Might Yelp Want SeatMe?

Small Business Mavericks

'Large companies often acquire smaller companies because they want access to the technology, or they want the personnel involved with the company due to its talent. Another reason larger companies often acquire smaller companies is because they are planning to start offering a similar service. It’s easier to move into a business niche by acquiring a company already there than it is to start from scratch.

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Don't Read This. Go Read This.

Twist Image

'If you''re going to spend any time reading anything today. I''m going to encourage you head over and read this post by James Altucher titled, Living The Counterfeit Life. Then. if you are smart: You will sign up for his free e-newsletter (so you can get his frequent pieces of glorious writing): James Altucher Insider''s List. You will buy his latest book (which I am currently loving): Choose Yourself!

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You need one of these to get more leads (yes, you really do)

Absolute PA

'There are lots of tricky moving parts to email marketing and list building. The obvious visible-to-everyone pieces… opt in forms, freebie offers, delicious calls to action that STOP visitors in their tracks. and the not-so-obvious: auto-responders, follow up sequences, list segmenting, thank you pages and web form codes – WTF?! Hmm…slippery little suckers… That’s why I LOVE it: challenging (sometimes of toe curling proportions) with loads of bits to fix neatly into

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The TODAY Show Celebrates 100K Followers on Pinterest

Convince & Convert

'From Facebook, to Twitter, Google+, Instagram and YouTube, companies continue to showcase a variety of creative ways to celebrate milestones across their social media sites. While not as common, Pinterest also offers a unique visual opportunity to celebrate a milestone. A creative example can be found courtesy of TODAY, who recently reached 100,000 followers on Pinterest and thanked its community with a colorful cake recipe.

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Would You Risk Arrest For 1,000 Retweets?

Small Business Mavericks

'Every now and then I read a story that makes me laugh, not because it’s particularly funny, but because it’s particularly sad. Youthful indiscretions, however, are often funny. In this case, a young man tweeted that he’d run across the field at the Major League Baseball All-Star game if he got 1,000 retweets. He did and he got arrested.