Sat.Mar 08, 2014 - Fri.Mar 14, 2014

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Remove Facebook Reviews in 4 Easy Steps

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Facebook , How To , Social Media Marketing Tags: facebook 5 star rating and reviews , Facebook reviews , how to remove facebook reviews Has your Facebook Page ever received an unwarranted ‘Review’ by a disgruntled ex-employee or competitor? Do you wish there was a way to delete or hide unwarranted reviews that influence your Page’s star rating?

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2014: Everything Marketers Don’t Want You To Know

Firebelly

'Although predictions or extended reality projections usually come at the end of one year or the beginning of of another – I think it’s critical to look at what’s happening so far in 2014 and imagine the rest of the year. As marketers, we’re very optimistic people and not usually known for taking a hard.

Marketing 249
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Living Life Against The Grain

Jason Yormark

'I’m not sure if the term really applies to this blog post, but I’m going to go with it anyway. One of the things I’ve really strived for later in life is figuring out ways to better use my time. Time is really our biggest luxury. Money’s great and all, but time is what it’s all about. Time with people you love, time to do the things you enjoy, just having extra time in general.

Travel 194
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Three Things Email Subject Lines Must Do

Waxing UnLyrical

'The other day I needed a bit of comic relief (we were gearing up for the #HopeProject launch and it was a bit frenetic, to say the least), so I posed this question on Facebook: “Complete: ‘You know you have a winner when the email subject line reads __.’ “ I learned a great deal from this exercise. Specifically: 1. PR and Marketing folk don’t sleep.

Exercises 192
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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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03/14/2014: Social Media Snapshot | New Looks for Facebook, Google, Instagram & More

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Facebook , Google , Google Plus , How To , Instagram , Social Media Marketing Tags: Facebook , Google , Google Search , Instagram , social media , Social Media Snapshot A Makeover Frenzy: Facebook, Google+, Instagram Get New Looks Catch up on the need-to-know changes and updates in social media that affect your business and brand…all in one place.

Instagram 232
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Add Contacts Quickly with App of the Week

The Social Media Incubator

'Don’t have time to sit down and enter contact information for all of those business cards you’ve been collecting? No problem. Our App of the Week allows you to take a picture and move on with your busy day. CardMunch by LinkedIn gives you the opportunity to add your new business contacts to your phone quickly. CardMunch lets its users take a picture of a business card they have collected.

Mobile 182

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Memejacking: How to Get Started Marketing with Memes

Waxing UnLyrical

'Guest Post by Adrienne Erin . No matter how old you are, it should be clear by now that there are certain things that are “quintessentially Internet” – that is, they belong to the people who were raised on the Internet, in all of its omnipresent glory. Memes are one of those things. Image: Retis via Flickr, CC 2.0. For most of us, memes are a trifling way to spend the day: a source of laughter or, albeit less frequently, inspiration.

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5-Step Strategy To Improve Your Facebook Engagement & Growth

Convince & Convert

'Thanks to numerous Facebook changes recently, many businesses are thinking about dropping Facebook entirely. Engagement is in the toilet, and the page just isn’t growing. Before you do, it pays to take a fresh, close look at your Facebook strategy. Often the problem lies there and has absolutely nothing to do with algorithm changes. Here is a sneak peek at part of my evaluation processes to identify where the disconnect lies. 1.

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21 People I Want to Hear Speak at Pubcon NOLA 2014

Bill Hartzer

'The PubCon conference, being held in New Orleans March 17 to March 20, 2014 at the New Orleans Convention Center , is a great conference that I’m attending and speaking at next week. I don’t remember how many PubCon conferences I’ve been to and spoken on panels at, but it’s going on at least 10, perhaps 15 of them. There’s a reason why I always look forward to PubCon, and it’s mainly because of the speakers and the sessions: and the content that they present.

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MoMA Creates @Art140 To Stir Up Conversation

The Realtime Report

'The Museum of Modern Art wants to get more people to talk about art — and is turning to Twitter to make that happen. The @Art140 account, unveiled yesterday at SXSW , is MoMA’s vehicle to “better understand how the public feels about art.” How will it work? MoMA will post 6 pieces of art , representing “a wide range of work,” and then add information about each piece designed to get conversation rolling.

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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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Judging Your eCommerce Success

Idaconcpts

'When using eCommerce solutions and websites, one of the most important things to do is to step back and take a look at the amount of success that you are having. This can help you to see what you are doing correctly and what you need to change. Growth is always good, of course, but you want to see why that growth occurred. You want to have a good idea of what it means for your company.

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How to Identify Relevant Hashtags for Your Business

Convince & Convert

'Identifying the right hashtags is critical when it comes to social monitoring and engagement. This allows us to find the conversations where our target audience hangs out. By adding value to the conversation, we can start to build up a relationship that could possibly leads to a business transaction (or at the very least awareness). I have developed this three-step method using a few favorite Twitter tools – Twitonomy, Hashtagify.me, and RiteTag. 1.

Hashtag 167
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6 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Google+

Bill Hartzer

'Here’s one of my favorite current hobbies: I sit down with potential clients, throw out a reference to Google+ and pause for the inevitable response – that “it’s never going to take off” or “we don’t believe in it.” Then I slowly shake my head, take a deep breath, and reveal what Google isn’t telling you about the significance of their social push. 1.

Google 135
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Social Networking Stats: 52% of SMBs Use Facebook for Ads/Promotions, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

'The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1.23 billion monthly active users. via Facebook. YouTube. over 1 billion monthly unique users. via YouTube. Twitter: 241 million monthly active users. via re/code. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. via TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 500 million users. via The Next Web. Renren: over 170 million users. via iResearch iUser Tracker.

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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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Why Establishing Mentorship Programs is Essential for Large Marketing Agencies

Idaconcpts

'While every marketing agency would have loved to have scouted Seth Godin or Brian Solis at a young age; the reality is that most marketing agencies wouldn’t have been able to benefit from such great talent. Too often, marketing agencies don’t have an adequate mentorship program in place. This problem becomes more acute at very large ones, where the recruiting of young talent is done without a roadmap that truly sets a plan for growth within the agency.

Marketing 132
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Why Outbound Marketing Deserves Place Next to Content Marketing

Convince & Convert

'Inbound/content marketing has devolved into a red ocean of me-too, link-bait, info-tainment content supported by self-serving “science”. [Pause]. It felt good to say that in public, even though it is an obviously hyperbolic and admittedly ironic statement. But inbound is peaking and our old friend outbound is rising from the ashes. ( tweet this ). Don’t get me wrong — I love inbound marketing.

Marketing 142
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Why This Website Owner Won’t Remove a Low Quality Link

Bill Hartzer

'Wow, I now have heard it all. Seriously. There are reasons why website owners will not remove a link from their low quality website to your website when asked, but this one really takes the cake. For a little background, I routinely help website owners clean up the links to their website as part of my Google Penguin Recovery services. Not only do I identify low quality and toxic links to websites, I help remove those links from the web.

WordPress 119
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Realtime, Custom-Made Oreos Debut at SXSW

The Realtime Report

'Check out one of our favorite realtime marketing stories coming out of this year’s SXSW: Oreo partners with Twitter to create custom cookies using #eatthetweet. Using a three-dimensional printing system, vending machines in the ‘Trending Vending Lounge’ at SXSW will create (edible) Oreo cookies in just two minutes. The type of cookies will be determined by what’s trending on Twitter at that moment, with a dozen varieties to choose from at any given time.

Delicious 170
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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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The Creative Power of “You’re Right” and the Destructive One of “But”

Idaconcpts

'I’m in the lucky position of having a career that involves interacting with lots of people in the daily basis. Through talking with some very interesting and smart people, I have picked up a couple of great tips. Today I want to talk about two of them: the creative power of “you’re right” and the destructive one from “but” Creative Power of “You’re Right” My very first corporate job right after finishing my undergrad degree was at a major fo

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The Power to Connect Through Visual Storytelling

Convince & Convert

'While you may know me from my social image of the week columns on Convince & Convert, I’m excited to share a new book I co-authored with Ekaterina Walter called The Power of Visual Storytelling. The concept of the book emerged when one of Ekaterina’s posts on the rise of visual social media went viral. But the idea to co-write the book actually came to us while enjoying dinner together at a café in Paris following a few days at LeWeb.

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Domain Names, Developed Domains, and Expired Domains

Bill Hartzer

'When it comes to search engine marketing, one issue that many people struggle with is the domain name. There’s some confusion out there regarding domain names and how they effect a site’s ability (or inability) to rank well in the search engines. I thought I’d talk a little bit about domains in general, mention some issues involved when it comes to domains and rankings in the search engines, and how one might go about searching for and evaluating domain names.

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Delurk and Meet Other Readers

Ari Herzog

'I want to introduce you to my other readers. I also want to introduce them to you. But you have to take the first step. You have to find the willpower to scroll below and write a comment. Introduce yourself. This is the 6th annual delurking pledge on my blog. The rules are simple: 1. Whether you are reading this in a feed reader, an email message, or a syndicated blog post somewhere, click here to visit the actual post. 2.

Meeting 101
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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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Will The Yahoo!-Yelp Partnership Seal The Deal?

Small Business Mavericks

'If you own a local business in your city, a new partnership between Yahoo! and Yelp could give your business more exposure at Yahoo! Marketing Pilgrim’s Cynthia Boris compared the Yahoo! listing for a restaurant with Google’s and favored Yahoo!’s. I think I agree with her analysis. There are a couple of things that Google does better, but overall, Yahoo!

Yahoo 101
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Why Social Media and Customer Experience Are Intertwined in a Lovers Embrace

Convince & Convert

'Becky Carroll, PwC @bcarroll7. Becky Carroll , Director of Social Media Strategy at P wC Consulting , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the impact of trust (or lack of trust) on consumer behavior, how social can improve a customer’s experience of a brand, and social media’s newest maturity level. Please Support Our Sponsors.

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Ads Worth Watching. And Spreading

Twist Image

'Some ads are worth watching (again and again). Totally true. This week, I am attending the TED conference. TED has been working hard to highlight TV ads that are "ideas worth spreading." When I hear people say that they hate advertising, I don''t believe them. People hate bad advertising and, unfortunately, a good bulk of the work that comes out of the advertising industry is mediocre at best.

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Don’t make my mistake! These 4 steps are guaranteed to pro your blogging (especially #3)

Absolute PA

'You know it: Blogging is good for your business. You also know why you should be blogging and yet you still don’t have a solid plan. I’ve been business blogging for nearly 5 years. It’s one of the first online marketing activities I took to back in 2009 when I started my first business as a Virtual Assistant. Back then, I didn’t really have a plan.

System 105
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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 Ways To Use Rich Snippets

Small Business Mavericks

'A few years ago the three major search engines – Google, Bing, and Yahoo! – got together and created Schema.org. This is a microformat markup language that allows webmasters to further define important elements on a web page so that search engines can catalog it easier. But here’s a simple truth: Most website owners aren’t taking advantage of the opportunity, so if you do, you’ll have an edge over most of your competition.

Directory 101
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A New Industry-Specific Guide to Making Marketing Useful

Convince & Convert

'I’m not done banging the drum about the power of creating marketing so useful, people would pay for it. In fact, I’m just getting started. Today is a big day. Today is launch day for the first official Youtility ebook – Youtility for Accountants: Why Smart Accountants are Helping not Selling. This is a $2.99 mini-version of my New York Times best-selling business book Youtility , customized for the accounting profession.

Industry 124
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I’m an Official Majestic SEO Official Brand Ambassador

Bill Hartzer

'I’m really excited about officially joining the Majestic SEO Ambassador program , and to have been accepted by the folks at Majestic SEO. I’ve been a proud user of Majestic SEO for many years now. From the Majestic SEO Site: “Brand Ambassadors are friends of Majestic SEO who are located around the world. They are individuals who have shown their commitment to Majestic in one form or another, and continue to promote the work of link building, data and reports which Majestic SEO

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Market What Works. Get Schooled. Seth Godin Style

Twist Image

'Are you interested in taking a very modern course in marketing? With each and every passing day, I get a handful of emails asking me who offers up the best course in marketing. Up until today, I wasn''t sure that I had the best answer to give. I do now. And, you can thank Seth Godin (who else?) for that. Seth loves to push buttons (poke them?). He loves to provoke with his myriad of brilliant business books (you have read Purple Cow , Linchpin , The Dip and all of the other ones , haven''t you?

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Time To Go Digital

Small Business Mavericks

'Forrester Research has a new report that essentially tells how many businesses are still behind when it comes to digital marketing. One example that is mentioned is Staples, the office products brick and mortar store, which is getting 50% of its sales from its online store but isn’t ready to go digital yet. Say what? How can any business be getting half of its sales from its online store and not be leveraging the Internet to the best of its ability?

Retail 101