Sat.Jun 06, 2015 - Fri.Jun 12, 2015

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21 Writing Redundancies Scarier Than Baby Jane’s Shoes

Waxing UnLyrical

Every time I see writing redundancies my teeth grit, my hair stands on end, and I want to run around my neighborhood screaming. That would probably be very entertaining for anyone who saw me, but not very useful. Blogging about them, on the other hand, is super useful, because if anyone is in the habit of using any of these, and stumbles across this post, maybe they’ll stop!

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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.

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Integrating Listening Into Your Platform for 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 Way Beyond Listening: Integrating Listening Into Your Platform for ROI. This webinar was sponsored by Synthesio and featured Brian Melinat (@ brianmelinat ) Director of Marketing Analytics within Dell, Kristine Vick (@ kristinevick ) Principal in the Digital and Content team at SAS, and Ben Lapidus (@ benlapidus ) Senior Sales Engineer at Synthesio.

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Firebelly CEO To Speak At Kiwanis International’s Annual Convention

Firebelly

Firebelly CEO Duncan Alney has been invited to speak at Kiwanis International’s annual convention in Indianapolis where Kiwanians from around the world will gather to celebrate their 100th anniversary. Duncan will be presenting Harnessing The Power Of Social Media on June 24th from 9-10:15 a.m. at the Indiana Convention Center. The session will focus on using social media channels, ads and influencers to aid in increasing awareness, fundraising and volunteer recruitment efforts.

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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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Where to Begin Defining Your Target Audiences Online for Content Creation

Waxing UnLyrical

The first step to creating engaging and effective content is to determine your target audience. It’s impossible to please everyone, so you need to have a very narrow and well-defined concept of who you are writing for. This alone can give you an advantage; according to Altimeter, 70% of marketers have not yet developed a consistent content strategy.

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Micro-Moments Live Stream Recap

Saying It Social

Check out the recap of the Google Live Stream Event "Micro-Moments - The New Battleground For Brands. The blog covers how to win the consumer in today’s mobile-centric world according to speaker Matt Lawson as well as how mobile has changed the consumer, how mobile has changed the consumption process, and how it has changed consumer expectations about brands.

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Why You Should Stop Reading the News

Ari Herzog

Before you read my thoughts on the subject, here is what Thoreau wrote in 1854: I don’t learn anything in the news. It’s the same content regurgitated with changed names and places. That’s boring. That’s a waste of my productivity. Instead, I click over to Twitter where I follow a few hundred curated souls and peruse what they’re talking about.

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8 Ways to Rank High in Google Without Content Optimization

Small Business Mavericks

Neil Patel wrote a great blog post at Search Engine Journal about why some websites rank well in Google even though their pages aren’t optimized. I think he had some good things to say, so I’m going to follow up with some thoughts of my own. Click-Through Rate – This one is difficult for some people to understand. If a web page starts off on page 10, how does it get found enough to have a click-through rate (CTR)?

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Download Your Facebook Data Your Profile And Activity Log - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

Facebook is one of the most visited and most referred to Social Media Platform. The amount of Data one stores on the Platform is huge. The Lighter side of You: You had a great Dinner - Promptly your Status message says it. You simply like the sight of the Food - up goes your food dish Photo. You absolutely do not know the person - But you Wish a great Happy Birthday.

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Posting on Social Media Won’t Get You More Fans

Bill Hartzer

In an interesting, eye-opening study that Clickable recently did, they found that if you post more often on social media you won’t necessarily get more fans on social media. Clickable studied the social media accounts of major consumer brands and found that those brands who posted more often never had more social media fans in their industry category.

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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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The Most Important Trends Of This Year

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Admit it, you didn't bother looking at the 200 slides , did you? Almost three weeks ago, I posted Mary Meeker 's (from Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers ) annual Internet Trends report that she gave at the Re/Code summit. It's a lot to swallow, a lot to grind through and hard to understand without the context of Mary's rapid-fire delivery. The video presentation was finally posted online , and it is - without question - one of the most important pieces of content that every business profession

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Some Tips for Managing Keywords Better

Small Business Mavericks

If you’re going to get into the deep weeds of search engine optimization and really optimize your Web pages, then you need a way to manage and control your keywords. Here are a few tips to help you manage your keywords better. Keep them in a spreadsheet – Organization is very important. You need a way to keep your keywords organized in such a way that you can analyze them, manipulate them, and put them to good use.

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Creating Stunning Twitter Backgrounds: With Examples!

Devumi

Twitter users have been uploading custom Twitter backgrounds since the 140 character platform first started. Some people have been using it for the LOLZ, others have been using it as a chance to do some brand building and to get their logos or faces out there. If you’ve ever wondered why you’d want to create custom Twitter backgrounds for your account, or how you can do it without much design skill, this guide will certainly help you.

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Lawyers, It’s Time. It’s Been Time For A While.

Myrland Marketing

I am finishing three days of attending legal marketing and business development conferences in Chicago. The first was the Legal Marketing Association’s LMA P3 conference. These 3 Ps pf this conference are pricing, project management and process improvement. Short story there: these 3 Ps help you do what you’ve been doing much better. The second conference is The LSSO Raindance Conference , hosted by LSSO, or the Legal Sales and Service Organization.

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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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Stop Being A Digital Immigrant

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This is the fundamental challenge of most brands today. They are not born digital (as Don Tapscott would say). Yes, digital transformation is a reality for all businesses. It's something that is deeply affecting the small, medium and large businesses. It is something that affects both B2B and B2C markets. Brands tend to look at startups that shoot to billion dollar-plus valuations and wonder how they can be more like that.

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Blogging for your small business

Lucy Hall

What are the benefits of blogging for your small business? First check out these pretty powerful stats about blogging: According to Hubspot : B2B marketers that use blogs receive 67% more leads than those that do not. Marketers who have prioritised blogging are 13x more likely to enjoy positive ROI. By 2020, customers will manage 85% of their relationships without talking to a human.

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Creating Stunning Twitter Backgrounds: With Examples!

Devumi

Twitter users have been uploading custom Twitter backgrounds since the 140 character platform first started. Some people have been using it for the LOLZ, others have been using it as a chance to do some brand building and to get their logos or faces out there. If you’ve ever wondered why you’d want to create […]. The post Creating Stunning Twitter Backgrounds: With Examples!

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#LetsAskNancy 005: Lawyers, Should You Start A Practice Area Twitter Account?

Myrland Marketing

#LetsAskNancy is where I answer questions others have about legal and lawyer marketing and business development, including content, social and digital marketing. . You have a choice…either listen to this post in the podcast player by clicking the arrow, read it below, or both! Today’s question was posted in a legal marketing group I am a part of on Facebook.

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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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Can Twitter Change? Should It?

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Every Monday morning at 7:10 am, I am a guest contributor on CHOM 97.7 FM radio broadcasting out of Montreal (home base). It's not a long segment - about 5 to 10 minutes every week - about everything that is happening in the world of technology and digital media. The good folks at CHOM 97.7 FM are posting these segments weekly to SoundCloud , if you're interested in hearing more of me blathering away.

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Small Business Marketing: Building a targeted email list

Lucy Hall

Generating leads or building a targeted email list is very simple, you just have to know how. In this post I will give you my failsafe techniques on how to build a targeted email list and generate leads, if you follow this plan you'll be getting your first bites in no time! What is a lead? Just for those of you who don't know what a lead is, it's a first bite or interest - Well an inbound lead is anyway!

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Crisis & Reputation Management Top Financial Services Concerns

Proactive Report

Financial Services PR execs and agencies are still struggling to combat an industry peppered with regular fines, lawsuits and other scandals. Almost all (99%) of the executives polled in the 2015 Makovsky Wall Street Reputation Study said this has made it increasingly difficult for the financial services industry to rebuild reputation over the past 12 months.

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ICYMI – Twitter, Apple, Snapchat and Jott

Danny WhatMough

Here’s my weekly round-up of things you need to know and might have missed this last week in the world of digital PR and social media. Want this in your inbox each week? Subscribe here. Chris Sacca pens a 8,500 word essay on what Twitter could be. Twitter makes changes to how conversations appear after tweets. Apple made a number of announcements at WWDC including a network for musicians to use in Apple Music.

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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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Creative Talent And The Future Of Agency Life

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Episode #465 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. Welcome to episode #465 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Mirum Podcast. Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top marketing bloggers ( Jaffe Juice ) and podcasters (both Jaffe Juice in audio and Jaffe Juice TV in video). He is the author of four excellent books ( Life After The 30-Second Spot , Join The Conversation , Flip The Funnel and Z.E.R.O.) and his latest business venture is

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What are the benefits of podcasting for business?

Lucy Hall

When you think of podcasting for business do you picture this geeky guy sitting in their spare room with an iMac and Mic with ambitions of becoming the next big radio presenter? - This is what I thought when I heard about podcasting for business! But now podcasting for business isn't just geeky tech guys in their spare room or garage, it can now be used as a mainstream marketing and communication tool for small businesses and individuals with the potential to help grow audiences and brand awa

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How to Make 2x More Money as a Writer

ProBlogger

This is a guest contribution from Puranjay Singh. Around six months ago, I quit my job to make a living as a writer. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy my work; it was just that I wanted to travel and needed the freedom of freelancing. I didn’t know a lot about writing, but I knew I could turn a phrase or two. Besides, how hard could it be? The answer: very hard.

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#LetsAskNancy 005: Lawyers, Should You Start A Practice Area Twitter Account?

Myrland Marketing

#LetsAskNancy is where I answer questions others have about legal and lawyer marketing and business development, including content, social and digital marketing. . You have a choice…either listen to this post in the podcast player by clicking the arrow, read it below, or both! Today’s question was posted in a legal marketing group I am a part of on Facebook.

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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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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #260

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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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17 Productivity Tools for the Ultimate Business Gain

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Every so often, I reevaluate the tools I use to see if something is better. I’m very open and flexible about discovering new technologies because I strive for efficiencies, especially as my work environment is not the same as most others. In short, I work remotely. I’ve worked successfully with many teams that have been distributed across the world and the startup that is now a media powerhouse was originally established with several of the key players working across continents.

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How to Tell if Your Idea for an eBook or Course Is a Profitable One

ProBlogger

The old saying that ‘everybody has a book inside them’ may be true – but for bloggers I’ve found it is probably more accurate to say that ‘every blogger has at least 10 ideas for eBooks inside them’ I was at a mastermind event recently and a blogger shared her list of ideas for eBooks and courses and then looked at me quizzically and asked – “but which one is the most profitable idea?

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9 Be’s: Successful Blogger Secrets You Need to Know

Rebekah Radice

No matter the size or nature of your company, having a business blog can keep you in touch with your customers, build rapport and boost your bottom line. In fact, it’s been found that marketers who actively blog receive 67% more leads than those that do not. Add to that the ability blogs have to build trust (rated as the 5th most trusted source for accurate online information), and blogging would seem to be a no-brainer.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #259

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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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