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3 Reasons To Hire A Social Media Marketing Agency

Firebelly

Should your brand enlist the help of a social media marketing agency to help it achieve its social media marketing goals? I may be slightly biased, but here are three good reasons why you should. 1) Focus. Social media marketing is all we do. It’s not an afterthought or an add-on or an ancillary offering. It’s what we eat, sleep and breathe. It’s how we make our living.

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Connecting Your Business Blog with Your Readers (How-to)

Waxing UnLyrical

'Guest Post by Dan Stelter. Does your business blog have the livelihood of a funeral? When you look around at your blog and analytics, what do you see? No comments. No new traffic. No social media shares. No e-mail subscribers. And no phone calls! You have absolutely no evidence whatsoever that anyone even cares remotely about your blog. What’s going wrong with your business blog?!

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What the Best Bloggers Do Right

Convince & Convert

Last time I checked , 3.75 million blog posts were written today. Now how many of those were read today? Your guess is as good as mine. A very teeny tiny minority, if you choose to rely on the most basic 80–20 Pareto’s Principle. But have you noticed the number of views, shares, and comments when the post is written by people like Seth Godin? Or Neil Patel?

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Did your site survive Mobilegeddon 2015?

Saying It Social

5 easy steps to ensure that your website is mobile-friendly and will be ranked higher in Google's mobile SERP following the April 21st algorithm change, also known as Mobilegeddon 2015. The post Did your site survive Mobilegeddon 2015? appeared first on.

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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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Why Your Website Might Lose its Google Rank

Ari Herzog

'Starting April 21, 2015, Google is penalizing any website from appearing in its search results if the website is not mobile responsive. This means if your website has small text, links too close together, or other elements that prevents Googlebot from reading it on a smartphone or other mobile device, you’re in trouble. Andrew May explains the rationale in a longer post about the importance of mobile web design — but the takeaway is you need to run your website through Google’

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Tips on Measuring Community [April #measurePR Recap]

Waxing UnLyrical

You know how much I love to talk about social PR , right? At the heart of social PR lies community. So that’s what we focused on for the April #measurePR Twitter chat; how to measure community, how to tell when community-building initiatives are working (and when they’re not), and how community-focused metrics might change over time. Experts in measuring community.

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11 Essential Elements of an Effective Social Media Business Plan

Rebekah Radice

Are you using social media to market your business , but struggling to create momentum? Would you like to make sense of each social network, clearly defining where and how to spend your time online? While there’s no one-size fits all solution, you can succeed with an effective social media business plan in place. Ready to get started? Let’s go!

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Did your site survive Mobilegeddon 2015?

Saying It Social

5 easy steps to ensure that your website is mobile-friendly and will be ranked higher in Google's mobile SERP following the April 21st algorithm change, also known as Mobilegeddon 2015. The post Did your site survive Mobilegeddon 2015? appeared first on.

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Monday Roundup: Meeting Google’s Mobile-Friendly Standards

Waxing UnLyrical

'You know how you live on your smartphone? Google does too. And it’s changing up its search algorithm again (here’s the official statement ), beginning tomorrow. So. If your site isn’t mobile-friendly, your SEO probably won’t be as high… or may even drop. And you know you don’t want to drop in The Goog! They tell you exactly what you need to do in the guide that we pointed to earlier.

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How to Market with Mom Bloggers

Convince & Convert

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com By now everyone knows that moms have the most spending power out of every vertical of consumers. Therefore, brands of every genre are teaming up with mom bloggers and reporting awesome brand lift and campaign results. From fashion brands to food to travel, any brand that has moms as even some of their consumers has been at least dabbling with mom blogger partnerships.

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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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How To: Filter Referrer Spam in Google Analytics

Bill Hartzer

'Well, apparently there is a new referrer spammer out there, called 4Webmasters.org that has started showing up in Google Analytics as a referral source. If you suddenly see an increase in traffic on your site, check to see which sites are the referral sources. Hopefully the source of new traffic to your site is something positive, like better search engine rankings.

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3 Reasons To Hire A Social Media Marketing Agency

Firebelly

Should your brand enlist the help of a social media marketing agency to help it achieve its social media marketing goals? I may be slightly biased, but here are three good reasons why you should. 1) Focus. Social media marketing is all we do. It’s not an afterthought or an add-on or an ancillary offering. It’s what we eat, sleep and breathe. It’s how we make our living.

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Facebook Testing New Name Pronunciation Feature - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

'Pronouncing a person''s name in a correct manner is one of the key socializing manners. How many times have you pronounced someone''s name incorrectly. This falls even more true across countries and continents. Just the way you pronounce your name you would want others to pronounce it well. In the OnLine World we all make number of friends, contacts and connections.

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How to Bring Humor to Community Management

Convince & Convert

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Community managers have a challenging job. They’re on the front lines of your social media and digital channels each and every day as the voice of the company. Tasked with driving engagement while ensuring fans have a good experience with your company, they see it all—the good, the bad, the ugly. So, why not let them have a little fun?

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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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Google Shows Bing Search Results URLs as Links in Google Webmaster Tools

Bill Hartzer

In Google Webmaster Tools, Google is reporting Bing’s search result URLs as actual backlinks to a website. Google has as history of sometimes making a mistake and indexing Bing’s search results , like I found a while back. But this is the first time that I have seen that Google is actually telling webmasters that there is a link to their website: and that link is a Bing search result URL.

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3 Reasons To Hire A Social Media Marketing Agency

Firebelly

Should your brand enlist the help of a social media marketing agency to help it achieve its social media marketing goals? I may be slightly biased, but here are three good reasons why you should. 1) Focus. Social media marketing is all we do. It’s not an afterthought or an add-on or an ancillary offering. It’s what we eat, sleep and breathe. It’s how we make our living.

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Why Should You TSU? - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

'Why Should You Be On TSU? TSU the Social Media Network has crossed the 3 million Users mark! Do you still wonder if you are to be on TSU ? TSU has gained itself a definite Space. Here many artists are launching their ''Sneek Peeks'' and ''Premier Previews''. For instance on Sunday, 29 March 2015 it was officially announced that on April the 7th will see Meresha debut her EP - New Revolution on new Social Media platform Tsu.co.

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How Big Brands Get Permission to Use UGC

Convince & Convert

'Tweetable Moments We do so much talking. I don’t think listening is as big of a piece anymore, but it’s so important. jwsteiert Tweet This. Creating a Better Customer Experience. Jon Steiert knows a lot about cats and dogs. As he should, since he works at Pet360 , a site that strives to be the all-encompassing location where pet owners can take care of any and all of their pets’ needs.

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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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#SocialHangout From Battlefield to Boardroom

Koka Sexton

Today I had the wonderful opportunity to be on the Social Hangout with an all-star crew. Thank you for having me Eric Mitchell and bringing along great people like Brian Fanzo, Michael Brito, Dan Evans, Daniel Newman. We talked a lot about the qualities of great leadership and what separates the good leaders from the bad ones. Here is the recording.

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Digital Marketing Trends you NEED to Know About

Devumi

If there’s one thing you can count in when it comes to digital marketing trends it is change. The very nature of all things digital is that nothing is really permanent in the way that a book is permanent. Algorithms can be changed, ideas can fall out of favor – but you can go back and edit your website. Here are 7 quick digital marketing trends that you should be thinking about right now.

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What Are The Privacy Options For Group On Facebook

Social Media Network Marketing

'Privacy Options For Group On Facebook: ​ I Work As Freelance Social Media Network Professional And Also Help People With The Knowledge Of Internet To Earn Money Via The Online World HERE ARE COUPLE OF LINKS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE EARNING QUICK REFERENCE: 1. Join Me On TSU - The Social Media Site! Join Me Here: https://www.tsu.co/PervaraKapadia 2.

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Digital Advertising Is The New Mass Media

Twist Image

That was a tough title to write. I was there in the beginning of online advertising. The very early days. The days when banner ads had to be hard-coded on to a website. The days when targeted banners were often sold in a sponsorship format, because there was tremendous value, but never enough impressions to go around. Those were the days when the idea that brands could pay to rank on a search engine seemed both foreign, and like the search engines were poisoning the well.

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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 To Decide On Using A Sidebar

Small Business Mavericks

Neil Patel is a guy who loves to analyze things. On his blog, Quick Sprout, he just looked at the difference a sidebar can make on your blog. Does Your Blog Need A Sidebar? Here’s how Neil answers the question: People come to a blog to read content. Their main purpose is to devour your information and ask you questions through commenting… … I’ve found that including your bio on every page of your blog, within the sidebar, is a great way to connect with your readers.

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The Best of SocialBiz Hour #SbizHour

Koka Sexton

'I had the great opportunity today to join Brian Fanzo and Rachel Miller on the SocialBiz Hour Hangout to talk about “who owns social selling ” I couldn’t keep up with the flood of activity on LinkedIn , Twitter and other social media and also stay engaged in the live discussion so I wanted to share some of my favorite tweets from the event.

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Lawyers: Client Names In Pitches…To List or Not To List?

Myrland Marketing

Let’s Ask Nancy is where I answer questions others have about legal and lawyer marketing and business development, including content, social and digital marketing. . It is a natural tendency to want to show your past work when pitching new clients. As you know, this is dicey in some jurisdictions. Some don’t allow you to use past results as a predictor of future success, so the way you position prior work should always adhere to the strictest ethical boundaries in all of the markets

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Who’s calling the shots in your biz?

Absolute PA

Did you read my recent blog about being a giver and guaranteeing your clients’ satisfaction ? It’s all about going that little bit further to put a smile on your clients’ faces. But what about you and your satisfaction? We begin our start up businesses with such excitement. We want to please, to succeed and to grasp every possible opportunity that passes with our eager little hands.

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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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Real Marketing Technology

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'Episode #458 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Mirum Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. The title "Marketing Technologist" gets tossed around a lot these days. Most brands believe that this is an individual who can understand and implement better marketing automation solutions. I think that''s short-sighted. For over a decade, I have watched Stephan Spencer become a true marketing technologist.

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Digital Marketing Trends you NEED to Know About

Devumi

If there’s one thing you can count in when it comes to digital marketing trends it is change. The very nature of all things digital is that nothing is really permanent in the way that a book is permanent. Algorithms can be changed, ideas can fall out of favor – but you can go back […]. The post Digital Marketing Trends you NEED to Know About appeared first on Devumi.

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Find All Of The LMA Conference Blog Posts Right Here

Myrland Marketing

'I just got back from the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) Annual Conference, and see the blog posts and summaries beginning to show up here and there. In an effort to bring them together, I am “flipping” them into one of my magazines on Flipboard. Stop back regularly, or subscribe to that magazine, as I will be adding posts as they are published.

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What you could use Periscope for?

Lucy Hall

I have to admit, I used Periscope for the first time tonight and I just LOVED it! What a mind bending and awesome experience. What is periscope? It's a live video social network! It's an app - Find everything out here. Tonight myself and colleague went to a press party at an opening of a new Italian restaurant in a Kentish town called Maidstone so we could review it for an online mag, so I jumped on Periscope, I thought it would be a great idea to show people how the new restaurant looks etc.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #253

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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