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01/31/2014: Social Media Snapshot

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Facebook , Google , Pinterest Tags: Facebook , Facebook custom audiences , Google , Paper , Pinterest , Pinterest Interests , social media , Social Media Marketing , Social Media Snapshot , website custom audiences Social Media Snapshot: Website Custom Audiences, Pinterest Interests, Snazzy Google Apps and more. Catch up on the need-to-know changes and updates in social media that affect your business and brand…all in one place.

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Forget Everything You Ever Learned About Body Language

Waxing UnLyrical

'Guest Post by Rob Biesenbach. If there’s one principle that unites the PR and marketing community, it’s the age-old wisdom that “93 percent of all communication is nonverbal.” It’s all about your body language, right? Image: José Luis Ruiz via Flickr, CC 2.0. Well, prepare to have your mind blown: that figure is a myth. But because so many people accept it as gospel, they tie themselves up in knots in presentations, job interviews, and other important moments.

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Tumblr’s Revenue Per Visit Jumps 340% Year-Over-Year

The Realtime Report

'Revenue per visit Q4 2013 [Adobe report] Visits from Facebook still provide the highest return, but Tumblr just rose to the #2 slot in terms of revenue per visit, with a 340% increase from last year. A new study from Adobe reveals a record-setting fourth quarter 0f 2013 in terms of revenue from social media visitors, and Tumblr’s growth rate was the highest among all social media networks. “Tumblr is the dark horse of high-quality traffic,” Tamara Gaffney, principal analyst f

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50+ Filters to Keep Your Gmail Inbox Squeaky Clean

Kikolani

'Have you always wanted to maintain Inbox Zero, but found yourself falling short as email upon email piled up in your inbox? Are you not a fan of Gmail’s new tab system? If so, then filters may be the solution to your problem. Filters allow you to tell your email service exactly where you want specific emails to go. The emails that clutter your inbox the most are the ones that are from automated sources – newsletters, notifications, press releases, social media updates, and so forth.

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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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When Analog Beats Digital Marketing

Convince & Convert

'You would have thought that with the advent of the compact disc and the clarity and consistency digital music provides, turntables and needles would by now have disappeared, making all those record albums stored in your garage worthless. But, you may want to think twice before you pitch them in the trash or trade a stack for a large pizza (an act of which I am guilty and now regret).

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Friday Funny: Why Don’t They Like Our Facebook Page?

Waxing UnLyrical

'… Shock and awe, eh? Happy Friday! Image: seanrnicholson via Flickr, CC 2.0. Friday Funny: Why Don’t They Like Our Facebook Page? is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical. Author information Shonali Burke President & Grand Poobah at Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. Head honcho of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke is President & CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc.

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Get Internet Voicemail from Website Visitors with SpeakPipe

Ari Herzog

'In the spirit of Vine, SnapChat, and other applications that enable you to record your voice (or any sound) in combination with video to your friends, meet SpeakPipe. It’s a WordPress plugin (and works with other blog platforms or any website for that matter that lets you add code) that lets you record a short voicemail message to any website owner or blogger who has it installed.

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Why Char-Broil’s Blogger Outreach Program Gives Me the Warm and Fuzzies

Convince & Convert

'A few months ago I was struck by the number of posts floating around that discuss digital marketing “fails,” and blogger outreach gone bad—so many posts that just focused on what not to do. While these posts are important, educational, and often very funny I had trouble finding positive examples of PR professionals going above and beyond when it came to blogger outreach.

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Monday Roundup: Breaking the Cycle of Mistakes

Waxing UnLyrical

'Anyone remember what’s happening at the end of this week? Sunday will be Groundhog Day here in the U.S. I don’t know about you, but every year, around this time, I’m always reminded of the classic 1993 Bill Murray film , where Murray’s character is stuck in a time loop, reliving the same day over and over again. . George Santayana references aside, “moving on” means acknowledging and learning from what we did wrong.

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GoDaddy App Glitch: Domains Purchased With App Could Go to Someone Else’s Account

Bill Hartzer

'There’s a glitch in the GoDaddy app that causes domain names purchased with the app to suddenly appear in someone else’s account. Not only do domains purchased with the app go to someone else’s account, the purchaser’s credit card details are being added to the unsuspecting account holder’s account, as well. This individual ordered the name using her GoDaddy mobile app…this was the 2nd domain name she had registered with them, and she had entered in her accou

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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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Emulate the @UN and Reply to Tweets

Ari Herzog

'The above subject says it all. Look at this tweet I wrote about the United Nations on a Monday evening: I haven’t looked at the @un account in some time. They’re now sharing pictures, using hashtags, and mentioning others. Kudos. — Ari Herzog (@ariherzog) January 30, 2014. I was impressed with the global nonprofit organization and I honestly did not expect a response.

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How to Treat Your Bloggers Like Rock Stars

Convince & Convert

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Yesterday, I discussed the power of blogger outreach and how Char-Broil does an exemplary job with mutually beneficial connections. In order to achieve and implement these crucial relationships like Char-Broil does, it’s important to understand exactly what makes for a successful relationship with the bloggers who move your brand forward.

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Increase Twitter Engagement with Hashtags and HASHCORE

Kikolani

'Did you know that tweets that include one to two hashtags have a 21% boost in engagement according to Buffer ? This could be due to the topic of the tweets, people who follow specific hashtags, trending topics, or the apps that pull tweets based on topic such as Paper.li. If you’d like to incorporate the power of Twitter hashtags into your blog posts without making readers leave your website, then HASHCORE is a great tool to try.

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6 Speakers You Shouldn’t Miss at Pubcon Austin 2014

Bill Hartzer

'Tomorrow, Tuesday, January 28, the annual regional Pubcon Austin conference is being held at the AT&T Conference Center on the University of Texas campus. There are three session tracks covering the latest local social media and search-related research, and some awesome speakers with some great presentations. I’ll be presenting with Eric Enge on Social Signals and SEO , so make sure you don’t miss that one if you’re going to be attending the conference in Austin.

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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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DocAS App Benefits Professionals and Students

The Social Media Incubator

'You might be looking for an app that allows you to view PDFs, write on them, convert to PDFs and annotate them, and take notes. This week’s SMI App of the Week allows you to do all those things right from your iPad! DocAS is an app that allows you to take notes, write down your ideas, annotate PDFs, present and read your documents, record meetings or classes, as well as share all of your notes/documents on your iPad.

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The Next Great Social Marketing Opportunity: The Internet of Things

Convince & Convert

'In late 2012, we shared an article on the TopCoder Blog entitled 2013: the Year of the Sensor – Your Year to Innovate in the Physical Realm. Thanks in part to a timely re-tweet by Tim O’Reilly , that article went on to be our 3rd most seen blog post in our 2.5 years of content. I think it’s fair to say that our prediction was pretty spot on. 2013 was the watershed year where we witnessed the continuous invasion of sensor technologies into all ‘things’ – enabling.

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How We Got a Link from The Huffington Post

Navolutions

'By David Shankbone (Own work) [CC-BY-3.0 ([link] via Wikimedia Commons There are plenty of blogs that get links from HuffPo on a daily basis, but this was a first for us. This is how we got it. A couple weeks ago, I was browsing Reddit on my lunch break and saw a post that caught my attention. It was the perfect example of that legendary “Great Content” that SEOs love to talk about, and it was going fully viral.

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Newsletter Marketing or Blogging?

Small Business Mavericks

'Is newsletter marketing or blogging more effective for small businesses? It depends on what you mean by “more effective.” There are pros and cons to both blog marketing and e-mail newsletter marketing. To be most effective, you should use them together. A blog is the best tool for audience engagement while your e-mail newsletter is the best tool for cultivating a warm list that you can mine for great direct selling.

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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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Unique Version of Google AdWords Ad Showing Up in Google Search Results

Bill Hartzer

'Just recently, Joe Hall spotted a Google search result that, according to him, looks weird. It appears to me as though it’s just a new version of a Google AdWords ad that is being used in this case. And Google appears to be testing this new ad format. Take a look at the search for “who is lookup” in Google. Note that whois is misspelled in the search query: Also showing is the expanded “not useful”, “useful”, “awesome” feedback links that sh

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The BBC Experiments With Video News Coverage on Instagram

Convince & Convert

'Inspired by the rise of mobile and tablet viewership, the BBC is experimenting with a new initiative on Instagram called Instafax, where news clips are featured in 15-second video formats. From the content created, to the positioning and community involvement, the effort is both interesting and noteworthy for both companies and news outlets. Announced on January 16, Instafax is the new media extension of the BBC News’s former teletext service Ceefax, which was phased out in 2012.

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The TOP 25 Must-Read Internet Marketing Blogs

Writtent Blog

'If you’re anything like me – always looking for ways to save time, make the most of the resources you have, and stay on track with news and events in your industry – you need a quality reading list. Thanks to the growing number of blogs popping up online, digging through the abundance of content to find resources that consistently provide value is challenging.

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Pinterest Is Getting More Interesting

Small Business Mavericks

'As if the fast growing social media site Pinterest wasn’t interesting, they’ve recently added a new feature to make it more so. They’re calling it Interests. It’s a simple concept, really. And it sort of makes you wonder why they’re just now getting around to adding it to the site. The idea is to provide broad categories for users to place their pins.

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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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Revealed: 10 killer productivity tools to keep you in love with your work

Absolute PA

'As entrepreneurs, we are programmed to be constantly attracted to the latest shiny new thing that will make our lives and businesses run more smoothly. I swear it’s in our DNA. It’s a character trait I have come to recognise in myself over the years, and sooo many of my clients when we work together to streamline their marketing. When left unchecked, it can be a curse.

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Why Content Marketers Need Better Statistics

Convince & Convert

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com. One recent morning, a client got in touch and asked me to find a widely cited statistic that supports the use of behavioral job interview techniques. The client needed to show that behavioral interviews resulted in lower overall hiring costs, lower turnover rates, or increased productivity. They needed the statistic within two hours for use in an important piece of long form content.

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The Blog Turns 20 This Year

Twist Image

'Can you believe it? I had to re-read the headline a couple of times as well. Yesterday, The Guardian posted an article titled, The blog turns 20: a conversation with three internet pioneers. It made me do a double-take. This blog, has been around for eleven years. With over 3600 posts and over 40,000 comments, it is much more than a publishing platform.

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Non-Blogging Link Building Methods To Die For

Small Business Mavericks

'Now that Matt Cutts has declared guest blogging dead , SEOs and Internet marketers in every niche will start looking for alternative ways to build links back to their websites. At least, the spammy ones will. But you don’t have to be a guest blog spammer to find other ways to link back to your website. There are other ways to create backlinks, and I’m not talking about website and article directories.

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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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Marketing Tactics – How The Victorian Barrow Boy Did It

Bill Hartzer

'Whilst long lambasted as unsophisticated in both technique and patter, personally I think we have a lot to learn from the humble barrow boy. If unsophisticated is substituted for simple, I think we can all agree that one thing the barrow boy or girl does well, is effectively communicate their message to their customer base. In the days when weekly markets were the hub of the community, you knew exactly where to find everything from groceries to meat, because barrow boys and girls would shout th

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How to Design a Blog to Explode Your Social Reactions: 11 Tested Tools

Writtent Blog

'There’s a lot to consider when designing a blog. You’ve got to keep usability, search engine optimization (SEO), and your company’s branding in mind. However, a blog template that’s maximized for social media sharing and integration is equally important. Social media optimization (SMO) is a relatively new form of inbound marketing that’s closely tied to SEO.

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Facebook Is Looking Smarter Than Even

Twist Image

'Facebook is looking smarter than ever. It happens in a flash. It seems like only yesterday, when everybody was complaining about Facebook''s lack of a mobile presence. Their initial strikes at a mobile app were simply lesser versions of their Web-based experience. Then, something happened. It took a mere six months for the company to turn that around by releasing a full native mobile app experience, that gave consumers a new way to look at Facebook.

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Why You Should Conduct A Content Inventory

Small Business Mavericks

'Your business is your content. Online, there is nothing more true than that statement. Whatever content you publish on your blog, in your newsletter, on your website, through social media … it’s all a reflection of you, your business, and your values. Have you conducted an inventory of your content lately? A content inventory is important to the future of your business in a number of ways.

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How To Spread Your Facebook Page URL And Twitter Handle - Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

'? Incase your Facebook Page and your Tweets from your Twitter is not being spread around or heard well, then, here are couple of spaces where you can add your Facebook Page URL and your Twitter Handle: Insert on your EMail below your Signature Put the Twitter Handle on your Facebook Page in the About Section Put the Facebook URL on your Twitter Page in the Description Section Sparingly mention your Handle and Facebook URL when you write your LinkedIn Credential Part Incorporate the two on your

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