Sat.Dec 28, 2013 - Fri.Jan 03, 2014

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01/03/2014: Social Media Snapshot

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Facebook , Social Media Marketing Tags: com , Blog , Facebook , Flipagram , social media , Social Media Snapshot , Web , web domains Social Media Snapshot Catch up on the need-to-know changes and updates in social media that affect your business and brand…all in one place. Below are highlights of changes on top social media platforms for the week ending January 3, 2014: New on Facebook Finally!

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The State of Social Media 2013 [infographic]

Mindjumpers

'It’s a new year and and we can look back at the social media year of 2013. The following infographic sums up 2013 in social media events, month by month. Events and videos created massive word of mouth. The Harlem Shake went viral, things went pretty fast on Twitter when Miley Cyrus was twerking at the VMA and ‘selfie’ even made to the Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year.

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In Real Life: Social In Person (And Not In Media)

Firebelly

'What happened to being social in real life? Social media has shifted the focus away from culminating “real life” experiences with people. So to get to the point: I’ll be writing a column “In Real Life” that covers – what else – real life interactions and how they add the most vital value in the overall social equation.

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Top Social Media Campaigns in 2013

The Realtime Report

'What were the best social media campaigns in 2013? From Oreo’s ‘Dunk in the Dark’ tweet at the Superbowl to Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy as a Dodge car salesman, there’s been plenty to choose from. Here are the top campaigns we published (based on traffic) this past year – and then one more for good luck. 1. Best of Valentine’s Day Social Media Campaigns: Remote Romeos, Sexy Peanuts, #LastMinuteLovers and More : A compilation of the best campaigns for Valentin

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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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9 Best Social Media and Content Marketing Tips From Buffer

Convince & Convert

'We’ve experimented with lots of different content marketing methods at Buffer, so I wanted to share with you 9 of the best ways we’ve found to increase engagement and improve your content strategy. Especially after launching Buffer for Business recently, a lot of business approached us, asking which practical tips we had for them to improve their social media and content marketing.

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How a Brand is Born Online

Ari Herzog

'Thank you for reading my blog where I write and explore digital media. Meet AriHerzogDotCom. On the first day of 2014 I launched a series of social media channels under this name. Follow my brand on this Twitter page. Follow my brand on this Facebook page. Follow my brand on this Google+ page. Follow my brand on this Pinterest page. Follow my brand on this LinkedIn group.

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10 Tips to Prepare for NMX 2014

Kikolani

'We’re only five days away from one of my favorite online marketing events, NMX 2014. So I thought I’d share some of my favorite tips for preparing for NMX or any conference event! 1. Create a doc with all of your travel arrangements. Hotel missing your reservation? Can’t remember what time your flight departs? Create an easy to access email, document, notepad entry, etc. with your main travel details.

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Don’t Buy Your Programmatic Audience, Build It

Convince & Convert

'The funnel is dead. Don’t be sad, it had a good, long life and now it will retire to a nice farm where it will live with the CueCat, the three-martini lunch, and other advertising ideas that are past their prime. But, chances are, if you were a direct-response marketer, you probably shut your office door and shed a tear for the funnel. Because the funnel was like the mullet of marketing: you knew exactly what you were getting.

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Social Networking Stats: Reddit Earns 56 Billion Pageviews in 2013, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

'The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1.19 billion monthly active users. via Facebook. YouTube. over 1 billion monthly unique users. via YouTube. Twitter: over 218 million monthly active users. via Twitter. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. via TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 500 million users. via The Next Web.

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Have You Committed Netflix Adultery?

Firebelly

'Did you know there is such a thing as “Netflix adultery”? Recently two articles, including one in The Cut and the Huffington Post , referred to this as the act of watching a show “that was supposed to be our thing” without your partner, due to an obsession with said show or an overwhelming desire to find out what happens next.

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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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3 Steps to Publish a Blog Post

Ari Herzog

'It is very easy to write a blog post. Step 1: Create a title. Step 2: Create stuff like this to put in the body. Step 3: Publish and promote. Yeah yeah there’s more involved such as blog platforms, useful pictures, automation, and monetization; but the nuts and bolts of publishing a post involve writing a title, writing the body, and publishing it.

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Organize Your Schedule with the App of the Week

The Social Media Incubator

'Ring in the new year with a new calendar app! If there’s one thing we know about calendar and schedule apps, it’s that there are a lot of them. There are also a lot of different styles of calendar apps that people respond to, and that’s why it’s important to find the one that fits your technological abilities and habits best.

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Social Media News Ticker: Sum Up 2013 with Facebook Year In Review, Google+ Auto Awesome Movie

The Realtime Report

'Facebook Year in Review. Happy New Year! It’s been a bit quiet on the social media news front over the holidays, but here are a few updates worth checking out: Google+ and Facebook. Google and Facebook write your end-of-year cards for you – both companies released tools to help put together your best moments from 2013, to share with family and friends on social networks; the Google+ auto-awesome movie puts together your best Google+ photos and videos from 2013 into an embedded YouT

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Debunking Myths About Millennials

Firebelly

'Image via [link]. As a millennial I have heard every myth possible about my generation. I am sure you have heard the more popular statements that millennials are lazy, narcissistic, and never do anything but sit on our computers. The list goes on and on. I am going to try and not make this post completely about myself, because you cannot really generalize an entire generation based off a few people.

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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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Top Blog Posts of 2013

Ari Herzog

'You are reading the 45th blog post of 2013. In case you missed any, here are some of the more popular posts this year. Most Popular Posts of 2013 (as shared/commented by you). 30 Tips to be a Digital Storyteller. 18 Reasons to Embrace Social Media. Why I Killed 61% of My LinkedIn Friends. Learn to be in the Moment. Why I Blog. Most Popular Posts of History (as visited this year).

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Pam Slim Reveals How to Get Happy With Your Body of Work

Convince & Convert

'Excerpt from my interview with the incredible Pam Slim , whose new book Body of Work is exceptional. A must-read , it’s also in paperback for only $10, and Kindle for less than $8. Grab a copy, you won’t be sorry. (affiliate). Watch the entire video above for the complete interview. . Jay: Hey everybody, it’s Jay Baer from Convince & Convert.

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Social Media Stats: The Best of 2013

The Realtime Report

'What were the biggest stories in social media statistics this year? Here’s a look at our top ten stats posts (ranked by traffic) from 2013, including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Vine and plenty of influence marketing. Teens Prefer Tumblr Over Facebook (Jan 15). B2B Lead Generation: Twitter Outperforms Facebook, LinkedIn By 9-to-1 (Jan 30).

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Disallow Search Engines in Robots.txt File? No Worries on Google

Bill Hartzer

'Here’s a first. Well, actually I’m not surprised when it comes to Google, but this is the first time I have seen a website disallow the search engines from indexing their website. But the website still ranks number one in Google for their primary keyword phrase. Take a look at this screen capture, for a search query “Dallas Dental Clinics” Granted it doesn’t have a huge search volume every month, but it is a major city (Dallas, Texas) and there are a lot of dental

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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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Analyzing AriHerzogDotCom: Day 2

Ari Herzog

'Since writing about my new brand yesterday and promoting it on my current social media channels, people have slowly been following the different accounts. I want you to agree that Ari Herzog is a person. He/I writes this sentence. AriHerzogDotCom is a brand. It is still me — as it represents everything I do online: the things I write, watch, and like.

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2013 Social Media Bloopers

The Marketing Blog

They say that mistakes are bound to happen and they can happen to the best of us. But the most important lesson is to learn and improve from them. So, as we say hello to 2014, let us look at which brands make it to the list of 2013 Social Media Bloopers. Filed under: Social media , social media india Tagged: bloopers , Social media , socialmedia.

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Twitter: Watch ‘Happy New Year’ Spread Around the Globe

The Realtime Report

'Happy New Year! Now that you’re back at work (and hopefully hangover-free), here’s a little visualization tool from Twitter showing the new year spreading across the globe. The interactive visualization tracks the new year across the map, and then provides a graph showing the frequency of ‘Happy New Year’ in each language over time.

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Multiple Reconsideration Requests Might Result in Another Google Warning

Bill Hartzer

'If you file multiple reconsideration requests after your website was manually penalized by Google, then there is a good chance that Google will give you another warning. That warning message from Google might just ask you to wait a few weeks before you file another reconsideration request. I’ve written before about Google reconsideration requests and what is required in order to get a manual penalty revoked by Google (for unnatural links to your website).

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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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What Should You Make Of Flipagram?

Small Business Mavericks

'People love to show off. They love to show off their families. And they love video. That’s why Flipagram is promising to be a popular new smartphone app that allows users to make short videos using their own photos and music provided by the app. But can it be used for marketing purposes? The biggest issue I see with Flipagram being used for marketing are copyright issues.

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(Almost) No One Is Seeing Your Content

Twist Image

'Certainly, this is not the most optimistic headline you are going to read on January 1st, 2014. We used to tell ourselves a very powerful narrative about how the cream always rises to the top, and the struggle that most brands face when it comes to content marketing and social media is that they struggle to find a true sense of human-ness in the content that they are creating.

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How to Optimize Your Blog for SEO: 5 Steps

Writtent Blog

'Not convinced you need to optimize your blog for SEO? 89% of modern consumers use search engines to make purchase decisions, and 75% of search users never click beyond the first page of search results. Your website needs to rank well in Google, Bing, and Yahoo to capture the attention of your future customers. Fortunately, publishing fresh content regularly is one of the best ways to build positive SEO for your business.

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

'Well, here it is, December 31st, 2013, the evening is drawing to a close. Still a few hours until the ball drops in New York City’s Times Square. Around this time I am always thinking of Times Square, the original(?) place where it all happens. But, maybe because I’m from the New York area, and am used to always staying up to watch the ball drop.

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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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5 Ways To Use Twitter Chats For Branding

Small Business Mavericks

'Social media branding is powerful and can build a good business following with the right promotion and energy behind it. One of the least utilized ways of branding through social media is the Twitter chat. Simply hosting a chat session on Twitter can boost your brand and lead to new business. Here are 5 ways to make Twitter chats work for you. Create a unique hashtag and promote the heck out of it.

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My 3 Words For 2014

Twist Image

'Happy New Year! Welcome to 2014. What''s your plan? I was never a fan of goal-setting. and even less of a fan of New Year''s Resolutions. For a long while, I was working within a framework called The Goal Cultivator courtesy of Dan Sullivan (aka The Strategic Coach ). I felt like his perspective on goal cultivating versus goal setting was a new paradigm, and - in looking back at those initial exercises - it''s amazing to see how profound that experience was in shaping my present-day situation (

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Kick-Start 2014 with Trends and Insights from Mitch Joel

Writtent Blog

'Today I’m thrilled to catch up with one of the most influential people in today’s marketing world, Mitch Joel. Mitch is the President of digital marketing agency Twist Image and author of the popular blog Six Pixels of Separation. Mitch is also a sought-after keynote speaker, and recently published the book Ctrl Alt Delete. He kindly shared a few moments with me today: @HNesterenko: Mitch, I know how busy your schedule is, and I’m really excited that you get to share some mark

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Good eCRM puts the customer at the centre of the universe

Social Email Marketing

'Gianfranco Cuzziol’s fascination is the cross-channel journey of today’s consumer. He works with clients to help them leverage the points of impact along that consumer journey. He’s been described as a “conversation manager”. Gianfranco, who spoke several times at i-SCOOP’s Fusion.

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How To Steal Blog Post Ideas

Small Business Mavericks

'If you’ve ever been stuck on a blog post idea and didn’t know what to write about, then you might have been tempted to steal someone else’s idea. Well, the good news is, you can do that! You can’t copyright an idea, so there’s no harm in piggybacking off of someone else’s success if you do it the right way. The wrong way is to steal the idea and the content.

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