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5 Infinitely Handy Content Curation Tools

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Content Creation , Content Marketing , Tools and Resources Tags: #tagboard , alltop , content marketing , Facebook interest Lists , HootSuite , scoop.it , Social Media Marketing An integral part of content marketing, content curation (the process of finding, organizing and sharing digital content around a particular topic) can be time consuming.

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Successful Startup Story: Fresh and Fluffy Natural Dry Dog Shampoo

Waxing UnLyrical

'Disclaimer: Fresh and Fluffy is a client of RedShift Writers. Their placement on this outlet is in keeping with WUL’s tradition of sharing causes for good and businesses doing good through community engagement, locally and around the world. Fresh and Fluffy is happy to do what it can to help pets and people live a better life. This is their story.

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Wake Up – Why It’s Now About the Media not the Social

Convince & Convert

'Image from Bigstock.com. The tools and technologies that have aided and abated the social era have grown up and forsaken us. The big social players have all rolled out features and functions that position them squarely as media platforms that maintain comments functionality, rather than their original roles as social networks. Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter aren’t the new MySpace, they are the new ABC, NBC and CBS ( tweet this ).

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What To Do About a Filtered Yelp Review

Navolutions

'It’s happened to the best of us. A customer goes on Yelp to leave a review, ends up writing a 5 star masterpiece longer than most Hemmingway novels, and Yelp filters it out. Not only is your business deprived of an awesome review – chances are that your formerly satisfied customer is a little ticked off, too. So what do you do about it?

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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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02/07/2014: Social Media Snapshot | Facebook Ad Manager Updates, Pinterest Makeover & More.

Harp Interactive

'Categories: Blog , Facebook , Google , Pinterest , Social Media Marketing Tags: AllFacebook , Chrome , Facebook , Facebook Ad Manager , Google , Pinterest , Pinterest mobile , social media , Social Media Marketing , Social Media Snapshot Social Media Snapshot: Facebook Ad Manager Updates, New Technology & Pinterest Makeovers, Oh My! 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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Happy 4th Birthday, #measurePR: The Queen of Metrics Returns!

Waxing UnLyrical

'Do you know what Feb. 2nd was? Go on, guess, I’ll wait… It was #measurePR’s 4th birthday! Yes, the chat which has become somewhat of an institution as far as industry-wide digital PR events go (and I am thrilled about that), has been going strong for four whole years. Whodathunkit?! Back in 2010, Ms. Katie Paine was our very first guest.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook’s Paper App

The Social Media Incubator

'This week’s SMI App of the Week is Facebook’s new Paper app. It’s hard to ignore when a social media giant releases a new app. On Feb. 3, Facebook released it’s highly anticipated Facebook Paper app. It grabbed the attention of most as some anticipate it may be able to replace the Facebook app someday. That day doesn’t look like it would come anytime soon, though.

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Tweet to Translate: Free Twitter Hub at Sochi Games

The Realtime Report

'We’ve all heard the dismal reports from journalists checking into not-quite-ready hotels , but there’s some good news at Sochi too. One of our favorites is a free, on-demand Twitter translation service for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. One Hour Translations ‘ Twitter Hub is available in realtime to anyone watching the games (at Sochi or anywhere around the globe).

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Monday Roundup: Being Social

Waxing UnLyrical

'Good morning! So… how have you been surviving the cold? Me, I got bronchitis (I know, I say that as if it’s something to be proud of). I hope you didn’t, and if you’re reading this from a beach somewhere, don’t even talk to me. You know that’s a joke, right? Image: Link Humans via Flickr, CC 2.0. Social media is all around us, but what does “being social” actually mean?

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Why Patron Tequila is Getting Serious About Social

Convince & Convert

'Adrian Parker, Patron @adriandparker. Adrian Parker , Vice President of Digital Marketing at Patron Spirits Company , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss the hurdles in expanding a social presence of a well-established brand, navigating the highly regulated presence of alcohol in social media, and the impact measurement has on strategy and culture.

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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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CVS Sets Example For Social Media Strategy

The Social Media Incubator

'On Feb. 5, 2014, CVS, one of the nation’s leading retail pharmacies, announced they would end sales of all tobacco in their 7,600 stores by Oct. 1, 2014. “As a health care company, it’s time for us to take a stand and to put our customers, colleagues and patients on a path to better health,” the company said on their Facebook page.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches Paper, Twitter Tweaks Homepage Search, Foursquare Now Delivers

The Realtime Report

'Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare: Facebook launches mobile app Paper. Facebook. With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water – last week Facebook launched its own stand-alone news app, Paper – the first app from Facebook Creative Labs – that delivers articles and photos based on categories selected by each user (The Verge).

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Get Your Site on Google’s Front Page Search

Bill Hartzer

'Have you received an email (usually an unsolicited email) from someone offering to get your site on Google’s front page? Well, I get these all the time, from companies that claim that they can help a website’s search engine rankings. The problem, though, is that even with all of the Google algorithm updates, including Google Penguin and Google Panda , the SEO scammers (as I’d like to call them) are still sending out these emails, touting their SEO services: The companies sendi

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Do Contests Work on Twitter?

Convince & Convert

'I did some research on Twitter contests by pulling the most engaging tweets from Twitter accounts for more than 12,000 companies for the month of January. There was a lot to learn from these tweets: Fashion is big. Sports & music can really get people going. But the #1 way to get engagement on Twitter was a simple “Follow and Tweet to Win” contest.

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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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5 Ways To Brand Yourself With Blogging

Small Business Mavericks

'Blogging and branding go hand in hand like few other things online. You might say that to blog is to brand your business, or that branding online is blogging online. That’s how connected these two Internet business concepts are. Obviously, it hasn’t always been that way. What changed? In essence, the Internet is constantly changing. Every time a new website is built, the Internet changes.

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Social Networking Stats: Twitter Engagement Drops, #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: 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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Apple Owns Mystery Domains, Hosted on Amazon Cloud Server

Bill Hartzer

'While doing some digging around today, I noticed that Apple, Inc. owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as last week. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now.

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Three Innovative Uses of Instagram For Company Announcements and Product Launches

Convince & Convert

'This week, The Office’s B.J. Novak generated headlines and attention for his new book, One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories , by announcing it on Instagram. While the effort may seem non-traditional to some, Instagram’s more than 150 million monthly active users and visual storytelling capabilities make it an effective social media channel to leverage for important announcements.

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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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How To Plan Your Social Media

Social Media Network Marketing

'? Social Media should be a part of your Marketing Plan. Social Media is not to be seen as an isolated one - off case. You need to be sure on how exactly you will use the Social Media Platforms like Facebook and others. Just the way your Marketing Plan would have a set of tactical steps for action, your Social Media is to have an action plan as well.

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Esurance Tempts Super Bowl Fans With $1.5 Million Twitter Sweepstakes

The Realtime Report

'Esurance found one way to get fans tweeting about their company — just offer them the chance to win $1.5 million. Rather than spend the big bucks on an advertisement during the game itself, Esurance opted for the first commercial slot after the game ended ( AdWeek ). Allegedly, that saved the company $1.5 million — savings the brand is eager to “pass on to its customers.” Here’s how it works: after watching the commercial, viewers had 36 hours to tweet #EsuranceSa

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Adnimation Ad Network Uses Animated Ads, Claims Higher CTR

Bill Hartzer

'Adnimation is a new Cost Per Click (CPC) ad network that uses animated ads and claims that there’s a significantly higher CTR. I’ve decided to try running the Adnimation ads here on my site as a test. You’ve probably already seen them running. I’ve also documented the signup process for publishers like me. First, a little bit about what Adnimation is, and how it works.

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6 Success Tips From Experienced Social Pros

Convince & Convert

'Part of what makes the Social Pros Podcast so interesting to produce is that we talk to a wide variety of guests from different industries, and each guest has unique insights and experiences into how best to be social, even though many of their job titles and descriptions are the same. January was a particularly varied month, with guests from Weight Watchers , the popular weight loss company; FreezerBurns , an innovative frozen food review site; Songza , a music-streaming application; and our 1

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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 Edit Your Facebook Look Back Video

Small Business Mavericks

'It’s only been a few days since Facebook released its Look Back video for users. The video goes back through your Facebook history from the past 10 years and highlights the most liked, commented on, and shared items in your timeline. That is, the most popular items that you’ve shared with your friends and fans. There’s just one problem with this.

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What Is The Point Of A Website In 2014?

Twist Image

'It''s not all about what the mobile experience will be about. The one screen world. It''s a concept often written about in these posts and it''s an ideology that was created to force brands to start thinking about true customer-centricity instead of business and brand-driven silos (also check out my second business book, CTRL ALT Delete ). We live in a world where the only screen that matters is the screen that is in front of me.

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

'Oh, the irony. Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. Wait. What?!? That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. And the links that they’re penalizing websites for having.

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Are Blogging and Social Media a Match Made in Heaven?

Writtent Blog

'2011 was the year of social media. 2012 was the year companies began to realize the value of content marketing. And 2013? That was when these seemingly disparate marketing practices began to convene. As inbound marketing becomes more and more mainstream, businesses are increasingly choosing to align their content marketing and social media into a unified form of outreach.

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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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How Relevance Is Important to PPC Quality Scores

Small Business Mavericks

'If you’ve been wondering why your quality scores are going down at Google AdWords even while you increase the click-throughs to your PPC ads, there is one particular element that you should pay attention to and check on first before you do anything else. That element is relevance. Specifically, I’m speaking about the relevance of your landing page to your ad.

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Netflix And The Future Of Television

Twist Image

'Netflix has done what Blockbuster could not do. But it''s about much more than a streaming technology. TV has become a fascinating new platform. Yup, it''s not the same old TV most new media pundits tend to trash in presentations. Netflix is a huge part of this shift, and don''t think that Twitter ''s constant attention and sidling up on TV isn''t something worth taking notice of as well.

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Rangers Ballpark in Arlington is Now Called Globe Life Park in Arlington

Bill Hartzer

'The Texas Rangers baseball team has reached a naming-rights deal for the Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers Ballpark in Arlington will now be called Globe Life Park in Arlington. Globe Life is based in McKinney Texas. Back in 2004, the Texas Rangers sold the naming rights to a company called Ameriquest Mortgage Co. and renamed what was then The Ballpark in Arlington to Ameriquest Field in 2004.

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5 Non-Negotiable Practices for Small Business Success

Absolute PA

'I really enjoy strategising and planning for my business. There is nothing like a blank page ready to be filled with possibilities, making way for the opportunities that will materialise as it unfolds. It’s exciting. It energises me. Looking back just on this past month of business, I realised it has been off to a cracking start. Month in Review. While you’re checking out the fun and sentimental lookback feature on Facebook (Hehe, I’ve seen you!

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Blogging For Your E-commerce Site

Small Business Mavericks

'One of the growing trends in the online space for e-commerce websites is to attach a blog to the site and promote the products in your store. Many e-commerce website owners simply add a blog to their sites and then promote the products in their stores. This might be effective, but it will likely only appeal to shoppers who are already in the market for your products.

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