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How a social media consultant can help your business

Sherrilynne Starkie

It can seem like social media is a waste of both time and resources in a world of competing priorities. Adding a social media consultant to your team will fix this. A smart social media strategy focuses on hard goals like sales leads, staff recruitment and retention, brand awareness and more.

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How to Run a Social Media Competitive Analysis

Social Media Strategies Summit

For this step in the process, we’ll use the Google Adwords Keyword Planner to find sites ranking for similar keywords. Step #2: Gather Top-Level Social Media Data You’ve identified your competitors — now it’s time to find out what they’re doing on social media. How large is their following? What is their engagement rate?

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Finding Keywords: The First Step to Blogging Success

Waxing UnLyrical

Having built my first web site ( DVD Verdict ) in April 1999 and managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country from 2006 to 2009, it’s safe to say I’ve seen many changes in web marketing over time. Customer Care Team. You can find him on Google+ and all the other social networks. Guest post by Sean McGinnis.

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[DIGITAL TIPS] Combining SEO And PPC To Advance Your Marketing Strategy

SocMed Sean

Social networks change, trends change, people change…and their appetite for a specific marketing message can go out the window at the drop of a hat. Most marketing teams don’t have the luxury of waiting that long in order to see results, which is where a paid media campaign can help.

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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

SocMed Sean

Whether you work for a Fortune 100 company or a blogger who relies on revenue from your content to supplement your income, it’s important to think about what goes into your social media headcount. 2) Listening and Engagement Tools like Hootsuite, Curata, Sprout Social, Brandwatch.

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[SOLUTION] Six Tips for Managing Your Social Media Over Holiday Vacations

SocMed Sean

You cannot just wake up one day and decide that it is the day you are taking a break from social media without considering the effects it will have on your business. You should hold a meeting with your marketing team and review your operations manual. Be sure that your team or business partners knows exactly what you do each day.

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Attack of the Consumer! The Many Ways Consumers Can Put You Out of Business Online

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Bad customer service will get you banned from major advertising networks, skewered in organic results, and ridiculed on social networks. Google AdWords advertisers are increasingly being held accountable for the quality of their customer service. Follow him on Twitter @rodnitzky or visit his AdWords blog.

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