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Content Marketing and Social Media: 25 Insights and Stats from Three Research Reports

Webbiquity SMM

Nearly three-quarters of companies plan to maintain or grow their content marketing teams over the next year. Those are among the findings from a trio of this year’s best research reports, from WordPress VIP , Hootsuite , and Metricool. How are content marketers measuring results and proving value? Budgets are growing.

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Three Words That Will Speed Up Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

And recent trends in social media are showing that sharing photos and images is a great way to make sure that your blog posts are getting traffic. Through WordPress plugins, of course! After installing the plugin, just choose Media > Bulk Optimize from your WordPress menu and it should kick off the process.

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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. As an example, I worked with a company whose highest volume of calls came in the form of customers needing their passwords reset.

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70+ Resources on How to Start a WordPress Blog

Kikolani

However, if you want to set up a business site, I suggest WordPress. You can use a hosted WordPress or a WordPress installation. The next list includes sites that have the installable version of the software (like the WordPress that we will be discussing). The WordPress Installation. I’ll wait. Medium.com.

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70+ Resources on How to Start a WordPress Blog

Kikolani

While there are many platforms to choose from, I always suggest that if your purpose for blogging is anything related to branding, business, or making money online, then you want to go with WordPress on your own domain. The traffic trends for each platform’s site speak for themselves. Hosting Your Domain. Plans starting at $3.96

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Eleven Digital Trends to Watch In 2011

SocialFish

Out of the many social media-related trends and predictions posts I’ve been skimming lately, this is by far the one that makes the most sense to me from a social business standpoint. Eleven Digital Trends to Watch in 2011. Or, you could dump it altogether … not a prediction nor a trend. Your members expect it.

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The Best Way to Keep Up With Marketing Technology and Trends

Convince & Convert

At Lesson.ly , we are extremely proud to be a part of that learning process for many companies, including the three I would like to talk about today: DataSift, iGoDigital, and Convince & Convert. Each of these fast-growing companies has a unique education-based headache, and we have become the Tylenol to provide assistance.

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