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Where to Get Awesome Free Images for Your Social Media (Without Stealing Them)

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CC0 (Creative Commons Zero). Flickr Commons. You could spend hours browsing the weird, wonderful, and vintage images on Flickr Commons. Select the correct license when searching Flickr Commons. Search free stock images by color in Flickr Commons. Public Domain.

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3 Reasons List Posts Are Guaranteed Blog Traffic Boosters

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And a post that is going to appear on a mobile phone? Photo credit: puuikibeach (Flickr, Creative Commons). We’ve trained our brains to read in short bursts. A typical newspaper column is 550 – 750 words. A blog post is around 300 – 400 words. No more than 300 words.

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Content Marketing is More Than Just Blogging

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Find photos from Flickr or Picasa — be sure to use Creative Commons photos — or buy royalty-free stock photography, and put them in your blog posts for added impact. Even a picture from your smartphone is better than no picture at all — assuming the photo actually has something to do with the actual content.

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Content Creation? Curation? Focus on Publishing Instead

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The B2C marketer will take advantage of mobile video consumption among Gen Y while still reaching out on laptop and desktop users who want to read text. Photo credit: Chris Devers (Flickr, Creative Commons). A B2B marketer is going to reach her audience differently than a B2C marketer. What does your audience care about?

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SEO Isn’t Dead. The New SEO

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Google declared 2011 the year of video, 2012 the year of mobile. Photo credit: Adam Foster (Flickr, Creative Commons). But thanks to Panda and Penguin, it looks like 2013 is going to be the year of the writer.

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Why The Term “Social CRM” Is Just STUPID!

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Photo by Andres Rueda on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons For those of you who don’t know what CRM stands for, it’s Customer Relationship Management and it’s a term often used by software vendors like SalesForce.com to describe their products. Social CRM. Don’t believe me?

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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

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The only part of the process being short-circuited is the mobilization process. Image: Loius Volant on Flickr, Creative Commons. Whatiswrongwith.me , The Arab Spring or The Pink Chaddi movement are varying examples of this phenomenon (recommended reading: Clay Shirky’s The Cognitive Surplus ). No, not really.

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