Harp Interactive

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Categories: Blog , Content Creation , Content Marketing , Social Media Marketing , Tools and Resources , Visual Marketing Tags: content marketing , social media marketing with images , visual marketing , visual marketing apps , visual marketing stats Think about how quickly you scroll through your news feeds looking for an interesting post. What was it that made you stop to read a specific article?

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Jason Yormark

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'I’ve been meaning to write a blog post about this infuriating article from Mashable a few months ago basically condemning the use of certain “buzz words” The article is chock full of “experts” I’m sure Mashable selected from a survey about what words they felt were overused. It’s practically impossible to read through the list of comments without hearing them in your head as a pompous “I’m better than you” tone.

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Firebelly

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'We’re excited to announce that we have recently started working with Team USA—specifically U.S. Synchronized Swimming. U.S. Synchronized Swimming, also known as USA Synchro, was established as a nonprofit organization in 1979 and is the United States national governing body for the sport. It is recognized by the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Most of us consider the end of the year a time for reflection; how the past year treated (or was treated by) us; what lessons we learned that we’d rather leave behind (!), and those we’ll carry with us into the new year. Given that we are now counting down to the end of the year (and then my birthday!), today’s post highlight seven articles from around the web that teach, or share, lessons learned.

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Harp Interactive

DECEMBER 16, 2014

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Best Buy , in a recent internal communication to their Wolf Bloggers exclusive blogger list, sent out an email to their list of bloggers about an agreement with another affiliate organization. In the email, they BCC’d everyone. One of the bloggers subsequently Replied All to the list, which then exposed Best Buy’s entire exclusive blogger list.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Search Engine Journal’s Matt Southern is a guy I pay attention to. His quick overview of the Call-To-Action Buttons for Business Pages look like they may have come up with some very good options for your Facebook business page. Here are his “best interpretations” of what these new buttons can be used for since there aren’t more details on their functionality yet.

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Ari Herzog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'According to Harvard Business Review author Vikram Mansharamani, the need for specialization is waning and generalist skills are in demand. He explains the difference with bark. There are many who have deeply studied its nooks, grooves, coloration, and texture. Few have developed the understanding that the bark is merely the outermost layer of a tree.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'According to a Google Plus post today , Freebase is shutting down, and will no longer be available after March 2015. The current Freebase data will be ported over into WikiData. As you probably know, I have been one of Freebase’s biggest fans , and have a lot of edits under my belt there. I’ve also told a lot of people that they should make sure they have a Freebase page because it’s a part of the Knowledge Graph.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Usually, I see brands sit on one of two sides of the fence. Either they work only with blogger networks or agencies, or they own their blogger relationships in-house. After a neat discussion with Sam Zivot of Lorna Jane , I now have an awesome example of how these two tactics actually can be complimentary. In fact, according to this case study, it’s possible a blogger outreach sweet spot may exist in the middle of these two schools of thought.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Google’s Disavow Tool is like a sharp implement — if you don’t use it correctly, it makes you bleed. There are definitely times when that sharp tool is what needs to be used, however. Small Business Mavericks looked at the disavow link tool when it came out a couple of years ago. A Guide To Using Google’s Disavow Tool. Marie Haynes has given us help with this tricky subject on the Moz Blog.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Image source. The world’s greatest copywriters aren’t just writers. They’ve also mastered the art of sales, psychology, creative branding, marketing, and so much more. If you’re already a competent professional at your craft, you’ll need to consider making yourself into a true epic copywriter by acquiring some new content marketing skills.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'ICANN , the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers organization that oversees internet domain names, has been hacked. In late November 2014 they were targeted with a spear phishing attack, and then this month they discovered that the compromised credentials were used to access other ICANN systems besides email. This included the Centralized Zone Data System.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'For anyone who has ever received a holiday gift that was so far off the mark, this one’s for you. Inspired by “rubbish gifts,” UK-based luxury fashion retailer Harvey Nichols has launched a new campaign called, “Could I Be Any Clearer?” While the goal is to help its customers get exactly what they want, the campaign is a prime example of useful marketing.

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Social Media Network Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2014

'Here is a scenario: On your Facebook Home Page Feed - You read about a very Disturbing Case for instance Abuse or a Missing Person. There is nothing to ‘Like’ or ‘DisLike’. But you need to say that you have ‘Read’ the Article. You want to show that you are concerned. Moreover an Interaction will enable it to go higher on Network Feed. How about a Different Sign apart from the ‘Like’ and the DisLikes’ ?

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'Image source. The winter holiday season means really, really big business. December consumer shopping will exceed $469 billion dollars this year. In fact, the average American spends nearly $800 just on gifts for Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa. It’s safe to say that positioning your brand to capture some of this holiday spend is definitely wise.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'There is nothing about Negative SEO in Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Are you surprised? Well, I am, and I am not. After a review of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, from what I can tell, there are no actual references to the practice of Negative SEO. The guidelines all point to issues related to your website–but there are no references about doing something to your competitor’s websites that would cause their website to lose search engine rankings or get penalized.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Tweetable Moments It’s always the least sexy channels that have to maintain the budget. Whether it’s search, whether it’s email, I’m a big believer in those. julierhopkins Tweet This. Research and Insight. Julie Hopkins is part of a team at Gartner called the Gartner for Marketing Leaders Group. As a leader in the field of information technology research, Gartner formed Julie’s group a couple of years ago, recognizing that digital marketing is an area of increasing impor

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Devumi

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'2014 may go down as the Year of Instagram as the photo sharing app surpassed the 300 million user mark. This number surpasses even the mighty Twitter. Brands in 2014 have finally gotten on board with Instagram, and some exciting content has been produced over the year. Here are five of the best brands on Instagram according to which are my favorites.

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'The point of creativity in business is to tell and/or sell. For some reason, the statement above is seen (by many) as some kind of defamation of creativity. A bastardization of the what art is. The proverbial selling of the soul. That''s stupid. And, it''s wrong. Let''s set the table first: creativity for the sake of being creative is fine. It''s a right.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'Ever since I originally noticed that Apple was registering nonsense domain names, I have been intrigued about why they would be registering and then not renewing nonsense domain names. And it’s not just one or two domain names, or a dozen of them. This time, Afilias Special Projects has registered 1862 new domain names in the past 24 hours, which is a significant amount of domain names.

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Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'Tweetable Moments It’s always the least sexy channels that have to maintain the budget. Whether it’s search, whether it’s email, I’m a big believer in those. julierhopkins Tweet This. Research and Insight. Julie Hopkins is part of a team at Gartner called the Gartner for Marketing Leaders Group. As a leader in the field of information technology research, Gartner formed Julie’s group a couple of years ago, recognizing that digital marketing is an area of increasing impor

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Devumi

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'CEO: “Okay, here’s our viral video marketing plan: We start out with a spinning close-up on the logo, cut to a shot of me talking about the virtues of Product X, show an image of it being used, then finish with the logo again. We’ll put a light piano music background in, and it’ll be a viral video hit!”. Ya. That right there would be a CEO who really needs some viral video marketing tips!

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 13, 2014

'How often do you watch something twice that you have seen online? It doesn''t happen often for me. In fact, I often have a hard time finishing a video on YouTube that I''m interested in, because there''s something on the right-hand side - in the recommended viewing column - that grabs my attention like some kind of shiny, bright object (and yes, on YouTube, I can be quite the squirrel).

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Laurel Papworth

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'Shares Just a short little post on the storm around my 3 tweets regarding the Sydney Siege. Where is the social media manager for @LindtCafeAus #MartinPlace which was retweeted 21 times. I hope they are ok. I still want to know – who is the community manager for Lindt & are they ok? Read what you want into that but does anyone know? So here goes for those of you interested: I was teaching a social media and online community manager class.

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Proactive Report

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'Last week’s FTC / Deutsch LA settlement sent shivers p many a PR spine. Although most of the complaint was about false or misleading claims in advertizements, there were also implications for disclosure on social media channels. Referring to the Deutch LA email to employees asking them to tweet about the new PS Vita with the hashtag #gamechanger.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'We’ve covered so much ground here on ProBlogger this year, and much of it about monetization – here are the top five posts this year in that category. Have you made the changes you read about in these posts? Which ones did you miss? Take this chance now to catch up – or pin it for future reference. Image via Flickr user Susy Morris. 1.

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Twist Image

DECEMBER 13, 2014

'There are a lot of people sharing pictures on Instagram. It''s a trap to think that Instagram is an amazing marketing channel, simply because there are a lot of people on it taking photos and sharing photos. There are many more dynamic factors at play, and Instagram is so much more than just another photo-sharing app. There''s a reason (actually, there are many reasons) why Facebook was so aggressive in their acquisition of Instagram for about a billion dollars back in 2012.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 19, 2014

'At the heart of the social web is what we call social sharing: literally sharing other people’s content because you think it will benefit others. And if you are practicing (or believe in) what I call “social PR,” then you already subscribe to the philosophy that social sharing isn’t just about being nice to people, it’s a strategic imperative that ultimately supports relationship-building for your business.

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Proactive Report

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'PR pros are not all convinced that SEO is a skill they need to master. However, as content marketing gains popularity,SEO becomes more and more important. The more content there is on the web, the more difficult it is to find what you’re looking for. Content marketing isn’t a new idea for PR. We’ve been doing this forever. Corporate magazines, thought pieces, by-lined articles for executives, sponsored radio shows – we’ve done it all.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 18, 2014

'This week we’ve covered the five most popular posts in the areas of monetization , content , social media , and writing tips. Today we bring you the top 5 general tips that readers found most useful. I hope they do to you too! Read it now, or pin for later. 1. 5 Quick Grammar Tips to Improve Your Writing – Plus Free Downloadable Cheat Sheet.

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