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Ruining Social Media Credibility with Bad Spelling & Grammar
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A website or blog is often the first place that you go to learn a little bit more about the individual or company. So if your online content has many spelling errors or grammatical mistakes, then why should your visitors take you seriously?[read more]
Blogs: Still Your Most Reliable Social Media Tool
Blogging: back to basics
Social media is without a doubt a pivotal part of helping any new business grow. But in the maelstrom of social media options, many businesses are overlooking one of the most basic and important options at their disposal: blogging. Here are three key ways blogging is still a powerful tool.[read more]
How List.ly Can Blow Up Blog Traffic
List.ly boosts blog traffic (image: Krissy.Venosdale/Flickr)
There are a lot of different tools to help with content creation, drive traffic, and keep your website up to date, but there's one tool that can help you do all three at the same time: List.ly. According to co-founder Nick Kellet, List.ly is "true social curation with lists as a metaphor."[read more]
Triberr to Take the Blogging World by Storm
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Triberr founder calls it a Blog Amplification Platform. Each member shares their latest blog posts, and other members amplify the blog by sharing each other's posts to social media.[read more]
Integration of Push Marketing Campaigns into Social Media
Many people are shifting from push marketing to strictly pull marketing, and we’ll see why strictly pull marketing techniques simply will not get the job done when considering the overall scope of marketing campaigns.[read more]
Small Businesses Connect with Customers Using Social Media
If you loved big businesses, chances are you’d probably be working for one. But you are an entrepreneur; you work for yourself and for your customers. Here are a few tactics that differentiate you from big business by giving you a name, a face, an attitude and allowing you to connect with your customers.[read more]
10 Benefits of Using Images in Blogs
I have always told my clients that every blog post needs to have at least one image, and I stick to that rule myself. Here are ten benefits to making sure that every time you write a blog post, you include at least one great image.[read more]
Everything You Need to Learn About Blog Comments and SEO
It is an effective SEO tactic to leave comments on the blogs of people with digital influence, but not for the reason you might think. The value comes from audience engagement that builds relationships - most bloggers love comments, and it's a great way to get noticed and develop relationships that increase your authority and digital influence.[read more]
Engaging Veterans Online
Anyone who has served this country's military knows that the sacrifice, both to country and family, is second to none. As a result, veterans should always be given extra appreciation, dedicated time, and a big thank you. Businesses, in particular, can benefit from taking this approach to engaging vets.[read more]
Why Businesses Should Encourage Social Media Managers to Unplug
Forever being logged in has its adverse effects that settle in after some time. Burning out, settling into a routine that stifles creativity, and even stressful tolls taken on your physical self can easily take an innovative and fresh position and turn it into something mechanical all too soon. There’s something to be said about businesses that encourage their social media departments to unplug after hours and even during working hours (yes, I said it).[read more]
Social Media "Worst Practices": Making People Laugh
Humor in Social Media is a tricky thing. If you want to try to be funny in social media - go for it (carefully) - the world needs more laughter. The world needs more laughter - but don't let it be at your (or your company's) expense![read more]
Applying the Lawyer's Art of Persuasion to Your Advertising
Do you use questions in your blog titles (or blog posts, tweets, Facebook updates, etc)? If so, would you like to know how you can make them more persuasive? Did you know I'm using the technique I'm going to be teaching you ON you, right this very second?[read more]
The Economics of Inbound Marketing: Lower Costs, Higher Conversion
In marketing today, you embrace economics or you embrace unemployment. This article highlights the stats that have the connected world going gaga for the blogging, content marketing, SEO, and social media tactics that constitute inbound marketing -- a world where the objective has changed from finding customers to employing Internet-based tactics to allow customers to find you.[read more]
Summer Vacation Social Media Needs: a Campfire, a Good Story and a Fishing Pole
People use mobile devices more and computers less to check email and engage with their networks in the summer months, and they’re typically slower to respond. Even your own internal resources get stretched as people take time off. So how do you manage your social media when engagement is down during these hazy days of summer?[read more]
How to Live-tweet from an Event
Intelligent live tweeting helps you make a positive impression up there on the big conference screen and may well help you make contacts and friendships. It might look easy, but it's a real skill. Read these tips to learn how to make a good impression and avoid the pitfalls.[read more]
A Manifesto for Blogging
The author decided to update his personal blogging Manifesto and - having been heavily influenced by the amazing work of Brian Solis, Chris Brogan, and Blair Enns, he felt that sharing his Manifesto might be useful for other bloggers.[read more]
How to Transition from Entrepreneur to Part-Time Blogger
Blogging is a great way to gain online recognition, but there are plenty who only write to promote themselves or their business, thinking that people want to read an 800-word advertisement; trust me, they don’t. So to help my fellow entrepreneurs, here are a few pointers I’ve picked up.[read more]
New Facebook Plugin Makes Blogging More Social
Another great feature of this Facebook for WordPress plugin is that the comments that people make can be indexed by search engines, meaning that they can play a major role in your SEO! Social Media really is taking over SEO, and if you are not on the bandwagon, now is the time to integrate your website and blog into Social Media![read more]
A Blogger's Checklist
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Want some more traction on your blog? Here are 6 components every blog post should have:1. It's written for people.Yes, SEO and key-wording are incredibly important, but if no one wants to read it then what's the use of Google finding it? Avoid tactics like keyword stuffing. Not only are search engines recognizing some of these "black...[read more]
What's the Secret Formula to Blogging Anyway?
A blogger plays by the SEO and keyword rules. A good blogger couples careful research with an engaging topic with their opinion included in the mix. And a great blogger knows how to mix all of these with a fierce writing skill set and voice that gets you all hot and bothered while reading – and ready to come back for more.[read more]
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