Social media is a fantastic tool. It can enable you to reach thousands of people with the click of a mouse. It can also be a tsunami of bad news in the event you fail to monitor your social channels on a daily basis. Making sure you are knowledgeable of the conversations happening about you and your brand online is or needs to be regular part of your online reputation management…Read More
Are You Monitoring Your Social Media Channels?
Social Media Smackdown: Facebook vs Twitter
Facebook or Twitter, the Social Media Smackdown Continues.
Twitter recently announced that its paid ad platform is now open to any who wish to use it. In testing for more than a year, Twitter has been evaluating user feedback and refining Twitter ads…Read More
Social Media Kickstarter
Long, long ago in an internet far away (roughly a year ago) it was relatively simple to rank your site’s webpages in the search engine results. All that you had to do was optimize your pages, have good, original content, and to gather a vast number of backlinks…Read More
Facebook Is An Awesome Tool For Business, But Only…
Facebook Is an Awesome Tool for Business, but Only When Wielded Awesomely
With 9 billion users, Facebook is far and away the most famous social network on earth. If Facebook were a country, it would have the third largest population, behind China and India. And like China and India, Facebook possesses its own unique customs and norms, and you need to understand them to be able to fully leverage the site’s potential as a marketing tool. When I see businesses get it wrong on Facebook, it’s often because they don’t bother to learn the local customs…Read More
LinkedIn | The Social Network Businesses Should Love
LinkedIn: The Social Network Businesses Should Love
LinkedIn should be ranked among the big three of social media sites, right with Facebook and Twitter. But LinkedIn is in fact more important for your small business because in contrast to its rivals, this social media site focuses specifically on business. This means that, you won’t have people on LinkedIn posting about how good their oatmeal tasted today…Read More
Should You Let an Agency Manage Your Facebook Page?
Agencies hoping to manage your company’s Facebook profile are growing almost as fast as Facebook itself. But do you really need someone else minding the store?
Just like lots of things in the world of social media, an outside agency could be the solution to all of your problems, or the beginnings of an expensive disaster. Here’s everything you should know before you sign on the dotted line.
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Should You Let an Agency Manage Your Facebook Page? – Social Media Today
What Most Small Businesses Are Doing Wrong on Social Media (And 5 Tips For Success)
The million dollar question on social media is “Would you click that “Like” button yourself?”
The things small business owners do wrong on any social media platform are remarkably consistent and remarkably easy to avoid. So for every small business that you see shining on Facebook, there are literally hundreds sulking in the shadows. Which do you want to be?
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3 Steps to Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO
Let’s keep social media simple. You just want to drive traffic to your site.
These three steps cut through all the feel-good, social media hype you’ve ignored for the past couple of years and get you back to the traffic that supposed to be showing. Quick and simple, you’ll start seeing results again, no matter how few fans you’ve actually garnered so far.
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3 Steps to Using Social Media to Improve Your SEO – Search Engine Journal
5 Ways to Use Social Media and Your Online Presence to Drive People Offline
No matter what you’re selling or how, people are online looking for it. So even if what you’re selling is purely offline, there’s a lot you can do online to keep customers coming in, and existing customers happy.
Offline activity generators don’t come in cookie cutter varieties, but there is something to be learned from the success stories. These five offline tips will make your online presence that much more worht the (limited) effort.
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5 Ways to Use Social Media and Your Online Presence to Drive People Offline – Duct Tape Marketing
Your Emails Are Seen By More Than Your Subscribers…Right?
New tactics and ideas come and go with every social media season. Your own campaigns should be helping you to integrate social media with the success of every other communications channel you’re currently running.
It’s not that difficult and getting your marketing moving today can keep paying off into the long term. Here are the latest strategies for getting more of your followers out in front of their audience with your message.
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Your Emails Are Seen By More Than Your Subscribers…Right? – AWeber Email Marketing Tips