How to Use Twitter Ads for More Exposure, Leads and Sales

Are you interested in learning more about advertising on Twitter? Have you followed the latest on Twitter ads? Twitter has many paid options to help you gain more exposure. Keep reading to discover three ways to use Twitter ads to grow your business. Why Twitter Advertising? When Twitter released their advertising platforms, there was a [...]



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Vine Vanity URLs: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Twitter Launches Vanity URLs for Vine Users: “A profile URL is a unique Vine profile address accessible from [...]



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How to Clean Up Your Digital Footprint and Your Online Identity

Is there anything from your online past that you would not want people to see? Do you want to start cleaning up your online identity? Your digital footprint is everything that shows up when people search for you online. From images to comments and blog posts, this collective first impression can make or break your [...]



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5 Ways to Grow Your Email List With Social Media

Do you want more email subscribers? Are you looking for ways to move social media fans and followers to your email list? In this article, I’ll show you 5 ways to use social media to build your email list. Why Email? At least 91% of consumers check their email every day. One of the most [...]



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6 Ways to Protect Your Twitter Reputation

Do you use Twitter to market your business? How’s your Twitter reputation? Twitter’s short form messages require the same care you put into Facebook and other longer-form social media platforms. In this article, I’ll show you six tips to help you protect your Twitter reputation by avoiding some common mistakes. #1: Verify Everything You Tweet [...]



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26 Ways to Make Pinterest Work for Your Business

Are you looking for tips on how to use Pinterest strategically? Is your business benefiting from Pinterest? Pinterest is an effective tool for businesses of all sizes and sectors. From B2B to B2C, there are a number of goals you can pursue—from driving web and foot traffic to increasing visibility with influencers and consumers. In [...]



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Nominate Your Favorite Social Media Blog: 5th Annual Top 10 Social Media Blog Contest

We are accepting nominations for our 5th annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest, the biggest contest for social media blogs. We are looking for your nomination for the Top 10 Social Media Blogs. The winners will be promoted in our 230,000-reader newsletter and announced on Social Media Examiner. How to Nominate Please make a [...]



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Instagram Direct: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Instagram Introduces Instagram Direct: Instagram Direct gives you “a new way to send photo and video messages to [...]



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Blog Growth: How to Build a Mega-Following

Do you want to attract a bigger audience to your blog? Are you wondering how you can write content that will generate more comments, shares and subscribers? To learn how to grow a successful blog, I interview Syed Balkhi for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media [...]



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3 Ways Responsive Design Can Benefit Your Blog

Are more of your blog visitors coming from a mobile device instead of a desktop computer? Do you wonder how responsive design can increase customer satisfaction and improve your marketing? In this article I’ll explore three ways incorporating responsive web design into your online strategy can benefit your business. What is Responsive Design? Responsive web [...]



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7 Ways to Grow Your Blog With Pinterest

Would you like more traffic to your blog? Are you looking for creative ways to use Pinterest to benefit your business blog? Pinterest offers a robust path to help you build your blog. You can use Pinterest to find content for your blog, grow your audience and increase your website traffic. In this article, I’ll [...]



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How to Use LinkedIn Showcase Pages

Does your business have products or services that target unique audiences? Do your customers spend time on LinkedIn? Finding an effective social strategy to reach the right audience for each of your products and services can be challenging. LinkedIn helps you solve this problem with its LinkedIn Showcase Pages. In this article, I’ll show you [...]



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Facebook News Feed Updates: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook News Feed Update Delivers Higher-Quality Content: Facebook will “be doing a better job of distinguishing between a [...]



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Twitter for Business: How to Use Twitter to Grow Your Influence

Do you use Twitter for your business? Are you wondering how to use Twitter to grow your online influence? To learn how to best use Twitter for your business, I interview Joel Comm for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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How to Use Facebook Voice Messages for Your Business

Do you use your Facebook personal profile to build business relationships? Have you considered using Facebook voice messages to connect with your customers? If you connect with customers on your personal profile, you can use Facebook voice messages with great success. In this article, I’ll show you four ways Facebook voice messages can benefit your [...]



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Mobile Social Media Exploding According to New Research

Are you looking for the latest trends in social media marketing? Has your business kept up with the growing mobile social media opportunities? New research seems to show all roads leading to mobile. Whether we’re talking about Facebook, YouTube or the latest new toy, Snapchat—research shows that well-executed mobile strategies will offer the biggest payoff [...]



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How to Enhance Your LinkedIn Profile With Professional Portfolio

Do you want to enhance the appearance of your LinkedIn profile? Are you looking for ways to get noticed and attract more business opportunities on LinkedIn? In this article, you’ll discover how to use LinkedIn’s Professional Portfolio to make your LinkedIn profile stand out. What is LinkedIn’s Professional Portfolio? LinkedIn launched Professional Portfolio to showcase [...]



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Facebook Updates Follow Button: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Redesigns Follow Button and Like Box: “Similar to the Like and Share buttons, the Follow button and the Like [...]



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Story as Strategy: How Social Storytelling Leads to Business

Do you use storytelling in your business? Are you wondering how to use stories in your social strategy? To learn how you can use stories to sell, I interview Gary Vaynerchuk for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media [...]



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20 Instagram Apps to Enhance Your Photos and Videos

Does your business use Instagram? Are you looking for apps to help you create unique images and video for your Instagram feed? In this article, you’ll find 20 apps that make it easy to create and edit outstanding images and videos for Instagram. Why Instagram Apps? Instagram recently passed 150 million active users. To create [...]



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5 Ways Twitter Chats Can Help Your Business

Does your business use Twitter? Have you considered using Twitter chats as a marketing tool? As the use of hashtags on Twitter continues to flourish, conversations built around specific hashtags—or Twitter chats—have become commonplace. While you may be familiar with how to use Twitter chats for personal networking, you might not know they can also [...]



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6 New Google Analytics Features for Marketers

Do you use Google Analytics to help you make marketing decisions? Are you familiar with the latest changes in Google Analytics? Google recently made the switch to secure search, which has resulted in a larger return of “not provided” keyword data in Analytics reports. For marketers who used the information to guide their marketing and [...]



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LinkedIn Introduces Showcase Pages: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? LinkedIn Announces Showcase Pages: LinkedIn’s new Showcase Pages “are dedicated pages that allow companies to highlight different aspects [...]



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StumbleUpon Marketing: How to Drive More Traffic to Your Content

Do you use StumbleUpon for your business? Are you wondering how you can use StumbleUpon to drive more traffic to your content? To learn how your business can benefit from StumbleUpon, I interview Nick Robinson for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a [...]



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7 Niche Social Networks for Strategic Networking

Do you find it hard to connect with your ideal audience using the larger social networks? Have you considered a smaller social network? In this article, you’ll find 7 niche social networks built to serve specialized markets. Why Niche Social Networks? Ask almost anyone what to include in your social media strategy and you’re likely [...]



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5 Ways to Get Your Pins Noticed on Pinterest

Is Pinterest important to your business? Do you want to get your pins in front of more people? In this article, I’ll show you 5 ways to get your pins noticed on Pinterest. Why Pinterest? Pinterest has over 70 million users globally. The site also drives more referral traffic than Twitter, LinkedIn and Reddit combined. [...]



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How to Draw People to Your Facebook Page Again and Again

Are you looking for creative ways to bring people to your Facebook page? Does your business use Facebook to connect with people? Used the right way, Facebook apps can help you boost engagement and visibility by repeatedly drawing fans to your page. In this article you’ll learn how 6 types of Facebook apps keep your [...]



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Blog to Book to Business: How to Live Your Dream

Do you dream of writing a book? Are you wondering how publishing a book can help you grow your business? To learn how you can combine your passion with your business, I interview Jeff Goins for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a [...]



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How to Sell on Facebook Using Images

Do you use Facebook to promote sales for your business? Are you looking for ways to increase revenue with Facebook? In this article, you’ll discover six ways to use graphics on Facebook and how other ecommerce brands are using them to boost online sales. Why Images? According to Lab42, the number-one reason people like a [...]



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How a Winery Uses Social Media to Increase Sales and Brand Loyalty

How can wineries use social media to increase sales when the law prohibits them from giving away product samples? Whitehall Lane, a 20-year-old Napa Valley winery run by the Leonardini family, has hit on a winning social media formula that pays dividends in both increased sales and brand loyalty. Wineries face special challenges in promoting [...]



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18 Social Media Marketing Tips From the Pros

Would you like to improve your social media marketing? Are you wondering what social media marketing tactics the pros like to use? We asked top social media pros to share their hottest social media marketing tactics. In this article, you’ll discover strategies the pros use to boost their social media marketing. #1: Stay Top of [...]



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How to Improve Your Facebook Marketing Using Facebook Insights

Do you manage a Facebook page? Are you overwhelmed by the amount of statistics you have access to in Facebook Insights? Would you like to know the statistics you need to track to help you boost your growth and visibility? In this article, I’ll show you six ways to improve your Facebook page performance with [...]



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Facebook Changes Like Buttons: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Introduces New Like and Share Buttons: Facebook has “a new design for both Like and Share to help people [...]



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Growing Your Audience: How to Increase Your Social Following

Do you use social media to build an audience for your business? Are you wondering how you can convert your audience into customers? To learn how to grow an audience that wants more and more of what you have to offer, I interview Jeffrey Rohrs for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More [...]



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4 Social Analytics Tips to Improve Your Social Media Marketing

Would you like to find out when your social media followers are most active? Do you want to know which social network drives the most leads to your website? There are many social media statistics you can track, but it’s important to track the data specific to your business’s use of social media. Track the [...]



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5 Habits of Successful Content Marketers: New Research

Are you wondering what the best content marketers do differently? Do you want to take your content marketing to a new level? Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs just published their latest report, B2B Content Marketing: 2014 Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends – North America. The report shows two sides of content marketing. On one hand, the [...]



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How to Run a Successful Social Media Sweepstakes

Are you planning to run a social media sweepstakes to make your business stand out this holiday season? Do you need a guide to ensure that you don’t miss the crucial elements of a successful sweepstakes promotion? Sweepstakes, contests and giveaways are increasingly popular among marketers who are vying for the attention of their social [...]



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Google+ Custom URLs: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Google+ Expands Availability of Custom URLs: “If your profile meets the following criteria, you’ll now be able to [...]



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5 Ways to Prepare Your Facebook Page for the Holidays

Have you prepared your Facebook page for the holidays? Are you looking for tips on how to use your Facebook page this holiday season? If you haven’t even started thinking about the holidays yet, it’s time! In this article, you’ll find five ways to make your Facebook page festive for the holidays. Why Customize For [...]



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How to Generate Twitter Leads With Their New Lead Generation Cards

Are you struggling to generate leads on Twitter? Wondering how to display richer data in a tweet? In this article, I’ll show you four steps to getting more leads with Twitter lead generation cards. Why Twitter Lead Generation Cards? There are 500 million tweets sent every day (according to Twitter’s recent IPO documentation). That’s a [...]



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6 Ways to Grow Your LinkedIn Connections

Are you looking to grow your LinkedIn network? Do you want to improve your chances of connecting with people via LinkedIn? In this article, you’ll find six tips for successful networking that will help you avoid common mistakes that can damage your professional reputation on LinkedIn. What’s Different About LinkedIn? Unlike social media platforms such [...]



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How to Analyze Your Facebook Metrics to Improve Your Marketing

Are you tracking your Facebook metrics? Are you wondering what works best on your Facebook page? In this article, you’ll discover how to find and interpret five valuable Facebook metrics that help measure the results of your Facebook marketing. Why Facebook Metrics? The typical Facebook marketer keeps close tabs on two main stats: Post Reach [...]



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LinkedIn Prospecting: How to Find Your Next Customer on LinkedIn

Do you use LinkedIn for your business? Are you wondering how to use LinkedIn to find prospects and customers? To learn about how to build strategic relationships through LinkedIn, I interview Viveka von Rosen for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show [...]



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How to Get Employees to Embrace Social Media

Are you struggling to get your social media activities off the ground? Do you want to get more people inside your organization to support your social media activities? If so, you’re not alone. Small businesses to Fortune 500 companies find themselves facing these challenges. In this article, I’ll show you how to create an internal [...]



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5 LinkedIn Company Page Tips to Enhance Your Marketing

Do you use LinkedIn for business? Do you have a LinkedIn company page? In this article, I’ll show you how to get the most from your LinkedIn company page, in five easy steps. Why a LinkedIn Company Page? The benefits of a well-oiled LinkedIn company page include engaging followers with company news, updates, events and [...]



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26 Tips for Overcoming Bloggers Block

Do you create written content? Have you struggled getting that blog idea written? While most of us aren’t immune to writer’s block, there are ways to work through the block until the words flow again. In this article, we’ll discuss 26 Tips, an A-Z guide for bloggers to overcome writer’s block and generate new ideas. [...]



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8 Facebook Apps to Enhance Your Facebook Page

Do you want to add more function and flare to your Facebook page? Would you like to add storefront, generate leads or promote something special on a Facebook tab within your page? In this article I’ll reveal Facebook applications that can help you easily add functionality to your Facebook page. How Do Facebook Apps Work? [...]



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Twitter Changes Direct Message Rules: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Twitter Allows Direct Messages From All Followers: Up until now, you could only send a direct message on [...]



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Becoming a Media Company: How to Turn Your Business Into a Platform

Do you use content to capture the attention of consumers? Are you wondering how to reach out to a larger audience? To learn about how any business can become a media outlet, I interview Michael Brito for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is [...]



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10 Reasons You Should Attend Social Media Marketing World 2014

Do you attend conferences? What if you could rub shoulders and soak in knowledge from the social media pros you follow online? Imagine networking with 2,000 fellow marketers in beautiful San Diego, California. Now add the waterfront Manchester Grand Hyatt, an opening-night party on a naval aircraft carrier and 60 expert-led sessions. You can now [...]



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How Constant Contact Uses Pinterest to Reach a B2B Market

“You can use any social media channel for B2B,” said Erica Ayotte, social media marketing manager at Constant Contact. “Anyone who says you can’t is not being creative enough.” She should know. Her team has grown their Pinterest following to over 18,000 in less than two years. How does a company that is not retail [...]



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4 Tools That Improve Your Social Media Analytics

Do you want more insight about your social media activities? Are you looking for a tool to bring important analytics to one place? In this article, you’ll discover four social media analytics tools that deliver clear insights about your business’s social media activity. Why Analytics? Social media analytics are more than numbers. Analytics give you [...]



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How to Run a Facebook Timeline Promotion: 6 Tips for Success

Are you thinking of running a Facebook contest or promotion without using an app? Would you like to run a contest or sweepstakes on your Facebook page timeline? On August 27, Facebook made a major change to its promotion guidelines. Although you can run a promotion directly on your Facebook page timeline without using a [...]



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Facebook Page Insights Updated: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Rolls Out Updated Page Insights: “After gathering feedback from the early users of the new Page Insights,” [...]



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How to Create YouTube Videos That Connect With People

Are you looking for ways to improve your use YouTube? Do you want to increase your YouTube channel views and subscribers? Keep reading to discover five valuable tips to enhance your YouTube marketing. Simple YouTube Strategy Here’s a simple strategy. Want to integrate YouTube into your online marketing strategy effectively? Then you must create and [...]



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New Facebook Marketing Research Shows What Works

Are you wondering what works with Facebook and what’s a waste of time? Do hashtags make a difference? What about sponsored stories? There’s recently been ton of research to understand how Facebook marketing is helping (or hurting) businesses. Here are five noteworthy Facebook findings we uncovered from the latest published research. #1: 78% of U.S. [...]



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How to Use Facebook to Sell Your Products and Services

Have you leveraged the power of Facebook to sell your products and services? Or maybe you’ve wondered if you should start a store on Facebook… Many businesses are using Facebook to sell. Check out these three ways your business can leverage a Facebook page to sell products and make it easier for your customers to [...]



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Facebook Graph Search Adds Posts: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up-to-date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Adds Posts and Status Updates to Graph Search: “Now you will be able to search for status updates, photo [...]



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Content Marketing: How to Attract People With Content

Do you use content marketing for your business? Are you wondering how to attract customers with your content? To learn about the power of content marketing, I interview Joe Pulizzi for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. [...]



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10 Ways to Use Your Personal Facebook Profile for Business

Are you wondering how to use your personal Facebook profile for your business? One of the reasons Facebook is effective is the personal connection you can make with people. In this article I’ll show you 10 ways you can use your personal Facebook profile to impact your business. Why My Personal Facebook Profile? Your Facebook [...]



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6 Tips for Finding Prospects on LinkedIn

Are you using LinkedIn to connect with new leads and clients? Do you want to learn about social selling tactics on LinkedIn? Social selling is the use of social media to discover and connect with new leads and new clients. In this article, you’ll discover a 6-step process to find new leads and attract new [...]



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Facebook Enables Post Edits: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Lets You Edit Posts After Sharing on Web and Mobile: You now have the option to edit [...]



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Social Strategy: How to Build a Sustainable Social Media Marketing Plan

Do you have a social media plan? Are you wondering how to build a social media strategy for your business? To learn about the importance of a social media strategy, I interview Neal Schaffer for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show [...]



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3 Unique Ways to Get Started With Business Podcasting

Do you want to bring podcasting into your marketing mix? Are you stuck because of concerns about time commitment, lack of knowledge or production challenges? There are many ways to approach business podcasting without interupting your schedule, budget and skills. In this article you’ll discover how three businesses started a podcast and what they uniquely [...]



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How an Auto Repair Shop is Winning Female Customers With Social Media

How does a small auto repair business develop a thriving Facebook page–and more than 60% of them female? Owner Jeff Matt started Victory Auto Service and Glass in 1997 with one shop in the suburbs of Minneapolis. He always made an effort to develop personal relationships with his customers who trusted him with their cars. [...]



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How to Use Google+ for Social Media Contests

Is Google+ part of your marketing strategy? Are you looking for creative ways to run contests and giveaways on Google+? Although there are restrictions on using Google+ for contests, there are ways for you to promote your contests successfully on Google+. Interestingly, most brands and businesses on Google+ aren’t taking advantage of this opportunity, and [...]



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6 Creative Ways to Use Embedded Facebook Posts

Would you like more people to see your Facebook posts? Have you used Facebook’s new feature to embed posts on your website or blog? Embedding Facebook updates on your website can help you increase visibility and engagement. How can you creatively use embedded posts as a part of your Facebook marketing strategy? Let’s find out! [...]



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Social Sharing: How to Inspire Fans to Share Your Stories

Do you use stories to market your business? Are you wondering how you can get people to share your content? To learn how to inspire your fans and followers to share your stories via social media, I interview Simon Mainwaring for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social [...]



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5 Ways to Sell With Social Media

Do you want to convert your fans and followers into paying customers? Are your social activities working? In this article I’ll show you 5 simple ways to tweak your social media updates for better sales conversion. Some social media updates can go further toward bringing in sales than others. And they can do this without [...]



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8 Ways to Improve Your Facebook Engagement

Are you looking for fun ways to get your Facebook fans engaged? Wondering how other pages are developing their posts to increase likes, shares and comments? In this article I’ll show you eight examples of how to create Facebook posts that drive more engagement on your Facebook page. #1: Solve Problems With Photos Posts with [...]



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45 Social Media Tools and Tips to Improve Your Marketing

Are you looking for some practical tips and tools to help with your social media marketing? Do you find it difficult to keep up with how quickly social media is evolving? In this article, I outline a collection of technology tools and tips you’ll want to consider using to improve your presence across social media. [...]



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6 Ways to Use Embedded Tweets to Help Your Business

Are you looking for creative ways to embed tweets on your website? Do you want to show off your customer’s kind words about your business? Since Twitter allows the ability to embed tweets on websites, people have discovered lots of creative ways to use them. In this post, I’ll show you six ways to use [...]



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Facebook Ad Changes: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Ads Get New Formats: Facebook advertisers now have more options in ad sizes to choose from to [...]



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Selling With Social Media: A New Direction for Businesses

Do you use social media to grow your business? Are you wondering how social media can help you sell more products and services? To learn about why you need to rethink the sales process in this social age, I interview Tom Martin for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show [...]



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6 Ways to Maximize Your Google+ Engagement

Is Google+ working for your business? Are you wondering how to increase engagement with your Google+ community? Google+ is designed to focus on one thing and one thing only: engagement. So, how can you pump up your Google+ engagement? In this post, you’ll discover six ways to use Google+ posts to stimulate activity. #1: Make [...]



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How to Build a LinkedIn Marketing Plan that Delivers Ongoing Results

Are you happy with how you are using LinkedIn? LinkedIn offers companies multiple marketing opportunities, but which ones are right for your business? In this article I’ll show you five different ways to use LinkedIn to market your business. How do you do start? You’ll want to develop a comprehensive and consistent LinkedIn marketing plan [...]



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26 Tips for Using Instagram for Business

Are you wondering how to use images and short video to enhance your customers’ experience? Have you considered creating a brand profile on Instagram to make your brand visible to a new market? Getting started on Instagram is fairly straightforward. Simply sign up for an account (e.g., use the same name as your Twitter handle), [...]



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New Facebook Contest and Promotion Rules: What You Need to Know

Have Facebook rules stopped you from running contests on your Facebook wall in the past? Are you wondering how the new Facebook promotion changes might benefit your business? Facebook has made a huge shift in how they allow contests to be run. Keep reading to discover what your options are and how other businesses are [...]



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Searchable History of All Tweets: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Topsy Offers Entire History of Public Tweets: “If you’re curious about your own first tweet—or any other piece [...]



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Google+ Hangouts: What Marketers Need to Know to Get Started

Do you use Google+ hangouts for your marketing? Are you wondering how hangouts can help your business? To learn how to get started with Google+ hangouts, I interview Brandee Sweesy for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. [...]



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3 Mobile Tools to Improve Your Social Media Marketing

Have you figured out how to engage on-the-go prospects and customers? Is more of your audience interacting with your business from their mobile phones? If you want to enhance your mobile marketing, then keep reading. I’ll show you three awesome tools that make mobile marketing easier. Why Mobile? Mobile is no longer something you can [...]



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14 Social Media Tools Used by Marketing Pros

Are you looking for social media tools to get more out of your marketing? Are you wondering what tools marketing pros are using successfully? We asked fourteen well-known marketers to share the latest social media tools they’ve been using. Discover how you can use these tools to help you to get more out of your [...]



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Facebook News Feed Updates: How Marketers Should Respond to Story Bump

Are you wondering how to respond to the Facebook news feed changes? Have you figured out how Story Bump can help your content remain top of mind with Facebook fans? If you want to understand how these Facebook changes will impact your marketing, this article is for you. Keep reading to discover how to take [...]



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How to Ensure Your Future Blog Posts Are Popular

Are you struggling to come up with blog posts that attract the right type of visitors? Are you unsure where to turn for new article ideas? In this article I’ll show you how to make sure your future articles are the ones your audience is really interested in. Here’s a hint how: your social connections [...]



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How to Use the New Facebook Insights

Do you rely on Facebook Insights to track the performance of your Facebook page? Are you wondering how the new Insights can help you refine your Facebook activities? In this article, I’ll give you a tour of the new Facebook Insights and the data you’ll find there, so you’re better equipped to support your marketing [...]



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How to Get Major League Results From Social Media

The San Francisco Giants have the most engaged fan base in Major League Baseball. They’re recognized as social media standouts in the sports world. But as recently as three years ago, they had no cohesive voice on social media and no social media strategy. The Giants were a traditional organization in a traditional sport. In [...]



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5 Ways to Use Video to Improve Your Social Media Marketing

Are you thinking about adding videos to your social media mix? Do you want to boost your awareness and increase engagement? Social media networks provide a lot of video options. From Google+ Hangouts to Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s launch of Instagram Video, video is fast becoming an essential part of any business’s online marketing strategy. [...]



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LinkedIn Groups Get Makeover: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? LinkedIn Introduces New Look for Groups: LinkedIn brings “a new streamlined look that will give group managers and [...]



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YouTube Success: How to Create a Successful YouTube Channel

Do you use video in your marketing? Are you wondering how YouTube can help promote your business? To learn about how to get started with marketing your business with YouTube, I interview Gideon Shalwick for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show [...]



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How to Use Tumblr for Your Business

Are you wondering if Tumblr could help your business? Are you unfamiliar with Tumblr and wondering how to get started? Do you want to let a new set of customers share your brand or product on this social platform? If so, keep reading as I reveal how to use Tumblr for your business. Why Tumblr? [...]



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How to Improve Your Marketing With Facebook Apps

Want to grow your email list or drive more people to your business? Are you looking for ways to connect Facebook to your business goals? In this article, I’ll show you common goals of four different industries and how Facebook apps are helping meet those goals. Why Facebook Apps? What kinds of apps (also known [...]



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12 Ways to Get More Pinterest Followers

Are wondering how to get more Pinterest followers? Are you looking to increase your Pinterest engagement and drive traffic? In this article, I’ll share 12 tips on how you can get more Pinterest followers and promote your business. Why More Pinterst Followers? More Pinterest followers can help you get more likes, repins, comments, clicks and [...]



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Facebook Reveals Most Users Are Mobile: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Reveals 78% Of US Users Are Mobile: TechCrunch reports “a new level of transparency from Facebook will [...]



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Facebook Contests: How to Get Your Fans Excited

Have you ever run a Facebook contest? Are you wondering if you should use them for your business? To learn about Facebook contests, I interview Andrea Vahl for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to [...]



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3 Strategies for Finding Customers With Social Media

Do you need a strategy to reach your ideal prospects with social media? Are you overwhelmed by all the social media options? If so, you’re not alone. Social media overwhelm is one of the biggest challenges businesses face. In this article, I’m going to show you three social media strategies so you can focus your [...]



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How to Use LinkedIn Sponsored Updates

Are you wondering how to use LinkedIn Sponsored Updates? Does your business have a LinkedIn company page? Do you want to grow your following outside of your company page? In this article I’ll show you 6 steps for creating and measuring the impact of your first LinkedIn Sponsored Update. Why Sponsored Updates? If you’re one [...]



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16 Social Media Marketing Tips From the Pros

Are you looking for the latest social media marketing tactics? Do you want to know what the social media marketing pros are doing today? Keeping up with the latest social media changes is not always easy, and our social media marketing tactics may need to be refreshed. We asked 16 social media pros to share [...]



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How to Use Facebook Apps to Promote Your Business

Is your Facebook Page working for your business? Have you considered using Facebook apps, but don’t know where to start? In this article I‘ll highlight some of the most popular uses of apps, as well as a few individual apps, so you can find the right fit for your Facebook Page. What You Need to [...]



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Facebook Changes News Feed Algorithm: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Updates the News Feed Ranking Algorithm: There are two new features to note regarding Facebook’s new news [...]



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Social Media Tools: How to Simplify Your Social Media Marketing

Are you looking for a better way to manage your social activities? Are you wondering what tools can help your social media marketing? To discover free or low-cost tools to simplify your social media marketing, I interview Ian Cleary for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media [...]



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9 Reasons to Attend Social Media Success Summit 2013

Could your social media marketing efforts use a boost? Are you looking to improve your professional development when it comes to social media? Do you feel overwhelmed by endless social media platform changes? If so, Social Media Examiner has just the event for you. The Social World is Changing One of the biggest challenges marketers [...]



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Six Ways to Grow a LinkedIn Group: Tips From the Pros

Are you part of a LinkedIn group that has stalled? Do you want to create a LinkedIn group? LinkedIn groups can be a great way to network with your customers, peers and other professionals in your industry. But it can be challenging to grow your group and get the people you want to join and [...]



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How to Use Facebook Power Editor: A Detailed Guide

Are you looking for a better way to manage your Facebook ads? Do you want access to new Facebook advertising features as soon as they’re available? Facebook offers a powerful and often overlooked way for marketers to do amazing things with ads. In this article I’ll show you what Power Editor is, explore its benefits [...]



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3 Unique Ways to Use Pinterest for Business

Does your business have a clear Pinterest strategy? Have you been struggling to figure out how Pinterest could help market your business? Pinterest represents a massive opportunity for both consumer-focused and business-to-business companies. In this article, I’ll show you three ways to build a successful Pinterest presence for your business. #1: Increase Your Brand Authority [...]



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Facebook Embedded Posts: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Introduces Embedded Posts: Facebook’s Embedded Posts “make it possible for people to bring the most compelling, timely [...]



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Overcoming Fear: How to Break Through and Get Stuff Done

Is fear holding you back in your business? Are you wondering what you can do to face your fears? To learn about the kinds of fears we deal with as marketers, I interview two small businesses owners for this 52nd episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing [...]



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4 Examples of Excellent Twitter Customer Service

Do you use Twitter to stay connected with your customers? Have you integrated Twitter into your customer service strategy? Would you like to know which companies are doing this best? Why Twitter Customer Service? Gone are the days when people would call up a company and complain. Now, people are more likely to head to [...]



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How to Setup Social Media Discussion Groups for Business

Is networking a big part of your job or business? Have you participated in or considered starting a discussion group? The good news is LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ all offer options. In this post, we’re going to look at how social media groups work for businesses and how you can benefit from them as both [...]



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26 Tips to Enhance Your Social Media Profiles

When did you last revisit your social profile on Twitter or Facebook? Do you want to maximize the impact of your social networking efforts? Basic housekeeping tasks are necessary for maintaining complete and engaging profiles. In this article, you’ll find 26 tips, an A-Z guide, with recommendations to help you get the most of your [...]



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4 Ways Marketers Can Use Facebook Hashtags

Have you started using Facebook hashtags for your business? Are you wondering how to best use a Facebook hashtag? In this article, I’ll reveal four important benefits of using hashtags on Facebook. I’ll also explore important considerations when putting together your hashtag strategy. Why Facebook Hashtags? As you’ve undoubtedly seen, hashtags are now clickable and [...]



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Gmail Tabs: A Game Plan for Marketers

Does your business rely on email? Are you wondering how Gmail tabs will impact your marketing? If email is a part of your business, you’ll want to pay close attention. In this article I’ll provide a simple 5-step plan that any marketer can use in response to Gmail tabs. More About This Show The Social [...]



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New Facebook Features: What Marketers Need to Know

Are you using Facebook for your business? Are you wondering how Facebook’s newest features can help your business? To learn about what these new Facebook features mean for marketers, I interview Mari Smith for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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4 Ways to Use Social Media to Generate Leads

Do you use social media to generate inbound leads for your business? Are you unsure about where and how to focus your efforts to meet your lead generation goals? According to HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Annual Report, social media produces almost double the marketing leads of trade shows, telemarketing, direct mail or PPC. If you’re starting [...]



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3 Social Media Automation Tools for Marketers

Are you drowning in social media tasks? Do you need better tools to help you manage your social media marketing? Automating some of the more repetitive tasks related to social media can help you be more productive and efficient with the execution of your social media strategy. To save you time and improve your marketing [...]



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6 Marketing Trends to Watch in 2013: New Research

Are you looking for the latest marketing trends? Wondering how the wide choice of devices and platforms are impacting marketers and consumers? According to the 2013 Infinite Dial Report by Edison Research, media usage is not a zero-sum game. Consumers want to use all channels simultaneously, and as a marketer, you have to keep up [...]



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17 Ways Marketers Can Leverage Facebook Graph Search

Are you using Facebook Graph Search as a marketing power tool? If you knew more about your Facebook fans, how would that improve your marketing efforts? Marketers can now use Facebook Graph Search to perform focused searches that will return better, more accurate search results that can be of real use to your business. What [...]



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New Magazine from Social Media Examiner: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. Introducing MyKidsAdventures.com The team at Social Media Examiner launched My Kids’ Adventures this week. It’s an online magazine for busy parents who [...]



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Monetize Your Platform: How to Grow Sales With Your Online Platform

Have you built your own platform? Are you wondering how to monetize it? To learn how you can use your platform to generate real revenue for your business, I interview David Siteman Garland for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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Three Steps to Becoming a Thought Leader in Your Industry

Do you want your company to be seen as a thought leader in your industry? Are you B2B in a niche market and wondering if social media is relevant to your audience? Drillinginfo, a software as a service (SaaS) company serving the global oil and gas industry, is a B2B provider in a very specialized [...]



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9 Creative Ways to Use Social Media to Launch a Product

Are you looking for creative ideas to help launch your next product (or company)? Want some actionable tips to employ social media in your next launch? If so, keep reading as I explore nine ways we used social media to help launch a new project. You’re sure to find unusual tactics that will help you [...]



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How to Target Only Your Customers With Facebook

What if you could reach your existing customers while they’re on Facebook? Does the idea of displaying a Facebook ad only to your prospects list sound interesting? This could give your marketing a boost and help build your brand’s image on Facebook. In this post, I’ll show you two ways to use Facebook’s Custom Audiences [...]



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Instagram Web Embeds: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Instagram Introduces Web Embeds: Instagram adds web embedding for Instagram content and brings you “an easy way to [...]



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6 Ways to Use Facebook Apps for Business

Does your business leverage the power of Facebook apps? Wondering how other businesses are using apps to better serve their customers? Keep reading to discover many ways businesses are using Facebook apps. Why Facebook Apps? There are many reasons why you may want to consider using Facebook apps. They can provide communication between your customers [...]



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How to Start a Business Podcast

Do you want to create your own business podcast? Do you have the passion and drive to make it happen, but you’re just not sure where to start? Keep reading for 4 tips to set you down the path of podcasting success. Why Podcasting? Podcasting is a unique tool that allows you to deliver relevant, [...]



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Why Things Catch On: The Science of Why People Share

Do you want to understand the science behind why people share? During this fascinating interview I explore these very concepts. To learn the reasons why people widely share content, I interview Jonah Berger for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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5 Steps to Ensure Your WordPress Blog Is Secure

Is your WordPress blog safe from malicious people? Would you like to make your WordPress blog more secure? Most often, people don’t think about security measures until it’s too late. But there are some simple steps you can take to keep your blog safe. Why Secure Your WordPress Blog? A blog that has been hacked [...]



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How to Grow Your Google+ Engagement

Are you getting the most from your Google+ presence? Are you looking for ways to improve your Google+ engagement? Well look no further. In this article I’ll share five ways you can improve your Google+ experience. Why Google+? Because Google+ isn’t just a social network–it’s part of a powerful social platform that integrates with key [...]



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3 Business Reasons to Upgrade to LinkedIn Premium

Do you have a free LinkedIn account? Are you wondering if you should upgrade to a paid account? LinkedIn is known for providing an amazing connection and networking service, with many of its best and most useful tools available for free. So why should you consider upgrading to a paid account? In this article I [...]



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How to Choose the Right Type of Facebook Contest

Are you thinking of launching a Facebook contest or giveaway? Is your goal focused on recruiting new fans? Collecting qualified emails? Engaging your existing fan base? How can you be sure the type of contest you choose fits your Page and your goals? Choosing the right type of contest to run on Facebook can be [...]



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LinkedIn Adds New Features: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? LinkedIn Adds New Features on Homepage : LinkedIn introduces two new features “to your productivity toolkit: ‘Who’s Viewed [...]



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Being Useful: New Marketing Techniques That Work

Are you wondering how your business can be more useful? Do you provide youtility? To learn about youtility and a new way of thinking when it comes to marketing, I interview Jay Baer for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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How to Drive More Facebook Traffic to Your Website

Are you using Facebook ads to drive traffic to your website? Did you know that when people share your website content on Facebook, you can turn that shared content into a Facebook ad? You can do that with Domain Sponsored Stories. Domain Sponsored Stories are inexpensive and easy to run, and you don’t need a [...]



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How to Setup a Social Media Business Strategy

Does your business have a social media strategy? According to research conducted by Constant Contact, over 50% of small businesses need help with social media. While many businesses have a social media presence, many are not engaging on those platforms and thus not meeting their goals. With planning, your small business can use social media [...]



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How to Use Google+ to Expand Your Business Influence

Are you looking to tap into the power of Google+? Is your business leveraging all that Google+ has to offer? Have you created a personal profile or business page on Google+, but want more influence? Why Google+? According to GlobalWebIndex, Google+ now has 359 million active users, which puts it ahead of Twitter’s 200 million [...]



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Instagram Videos: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Video Now on Instagram: Instagram users now have another way to share stories: video. “When you go to [...]



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Mobilizing Your Website: What You Need to Know

Is your website or blog mobile-ready? Are you wondering how to optimize it for mobile users? To learn about the opportunities available in the mobile marketing world, I interview Greg Hickman for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media [...]



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3 Tools to Help You Discover and Share Great Content

Are you looking for better ways to find new and interesting content to share? Is finding time to read and share interesting content a battle? In this article, I outline 3 tools to help you find and share great content while saving you valuable time. #1: Subscribe to Blogs Using Feedly Blog posts can be [...]



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Proof That Podcasting Will Benefit Your Business

Pat Flynn of The Smart Passive Income Blog has parlayed his everyday-guy persona into a six-figure income supported heavily by podcasting. “I’ve been able to make a much deeper connection with my audience,” Flynn said. “When I go to conferences, the first thing people who meet me say is, ‘I love listening to your podcast.’” [...]



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4 Easy Steps to Implement a Facebook Marketing Strategy

Do you have a Facebook marketing strategy? Is your Facebook marketing is working? If you don’t have a strategy with goals in place for your Facebook Page, you won’t know if you are getting a return on your social media efforts! Your Facebook marketing strategy shouldn’t live in a vacuum—it needs to be integrated with [...]



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Research Shows Blogging a Top Focus for Marketers

Do you ever wonder what tactics, tools and strategies other social media marketers are using? Regardless of how long you’ve been involved in social media, chances are you have some questions that you’d like answered. Questions such as, “What are the best social management tools?” or “What are the best ways to engage my audience [...]



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Facebook Hashtags: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Launches Clickable Hashtags: Clickable hashtags are rolling out on Facebook. “When you click on a hashtag in [...]



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Pinterest Success: Creative Ways to Use Pinterest for Your Business

Do you use Pinterest for business? Are you wondering how your business can benefit from Pinterest? To learn some creative ways to use Pinterest to help your business, I interview Cynthia Sanchez for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social [...]



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How to Improve Your Social Media Marketing Return on Investment

Have you ever been asked to show the return on investment (ROI) for your social media work? Have you had trouble giving an exact number to explain your ROI or even set quantitative goals for your social media? 25% of marketers said that their biggest marketing challenge was finding the ROI of their marketing activities. [...]



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5 Creative Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog Posts

Do you want more traffic to your blog? Are you struggling to catch the attention of more readers? Does this sound familiar? You write an amazing piece of content. You made sure to craft an attention-grabbing headline. You share the link on Twitter, Facebook, even Google+. Then you wait in breathless anticipation for your share [...]



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How to Ensure Your Facebook Contests Attract Genuine Fans

Are you thinking of running a contest on Facebook? Have you run a contest and had little success with retaining fans past the award date? One goal of a successful Facebook contest should be to recruit fans who are genuinely interested in you, while avoiding the cheaters and faux fans who are only interested in [...]



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Facebook Reduces Ad Options: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Streamlines Ad Offering: Facebook says they plan to “streamline the number of ad units from 27 to [...]



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Twitter Traffic: How to Double Your Traffic to Your Content

Do you use Twitter for business? Are you wondering how to use Twitter to increase traffic to your blog? To learn how to use Twitter to grow your business, I interview Kim Garst for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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How to Use the LinkedIn Contacts Feature

Are you looking for a smarter way to stay in touch with your most important business relationships? What if you could store all of your contacts in one place? Well now you can with LinkedIn Contacts. In this article, you’ll discover how LinkedIn Contacts looks and take a tour through its features. What is LinkedIn [...]



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How to Convince Your Skeptical Boss That Facebook Marketing Works

Is your business on Facebook? Do you need to convince your boss—or a client—that Facebook is a worthy marketing investment? In this article I’ll show you 7 things you can do to convince decision-makers on the value Facebook. #1: Assess Your Goals Before you can convince anyone that they need to be on Facebook, you’ll [...]



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Facebook Verified Pages and Profiles: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Launches Verified Pages and Profiles: The new verified Pages are “to help people find the authentic accounts [...]



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How to Track Your Facebook Ad Conversions

Do you know how to measure your return on investment (ROI) on Facebook ads? Do you know how to tell if your Facebook ad is accomplishing your objective? In this article, I’ll cover what Facebook conversion tracking and offsite pixels are, why they matter and how to start tracking the conversions of your Facebook ads [...]



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3 Ways Social Media Creates a Social Local Community

Are you looking for ways to engage with your employees and your local community? Are you using social media to create awareness for the services you offer? Keep reading as I reveal how a nursing home used social media to build a loyal local community. Nursing Homes and Social Media? Nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and [...]



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3 Creative Ways Brands Are Using Pinterest

Are you looking for some creative ways to use Pinterest? Would you like to make stronger connections with your customers? Although many brands run creative contests on Pinterest, here are some new ways to engage audiences and build your presence. Take a look at what these 3 brands are doing to get inspiration for using [...]



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Twitter Lead Generation Cards: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Twitter Introduces Lead Generation “Cards”: The Lead Generation Card is “a new type of Twitter Card that will [...]



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15 Actionable Takeaways From Social Media Marketing World 2013

Did you miss Social Media Marketing World in April? Or perhaps you were there but weren’t able to attend all the sessions you would have liked to. In this article I’ve assembled for you 15 actionable social media marketing takeaways from some experts who presented at the event. Here’s what they had to say. #1: [...]



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Chunghwa Telecom plans new mobile payments initiative

Mobile payments are gaining ground as mobile devices become more readily available to a broader range of consumers throughout Asia. Chunghwa believes that the time is right to establish itself in the mobile commerce field and has targeted both QR codes ... See all stories on this topic »

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Google+ Redesign: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Google+ Unveils New Design: The new Google+ design “helps you easily explore content as well as dramatically improves [...]



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QR Codes « WordPress.com Forums

I am experiencing random problems with the display of the QR Code on our blog. It looks fine most of the time, but at other times it is unreadable (filled in with ...

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Vidaroo Signs Landmark Revenue Sharing Agreement With Skynet Technology ...

Vidaroo announces a revenue sharing agreement with Skynet Technology Group, a payment services company that has developed a patented payment system, called Mahala, that uses secure QR code technology. The Mahala payment system will make it ...

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We must “banish” non-mobile responsive sites and QR codes, says Capcom's ...

Websites that are not optimised for mobile devices should be “banished” into Room 101, while QR codes have "failed" to reach their full potential and therefore should also be binned,according to Capcom UK product manager Craig Brown and Reckitt ...

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Mobile Marketing: How to Get Started

Do you use mobile marketing for business? Are you wondering how to get started? To learn how mobile marketing and social connect, I interview Jamie Turner for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help [...]



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QR Codes | Holy Family School, Paradise Newfoundland

20130514-105344.jpg Using QR Codes, a student is on a hunt to locate a special surprise. You an see the QR code taped to the chair just below the iPad. Neat!

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OmniFocus Task Creation via QR Code — MacSparky

So Jonas created stickers with QR codes on them using OmniFocus's URL ... For example, scanning this QR code takes your phone to the following URL ...

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QR codes create avenue for targeted marketing - Finance New Mexico

By Finance New Mexico By now, most Americans have seen a QR code, even if they didn't initially understand why these two-dimensional matrix bar codes ...

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How to Compare Your Facebook Page With the Competition

Are you wondering how your Facebook Page compares to competitors? What can you do to improve your performance? Insights into how your competitors are using Facebook can help you better understand your audience on Facebook and how they use Facebook. In this article, I’ll review 5 different tools that can be used to help you [...]



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Movie Barcodes Become FilmCodes - 2d Code

QR Code posters have been used to advertise a film festival before, even as far back as 2010. They were also used in 2011 to enable a virtual film festival to take place anywhere in the world but Brooklyn Film Festival 2013 have come up with a new ...

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Findables case turns your entire smartphone into a business card

The Findables Case takes that idea to heart by emblazoning a unique QR code on each hard-plastic shell, the idea being to use that code to share information about yourself or help recover your lost phone. In other words, your case can now take the ...

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QR codes used to assist customers with Purite cartridge changes

The system of using the QR codes is quite simple, as they are located on the packages of the replacement cartridges, so they're always easy to find at the moment that the instructions would most be needed. Scanning the barcode automatically directs the ...

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I cannot read flipped-vertical qr codes with zxing - Stack Overflow

I'm trying for a while to read QR codes in my application. I can read normal QR ... QR codes are not valid when mirror-imaged -- rotated yes, but not mirrored.

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QR Codes: Are They Dead Yet? | LinkedIn

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How to Network Using LinkedIn Groups

Are you a member of a LinkedIn Group? Do you spend time networking in LinkedIn Groups? LinkedIn Groups are great way to build credibility and make new connections that can ultimately help grow your business. With over 1.5 million LinkedIn Groups, it can be difficult to find relevant Groups and determine which ones might be [...]



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Social video, QR releases freshen up the online space

First, from NeoMedia, the QodeScan system, a do it yourself QR code solution. The barcode scanner is supported by NeoReader and offers free and pay plans. Businesses using the platform can create and manage 2D barcodes while maintaining a budget.

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Fairfax's “QR code on steroids” disappears

AirLink is a technology that transforms ordinary photographs and symbols on print pages into scannable images that can direct consumers to websites or rich media; pretty much a QR code without the QR code). On launch day, AirLink was the subject of a ...

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How to Generate More Leads With Your Blog: 5 Tips

Does your business have a blog? Would you like your blog to bring in more leads for your business? You already know you need to create awesome blog content, but there’s more to business blogging than just that. You also need to include a few tactics to help you bring in the leads you want. [...]



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YouTube Paid Channels: This Week in Social Media

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? YouTube Launches Paid Channels: YouTube Paid Channels is “a pilot program for a small group of partners that [...]



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Email and Social Media: Why Marketers Need Both

Do you use email marketing for your business? Are you wondering how email and social can work well together? To learn how email marketing can integrate with social media, I interview DJ Waldow for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from [...]



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How to Create a Social Support Team for Free

Do you have customers seeking support via social media? Are people talking about your company online? Many companies simply can’t afford to hire a social support team. So what are your options to manage these conversations with little to no resources? Keep reading for tips on how you can create a free or low-cost social [...]



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Tel Aviv Rabbis Issue Smart Phone App And Bar Codes To Check Restaurants ...

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