Monday, December 1, 2014

25 LinkedIn Facts and Statistics You Need to Share

Attending business networking events for me has often been a waste of time. It feels like speed dating without a happy ending. Too many people with business cards and nothing in common. The experience? Frustrating, fake and futile. Much snake oil and not enough authentic connecting. The social web has reinvented that desperate business networking. [...]

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Is It Time to Abandon Facebook for Business Advertising?

Earlier this month, Facebook published an article on its site discussing how visible brands and businesses should be in users’ news feeds. According to Facebook, its goal is to cut down on overtly promotional updates from brands, thereby making the user experience more enjoyable. As the article reads, “Beginning in January 2015, people will see […]

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Small Business Saturday Gives a Jolt to Local Businesses

Small Business Saturday drew crowds—along with some high-profile shoppers—to locally owned businesses across the country this past weekend President Obama brought his two daughters Sasha and Malia to Washington, D.C.’s Politics and Prose independent bookstore, where they bought 17 titles—including Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and young-adult novel Redwall by Brian Jacques. (Vox has […]

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The Secret Formula to Better Content Ideas

Everyone knows that content is king. The UK consulting firm Content+ found that having a blog gives sites 434 percent more indexed pages and 97 percent more indexed links. Combined with the fact that the Pew Research Center reported in 2010 that 58 percent of U.S. Internet users research products and services online, it’s easy ...

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How to Optimize Your Pins for the Pinterest Smart Feed

Have you heard about the Pinterest smart feed and how it impacts your exposure? Are you wondering what it means for your pins? With its new smart feed, Pinterest enhanced key features, which means you need to do things differently to make your pins stand out. In this article I’ll explain the Pinterest smart feed [...]

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How YouTube Can Revolutionize Facebook & Content Marketing

Why You Need To Start Marketing on YouTube Using videos for marketing, especially when using YouTube as a social media platform, is a great strategy for boosting both your content marketing and your Facebook marketing. Any time you can add an extra platform to your marketing efforts, it will likely have a positive result. You […]

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How to Use Twitter Campaign Reports to Improve Your Twitter Ads

Are you using Twitter advertising to promote your business? Would you like to improve your advertising on Twitter? Twitter’s new campaign reports help you understand how users engage with your paid content. In this article you’ll discover how to navigate the Twitter Ads reporting platform to obtain quality insights about your target audience. Why Use [...]

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