5 Apps for Blogging from Your iPad

I am always on the lookout for new apps to make Social Media easier, but I do not usually think about Blogging Apps. Do you think about them, or research them on a daily basis? I am a hard core WordPress user, as of now, and just use the handy dandy dashboard they provide for us! Well [...]

How I promote my new blog posts | The Social Media Hat

After I have finished writing, editing, deep linking and have published a new blog post, my work has just gotten started. Simply creating content isn’t sufficient to gain readership. You need to actively promote that new post so that people can see it and have a chance to read it. It can take a long [...]

A Golf Lesson in Content Marketing Success

This is the eighth letter in a series on Professional Content Marketing. World class golfers like Tiger Woods see the game of golf differently than you and I… …but the hard reality is that difference has nothing to do with their athletic abilities, work ethic or God given talent. It would be much easier to [...]

Bloggers, Are You Having Trouble Bonding With Your Readers?

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For some bloggers, it’s just about the writing. For the rest of us, it is so much more than just the writing. Many of us write in order to connect with people, either as an individual or a business. For the connectors, we feel downright depressed when we write the way we’re told to write…but [...]

How to Rank: 25 Step SEO Master Blueprint | SEOmoz

If you’re like most SEOs, you spend a lot of time reading. Over the past several years, I’ve spent 100s of hours studying blogs, guides, and Google patents. Not long ago, I realized that 90% of what I read each doesn’t change what I actually do – that is, the basic work of ranking a [...]

10 Simple Steps Will Improve Your Business Blog

It is the start of a new week with new and fresh ideas, but you still can’t figure out what to write about for your business blog. Small Business Trends has come up with 10 steps to help improve your business blog. A great read through. You still want to be honest, open, and engaging [...]

How to create great content

With new blogs being written every second yours has to enfold something better. You need to catch the readers’ attention. Difference isn’t always a good thing in marketing as it can put off some people who might prefer a more conventional approach. So I am not advising you to be extravagant but rather to differentiate [...]

10 ways to use #Twittervine for Business

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Vines are a new fun and easy way to engage with your audience. About three months ago, a new app that works with Twitter, named Vine, was launched. This easy to use and already very popular app “lets you capture and share short looping videos.” Vines are basically regular tweets, but in a different format: [...]

Social Strategy vs. Tactics

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Branded. Targeted. Cohesive. Complementary. A sound social strategy ensures your message, via your posts and shares, is all of those things. A lot of “how to” posts about social media offer insights on how to conform to community values, how to save you time, how to save you money, or best social media practices. These [...]

Are You Missing These Critical Steps With Your Content Marketing? | bowden2bowden

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You spend so much time and effort on your digital marketing strategy that you hate to think it’s not getting the results you need. Assuming you’ve taken care of the basics – analyzing your best keywords, integrating your website, email and social media marketing, and filtering and targeting prospects for each campaign – there are [...]

Funny The Onion Nailed It With Social Media Rock Star

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Social Media Rock Star Makes $28,000 Per Year   MARIETTA, GA—Widely regarded as one of the online world’s brightest personalities, sources confirmed Friday that famed 28-year-old social media rock star Ryan Wasserman, better known as @RWthinks by his legions of passionate fans, makes roughly $28,000 per year. Wasserman, who for the last three years has [...]

6 ways to get content shared on SM

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I just found Epiphany today, and this article popped right out at me. Isn’t this what all of us marketing managers deal with daily? How to get our content shared, and get our voice to rise above everyone else’s voice. The six tips to get content shared are: Understand your goals Publish content worth your [...]