4 Online Personalization Ideas for Your Business

The question that is on everyone’s mind in the social media world: How do I get customers to engage with my business, and become paying customers? Well Small Business Trends offers up four good points for you to think about next time you want to engage: Ask them what they want Give them a voice [...]

Social media contacts – who owns them?

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I got this article today in my mailbox and thought it raised a great question for the social media marketing workers out in the world. Social Media contacts- who actually owns them? Do you “own” the contacts that you have either in your personal social media accounts, or in your business social media accounts? Do [...]

Phil Gerbyshak: The 3 R’s of DIY Video: Record, Rinse, Repeat

Ok another social media venue I have not stepped into yet: Video! I think it stems from having to be video taped and critiqued while I was student teaching. Wowza. But, YouTube has jumped leaps and bounds this year in becoming a popular site for customers to research companies or products they want to buy. My favorite tip in [...]

Call-To-Action, how to make it even better!

Do you use a CTA, or a Call-To-Action? If you don’t you should really think about using them to get your customers to act on something you are promoting. If you are using them, and you are not finding them to be effective, then this article is a great way to boost what you are [...]

#Phinkit Review

Phinkit is a relatively new social network worth getting excited about! I was lucky to start using Phinkit when the new ‘social network’ was just taking its first steps and completely fell in love with it. I’m now checking and posting every day just as I would do with Facebook or Google+ for example. When [...]

7 Tips to Finding Your Your Voice for Writing

I don’t know about you, but I love finding great articles on how to improve my content creation and writing. Plus I am a huge fan of Jeff Bullas, who happened to write this article. If you are not checking out his website at JeffBullas.com, I suggest you run over there and start following him [...]

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 [...]

8 Career Mistakes That 20-Somethings Make

  I ran across this article that was found by one of my friends. Biggest career mistakes that 20-somethings make. Now I am not in my 20′s anymore, but some of these mistakes could be applied to any age range depending where you are in your career. My favorite mistake is : You compare yourself [...]

9 Question Form to Prioritize Your Content

Great article today from Content Marketing Institute about how to effectively prioritize your content creation requests for yourself and for your customers. Not only do you have to create engaging content, but you also have to keep a flow of content coming out. This article, written by Gina Balarin, offers 9 questions to think about while [...]

How do I find content?

Ann Marie of ATMP Media posted a great article on how to find Content to curate yesterday. I know I am one who is always looking for new ways to find and curate content. She mentions three great ways to go about starting to find content online: RSS Reader, with the focus being on Feedly [...]

Dangers of Perfectionism | FreelanceFolder

Happy Monday everyone. Now let’s take a minute to remember that we are human and we make mistakes, and we are NOT perfect! I found this perfectionism article today by  Laura Spencer, and I appreciate reading that other freelancers, entrepreneurs, and online business owners feel the urge to compete with others online. I do not think enough people [...]

When Should Brands Respond on Social Media

Vertical Response Marketing found an article by Forbes.com that suggested that consumers still have the notion that brands should not talk unless spoken to. Avi Dan from Forbes.com says: The majority of consumers, 64%, insist that they want companies to respond to social comments only when spoken to,” writes Dan. This is significant when viewed [...]