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 [...]

How To Run a Social Media Contest and the Top Tools to Use

Contests are one of the best and easiest ways to promote a business/website/product/event etc. Here a quick guide to how to hold a contest using social media! People love contests – it almost doesn’t matter what the prize is, just so long as there is one to win! However, many  businesses don’t consider this simple [...]

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 [...]

Listly: A Review

Listly offers the perfect way to make fun interactive lists that boost your engagement. People love lists – mostly because they are very easy to read and at the same time they are full of valuable information. Bloggers love them because they don’t require as much effort to put together and readers love them because [...]

The 10 best words the internet has given English

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  Like the author of this post, Tom Chatfield, I am intrigued by the way some words become integrated into our vocabularies. He has put together a great list of ten words we gained due to their widespread popularity – and because of the internet. From avatars to geeks…and eight words in between – this is [...]

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 [...]