Using Vine to Deliver and Promote Your Content

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(This post originally appeared on the Resonance Content Marketing Blog.) I’ll admit it: when it comes to new technology, I’m not always among the early adopters.  Why not? Two reasons: Having been married to a software developer for nearly 15 years, I’ve learned exactly how buggy technology can be when it first rolls out. So [...]

How to Use Storytelling on Twitter

Have you thought to use Twitter as an avenue for storytelling? I know I haven’t! I absolutely love this quote by the author,  Gini Dietrich: Instead of looking at tweets only as individual, self-contained updates, look at them as parts of a greater, larger whole. Now you have to agree with me, most of us [...]

Facebook Hashtags Impact on Brands | Social Media Today

I think almost everyone saw Facebook roll out hashtags yesterday. Yet, I have to admit as of now, I still do not have them working on my pages. Social Media Today takes a look at the pros and cons of having hashtags within Facebook. One of the first is being able to integrate campaigns all [...]

Blog to Twitter: 3 Tools to Schedule Multiple Tweets for Blog Posts

Less than 5% of your twitter followers will see details of your blog post if you only post it once to twitter. It’s controversial to post items on twitter more than once but if you want to promote your blog to twitter you need to post it multiple times to give the best chance of [...]

Engagement Tips Suggested by the Most Engaged Brand on Twitter via @Forbes

According to a recent study of the top 25 brands on Twitter, the most engaged brand is Notebook of Love (@Notebook). They share inspirational quotes and lovey thoughts with 4.5 million followers and their followers love them – to the tune of 40% more engagement than any of the other 24 brands. What is Notebook [...]

#HowTo: Gaining More Twitter Followers

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The author of this post, Kim Lavigne, suggests 5 great ways to grow your Twitter following in the best ways…organically. I agree with Kim when she says numbers aren’t everything! A lot of followers means just that…a lot of followers. Having a lot of quality followers on Twitter makes the experience a lot more fun [...]

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 [...]

Twitter: Don’t you dare tweet your mom for Mother’s Day | Technically Incorrect – CNET News

If you haven’t yet wished your mom a Happy Mother’s Day, Twitter has a message for you: say it, don’t tweet it! Read more at Twitter: Don’t you dare tweet your mom for Mother’s Day | Technically Incorrect – CNET News.

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 [...]

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: [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Warren Buffett Twitter followers jump

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See on Scoop.it – Networking, Community, Engagement Legendary US investor Warren Buffett looks set to be one of Twitter’s most followed users as thousands flock to follow him.   Tom George‘s insight: Got to love Mr. Buffett’s first tweet. His first tweet, under @WarrenBuffett, was “Warren is in the house See on www.bbc.co.uk Related articles [...]