#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 [...]

Content Marketing: How To Get Your Name In Front Of Hungry Prospects

  You need publicity. You need to get your name in front of your market. And you need to do it over and over, keeping it there so your audience calls you or visits your site when they need your help. There are a lot of ways you can grab publicity. Online press release distribution [...]

8 Data-Based Tips for Optimizing Your Content on Pinterest and Instagram

Social scientist Dan Zarrella is at it again — this time with hard data to help drive your engagement on Pinterest and Instagram: 8 Data-Based Tips for Optimizing Your Content on Pinterest and Instagram.

How to Network Using LinkedIn Groups | Social Media Examiner

Groups continue to be one of LinkedIn’s most powerful opportunities for networking, but finding the right Group and using it correctly can be confusing. Thanks to Stephanie Sammons, posting over at Social Media Examiner, for giving step-by-step instructions for becoming a LinkedIn Group Ninja: How to Network Using LinkedIn Groups | Social Media Examiner.

How Marketing Legend Guy Kawasaki Manages His Social Media Presence

Hey Tom George here, I don’t often right introductions to the content I curate, but this warrants one. This is pure social media gold, so read it and weep! If you are not familiar with Guy Kawasaki he is a major player in social and else ware, a published author, speaker and much more. Here [...]

The Begrudging Death of the Social Media Superstar

The Begrudging Death of the Social Media Superstar

I’m not sure what’s in the water, but there’s a general unrest right now with people in their jobs, careers, and industries. Especially people whose roles involve social, either officially or unofficially. Actually, scratch that. I know exactly what’s in the water. Or at least part of it. When it comes to roles that involve [...]

Content Marketing Secrets To Boost Social SEO

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One of the things I love about content marketing is that it’s equal parts artsy and techy. Check out this post from Marketing Daily on how to optimize your content for maximum social SEO benefit: MediaPost Publications Content Marketing Secrets To Boost Social SEO 04/08/2013.

Branding With Your Name via @jplussocial

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Do you ever think about your name? Why you go by a certain name? Why it’s spelled the way it is? Or maybe why it’s pronounced the way it is? Or wonder what in the world some parents were thinking when they gave their children the names they did? What’s in a name? Obviously, a [...]

How Corporate Storytelling Blurs Lines of Paid, Earned, Owned Media

But more than just falling out of favor, the concept of the “ad” has changed. When PandoDaily, a Silicon Valley blog, asked Kirk Cheyfitz, CEO of Story Worldwide, to name the best online ads of 2012, he wrote a post: “The best online ads of 2012 weren’t ads.” Explains Cheyfitz, “My picks were not paid [...]

#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 [...]

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 [...]

How To Use YouTube

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Still confused on how to use YouTube? Check out this 15-minute tutorial from Shelley Roth of Springboard Social Media and you’ll be well on your way to becoming a YouTube ninja! How To Use YouTube – YouTube.