Tag: Engage
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Social Media Goodness ALS
#IceBucketChallenge #StrikeOutALS #ALSIceBucketChallenge What a wonderful phenomenon the ice bucket challenge is. Raising money and awareness to fight and cure ALS is social media goodness. Me personally, I simply wrote a check. I’ve known someone who lost their fight with the disease. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as “Lou Gehrig’s Disease,” is a […]
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Blog Comments Let’s be Social
Blog comments were social long before social networks. Interacting online, submitting feedback and comments is a mainstay of the social network. Opening your blog to comments comes with baggage in the form of comment spam. Think email spam but take it up a few notches. My content management system of choice is self hosted WordPress. […]
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Social Media is Enormous, Where is My Audience?
Your social media audience, customers and prospects are not on every social channel. Focus your marketing strategy at the start on the places your customers and prospects are likely to use. One easy way to tell which social networks are popular with your audience is asking them. Here is an idea, start a poll at […]
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Triberr and Social Reach
Triberr is a blog sharing social network that caught my interest a few years back. I remember it as clunky and buggy. Fast forward to Fall 2013 and hello again Triberr your social reach really matters! Ms. Ileane Smith of basicblogtips.com wrote a blog post named What Changed My Mind About Tiberr that reminded me […]
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What the social media manager satisfies
Comfort knowing social postings are relevant. Is that all? No it is not. Many have asked what a social media manager does, what role do they satisfy? It’s an easy explanation and depends on the context of the question. Business social media marketing puts products and services in front of your target customer audience. Social […]
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Social media pain prevention plan
Social media without a plan is painful. Some have spent a decade managing social media, learning, and engaging audiences. After feeling awkward, an aaah – ha moment occurs when they simply start writing ideas down. With those ideas a plan evolves then success is evident because it’s in your plan. So where do you start […]
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Four Tips To Increase Your Twitter Followers
I strongly advocate that individual and especially business social media users target followers and engagement organically, via sharing valuable content, links and great information. Sometimes businesses just want to have big numbers, especially on Twitter. This guest post by Nate Atkins shares reasons why numbers matter. Twitter, the numbers matter Small business owners cannot underestimate […]
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Power blogging Jon Morrow has its secret
Few writers active in the blog-O-sphere capture more of their audience than Jon Morrow. You probably already know Jon’s writing because the style is simple yet effective enough to stick in your head. He reads your mind with each post, consistently making it seem like you need the information he just delivered to you in […]
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Naked social media strategy
Yes you read the title correctly, I said naked. It comes with such a fascination implying to see all. Just think how boring life would be if we could see all. I’m a mystery girl and appreciate my imagination, maybe you appreciate that we’re all not always naked too. So who’s naked? There are tricks […]
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Here Is Why You Are Failing At Social Media
Succeeding at social media takes work and time. Failing at social media is easy. If you want to fail skip this list and move along. Want to succeed? Read on, here’s what not to do. No plan was set up to define what success is from the beginning so that you are measuring results from […]