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Mike Allton

How To Use Hootsuite For Intense Influencer Marketing

We’ve talked about Influencer Marketing before, and how important it is to develop relationships with other professionals and brands in your niche. So I’m going to assume you’re familiar with the concept and we’re going to focus today specifically on the various ways you can use Hootsuite to further your relationships with influencers. (Most of…


Mike Allton

Here’s How Bloggers Can Leverage Instagram

By Mike Allton Instagram is one of the relatively new ‘visual’ platforms that, for those focusing on the written word, is a bit challenging to make headway on. We don’t have gorgeous products or interesting scenery… we have blog posts, right? But Instagram, like every other social network, has potential for those bloggers who will…


Jan Gordon

What’s Really Going On With Google+?

By Mike Allton Perhaps you’ve seen the news, perhaps you haven’t, but once again, Google has made some decisions and course-corrections with Google+ that have caused a bit of a ruckus. Naysayers are naysaying again, and fanboys are getting as desperate as the Cubs to spin a win out of things. So what’s really going…


Jan Gordon

Followers: Quality Trumps Quantity. Here’s Why

By Mike Allton There’s a grand misconception among business owners and social media users that follower counts are extremely important. Too much talk and emphasis is placed on how so-and-so has one million followers. The reality is that after a point, none of that matters. It’s true that a new business Twitter account that has…