5 Metrics to Measure Influencer Marketing
In the past, it was often difficult to accurately measure marketing methods to determine which methods were driving the highest levels of traffic. Today, we have access to a wide array of online marketing methods, including social media and influencer marketing. In fact, a study conducted by SocialChorus found that an influencer marketer campaigns can…
10 Curation Tools and Utilities to Boost Your Content Marketing
Successful content curation requires two things. The first is understanding your audience and what they want to see. The second is finding and sharing relevant content. Ideally this content will come from multiple sources and will include text based content, images, videos, and interactive content. Curated content should also focus on information and entertainment and…
Are You Ready to Create a Storefront on Facebook?
Get ready online store owners…online shoppers may soon be looking for your store – on Facebook. Although Facebook storefronts are not entirely new, Facebook is currently working on improving and enhancing the shopping experience for users on its platform. According to a recent article on SocialTimes, Facebook is testing mini e-commerce shops on select pages,…
Social Media Insights and Monitoring on a Startup Budget
By Shelly Kramer So a month (or several) ago I had my great friend Wendy Scherer of The Social Studies Group on the  #V3Live Videochat Show. The topic we discussed was one that pretty much everyone is interested in — Maximizing Social Media Monitoring and Insights on a Startup Budget. I mean, who doesn’t want…
A 4-Step Plan to Building a Successful Small Business Blog
Is creating a successful blog for your small business at the top of your to-do list? Would you like to build your online presence through blogging, but don’t know where to start? It goes without saying that blogging can benefit your business. Not only can it position you as an industry or subject matter expert,…
Build Communities that Convert: Here’s How – Part 2
In part one of this series I discussed how community managers need to always be converting the conversations they have with their company’s fans or followers. In part two, I’ll quickly discuss how to find these conversations when users don’t directly mention your brand name or when they aren’t initiated on your company’s social profiles Lesson…
Why Podcasting is Important for Your Business
If you have kids you know that hollering and screaming does no good. Many small business marketers act like parents, and think they have to holler scream shout, and froth at the mouth, to get people’s attention. This is not needed in any scenario. Unless, that scenario is overly crowded, and then I still don’t think that yelling…
Amplify Your Messaging With a Less is More Strategy
By Lee Traupel I can’t believe the amount of content shared targeting small business that rhapsodizes about the endless rewards bigger brands are generating with social media marketing like Toms, SAP, Cisco, Intel, SalesForce, et al. Many of you do not have the marketing resources, staff and/or technical expertise to create and deploy this…
Who Are You? The Anonymity Of Internet
In recent days, Google has announced that they will drop their “real name” policy and allow users to use pseudo names on their platforms such as YouTube and Google+. “Over the years … we steadily opened up this policy … Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name…
A Social Media Strategy for Every Budget: Web Management
Social media is important for every company, yet in the rough and tumble changing landscape it’s also important to maintain a website. While small and medium-sized businesses may find it tempting to have just a Facebook or Twitter page for their business, such an assessment is at best, foolish. Therefore any company should consider a…
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