How To Use Emotional Headlines To Grab Readers
By Barry Feldman How to Move Readers to Share Stories [71.4] I spent some serious time messing with the sub-heading above. It’s a good one, but I’ve done better. Keep reading and you’ll understand. First, know this: I want a lot of people to read this blog post. Bloggers generally attach great value to the number of…
14 Tools To Transform Your Twitter Engagement
By Brian Fanzo Twitter, like all technology and social media platforms, has changed drastically over the last couple of years. While the technology and platforms have changed, the impact and value gained have only increased. The problem is a great social strategy and philosophy will only get Twitter users so far. The learning curve for…
How To Use Canva To Create Your Own Infograph
By Mike Allton Have you ever tried to create an infograph? I’m sure you’ve seen many in the wild, amazingly and dynamically delivering statistics and information… and getting incredible amounts of social signals from an increasingly visual online landscape. But if you’re like me, lacking the ability to so much as draw a circle in…
Social Media is Good for Business – Here’s Why
I was doing a talk recently on the correlations between Facebook likes and personality traits when someone put their hand up and said: ‘so what?’ What does this mean – what does it matter to the average business that Facebook likes can indicate a person’s personality? It got me thinking about how to better communicate…
Do We Really Still Need Hashtags on Facebook?
When Facebook introduced hashtags on June 13, 2013, many of us who engage with our target markets and audiences through social media held strong opinions (mainly negative) about them. In fact, most of us still feel skeptical. That’s because even now, nearly two years later, we find few success stories about brands using hashtags on…
Commitment: The Cornerstone Of Social Media Success
I’ve spoken to them all. From those who don’t want to spend a penny on social media marketing to those who just want to throw money at it. Of course, there are many who get it, but there are more who don’t. The cost of social media marketing is about more than just the dollars…
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…
Getting Started with Instagram – A Tutorial
Instagram is taking the lead when it comes to engagement on social networks. Just to be clear, I didn’t just make that up, it’s a statistical anomaly I learned about from Mark Schaefer in his post Why Instagram is Becoming The Dominant Social Network. Mark didn’t make it up either – it’s actually based on a…
9 Characteristics Of Human Marketing
By Robert Caruso There are a few highly important things that separate big brand social media marketing from everyone else, and that is the human component. Big brands are able to focus their social media marketing on their brand, branding and advertising components that are centered around the company’s image and other major media advertising…
The Inexorable Shift from Traditional to Social Media
By Andrew Hutchinson Occasionally people ask how I got involved in social media. I worked in media monitoring for many years and one of the biggest benefits of working in that industry is oversight, being able to see media trends and changes as they evolve. You could see how a single news report could build…
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