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…
Relationships: The Prime Directive of Social Media
There are many posts with tips on tools, methods and metrics to study. They are aimed at getting big results. There is one catch though. They guarantee about as much as “Do this to make someone fall in love with you.” The measure of any tip, however, is the strength of the genuine relations you build.…
Generation C: The Future of the Digital Family
One of the most remarkable transformations of our contemporary society can be seen in the way we inform and entertain ourselves through the web and social media. In the last twenty years, digital learning has made a deep impression on new generations, which they’ve harnessed with egocasting and infotainment. In a way, these trends meet…
Google Plus Is Neither Dead Nor Dying. Here’s Why!
Whether you like it or not – and whether you use it or not – Google Plus is here to stay…at least for now. It’s difficult to describe this complex platform, but here is one definition that sums up Google Plus: Google+ (or Google Plus) is a social networking and identity service that is owned…
Here’s How to Create a Community Around Your Blog
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know how much I love to blog and how much I appreciate my readers. Blogging for me started as a passion project (not a business) and has really remained a passion – even though I’ve turned it into a business. Honestly, this is why I…
How To Plan and Deploy a Cohesive Social Media Strategy
By Brett RelanderSEO, social media, and content marketing all have their strong points. In order to achieve maximum results, each must work together effortlessly. Many companies do quite well with one of the three, but find it difficult to integrate them all into a cohesive marketing strategy. The tips below will help if your brand…
Can We Really Share Visual Content on Multiple Networks
Visual content is expected to explode in the year 2015. From using visual images to promote a company’s products and services to posting visual content on a landing page, there are many ways and reasons to use visual content on a website. However, for those who are concerned about visual content’s overall place regarding social…
Which Social Media Platform Is Best For Me?
Hate it or love it, you need to have a good social media strategy. This literally means hours after hours of split testing and thousands of dollars in social media tools, right? Erm, no. What if I tell you that at the end of this post, you will discover cheap (and probably free) ways to…
Do You Need Video Marketing?
Can you believe YouTube is 10 years old already? It’s true. YouTube was officially launched on February 14th, 2005 by three former PayPal employees. As verified by Wikipedia, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim “activated the Internet domain name “YouTube.com” and started to create a video-sharing website on which users could upload, share, and view videos.”…
Why People do not Choose What Content They Consume
The Illusion of Choice People believe that it is purely their choice, when they determine what to do, where to go, what kind of information to consume. Is it? Not really. It started thousands of years ago and continues to this day, – most of people’s actions are under the influence of their reference groups.…
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