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Social Media – Top Reads Week of October 9

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Each week, we read a number of articles regarding social media from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: The 10 Factors That Will Make Your Social Media Marketing Campaign Profitable Social media’s most stubborn opponents still view it with the same resentment, and the same argument: it’s not a profitable strategy. Jayson DeMers explores what, exactly, a social media strategy needs to become profitable. Is Your (Lack Of) Social Media Strategy Killing Your Business? There are a handful of essential elements that need to work together for your social media strategy to connect with your target market… 

Social Media – Top Reads Week of October 2

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Each week, we read a number of articles regarding social media from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: How Social Media Can Transform Your Business With the percentage of the American population currently using some sort of social media platform on the rise every year, there’s no excuse not to make the first steps toward saturation on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and other services to take advantage of those stats. Listening on Social Media: The 5 Biggest Benefits and Risks Social media listening is a discovery and measurement mechanism. Social media listening helps you measure brand awareness, brand health and brand… 

Improve SEO: Search Boosting Blog Ideas

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There is ample opportunity to boost your website’s search engine rankings through a blog. It is one of the DIY SEO tips we recently shared. At minimum, a 250-word blog post should be added each week for maximum optimization (although the optimal length of SEO copywriting is still being debated.) But on top of social media posts, email, sales calls, and the general running of a small business, most are lucky if a blog post is written monthly. Quarterly? Once a year? Admit it, the hardest part about writing material for your blog is, well, the material! “What do I… 

Top Email Marketing Reads Week of September 25

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Each week, we read a number of articles from online sources. Below, the top reads from the following week: 7 Ways Marketers Can Increase Email Marketing Success There’s no magical solution to increase your email-open rate—but there are smart steps you can take. Above are seven. Your Email Marketing Could Be So Much Better: 4 Hacks Follow industry best practices and use the latest technology to make sure email delivers on its promise. 5 Email Marketing Tips to Make Sure Your Campaigns Work An effective email program allows you to forge a profitable connection with your customers while learning valuable… 

Social Media – Tips, Best Practices (and Mistakes) and KPIs

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. Starting to get proficient at Facebook. Even used a #hashtag in a tweet. Whoa! Wait. You haven’t started? Need to know where to start? Social Media Marketing for Small Business Owners: How to Start From Ground Zero and Do the Minimum This post gives you a clear idea of how to start with social media marketing before you can afford creative campaigns and resources to throw in this area. As you begin, consider what brands have done wrong and what they’ve done right. Hard-Learned Lessons Of Social Media… 

Email Marketing – The 10 Commandments and 30 Other Tips

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Email marketing is consistently ranked as the best channel in terms of return on investment. 68% of companies rate the channel as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’. (1) For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in ROI. (2) Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. (3) To find success with email marketing, start with The 10 Commandments of Email Marketing Before hitting send, check out this list of email marketing do’s and don’ts to help make sure you don’t end up in the spam box. Commandments too formal? Then read What You Need To Know About Email Marketing as a Beginner… 

Social Media – What to Post When to Post and 20+ Other Tips

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. Starting to get proficient at Facebook. Even used a #hashtag in a tweet. Great! Next step is developing a social media strategy. How to Create a Successful Social Media Marketing Strategy for Your Business The article above offers you the steps you need to create a solid social media marketing strategy in actionable items. What to Post on Each Social Media Platform: The Complete Guide to Optimizing Your Social Content By the end of the post, you’ll know exactly what to share on each of your social media profiles.… 

Social Media – Editing, Time Saving and More Tips

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. Starting to get proficient at Facebook. Even used a #hashtag in a tweet. Great! Make sure you edit very carefully! From accidentally tweeting images of national tragedies to unintentionally making light of domestic violence, the world of social media abounds with cautionary tales of brands reeling as slip-ups on social explode into PR disasters. Here’s 12 Quick Editing Tips for Social Media Managers Spending a LOT of time managing social media? Here’s How to Save 10 Hours Each Week While Still Crushing it on Social Media If you’re running a business, it’s unlikely that… 

Social Media – 19 Questions and Tips To A Strategy

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You’ve started your social media accounts. You’re posting. You’re tweeting. You’re pinning. Starting to get proficient at Facebook. Even used a #hashtag in a tweet. Great! Have you developed a strategy beyond “just posting”? This article will help – 12 Questions to Answer for Social Media Success Sit down, shut your door and take 30 minutes to outline your answers to the following questions. The information you’ll discover will lead to the development of a solid strategy for social media success. As you get more specific with your strategy, use these 7 Creative Social Media Strategies To Really Get You Noticed The article…