May 16, 2012

Balancing Social Media Marketing with Other Business Tasks

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Ask any entrepreneur who has any success with social media marketing, and you’ll find out the truth about it: This form of marketing is pretty labor intensive. You won’t be effective if you approach it in a hit or miss fashion. If you’re not careful, it can consume all of your time. You have to [...]

How to Score Awesome Freebies by Liking Companies on Facebook

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Did you know that you can score a whole lot of free stuff just by liking companies on Facebook?  It’s true.  Clicking the “like” button can put you into contact with complimentary coupons and products from businesses large and small. Einstein’s Bagels posts coupons for free products often.  NeilMed is giving away a free NasaFlo [...]

Quality Content Is Key to Your Social Media Strategy

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You may know all about the technicalities of using social media, but if you don’t have quality content, you won’t have much success. People will ignore boring and poorly written content, unless you’re an ecommerce store offering a too-good-to-pass-up sale or discount. Hire freelance writers to do it for you, so that you can concentrate [...]

3 Micro-Blogging Tips for New Entrepreneurs

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Micro-blogging is different from regular blogging because the posts are shorter. Posting tweets on Twitter is the best known form of micro-blogging, and the maximum length of a tweet is 140 characters. You might be wondering how to leverage micro-blogging, given that you have such a small amount of space to say anything. Micro-blogging Tip [...]

Do Follow .GOV and .EDU Inbound Authoritative Links

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If you are looking for a great resource on do follow links from high page rank, authoritative websites; then you have come to the right place.  Below is a list that explains how you can get one-way, inbound links from these authoritative websites.   Most of these sites are forums, as the blogs that are do [...]

3 Social Media Promotion Mistakes to Avoid

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Social media promotions help to breathe life into your marketing efforts, if you do them right. It will have the opposite effect if you make mistakes, which can drive people away. Mistake #1: Don’t Announce Winners The assumption that most people will draw when you don’t announce winners to your giveaways or contents is that [...]

Generate Content that Generates Links

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When working with freelance writers, video producers or if you do it on your own, make incoming links your top priority. You want as many people as possible to link to your content, and share it all around the web. That’s the best use of social media marketing, and those who master the art of [...]

Cybercrime Affects Social Media Marketing

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There’s a valid reason why some people may not be open to your social media marketing on websites like Facebook and Twitter. The number of cyber crime activities continues to rise, and cybercriminals love social media websites. In addition to spamming people, and sending them to websites full of malware, they’re hacking profiles and committing [...]

Social Media Marketing for B2B Sales

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Much of the talk about social media marketing is centered on consumers. That may not be your target market at all. Perhaps you only serve other businesses, a consultant, wholesaler or distributor. You may be wondering whether social media marketing works for business-to-business (B2B) sales. It does, and here are a few ways it can [...]

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