Social Media For Business Guide – August 2013

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Google are able to monitor how companies engage with social media and being able to supply Google with the social proof they now require will help to improve your search engine ranking results.

Now is the time to get Social!

There is strong evidence that many website owners are ignoring the Social media revolution, simply because they do not understand it. By following our monthly Social Media For Business Guide, you will be able to keep up to date with the latest trends that can help you to achieve higher listings in Google’s search results.

The following hand picked Social Media Marketing news items will help you to understand more about the issues, benefits and opportunities of developing a social media strategy for your business.

14 Social Media Tools Used by Marketing Pros

– socialmediaexaminer.com

Are you looking for social media tools to get more out of your marketing? Are you wondering what tools marketing pros are using successfully? We asked fourteen well-known marketers to share the latest social media tools they’ve been using. Discover how you can use these tools to help you to get more out of your […]

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SocialBookmarkingButtons2The San Francisco Giants have the most engaged fan base in Major League Baseball. They’re recognized as social media standouts in the sports world. But as recently as three years ago, they had no cohesive voice on social media and no social media strategy. The Giants were a traditional organization in a traditional sport. In […]

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Getonfast Google PlusDo you use Google+ hangouts for your marketing? Are you wondering how hangouts can help your business? To learn how to get started with Google+ hangouts, I interview Brandee Sweesy for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. […]

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This week I am happy to feature a coolest tool in our tools column: Analyze Social Signals and Google Authorship for the List of URLs – Free ToolIt’s simple to use but has some awesome functionality: provide the list of URLs, wait a bit and enjoy:Page-specific social media numbers:

  • Number of Facebook shares, comments and comments (as well as total) for each one
    Number of Tweets
    Number of Google plus ones

The tool will also find a verified author of each page and even find that author on Twitter, Facebook and Google plus…

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Have you figured out how to engage on-the-go prospects and customers? Is more of your audience interacting with your business from their mobile phones? If you want to enhance your mobile marketing, then keep reading. I’ll show you three awesome tools that make mobile marketing easier. Why Mobile? Mobile is no longer something you can […]

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How to Create a Great Customer Experience on Social Media

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The-Social-Customer-Salesforce-BlogCreating the right customer experience is vital for every company using social media, both for existing customers and potential customers. Make sure that your social media strategies engage and retain your existing customers, as well as attracting fans and converting them into new customers. Here’s how.

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What Social Channels are Good for B2B?

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I recently conducted a survey on the best social media platforms for B2B on AMEX Open Forum. As LinkedIn got rid of Answers, this is a really good place to communicate about marketing, social media and business. Hear what marketing professionals had to say about which social channels they prefer for B2B marketing.

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Social Media Tips, Strategies and Techniques

This is an excellent video to help you understand the benefits of Social Media Marketing.

If used correctly, your social media marketing efforts will create new inbound links to your website, created by the process of sharing your content across a wide range of diverse social media platforms.

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Social Media For Business Guide – July 2013

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How To Use Social Media For Business

The online business world can no longer afford to dismiss or avoid the social media force that is gaining momentum every day. Online businesses are stumbling over one another trying to figure out the most effective  social media strategy. It is a simple fact that many will give up before they ever fully understand the dynamics at play.

Using social media marketing to increase your sales!

We recognise that many website owners are struggling to get to grips with developing an effective Social Media Marketing Strategy, which is why we recommend reading our regular Social Media For Business Guide.

Each monthly edition of our guide includes the hottest social media news stories, that will help you to learn more about the many benefits of using social media to help market your online business.

Check out our latest social media news items below.

26 Tips to Enhance Your Social Media Profiles

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SocialBookmarkingButtons2When did you last revisit your social profile on Twitter or Facebook? Do you want to maximize the impact of your social networking efforts? Basic housekeeping tasks are necessary for maintaining complete and engaging profiles. In this article, you’ll find 26 tips, an A-Z guide, with recommendations to help you get the most of your […]

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A Convince & Convert fan sent me a Twitter direct message this week, alerting me to a gaping, self-inflicted social media wound bleeding all over the Facebook page of the Evansville, Indiana airport. The status update in question has been removed, but I grabbed some screen shots.

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FacebookAre you using Facebook for your business? Are you wondering how Facebook’s newest features can help your business? To learn about what these new Facebook features mean for marketers, I interview Mari Smith for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from […]

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Getonfast Facebook ProfileWelcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Introduces Embedded Posts: Facebook’s Embedded Posts “make it possible for people to bring the most compelling, timely […]

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why question in metal typeAs more and more brands jump on the social networks there is no shortage of tweets to read, Instagram photos to view, videos to watch and blog posts to learn from. But if you can’t answer the question of WHY, then it’s all for nothing, my friends. Give your audience a reason to care that you exist.

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Is networking a big part of your job or business? Have you participated in or considered starting a discussion group? The good news is LinkedIn, Facebook and Google+ all offer options. In this post, we’re going to look at how social media groups work for businesses and how you can benefit from them as both […]

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Getonfast LinkedIn ProfileWelcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? LinkedIn Introduces Sponsored Updates: LinkedIn is expanding its “content ecosystem with the launch of Sponsored Updates.” This allows companies […]

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Jonathan Wichmann, Maersk Line head of social media, asks, “How do you measure being the most influential in this industry? If I would have asked management two years ago what they would have paid to attain that position, they wouldn’t have believed it could be done.” This is how it was done.

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Internet-security

 

All your online speed and efficiency can come at a stiff price if your website, financial information, social media accounts, business or customer data fall victim to cyber thieves or troublemakers. Here are 10 tips from the cyber security experts at the Federal Communications Commission.

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Social media marketing does not stop at simply publishing information; the real goal is to get people involved.  All businesses should aim to get reactions and comments from their audience on the information they publish.

Google is able to monitor how often your content is being shared by other people and view this content sharing process as a massive vote of confidence in your online business.

For more information on How To Use Social Media For Your Business please download a FREE copy of our social media marketing report right now!

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Social Media For Business Guide – April 2013

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In order to be effective in the new internet  marketing age, now is the time to seriously consider how to develop an effective social media marketing strategy.

Lack of social proof can affect your Google ranking results

Google places a high level of importance on measuring your social media marketing activity. Providing Google with this social proof is now essential, in order to improve your search engine ranking results.

If you are interested to learn more about how you can use social media to increase the number of visitors to your website we recommend downloading our FREE Social Media Marketing Report which will help you to demystify the benefits of using social media to market your online business.

The following is our hand picked selection of the latest social media news stories for April.

Getonfast Twitter ProfileTwitter can help your company increase engagement, build or expand your following, gain influence and attract new business. Encourage your CEO and other high-ranking executives to contribute to your company presence on Twitter. Getting high-level executives involved can help them connect to their market, foster new connections and nurture relationships with prospects, clients, content writers and industry influencers.

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Have your social media activities spiraled out of control? Are you looking for tools to simplify the management of your social media marketing? Would you like better insight into your audience or the ability to compare your social activities against the competition? These are some of the capabilities you’ll discover in the five social media […]

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Do you rely on your computer for business? Is your computer and data secure? To learn more about ways to protect yourself and your business, this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast gives you insight into the subject. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed […]

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Facebook ButtonWelcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Updates iPhone App With Chat Heads and Stickers: “Now you can keep chatting even when you’re doing […]

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NBA centre Jason Collins made history yesterday by coming out as the first openly gay player at a top-level US professional team. He declared his sexuality in an article for Sports Illustrated, saying “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay.” The sports world united in their support for the player, with many NBA stars and athletes from other sports expressing their support on Twitter…

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Is your audience responding to your social activities? Have you integrated the right calls to action into your social media strategy? A call to action is a way for you to entice your social media audience to focus their attention on the next action you want them to take. Here are seven steps for crafting […]

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 Social media monitoring tools without integrated analytics are like a hammer without a nail. In this special episode of the On the Record…Online podcast, Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini (@freddymini) explains why.

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Google’s “Firsts”

– seochat.com

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Oh, Google…it has grown up so fast. It seems like only yesterday it was a tiny project launched by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It went from a single search engine to the largest internet conglomerate in the world, dominating the web entirely.
They have their hand in social media and networking, shopping, travel, academia…really, you would be hard pressed to find anything online they have not been involved with in some way, directly or indirectly…

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Getonfast LinkedIn ProfileWelcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? LinkedIn Introduces LinkedIn Contacts and App: “LinkedIn Contacts, a smarter way to stay in touch with your most […]

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Pinterest is quickly becoming one of the most popular social media sites ever made. It is unique in its design and was the first true hit for the social photo format. Imitators have come and gone, and many others exist with less success. Even the demographic is shifting from being almost entirely women to including quite a few men, and marketers have been going nuts with the possibilities of using the site to their advantage…

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To further information we also recommend checking out this excellent video – Social Media Marketing Explained

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Social Media For Business Guide March 2013

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There are incredible opportunities available for businesses that utilise the power of social media.

Therefore, as a business owner, you need to understand that a large percentage of your customers and prospects are actively using social media. If you have not already done so, now is the time to reach out to them via this highly cost effective marketing channel and start to develop your Social Media Marketing Strategy.

Apart from helping you to develop your brand and establishing a greater awareness of your products and services online, your level of social media activity will also help to improve your search engine ranking results, as Google is now including “social proof” as part of their latest ranking algorithm update.

Using social media to change the way you market online

To help you to understand why it is important for you to develop a successful social media marketing strategy take a look at our Social Media For Business Guide, which includes the latest social media news items affecting your business. This helpful guide is published on a monthly basis and is jam packed with the latest social media stories.

View the hottest, hand picked, social media news items below.

I am a huge fan of Social Media Today and I thought it would be extremely interesting to find out about the growth and development of this great website, so I reached out to co-founder and CEO Robin Fray Carey who awesomely agreed to answer a few questions.

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Blog-2Do you blog? Are you active on social media? Have you integrated your blogging with your social activities? Blogging can help you improve your social media marketing. In this post, you’ll discover four tips to enhance your social media efforts using your business blog. #1: Share Your Blog Posts in Your Social Status Updates Not […]

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An insider’s tour of the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, and what was hot in social media for top automotive brands. How the best exhibitors not only engage the onsite guests, but also used social media to reach hundreds, even thousands of people who never attended the physical event.

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Social-Media-2Have you noticed more photos on social networks? Do you have a visual component as part of your social media marketing strategy? Do you need some help in getting started or maintaining momentum in sharing more visual content and in creating a visual conversation with your audience? In this post, you’ll find 26 tips, an […]

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baby_social_media_todayThe fact is we live in a world where a person’s life can be catalogued via social media from the first ultrasound image to the first step to the first date. Parents are using social media to share their parenting moments without really thinking about the fact that they are also creating an online record of their child’s life as well as their own.

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Pinterest Gets A New Look: Pinterest has added “a few new things to the close-up view of pins […]

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With all that has changed in the face of the Internet and social media and the ways that advertisers can creatively reach the audiences of the digital era, surprisingly little has changed in the way that advertisers spend their money. Your basic banner advertisement is still the big financial drain.

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Twitter Best Practices for Brands

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Twitter could be the best way ever for a brand listen to and react to its customers. But sadly some brands and their social media strategy approach are missing opportunities. Real data on the best time to tweet and what to measure can be found in this infographic.
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Social media marketing does not stop at simply publishing information; the real goal is to get people involved.  All businesses should aim to get reactions and comments from their audience on the information they publish, this is extremely powerful for many reasons. You should look at it as starting a conversation on the internet as opposed to delivering a speech on the internet.

Google is able to monitor how often your content is being shared by other people and view this content sharing process as a massive vote of confidence in your online business.

For more information on how to use social media for your business download a FREE copy of our new Social Media Marketing Report right now!

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Social Media For Business Guide Nov 15th

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There are incredible opportunities available for businesses that utilise the power of social media marketing.

Therefore, as a business owner, you need to understand that a large percentage of your customers and prospects are actively using social media. If you have not already done so, now is the time to reach out to them via this highly cost effective marketing channel and start to develop your Social Media Marketing Strategy.

Apart from helping you to develop your brand and establishing a greater awareness of your products and services online, your level of social media activity will also help to improve your search engine ranking results, as Google is now including “social proof” as part of their latest ranking algorithm update.

Using social media to change the way you market online

To help you to understand why it is important for you to develop a successful social media marketing strategy we are launching our Social Media For Business Guide, which includes the latest social media news items affecting your business. This helpful guide will be updated on a regular basis and will jam packed with the latest social media stories.

View the hottest, hand picked, social media news items below.

As the home improvement industry slowly inches towards better online services basic sites we use all the time for information and connecting with friends and family are perfect for narrowing the search for Mr. Fix-It.

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24 Must-Have Social Media Marketing Tools

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Getonfast Social BookmarksAre you looking for ways to enhance your social media marketing? Do you want new tools to simplify your job? We asked a group of social media pros for the hottest social media tools they use today. Check them out to see if these social media tools are a good fit for you! Unlock to Share Plugin My favorite social marketing tool of all time is the unlock to share plugin. What is it? It’s a simple plugin that unlocks additional content when your web visitors share your stuff on Facebook, Twitter or Google+…

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“The reason I love IFTTT is that it lets me set-up recurring social media events one time and then in the immortal words of Ron ‘Ronco’ Popeil, ‘Set it and Forget it!’ IFTTT has proven to be a huge time saver for me with regard to managing my personal and professional social media channels.”

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InstagramWelcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news.To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.What’s New This Week? Instagram Announces Web Profiles: The popular mobile app Instagram now has web-based profiles. “Your web profile features a selection of your recently shared photographs just above your profile photo and bio, giving others a snapshot of the photos you share on Instagram…

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Do you have a grip on your social traffic? Measuring your social media impact can be overwhelming. A tried-and-true favorite social media measurement tool is Google Analytics. Google Analytics can track the impact of social media traffic on your site, going beyond clicks, retweets and other vanity metrics.Here’s how to measure your social media traffic using Google Analytics. 1: Identify Where Your Social Traffic Comes From. Google Analytics can help you understand the users social networks and their physical location…

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The Fallacy of Social Media

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The Bodyform advert became a famous viral, considered by many to be the epitome of social media. But is it? This post examines whether common ‘best’ practice is actually for the best. [A rant? A screed? A valid critique? Discuss – Editor]

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Are you wondering if Pinterest can help your business? Do you want to get more traffic from your Pinterest account? To learn more about the power of Pinterest for marketers, I interview Beth Hayden for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing…

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