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Find Customers Through Content Marketing

March 12, 2010
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How many times have you been advised to put up a blog for your business? If you have a lot of friends in the social media circle, I’d imagine that your answer would be “a lot of times”. Don’t think of it as them bugging you to try out their suggestion. They’re actually telling you [...]

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Social Media Channels For Creative People

March 11, 2010
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More and more people are starting to express themselves creatively. Artists of different media are popping up left and right trying to make a name for themselves. But even if you want to make it out in this cruel world on their own, it would be easier if you belong to a group or organization [...]

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Are Social Networks An Obstruction In The Workspace

March 9, 2010
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You know how social media’s supposed to be giving you the right to freely express yourself on the web? Well, sometimes that can backfire on you as well. Fairly recently, one guy lost his job for some demeaning and somewhat threatening stuff he posted on his blog.
The blog entry was about the company’s policies on [...]

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How To Write Engaging Blog Posts

March 5, 2010
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Engagement is one of the strong points of social media. It gives you the opportunity to make your readers feel valued. As blog owner and brand manager, it’s your job to make sure that followers feel engaged with each post you make.
You must be wondering, what will you get if you exert extra effort in [...]

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How To Screw Up Your Blogging Career

March 4, 2010
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In as much as social media practitioners suggest that business owners put up a blog for their company, there are just times when you got to admit that you’re not cut out to do it.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it, but, rather, that you should take a long hard look at yourself and your [...]

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Engagement Outweighs Quality Content

February 28, 2010
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Social media puts value on sharing relevant content as well as interacting with the community. But which one weighs more? Is it being useful? Or is being engaging to your followers? What do you think?
The truth is, it varies from person to person. Some people are the informative kind, while some are the interacting kind. [...]

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3 Commenter Etiquettes Your Mom Did Not Teach You

February 26, 2010
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In social media, people are encouraged to share and interact with each other. It can be in the form of a blog, a tweet, a link share, or sometimes, a comment. Yes, a comment counts as sharing and interacting. It’s pretty much like replying to someone who’s talking to you.
But before you start saying your [...]

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Stop Dragging Your Feet And Start Your Blog

February 25, 2010
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If there’s anything that kills one’s work schedule, it’s procrastination. Sure you can always push things for a later hour or day, but what’ll that accomplish. I’m afraid the answer to that is a big, fat NOTHING.
If you’ve had the opportunity to consult a social media practitioners, you’ve probably been told that you should get [...]

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Promoting Better Corporate Citizenship

February 24, 2010
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With brands engaging in social media, everything they do is under scrutiny of the masses that use social media sites. They do well to others, social media users sing praises, and those praises may end up becoming potential business. They don’t do anything to help out, social media users flame them, and eventually the criticisms [...]

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How to Stick Out Like A Sore Thumb in Social Media

February 19, 2010
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In social media marketing, we use blogs to get our voices out there and make ourselves (or the business) visible to the public eye. We use blogs to turn our brand into a household name that people talk about all the time.
However, in our attempts to keep with the trend, we tend to drown in [...]

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How To Leverage Social Media In Email Marketing

February 10, 2010
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So you think social media can only be used in your blogs or websites, huh? Think again. You can also use it to take email marketing up a notch.
I know some of you may already be aware of the fact that emails can go viral. One proof of which is the many chain emails that [...]

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Say No to Stagnation

February 8, 2010
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What’s the biggest hurdle bloggers need to overcome next to writer’s block? It’s stagnation. It can be quite disheartening when you find your blog stuck with the same conversations and the same people day in and day out.
You know, there are ways to get out of the rut that you feel you’re stuck in. Shake [...]

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5 Tools To Help You Schedule Your Tweets

February 7, 2010
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Twitter is one of the most popular social media channels through which business owners share information and make announcements to their followers.
But sometimes, having to come back every so often to repost a tweet announcement or share links can be inconvenient, especially if you have other things to attend to.
Well, you have the option to [...]

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How To Use StumbleUpon To Drive Traffic To Your Website

February 5, 2010
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You’ve probably seen a lot of your favorite websites display StumbleUpon buttons at the bottom of their posts or at the sidebar. If you’re wondering what the heck these buttons are for, let me help enlighten you a bit.
Although many are familiar with StumbleUpon (SU), there are still some with very little idea as to [...]

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Why Some Writers Are Missing All The Fun

January 29, 2010
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How many of your favorite authors have their own blogs or Facebook pages where they interact with you, the fans?
Actually, if you try to look around, you’ll find that a lot of authors are actually out there mingling with the masses via various social media channels.
However, there are still writers out there who are missing [...]

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Ways To Get More Twitter Followers

January 23, 2010
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You’ll find that the most popular people are swarmed with followers. I’ll be my legs that you would want to have that much of a following yourself.
This brings us to the point of this post – how can you get more people to follow you in Twitter?
Most people would think that if you tweet better, [...]

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No Need To Mass-Follow Twitter Users

January 22, 2010
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Do you often find your notification list filled with follow requests from people you don’t know? It’s annoying, isn’t it?
With more and more businesses wanting to gain followers, some organizations have resorted to mass following users in the hopes of getting these people to follow them back.
Is it annoying? Yes, definitely. But sometimes you have [...]

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