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10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips

Posted on 29 October 2009 by admin

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From Source: Mashable

Capacity – especially to plan and execute effective marketing strategies – is a big challenge for every small business. In this post, I’ll offer 10 suggestions for how small businesses can supercharge their marketing efforts by leveraging social media. For each suggestion, I will discuss a basic strategy – for those who simply want to get their toes wet, as well as an advanced strategy – for those who want to spend a bit more time and go a bit deeper in their social media marketing efforts. These tips are based on my experience leveraging social media marketing for my company, crowdSPRING.

I suggest you begin by outlining clear goals for your social media marketing efforts and figuring out how you’ll measure success. Once you’ve outlined your goals, let’s look at 10 great ways you can begin to leverage social media for your marketing efforts.

Listropolis' Take:

For many, this list is a 101 on using Social Media to grow a business. We've seen it all before, but like all things Mashable, the list is rock-solid. It's one of those posts you bookmark and read every few months to make sure you're staying on track.

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And we’re back!

Posted on 08 December 2008 by admin

First things first - I hate when people write posts apologizing for being gone an extended period of time, and they come back and promise to do better. That's not what this is.

Listropolis was hijacked. Not as bad as MakeUseOf getting hijacked, but still pretty bad. I was able to get the front-end online after about an hour of downtime, but I could not sign in to the backend to explain what was going on.

I think things are back to normal, but now I think I'm going to change the look of the site, so please accept the apology for the past week or so, and the next day or two while I work the new look in.

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7 Tips to design professional blog layout using Blogger

Posted on 15 September 2008 by admin

From woork:

Blogger it's a very powerful platform to publish your blog. It's free and with some features which you can customize how you prefer, without limits.

In this post I want to illustrate some tips which can help you to improve your Blogger template to design a professional layout for your blog.

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16 Lists with Killer Titles – Day 2

Posted on 27 August 2008 by admin

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ProBlogger is hosting a group writing project/contest for writing Killer Titles for your blog posts. I am participating, and submitted 9 Super-Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now. I'm a huge fan of helping people blog better, and this group writing project is all about people coming up with creative "Killer Titles," reading other bloggers' work, discovering new sites, making friends, and having a virtual kumbaya around a campfire. ProBlogger will randomly select a participant, and award them with a $2000 identity design (logo) from logo designer David Airey, but they've challenged all of the participants to select their favorites, and post their winners.

This is the Day 2 List of Lists. If you missed it, check out 12 Lists with Killer Titles - Day 1

Tuesday's Lists

  • 5 Simple Steps to Fantastic Fruit Pies by ZestyCook ( Cory)
  • 7 Ingredients Of Magnetic Blog by Sunil Pathak
  • 46 Simple Ways to Save Cash Now with Green Travel by Elizabeth
  • Daily Blog 26: Top 10 Reasons People Don’t Like To Read by Chris Verstraete
  • 9 Super-Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now by Shaun McLane
  • The 10 Best Olympic Gold Blog Titles for Free by Christoph Merrill
  • 5 reasons you should use plain text to save your data by Rarst
  • The 114 Most Fuel Efficient Cars From 2005 by Mike
  • 120 Proven Ways to Boost Your Brain Power by Luciano Passuello
  • 5 Small (But Big) Ways to Beat Depression Every Time by The Daily Minder
  • Internet Marketing: 6 Steps for Using Scarcity Tactics with Integrity by Edward Mills
  • Top 10 Webcomics for Total Geeks by mrmuggles
  • 3 Reasons Why I Refuse to Use Lightroom by Brian Auer
  • Banish Blogger Butt in 7 Beneficial Ways by Stephanie Quilao
  • 10 reasons why I wouldn’t be without my scissors by Sue
  • Top 10 Scrapbooking Articles of All Time by Karen

Check back tomorrow for the next group of participants, and keep in mind, there's still time to participate. If you think you can write a post with a Killer Title, head over to the group writing project page for more details, and to sign up. If you write a list, you'll be added here!

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12 Lists with Killer Titles – Day 1

Posted on 26 August 2008 by admin

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ProBlogger is hosting a group writing project/contest for writing Killer Titles for your blog posts. I am participating, and submitted 9 Super-Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now. I'm a huge fan of helping people blog better, and this group writing project is all about people coming up with creative "Killer Titles," reading other bloggers' work, discovering new sites, making friends, and having a virtual kumbaya around a campfire. ProBlogger will randomly select a participant, and award them with a $2000 identity design (logo) from logo designer David Airey, but they've challenged all of the participants to select their favorites, and post their winners.

The first group of participants was released today, and as I was reading through the titles (some really great ones), I decided to pull all of the lists and post them here in a four-part series. The cool thing about this project is in teaching people how to write "Killer" titles, using a list is always near the top of the....well, you get the point. It should provide you, the reader, with plenty of content to keep you busy for the week. ProBlogger will be announcing the winner (randomly selected) on Friday, so wish me luck!

Monday's Lists

  • 9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client by Jacob Cass
  • Top 10 Ways To Save Money Building Your New House by Todd
  • 5 reasons to be Canadian and definitely forget that you were ever Latino (In Spanish) by Guillermo
  • 17 Ways To Increase Advertising Income On Your Website by Rob Malon
  • 12 Things to do in Denver Besides the Democratic National Convention by Mary Jo
  • 10 Ways To Grow Your Senior Photography Business by Lori Osterberg
  • 2 Reasons Why Women Should Vote for Obama by Trisha
  • 5 Title-Writing Lessons You Can Learn from Naked Beds by Susan Payton, The Marketing Eggspert
  • The top 5 bands that I would erase from history by Roberta
  • 5 reliable wineries that can help you learn about wine by Bill Wilson
  • 18 sites that pay you for writing by Suzanne Roman
  • "F*ck Martha Stewart" 11 Lessons from the Movie "Fight Club" by Joe Lucas

Check back tomorrow for the next group of participants, and keep in mind, there's still plenty of time to participate. If you think you can write a post with a Killer Title, head over to the group writing project page for more details, and to sign up. If you write a list, you'll be added here!

One last thing....I'd love to know what you think about these titles. Killer? Lame? Tell us what you think in the comments. We always love hearing your opinion.

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40+ Topics for Corporate Bloggers

Posted on 11 August 2008 by admin

From Mashable,

There will be times that you have to contribute a post for your company’s blog and you just don’t have one idea that inspires you to start a conversation. We’ve all been there and that’s why we’ve created this resource with more than 40 topics for corporate bloggers to help provide that much need inspiration:

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5 Blog Posts to Write Before You Die

Posted on 05 May 2008 by admin

From Pajama Market:

So you're cruising through life, carefree, sipping a Coke, and then I slam this title on your screen. Sorry to break it to you, but you're going to die.

I know you spend most of your time denying this fact. You've got your new red convertible, you've added ten friends on MySpace in the past week, and you get all the jokes about Smallville. But someday, you're going to drop like a rock and your soul is going to pass its time somewhere else.

Before that happens, think about your blog, and how completely unsatisfying it would be if you hadn't written these 5 world-changing posts:

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10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less

Posted on 25 April 2008 by admin

From ProBlogger:

1. Create link clusters within your blog

A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’stupid business ideas’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’stupid business ideas’ as the anchor text) to the ’stupid business ideas’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.

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101 reasons for your small business to have a blog

Posted on 24 April 2008 by admin

Submitted by Brian Brown:

  1. tons of traffic
  2. tons of repeat traffic
  3. tons of content
  4. Google will love you
  5. promote products
  6. advertise sales
  7. ask for feedback

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10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less

Posted on 12 April 2008 by admin

From ProBlogger.net:

This is a guest post on improving blog traffic from Courtney Tuttle. Courtney writes about marketing online at Court’s Internet Marketing School.

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