Contently

MARCH 1, 2022

As a result, the original creators began to kick up a media stink. Aggregators arrived on the digital scene in 1999, when Netscape introduced RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, to pull together in one place content from disparate corners of the Web. RSS feeds are still popular today. By 2019, however, it had a problem.

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Thought Leadership Aggregators Paid Content Ethics 211

Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Is this the long-promised social media backlash? Overall, social media usage among U.S. This means that the number of Americans engaged in just about every social media activity was reduced in the past year. Is Facebook Making Us Stupid? For the first time, the percentage of U.S. Is the bloom off the rose?

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. Not only do they provide valuable links, they can also supply direct traffic and help build your RSS subscriber list. 100+ Blog Directories and RSS Submission Sites. Blogbunch blog+rss. Blog-collector blog+rss. Bloggapedia blog+rss.

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TrustRadius Marketing

MARCH 2, 2022

It’s an inevitable part of operating a business: eventually, you’ll have to start posting on social media. Maintaining a social media presence is more than a simple checkbox step in establishing your business’s credibility. 54% of social media browsers use social media to research products.

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Valasys

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Social media platforms are witnessing an increase in users year after year. For instance, Facebook alone has almost 3 billion monthly active users. Approximately 59% of people worldwide use social media, and the average daily usage of social media is 2 hours 31 minutes, as reported by a survey.

Social Media 40

Social Media Paid Content Budget Programs Enterprise Management 40

seo.co

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Sure, Facebook-ing and micro-blogging with Twitter are hot, but a lot of people still prefer the meatier stuff that only blogging can deliver. There are also plugins to integrate your social media efforts into your blogging. Preparing your blog for RSS. Enabling RSS aggregator for your blog helps readers follow it conveniently.

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 5, 2011

But now that Twitter is clamping down on API access and trying to have their cake and eat it too, the next frontier for API-driven frosting is on Facebook. Among the best of this new-ish breed of Facebook features is HyperAlerts. Using HyperAlerts is as simple as the plot of Hop : The HyperAlerts Facebook Page Updates Dashboard.

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Facebook API RSS Social Media 167

Valasys

JULY 20, 2020

Any businesses can construct online media accounts and post the articles, products, and services through content or video clips. The real challenges for brands in social media include crafting techniques and implementing a profitable marketing strategy that levitates sales and revenue. Leveraging Referral Traffic.

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Paid Content Social Media Social Marketing B2B Marketing 86

Sprout Social

APRIL 18, 2017

Usually when you hear about social media automation, you picture the cringe-worthy automatic direct message that sometimes happens after you follow a new account. If you’re considering automation as part of your social media marketing efforts, there are a few key questions to ask yourself: Why do I want to automate? Saves time.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Last month, I launched a new series here on Biznology , interviewing leaders in social media strategy. This month we speak with Tory Starr , Director of Social Media at WGBH. Tory Starr has been involved in media of all sorts for most of her adult life, including working on an Academy Award-winning documentary. INSPIRATION.

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Social Media Media Marketing & Strategy Storytelling 80

Biznology

AUGUST 4, 2015

Even of you have enough money to hire an entire social media symphony as well as a social media monitoring and response task force, there are too many hours in a day and, according to some, the sweet spots aren’t even during the work day anymore. So, social media automation is key. And the scientists over at Buffer concur.

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Work Management Social Media Marketing Management Marketing Automation Services 80

Convince & Convert

MAY 17, 2013

This week: From ExactTarget , a free white paper called “ 3 Truths Every CMO Needs to Know About Social Media and the Customer Experience “ From Expion , a case study about how H&R Block mobilized 90,000 tax professionals in social media using Expion to guide their activity. The RSS feed is: [link]. Listen Now

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Social Media Media Viral Marketing Skype 162

Avitage

AUGUST 1, 2012

This post is for my current and future clients who think they won’t deal with social media because their customers don’t “use” it. What does that mean, “use social media”? Is Twitter or Facebook the image you carry? Is Twitter or Facebook the image you carry?

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Social Media Media RSS Aggregators 120

Convince & Convert

MARCH 19, 2013

Do you find that the daily demands of social media promotion are increasing? Our time is our most precious asset and social media is great at eating into it! Here are 9 social media tools that will help you save time and improve your productivity. Sharing great content is essential for building up your audience on social media.

Social Media 167

Social Media Product Tools Media 167

Hubspot

MARCH 31, 2020

Here's how you can set yourself up for success with contests on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. How to Run a Contest on Facebook. Facebook is the most widely used social media platform , so running a contest on Facebook makes sense. After all, your prospects most likely hang out here.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Rules Guidelines 101

Chris Koch

AUGUST 5, 2011

Recently, I was preparing a workshop on social media for an ITSMA client. The marketer in charge of the company’s social media effort gave me a clear edict: “Look, I don’t want you focusing on Facebook, okay? I’m not saying that B2B companies shouldn’t be on Facebook. I think every company should be on Facebook.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Conversely, in the social media community, checking-in is a frequent behavior, and legions of blog posts are written about location-based services. I have recently become fascinated by the way that people who don’t work in social media use social. Facebook on the other hand offers more demographic and topical variety.

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Social Media Media RSS Work Management 151

Writing on the Web

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Are your blog posts fed automatically into Facebook? The other day I was horrified to learn that a dear client was manually posting his blog articles to Facebook. So I asked Facebook expert Annalaura Brown to write this guest post. How to Automatically Link Blog Posts to Facebook. Share this on Facebook.

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Optinmonster

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Are you searching for the best Facebook feed plugins for your website? In this article, we’ve picked a variety of the best free and paid Facebook feed plugins that you can get started with today. With Flow-Flow , you can display your Facebook feed on your blog with beautiful and responsive walls or galleries.

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Binary Demand

JUNE 27, 2023

It typically involves strategies and techniques, such as targeted marketing campaigns, networking events, trade shows, content marketing, email marketing, and social media outreach to capture qualified accounts’ interest and contact information. With higher conversion opportunities, this ensures optimum lead generation.

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Lead Generation Sales Qualified Leads B2B Sales Ideal Customer Profiles 115

Convince & Convert

JUNE 7, 2013

Charlie Kautz , Content Marketer at TaylorMade Golf , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss delivering fresh story-telling content across several platforms every week, following the PGA Tour around the country, and what it’s like having the best job in social media. The RSS feed is: [link]. Listen Now .

Social Media 122

Social Media Media Best Practices Skype 122

Envy

AUGUST 22, 2017

When it comes to B2B marketing, social media can bring so much more to the table than simply posting and sharing content. While social media is an important distribution tool, it's also a window into your audience's behavior and habits. Social Media Marketing - The B2B process. Reading Time: 10 unfelt mins.

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Social Media Process Media Marketing Automation Services 82

Convince & Convert

MAY 10, 2013

This week: From ExactTarget , a free white paper called “ 3 Truths Every CMO Needs to Know About Social Media and the Customer Experience “ From Expion , a case study about how H&R Block mobilized 90,000 tax professionals in social media using Expion to guide their activity. The RSS feed is: [link]. Listen Now

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Social Media Activities Media Skype 144

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ultimately, as Olivier Blanchard has pointed out repeatedly , social media marketing has to demonstrate an ROI (though he acknowledges the questions have to be made more specific). But it’s crucial to the social media ROI debate to recognize that “R” is an end-of-the-process measure. Social media/network-referred traffic.

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Social Media Media Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

B2B Marketing Traction

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Now it’s about having the great web site, the content, the eLetter, plus a presence on social media. And, yes, technology exists to make your presence on social media easier and more cost-effective, but I never told anyone to be an automaton ! It’s really important to be human in your social media efforts.

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Social Media Media RSS Twitter 100

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 13, 2013

And from Expion , a free report on the top 50 retail brands’ social media use in 2013. The RSS feed is: [link]. We all know that the piece of content you write for Twitter doesn’t necessarily belong on Facebook, but that same mistake still happens constantly. Listen Now. Find us on iTunes: [link]. Tweetable Moments.

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Social Media Media Content Case Study 151

Customer Experience Matrix

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Social media is arguably overhyped as a marketing trend: it gets well under 10% of marketing budgets (different surveys have figures from 3% to 8%) and results are questionable (it was rated the least effective content marketing tactic in a recent MarketingProfs study ). But social is clearly growing fast and has great potential.

Marketing Automation Services 120

Marketing Automation Services Work Management Marketing Management Social Media 120

Webbiquity

AUGUST 25, 2010

Want to stay up-to-date on the latest social media news and thought-leadership commentary without visiting a gazillion different sites, relying on an RSS feed (or someone else’s filter) that inevitably misses important news, or following aggregation sites that regurgitate the same over-exposed content from a handful of popular sites?

Social Media 100

Social Media Media B2B Thought Leadership Digg 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 30, 2009

Many services started to pop up after that to create and host a social media news room for companies. But recently after writing Facebook Marketing for Dummies (due out in September by Wiley) it occurred to me why would I ever pay for that if I can create the same thing on Facebook for FREE! Think about it.

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Savanta

AUGUST 3, 2011

B2B social media; is it a case of the Emperor’s New Clothes? The social media Emperor is getting dressed, but is still in his underpants. B2B social media has reached the tipping point and in doing so it’s following the classic technology evolution curve. Social media is being used then, but how? There was a lot of talk.

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Advertising Benchmark Social Media Research Media 120

Webbiquity

JUNE 25, 2012

Sales leads generated through inbound marketing–the combination of content marketing, blogging, social media, website chat and SEM–cost 61% less than those produced through traditional demand generation techniques (e.g., Like a blog, each social media account is an appreciating asset. Photo credit: DIY Marketers.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Managing your social media workflow in the constant chatter of Tweets, Likes and Direct Messages can be tough. A social media manager’s work is never done and it seems like a new task gets added to your checklist every week. It is important to note that there is no shortcut of value in social media marketing. Daily Checklist.

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Social Media Optimization Media RSS 74

Convince & Convert

JULY 5, 2013

Janice Person , Social Media Director for Monsanto , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss dealing with controversy on social media, respecting transparency, and proactive versus reactive social media strategies. The RSS feed is: [link]. They work alongside media relations and branded communications.

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Social Media Media Brand Identity Branding 142

Convince & Convert

MAY 3, 2013

Beth Dockins , Director of Customer Service for Scott’s Miracle-Gro , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss Scotts approach to social media customer service, social media “tribes”, and how the Scotts brand has evolved to becoming an informational and educational company for lawn and garden owners.

Social Media 132

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Skype 132

Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

A typical day starts at 6am with answering the new email that came in over night and then some morning reading in my RSS reader (see photo of this mornings Google Reader). Share this on Facebook. Social Media speeds Onboarding I am officially up and running now in my. Tweet This! Share this on Linkedin. Share this on Reddit.

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Social Media Digg Media RSS 100

The Point

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In a recent post , the folks over at Silicon Angle applied their usual insightful analysis to the results of an industry survey by marketing automation company Pardot , a survey that reports fully 42 percent of respondents (all B2B Marketers) have failed to generate any leads from their social media campaigns. Here they are, in a nutshell: 1.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 2, 2013

Bryan Srabian , Director of Social Media for the San Francisco Giants , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss dedicating a physical space to social, basing an editorial calendar on the baseball game schedule, and how to handle rivalries in the Twittersphere. The RSS feed is: [link]. Bryan Srabian, The SF Giants @srabe.

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