Drunken Alberta man survives after he’s run over by 26 rail cars CALGARY — A drunken Alberta man who passed out on the train tracks was somehow uninjured after being run over by a train on Sunday evening. The man, from Crowsnest Pass, Alta., was spotted between the rails just outside of Elko in southeast British Columbia by the Canadian Pacific train conductor who sounded the horn and hit the emergency brakes. The train couldn’t stop in time and rode over the man. By the time it stopped, he was found by CP personnel under the 26th rail car. “The guy seemed to wake up and he got up, grabbed his beer and headed on his way,” said RCMP Sgt. Unbelievably, he avoided major injuries. “He’s of fairly slight stature and the train went completely over top of him. Canadian Pacific police are investigating and no charges have been laid against the man. “There’s been tragic stories in the past of people passing out on railway tracks and they lose limbs or their lives,” said Dubnyk. “I’ve never seen the likes of it. Crews will have access to counselling. Calgary Herald
INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now Top 10 Social Media Blog Finalists 2013: This Week in Social Media Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. Finalists: Top 10 Social Media Blogs 2012 We received over 750 nominations for our fourth-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs). The list of 24 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below. The judges: Our judges include Gini Dietrich (co-author, Marketing in the Round, founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich), Marcus Sheridan (co-owner of River Pools, founder of The Sales Lion) and Michael Stelzner (author, Launch, CEO of Social Media Examiner and host of the Social Media Marketing podcast). Here are the finalists (in alphabetical order): How We’ll Pick the Winners #1: Initial Qualification: A blog must have a strong social media focus and must have been nominated multiple times by multiple individuals. #2: Final Winner Selection Quality of posts: Our judges will examine and score the quality of posts on each blog. Congratulations to the finalists!
25 Ways to Create Contagious Content [Infographic] 253Share 445Share 3.9KTweet 360Share 1.1KShare 360inShare Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing 25 Ways to Create Contagious Content [Infographic] Written by Jeff Bullas - 23 Comments Categories: Content Marketing, Social Media, Social Media Marketing Content is the foundation for blogs and websites. The range and type of content that is available on a social web is extensive and includes multimedia such as videos, images and infographics and of course plain old simple text. Content can achieve different objectives including 1. 2. 3. 4. The challenge is to come up with the ideas and the content that people find valuable and want to share. 25 Content Creation Tips Here are some ideas to help you create content that I have often applied myself. 1. Compile a list of 10 favourite blog posts from other blogs. 2. Ask your friends and colleagues for ideas. 3. Don’t be afraid to ask your readers for ideas. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. People love to hear about the latest products or apps. 9. 10. 11. 12. 23. 24. 25.
Facebook To Buy Opera? Maybe. Here's What We Hear. 12 Most Pressing Reasons to Get Your Company Using Social Media “How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” ~ Seth Godin • If Facebook were a country it would be the world’s third largest country. • Facebook has 750 million users. These people are your potential customers and you can reach them on social media, because that’s where they are spending their time! 1. People are talking about your business on social media weather or not you are present on social media. 2. You can easily share any information with your followers. 3. Get started now. 4. Someone else could register with a social media site and use your company’s name. 5. Your customers are talking about you on social media and no one is there to react to the conversation. 6. Social media is the new way to provide customer service. 7. 8. Social media can assist your company when hiring new employees. 9. 10. 11. 12.
31 Must-Read Social Media Blog Posts What were the best social media articles you read in the last 12 months? Did you find any particularly useful for your business? We asked our writers to share their favorite social media blog posts. Here are 31 blog posts worth exploration. #1: The 16 Most Important Social Media Updates of 2012 Kristi Hines This post includes some major updates to the top social media networks this year. Although it doesn’t mention the changes to LinkedIn professional profiles, it covers the main things businesses need to know about changes to their social media. The 16 Most Important Social Media Updates of 2012. Kristi Hines, freelance writer, professional blogger and social media enthusiast. #2: Content Marketing Manifesto Leo Widrich If there’s any one piece of content that has truly transformed my thinking about blogging in 2012, it’s Rand Fishkin’s Content Marketing Manifesto. After coming across his slideshow, we went ahead and had a company meeting brainstorming it. Leo Widrich, co-founder of BufferApp.
13 Tips to Find Time to Blog “How do you find time to blog?” is a question I’m often asked. For me, the answer is simple. I practice writing regularly. Understand that every blogger starts blogging like they’re on fire. When you first begin blogging, your initial passion drives you forward. As time go by, however, you can start to run out of ideas and if your blog is successful, you’re busier. Break blogging tasks into smaller chunks. As a blogger, use a variety of these methods to produce your blog posts in smaller chunks of content that you can write in short periods of time. What’s your favorite tip for finding time to create a blog post? Happy marketing, Heidi Cohen Here are related articles in which you may be interested. Here’s Mack Collier’s input on Finding Time to Blog. Photo credit:
Google Sued in Brazil, Lawyers Answer with Risotto Recipe Google’s lawyers accidentally included a risotto recipe in an appeal submitted to Brazil’s Superior Court of Justice (STJ), the Brazilian website G1 reports. Here’s the offending document as published by G1: We checked for ourselves, and can confirm it happened, as proven by an official authorization to withdraw the page that contains “a risotto recipe” from the filing, “since it doesn’t belong and is not related to the present process.” Fun apart, this story is a good example of the legal risks Google incurs in Brazil. As we reported, the Brazilian Federal Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit against Twitter for hosting accounts that warn of traffic controls, while a local judge heavily fined Google’s subsidiary a few months ago when it refused to reveal the identities of three bloggers.
www.jeffbullas.com/2010/07/16/how-to-write-a-mind-blowing-headline-for-twitter/ The latest Twitter statistics show that Twitters growth last year was over 1,300% with the latest numbers revealed by Twitter at their Chirp conference for developers in April showing Total number of users at 105 million (12 months ago that number was 8 million) Twitter received 180 million unique visitors a month to its website. Twitter is a great way to promote and market your content and the challenge with Twitter for business marketers is that you only have 140 characters to get your message across and your link clicked on. So what are the important elements in creating and writing a “great headline” and why is it so important? Why is a headline important? Tests have shown that you can increase your conversion rate on a website or a link by 73% by the use of a compelling headline.Did you know that on average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will go on to read the rest of the copy. 1. Example: “The Secret To Getting More Money For Your Property!” 2. 3.
7 Ways to Increase Your Blog Visibility With Social Sharing Are you looking to drive more traffic to your blog content? Social sharing is critical. But how can you make your content as shareable as possible? Follow this process, and consider the following 7 tips. #1: Identify Your Most Popular Posts and Keywords Take stock of your current content. Look at your top content and keywords in Google Analytics. Examine what isn’t getting shared and start to think about how you can replicate the success of the proven winners. You can also discover your top shared content with social sharing plugins such as Shareaholic. #2: Track and Leverage Trends Know what is top-of-mind for readers. This is where all that “listen first” stuff you hear all the time comes into play. Here are some free tools that will make your listening efforts more efficient: LinkedIn Today—this is a great tool, especially for B2B bloggers. Once you’ve identified the conversations that are happening, you should think of a way to use that information for a shareable blog post. Congrats!
Blogging for Business: How Content Can Improve Your Sales Are you wondering how a blog can help your business? Are you trying to figure out how content can improve your sales? To learn more about the connection of blogging and content marketing, I interview Marcus Sheridan 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. The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting). In this episode, I interview Marcus Sheridan, founder of The Sales Lion and author of the ebook Inbound and Content Marketing Made Easy. Marcus shares insights into the struggles marketers have to get results from business blogging. Share your feedback, read the show notes and get the links mentioned in this episode below! Listen Now Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed You can also subscribe via iTunes, RSS, Stitcher or Blackberry. What blogging is today
TripAdvisor Trend Data Sees UK Accommodation Improvement Travel rating and review site, TripAdvisor has released a summary of its trend data. The latest update shows an eight year increase in UK service standards, not a bad report card as Britain prepares for an influx of visitors for the Olympics and Jubilee celebrations. The report summary notes the rather quirky nature of accommodation in the UK as presented by mainstream media. The good news is that the average review rating on UK properties according to TripAdvisor are now rated among the best in Europe. The review ratings are collected by TripAdvisor from travellers around the globe. The data also revealed the difference in consumer review ratings across the English counties, with properties in the South West and the North of England scoring particularly highly. The five English counties with the highest average TripAdvisor rating for hotels and B&Bs are Cumbria, Cornwall, Northumberland, Devon and Somerset. It’s notable that London does not feature on that list.