How to Leverage Social Reviews The first step you need to take in order to increase your presence in public is to increase your influence by leaps and bounds. A greater influence means that you will have a better chance of spreading your material in addition to attracting more viewers. There are several ways through which you can do this. For example, you can opt to maintain a blog or create a product site which will enable prospective clients locate you with relative ease. The social media is the best way through which you can attract more attention. Facebook Image Credit: Depositphotos.com You can use Facebook to boost your career and get online reviews. Twitter With around two hundred and twenty five millions operators, doing 65 million tweets a day and managing over 800,000 hunt requests per day (as of May 2011), Twitter is the best tool to utilize when looking for a means to increase your presence online. Blogs How about a way of boosting your career where your opinions and thoughts matter a lot?
How to Use the New Pinterest, What Marketers Need to Know Are you up to date with all of the latest changes on Pinterest? Pinterest recently made several changes to their site. They modified some features, added new ones and even got rid of a few. In this article I’ll share what you need to know about these changes and the impact on your marketing strategies to make sure you continue to generate sales and leads through Pinterest. How to Switch to the New Look To get the new look, scroll over your business/profile name on the top right corner of your account. Click on Switch to the New Look to get the updated version. A pop-up will open up asking you if you are “Ready to switch for good?” Click on the red Get It Now button that appears. Another pop-up message will appear on your screen welcoming you to the new look. Accept the changes by clicking on the red Okay button. What Has Changed: Modifications, New Additions and Removals 1. The pins are bigger in the new look. 2. Categories used to be located in the center at the top. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1.
Twitter: 6 astuces qui vous aideront à développer votre réseau Twitter c’est plus de 284 millions d’utilisateurs actifs par mois. Au cours des dernières années, Twitter est devenu un média social grand public. Si vous débutez sur Twitter, voici quelques astuces qui vous aideront développer votre réseau. Twitter n’est plus un truc de Geek! Comment développer votre réseau sur Twitter? Quelques conseils lorsque vous débutez sur Twitter Ajoutez une photo de profil (très important).Complétez la section bio et ajoutez un lien URL qui pointe vers votre site Web.Publiez quelques messages avant de débuter la recherche de contacts (environ 10).Suivez des comptes qui ont une valeur ajoutée pour votre secteur d’activité.Retwittez les autres lorsque le contenu vous semble pertinent.Répondez lorsqu’un utilisateur vous interpelle.Réduisez les adresses URL avant de publier votre message (bit.ly).Signez vos messages lorsque vous publiez depuis un compte corporatif (^bd).Un message devrait contenir entre 115 et 125 caractères. #1 Soyez vous-même!
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Which Social Sites Are Best for Which Marketing Outcomes? [INFOGRAPHIC] Is Flickr good for SEO? Can Tumblr drive traffic? If these questions are part of your day-to-day work, hold onto your hats; here's an infographic that's actually useful for a change. If you're doing any social media marketing, here's something for your to print out and hang up near your desk as a handy point of reference. CMO.com, together with SEO firm 97th Floor, have created this chart showing which social networks are best for various organizational, CRM and marketing goals. For example, if you need massive pageviews for your site or a client's site, Facebook and Twitter are just so-so for referring their users to your content. When you think about best-in-class social media campaigns and true leaders in social media marketing, you realize that most of the time, creative and successful marketing teams pick a specific platform for a specific reason; this chart gives you the tip of the iceburg when it comes to making the right choice for your own company's or clients' campaigns.
16 Ways Teachers Use Pinterest Pinterest is growing in popularity in such a way that it presumably will be the top social bookmarking platform of choice for internet users in 2013. The visual concept Pinterest is built on is behind its popularity because the human mind is constructed in such a way to allow for easy and quicker processing of visual cues better than it does with the written code. To help teachers better leverage the educational potential of this social media outlet, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning created a separate section where we post tutorials, guides, and tips on how Pinterest can be used for educational purposes. Today I am sharing with you an awesome infographic on the 16 ways educators can use Pinterest. Check it out below and as always share with us your comments and don't forget to follow the Pinterest board of this blog .
27 Ways to Increase Engagement on Your Facebook Page x 0inShare 27 Ways to Increase Engagement on Your Facebook Page How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success. -Elbert Hubbard 6 ways to use Pinterest for storytelling I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of beautiful, sunny days with a few hundred of the best and brightest minds in communications last week at the Ragan's 6th Annual Social Media for PR and Corporate Communications Conference at the Walt Disney World Resort. The conference featured presentations from communications professionals at Disney Parks, The Phoenix Suns, Whole Foods, Google, ESPN, Southwest Airlines, Marvel, Microsoft and Zappos to name a few. I participated in a panel discussion about how brands can use Pinterest for storytelling. The panel featured Whole Foods' Michael Aaron Bepko, global online community manager; Samantha Hosenkamp, social media director for Ragan Communications; and Kevin Dando, director of marketing communications for PBS. As a supplement to the ideas I shared during the lively discussion, here are six tips brands can use to leverage Pinterest for brand storytelling: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Bonus: Here's a bonus tip for you. (Image via)
Take Twitter to the Next Level | Team Member Articles Written By: Lucy Welton, iContact Social Media Marketing Coordinator Internet Summit, the largest digital event in the Southeast, was recently held in Raleigh, N.C., and iContact was a sponsor. One of the most engaging and interesting presentations I attended was by Tammy Gordon, the director of social communication and strategy for AARP. Her presentation on how to take Twitter to the next level resonated with me, and I wanted to share the 10 tips that she recommended. Tip #1 Be funny and/or interesting. Tip #2 Tweet quotes and statistics, but keep them under 120 characters so people can retweet with ease. Tip#3 Find, follow, and talk to people who like to talk about what you like. Tip#4 Make influencer lists. Tip #5 Use a dashboard—this is helpful because you have the ability to schedule Facebook posts and tweets in the future. Tip #6 Go mobile! Tip #7 Tweet live events, and remember to use the hashtag for the event. Tip#8 Embed Twitter and Facebook into publications. Tip #9 Tip #10
How Teachers Use Pinterest WeAreTeachers recently conducted a survey of teachers' use of social media, including Pinterest—now the fastest-growing social media site. Here are some findings from public and private teachers nationwide. And be sure to visit our own Pinterest boards!