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LinkedIn hits 200 million members from more than 200 countries

LinkedIn hits 200 million members from more than 200 countries | SM | Scoop.it
LinkedIn on Wednesday announced it has passed a huge milestone: 200 million members and counting. The company wouldn't reveal exactly when it crossed the threshold, but it did say that ...
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Facebook Users in Arab World 2013 | Visual.ly

Facebook Users in Arab World 2013 | Visual.ly | SM | Scoop.it
Facebook Users Arab Countries March 2013, along with some statistics of penetration
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How to Use Facebook Graph Search to Learn About Your Fans

How to Use Facebook Graph Search to Learn About Your Fans | SM | Scoop.it
Want to learn more about your Facebook Fans? Use Graph Search. Here are 14 searches for you to try out!
Rania Alahmad's curator insight, June 18, 5:13 PM

Facebook Graph Search can be an excellent tool for brands to learn more about who their Fans are and what other things they like.

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Social Media Strategy in 8 steps – an infographic /@BerriePelser

Social Media Strategy in 8 steps – an infographic /@BerriePelser | SM | Scoop.it
Social Media Strategy in 8 steps – an infographic though social media continues to thread

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WordPress SEO & Social Media's curator insight, June 15, 3:42 AM

Social Media Strategy in 8 steps – an infographic /@BerriePelser

David Hain's curator insight, June 17, 2:53 AM

Nice short and to the point infographic.

Denyse Drummond-Dunn's curator insight, June 18, 8:58 AM

This may be short and colourful, but it packs eight essential elements it's worth thinking about - hard!

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The Real Deal with 3rd Party Facebook Publishing Tools

The Real Deal with 3rd Party Facebook Publishing Tools | SM | Scoop.it
Not only do third party publishing tools not negatively impact your Facebook page performance, they provide benefits that Facebook natively cannot.
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10 Lessons From Steve Jobs That Every Marketer Must Learn

10 Lessons From Steve Jobs That Every Marketer Must Learn | SM | Scoop.it
Lessons from the greatest marketer ever will help us all do our jobs better.
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How To Create Amazing Facebook Cover Pictures For Your Timeline

How To Create Amazing Facebook Cover Pictures For Your Timeline | SM | Scoop.it
The Facebook cover photo crowns your Timeline. You can choose a stunning photograph and keep it simple or create an eye-catching composition. No place on Facebook is better suited to show off your creativity and express your personality than this.
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Why Every Brand Needs Custom Social Media Marketing

Why Every Brand Needs Custom Social Media Marketing | SM | Scoop.it
It’s important for brands to market in a customized manner. This infographic shares the importance of custom social media marketing.

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Ali Anani's curator insight, June 5, 1:12 AM

Interesting insights on social marketing

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21 Content Types We Crave [Infographic]

21 Content Types We Crave [Infographic] | SM | Scoop.it
If your content doesn't resonate with your audience, then they won't follow you where you want to take them. Here's a list of ideas for creating 21 types of content we all crave.

 

MARTY

Great infographic that reminds us not all content is equal. Some content starts with more viral potential than other content. Not surprising to see content that is more "craved" is about dreams, nostalgia and love. 

Oh, and the life is short stuff, somethig I know all too well :).  


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10 Ways to Measure Twitter Audience Beyond Follower Count | Simply Measured

10 Ways to Measure Twitter Audience Beyond Follower Count | Simply Measured | SM | Scoop.it
Follower count is an important metric for measuring the performance of a growing audience on Twitter, but too often it's the only audience metric that marketers
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Facebook Ads vs Promoted Posts: A Side-by-Side Comparison — socialmouths

Facebook Ads vs Promoted Posts: A Side-by-Side Comparison — socialmouths | SM | Scoop.it
Confused about the different methods of Facebook advertising? We are comparing Facebook Ads vs Promoted Posts side by side
Hooriya Hussain's curator insight, May 30, 5:36 AM

Be Clear - Facebook Ads. vs. Promoted Posts #Facebook 

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How Social Media Expert Guy Kawasaki Manages His Social Media

How Social Media Expert Guy Kawasaki Manages His Social Media | SM | Scoop.it

How I Post—A Social-Media Core Dump. By Guy Kawasaki. Many people ask me how I manage my social media accounts (and others make stuff up rather than figure out what I do). Here are the gory, inside-story details


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WendySoucie's curator insight, May 29, 6:30 AM

Some useful ideas around curation and content sourcing

Mike Ellsworth's curator insight, May 29, 5:21 PM

In short, here are Guy Kawasaki's social media methods:

 

Twitter: Mostly generated from the headlines of HolyKaw stories, four times, eight hours apart; contributions via Google+ and Facebook; and manual promotional tweets.

 

Google+: Me only. Think of me as the Mike Rowe of Google+ — I’m willing to do the “dirty jobs.”

 

Pinterest: Peg Fitzpatrick acting as me.

 

Facebook and LinkedIn: Virtual assistant reposting some of my Google+ posts.

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5 Keys to Building a Solid Brand Reputation Online

5 Keys to Building a Solid Brand Reputation Online | SM | Scoop.it

1. Your Brand’s Voice First Don’t jump out of the gate pushing your products and services on every social media channel known to man. Most companies are used to push, push, and more push. Social media doesn't run that way.

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15 Actionable Takeaways From Social Media Marketing World 2013 | Social Media Examiner

15 Actionable Takeaways From Social Media Marketing World 2013 | Social Media Examiner | SM | Scoop.it
Social media marketing: learn from some experts from Social Media Marketing World 2013 how you can improve your social media marketing strategy. (Didnt have a chance to attend #smmw13?

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The 10 New Rules for SEO

The 10 New Rules for SEO | SM | Scoop.it

To facilitate Social Media SEO optimization…

Include social buttons on every page of your site, and in all blog posts, press releases, and outbound communication.
 Focus on the channels your customers use. It’s better to do a thorough job in just one often-visited channel than poorly in three.
 Keep in mind that Google has made it clear that social signals play a role in its algorithm; Google+ is going to have the biggest role in your ranking.

Read more at: http://www.business2community.com/seo/the-10-new-rules-for-seo-0518641


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Bill Morgan's curator insight, Today, 8:17 AM

Being seen is essential. Here's how to optimize search engines

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Think like your audience to improve #SEO. #SocialMedia #Marketing

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Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 | TechCrunch

Source: Instagram Will Get Video On June 20 | TechCrunch | SM | Scoop.it
We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely.
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A Guide for Optimizing Your LinkedIn Company Page

A Guide for Optimizing Your LinkedIn Company Page | SM | Scoop.it
Here's a handy guide to setting up and optimizing your LinkedIn company page. It has the specs you need for character limits, images and more.

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Ken Dickens's curator insight, June 16, 3:05 PM

Does your non-profit have a Linked-in Page?  If not, start one using this guide for two reasons:  1.  Prospective staff use Linked-in to find jobs 2. Business people who are prospective donors use Linked-in too.

 

- Ken

 

www.2080nonprofits.org

Ali Anani's curator insight, June 18, 12:15 AM

A must reading as companies must have an efficient LinkedIn page

Ramzi Mouakassa's curator insight, June 18, 10:37 AM

Topline yet interesting...

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ENGAGEMENT - 4 Ways To Boost Social Engagement And Put Some Zing Into Your Marketing

ENGAGEMENT - 4 Ways To Boost Social Engagement And Put Some Zing Into Your Marketing | SM | Scoop.it
Whether you've been working on your social marketing for a while and feel like it needs a little oomph, or you're just starting out and aren't sure how to get anyone interested in what you have to say, these four ideas will get your creative...

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Ally Greer's curator insight, June 11, 3:06 PM

Love the notion of "creating irrelevant controversy."

Peg Corwin's comment, June 11, 3:11 PM
I am amazed by how powerful talking directly to one person on social media is. I did, and now she is one of my most active FB Fans.
Ramzi Mouakassa's curator insight, June 15, 7:50 AM

You can really add alot of 'Zing' to your social media and it won't cost you a 'thing', besides being actually social and a bit witty. I like this bit as it is light and makes sense. Cheers

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Top Ten Ways To Improve Your Facebook Reach

Top Ten Ways To Improve Your Facebook Reach | SM | Scoop.it
Facebook fan page owners rarely get one 100% of their fans to see the page posts. Post reach could be as low as 2%. So, how do you overcome this?
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Top 5 Viral Posts and Why They Were the Most Successful

Top 5 Viral Posts and Why They Were the Most Successful | SM | Scoop.it
  This is a training tutorial Guest Post from Facebook Fan Page Expert Chris Hughes. Chris has stumbled upon a secret to building fan pages ranging fr ...

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What Is Digital Marketing?

What Is Digital Marketing? | SM | Scoop.it

It’s a pretty expansive question, but let’s try and sum it up in a single sentence: digital marketing is the promotion of brands using all forms of digital advertising, which includes, but is not limited to, websites, search engine optimisation, search engine marketing, cost per click advertising and social media. Without digital marketing, it’s almost impossible for any brand to make any kind of impact on the web. And while these tools aren’t difficult to learn per se, they do require time and effort to make them work well and efficiently.

 

Moreover, it’s likely that they will never be mastered, as they’re shifting and evolving all of the time. All you can really do is borrow as much knowledge as you possibly can for this moment… and then keep on learning. The infographic below takes a closer look at digital marketing....


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Hugo Araújo Lázare's curator insight, June 1, 5:57 PM

SOCIAL NETWORK MANAGEMENT INFO

Caroline Christalleyes's curator insight, June 1, 11:07 PM

the use of new media to market a brand/product/organization and so on.

Chandan Gupta's curator insight, June 2, 10:34 AM

It is found that one gets maximum coverage within the limited budget once we switch to the digital marketing. Most of us think that it is useless, But once the switching is done in web there is drastic change. Moreover S/He has to choose the good social media.

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SEO Ranking Factors Visualized: The Top 200 Criteria Used by Google To Rank Web Sites

SEO Ranking Factors Visualized: The Top 200 Criteria Used by Google To Rank Web Sites | SM | Scoop.it
SEO itself has always been somewhat of a barrier to entry for online success. In other words, for a new person it's so complex that it takes a long time to

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metataggsolutions's curator insight, June 7, 5:01 AM

As days passing, Google’s ranking algorithm becomes more complex and volatile. The days were gone when Google just considered meta tags and backlinks for web page ranking but now it uses at least 200 ranking factors in their algorithm.

 

Google now considers every corner of on-site and off-site when it comes to rank a website or webpage in search engine.

 

This infographic definitely helps to get an idea of what should be considered in the website optimization process. Truly great infographic.....

Mohammed Lakhlili's curator insight, June 7, 5:59 PM

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I'm super excited about writing this to you. This is

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and I know you will see that this is the first time you

have ever seen anything like this before.

Ian Herculson has just released a new service called

Smart Subscriber, where he's full on promising you

that if you just 'try it out' that he will in fact make

you money as an affi.liate mar.keter...

... BEFORE you have to pay anything.

Yes I know, that's insanely good, but it's for real

and you can read how he's successfully pulling this off

here:

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Ian is actually backing up this pretty bold claim too

in 3 unheard of ways. Read this...

First of all, you don't have to pay anything up front

to get started. No credit card, no paypal, no nothing.

Just sign up and go. No tricks here, Who does that?

Second, he's giving you enough time to really see for

real that it will work. How much time?

- Not just 7 days

- Not only 14 days

- Not a measly 30 days

- Not even an insane 60 days

You will get a full 90 days; yes 3 freaking months for

nothing where Ian will be making you a constant stream

of commi.ssions without asking for anything back. Tell

me where you've seen that before... no where.

Third and most importantly, Ian is putting his mo.ney

where his mouth is and giving away all commi.ssions that

normally he would make to once and for all prove that he

can make you mon.ey with Smart Subscriber before ever

asking you to pay for his service. Whhaaat!

Think about what was just said {FIRSTNAME}. In short;

Ian is going to give you a no obligations 90 Day Fr.ee

Trial of Smart Subscriber where he will make you mon.ey

through affi.liate comm.issions just to prove his service

is worth paying for!

You cannot lose here {FIRSTNAME}, and I'm sorry to be

so blunt but you would seriously be a complete idiot not

to just try it with that strong of a promise.

Here's where you can go get more information and see

how it all works or get started.

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Richard Stadler's curator insight, June 14, 6:08 AM

The secrets are out!

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Social Media Revolution | Social Media Today

Social Media Revolution | Social Media Today | SM | Scoop.it
Social media has grown to much more than an avenue for teenage ramblings about what they had for dinner.
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26 Ways to Create Social Media Engagement With Content Marketing | Social Media Examiner

26 Ways to Create Social Media Engagement With Content Marketing | Social Media Examiner | SM | Scoop.it
Social Media Engagement: how to use content to nurture engagement with your audience in a way that's easy and manageable.
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Twitter Analytics Tools: 3 Tools to help your business

Twitter Analytics Tools: 3 Tools to help your business | SM | Scoop.it

There are some fantastic twitter analytic tools that will help you maximize the benefit from using twitter. In this article Kristi gives us 3 great ones that are worth checking out. Ready to get deeper insights into your Twitter activity, hashtags, and trends in order to enhance your Twitter marketing? If so, then these three Twitter analytics tools will be the perfect fit!...


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Ali Anani's curator insight, May 28, 12:16 AM

There are so many available tools. The selected tools here are among the best.

Chris Agro's curator insight, May 28, 11:46 AM

Learn more about your followers on Twitter.

Doug Hecker's curator insight, May 28, 6:58 PM

Twitter can make a difference in your business, here are some anyaltics to help get a better picture of looking at the data.

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Facebook Ads Conversion Tracking: How to Create an Offsite Pixel

Facebook Ads Conversion Tracking: How to Create an Offsite Pixel | SM | Scoop.it
Want to measure ROI of your Facebook ad campaigns? You need to set up an Offsite Pixel to track conversions. Read or watch this step-by-step tutorial.
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Tapping into the minds of your audience: The psychology of social media

Tapping into the minds of your audience: The psychology of social media | SM | Scoop.it
Many digital marketers make a common error from the outset when planning their content marketing campaigns.

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David Blundell's curator insight, May 24, 5:29 AM

 Do you understand what motivates your audience to interact with your social media presence? You need to know . . .