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21 Social Media & Content Marketing Tips Tailored For Small Businesses | Heidi Cohen

21 Social Media & Content Marketing Tips Tailored For Small Businesses | Heidi Cohen | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Social media and content marketing are must haves for any business. This need is more important among small and mid-size businesses where additional marketing requires a trade-off for other scare resources. ...

 

Due to this time crunch, small businesses tend to move from one business fire to another without fully thinking through a longer-term marketing plan to support business growth. UMass Dartmouth’s research, "2012 Inc 500 Social Media Settles In", supports this point in terms of social media. The research found that about three out five small and medium size businesses couldn’t track financial results for their social media efforts.

 

As a small or medium-sized businesses person you know that it can be difficult to find the time to brainstorm marketing initiatives – specifically social media, content and search marketing initiatives that you can track.

 

Here are seven questions you can ask about your small business marketing efforts. By answering these questions, you can direct your time and resources to where they’ll yield the best results....

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Seven great actionable social marketing tips from Heidi Cohen.

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5 Tips to Get Your CEO On Social Media | Heidi Cohen

5 Tips to Get Your CEO On Social Media | Heidi Cohen | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Despite their corporate standing, CEOs aren’t on social media, according toBrandFog’s 2013 CEO, Social Media, and Leadership Survey. These findings echo earlier research by The 2012 Fortune 500 Social CEO Index that found 70% of the Fortune 500 CEOs had no presence on social media!

Why are CEOs missing from social media? They’re afraid of making a PR misstep or they don’t think it’s worth their time despite the fact that customers believe that CEOs who are on social media are more trustworthy....

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Much more research, insight and useful C-level social media strategies from Heidi Cohen.

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Smart #some: Google+ Becoming New Way to Prevent Bad Press | Social Media Design

Smart #some: Google+ Becoming New Way to Prevent Bad Press | Social Media Design | Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight | Scoop.it

Let’s start with a test: type Coca Cola into the magic Google form. The results are just a calibrated mix of brand websites and PR initiatives such as micro-sites, social media accounts, news, images and videos.

 

One new feature you might notice however, is the latest introductions to Google+ – the authorship mark-up. Among its functions as a social media platform, is that the authorship system makes it possible to connect online journalists’ Google+ profiles into their published articles.

 

In turn it provides journalists with abnormal ranking power for articles they are signing off on, using their Google+ profile These can quickly build up ranking levels proportionally to the importance of their publishers and to the number of people in their Google+ circles. Journalists with a high number of Google+ followers are gaining huge visibility online and their articles can jump straight....

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A very useful social media strategy to consider when managing online reputation.

Tim O'Keefe's curator insight, February 6, 2013 11:44 AM

Social Media is Reputation Management and Reputation management is Social Media.

Pedro Barbosa's curator insight, February 6, 2013 12:21 PM

Pedro Barbosa | www.harvardtrends.com | www.pbarbosa.com

Jeff Domansky's comment, February 6, 2013 1:29 PM
Totally agree Tim. Google+ is a nice potential addition to the social media toolbox for many reasons.