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These days, it’s no secret that high-quality images are important for any marketing strategy, particularly when it comes to social media. Images not only help brands stand out in busy social news feeds, but they also boost engagement and build brand awareness—and their importance is growing.
According to a WebDAM infographic, 84% of all communication will be visual by 2018. So, there’s no better time than the present to ensure you’re creating and sharing top-notch imagery. And that starts with following sizing best practices for each channel.
To help you do just that, below is a quick cheat sheet for sizing your images for optimal impact, complete with dimensions and some examples. In addition, you’ll also find some helpful tools that can help your resize, edit or create images....
Do you want more people to join your LinkedIn group?
Are you looking for tips to get more exposure for your group?
LinkedIn groups are a great way to generate leads and increase influence within an engaged community.
In this article, you’ll discover five ways to quickly build a larger membership for your LinkedIn grouP....
For many, social media is simply a place to post links to content they've created in hopes that thousands will see it, click through, and share with their followers. So they have profiles on every network, and every network looks exactly the same; line after line of self-promotion. This is not going to bring results. Social marketing is a lot of work, and it takes time listening and responding. It's social, and anything social takes an investment of effort and skill. Check out these 41 resources that will help you develop the skills needed to be effective on social media. You may want to bookmark this post so you can easily refer to it again later....
Let's step back and look at the basics.
Maybe there's a way to make your job easier AND more effective.
Maybe there's a way to have more fun, make more money and realize a greater return on investment from the Facebook business Pages you manage.
Here's a 5-minute guide to developing a Facebook posting strategy that works!...
Content marketing is hard. But it doesn’t have to be boring.Lately I’ve been trying my hand at testing smart little tactics — or what I call “hacks” — to get better results out of the content marketing strategy I oversee. And I’ve been amazed at what tiny, innovative tests can do to drive some serious results. Plus, it’s pretty fun!
I was first inspired by researching the idea of “growth hacking” for a presentation I’ve done at a couple of conferences called, in short, “Hacking Human” … which doesn’t involve body parts and machetes, I swear. The gist of it is that marketers can optimize their content for what humans want and are looking for online, and then use growth hacking principles to test their assumptions and get the most out of their efforts....
You've taken a looksee into social media marketing. You tremble. It looks about as comfortable as swimming the seas to another continent. You feel you'll drown. Or get munched on by the sharks who call it home.
Take a deep breath. I have just the thing for you. Actually, I have a couple of things.
You can get 17 fundamental tips in the form of a blog post and SlideShare-style eBook here. However, to present these early steps into your social media marketing journey as simple as I possibly can, I want you to blast through this infographic, “The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Social Media Marketing.”..
...But we all know that the buying journey doesn't end once someone's received a free ebook -- and your content shouldn't, either. To be successful, content that helps your company close more customers needs to be different than your typical marketing-focused content. But what does that actually mean? How do you make content that'll help your company sell?
Doug Kessler, famous for his previous SlideShare presentations on the crap content deluge and the meaning in B2B marketing, has put together the following presentation to help answer those questions. Flip through it to learn how you can make your content less about marketing and more about selling -- without being spammy about it....
With more than 70 million registered users and 20 million monthly active users, Pinterest is a force to be reckoned with in the world of social networking. Here's an infographic from coschedule that shows why it is so important to you as a social media marketer, and how you can reach this powerful audience.
2 key stats: 1. A recent study of more than 1 million headlines reveals that Pinterest accounts for an astounding 90 percent of all social media shares. 2. Pinterest heavily favors topics and Pins that related to Food (52 percent), Home (18 percent) and lifestyle (15 percent)...
What to do when social media is not working. Reevaluate your social media tactics with these tips to find and engage with your audience on social media.
Brands are increasingly employing content marketing strategies to generate product awareness and drive demand. Keyword-optimized blog posts, white papers, press releases, articles, and social media content create brand awareness, inspire audience engagement, and move customers through the sales funnel from initial consideration to purchase. But how do you measure the success of each of your targeted activities?
The team at Brandpoint, a leading provider of content-based marketing solutions, helps their clients get their brand message out, establish their thought leadership and credibility within their industries. Here’s how they suggest that you track your content marketing success....
When it comes to Pinterest, many brands aren’t quite sure how to turn boards and pins into followers and potential customers. However, now more than ever it is important not to overlook this image sharing social network.
Pinterest users have proven that they trust their Pinterest networks to endorse solid products. These people trust their networks so much, in fact, that 47% of U.S. online consumers have made a purchase based on recommendations from Pinterest.
Pinterest also generates 4x more revenue per click than Twitter and 27% more per click than Facebook.There are a few brands, however, who have figured out the business potential of Pinterest. See how these 5 brands have been using it to the fullest...
Kahlua was brand new to Pinterest but the most recent holiday campaign resulted in some long-tail success, including getting consumers to think of Kahlua in a whole new way.
When it came to holiday preparation, Pinterest became a big stress reliever. And no wonder, right? There are so many recipes and other DIY solutions available on the site. For Kahlua, this was the perfect time to run a Pinterest-based campaign and build brand awareness.
The campaign was a sweepstakes wherein followers were entered by pinning their favorite Kahlua inspired recipe. For a brand so new to Pinterest, the results were pretty astounding: 16,000 new email subscribers, 3,800 new Pinterest followers — up from 267 the previous month — and more than 10,000 contest related pins....
People watch YouTube videos because they are entertaining, educational or just plain funny. Viewers turn up to your Slideshare account and take the time to view a presentation because the content is compelling. LinkedIn works well for personal branding because you are providing answers to your peers to questions in the Q&A section and providing updates that answers problems, informs and educates.
Twitter teases you to click on links that are engaging blog posts or news that is topical and timely. The knowledge economy is all about the content. Facebook is where your audience is online so content needs to be posted and updated to the social giants ecosystem.
So here are 50 synergistic social media marketing tips and tactics to market your content and ideas and help them to spread to a global audience....
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Do you want to build visibility on LinkedIn? Discover five free ways to showcase yourself and your work to the people you want to connect with on LinkedIn.
You want to be writing the right content, right?
I mean, if you're not getting anything out of your blog, why are you (or your content creators) spending hours researching, writing and formatting?
This article will break down the 10 most important pieces of content and how they can be used in combination to attract readers, generate leads, nurture those leads into signups and those signups into upgrades....
Many influencers talk about the 80/20 rule: you should spend 20% of your time creating content and 80% of your time promoting it. Although I think this ratio really depends on your job, needs and company, it does capture one thing: if you write amazing content but don’t shout out your did so, no one will hear you.
And as far as promoting your blog goes, you can pick and choose on the list above the items that make most sense to your company. If for instance you work for a very technical B2B company and your target audience is above 50 years old, you might want to consider investing in LinkedIn rather than Facebook, leverage influencers and invest time in guest blogging. It all really depends on your audience, where they are and what they care about.
There is one very important point I’d like to add to this infographic: it’s not content repurposing (which I thing is one of the leanest way to do content marketing, it saves an incredible amount of time), it’s content recycling....
Before I joined Buffer, I barely had a Twitter account.
It existed by its lonesome for a few years as a placeholder for the day when my work allowed me to tweet freely. That day came when I had the privilege to join up with the Buffer team, and I dove right in, applying all the Twitter knowledge I had stowed away. And still, even with a running start, I had so much to learn.
Knowledge seldom takes the place of experience. So while I muddled through my first few weeks on Twitter—experimenting and fiddling—I noticed the many things I could have only learned by doing. Here are the big ones. Call them Twitter tips for beginners.
Maybe you can relate to some?...
You’re asking all the right questions…
- How long should an email subject line be?
- How long should your blog post be?
- How long should your [Insert digital content here] be?
Buffer surveyed, tested, and measured to find the ideal length of everything online (including your email subject lines), and then they put it into a nifty infographic for you.
So I asked heavy hitters in different fields to weigh in on Buffer’s results… and then some. These experts are expanding on the ideal length of social content with their own tips and strategies for maximizing the space you have....
From stock photography to graphs, charts, and infographics, the types of images you can use to illustrate your blog posts are numerous. The question is: what types of images should you use?
I decided to analyze 41 blogs within different industries to help determine what types of images generate most social shares. This way you’ll know what kind of graphics you should use in order to generate the most traffic.Here’s what I learned....
...And according to Social Media Examiner, 97% of marketers are currently participating in social media—but 85% of participants aren’t sure what social media tools are the best to use.
This demonstrates a huge potential for social media marketing to increase sales, but a lack of understanding on how to achieve those results. Here’s a look at just some of the ways social media marketing can improve your business...
I’m finally getting around to watching the recordings from Social Media Marketing World 2014 and these notes came from the presentation by Todd Wheatland. 
Why use SlideShare?
You can get a huge number of leads for only $19/month (pro-version) SlideShare gets 60 Million visitors/month (your website does not) SlideShare has great SEOThe primary intent of SlideShare users is business (as compared to YouTube for Facebook)....
Brands are increasingly focusing their efforts on using distinct imagery to educate and engage their audiences. A picture really is worth a thousand words and Pinterest, the online pinboard, has taken center stage. Shareholic reports that Pinterest is second only to Facebook when it comes to driving referral traffic. The lifespan of a pin is the longest of any social media post, which is why it’s important to manage your Pinterest account to your best advantage....
Want a quick & easy way to connect with influential people on Twitter? This blog shows you 2 easy ways to find top influencers on Twitter.
Are you trying to get more Twitter followers? Are you not getting any response to your Tweets? My bet is you're making at least 1 of these 8 mistakes....
The first thing you need to understand before you think of marketing on Facebook is the unique opportunities it offers and the basic difference between this and other media. Like you would never use a radio commercial for a TV ad, you cannot market on Facebook, the way you use other media for advertising.
Facebook is not a platform for ‘hard sell’People perceive Facebook as a platform when they share their stories, jokes, videos and generally relax. Therefore to appeal to this group you too have to join in their conversations rather than act like an outsider who has come to sell something aggressively...
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Practical image tools and tips to help bloggers and content marketers get better results.