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Use Tweegram to Make Blog Posts Easier to Share on Pinterest

Make Your Blog Posts Pinterest-Friendly With Tweegram

Use a tool like Tweegram to visually convey your most important ideas on sites like Pinterest and Instagram.

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Comment on Your Brand’s Facebook Page as Yourself

I’ve been getting this question a bit more often lately, so I figured it might be easiest just to share it here. First, being able to switch how you use Facebook is a handy feature that has been available to Page admins for several months now. Previously, anytime an admin of a page left a [...]

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+1: Google’s Like Button (And Why You Should Update Your Profile NOW)

See that “thumbs up” button at the top of this post? It’s a big threat to Google’s search business, and a lot of people in the online marketing community have been waiting for Google to respond. Well, Google stepped further into more “social” search results this week by introducing their own version of the Facebook [...]

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Quora and Why Answering Questions is Good Business

If you’re looking for the “it” social media site of the moment, it’s apparently Quora. Named one of ten “websites to watch in 2011,” Quora is described as “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” People post questions, and other people answer them. A whole [...]

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Facebook Friday: What’s Your Deal?

Earlier this week, Facebook announced a number of new features, primarily focused on how people will interact with the site (and soon, many other websites) from their mobile devices. (You can get a complete rundown of all the announcements here.) Deals Come to Place Pages Undoubtedly, the feature that will have the greatest impact on [...]

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Tagging a Facebook Page from Your Facebook Page

How to use Facebook’s tagging feature to link to other business Pages and make your update appear on their Wall.

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Ad Review: Hail So Big It Will Smash Your Car

The parking lot on the north side of the Atlas Building in downtown Columbus is no stranger to unique billboards. The advertisement that is posted on the building now is no exception, so I wanted to take the opportunity to share it with you and get your take on it from the marketing perspective. The [...]

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#WhyWeCelebrate: How a Social Media Campaign Generated 330,000 Impressions

This is a guest post from Heather Whaling (@prtini) of Geben Communication, (yes, my wife) recapping our experience with #WhyWeCelebrate this past week. Last week, I blogged about #WhyWeCelebrate, asking you to join with us to honor the troops during the Independence Day holiday. Showing the true power of social media, you came through. In [...]

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Remember #WhyWeCelebrate

This weekend, many of us will be attending parades, picnics and fireworks and picnics to celebrate Independence Day. That’s fun (unless you’re not a fan of fireworks), but there are lots of people who won’t be here to join in the Fourth of July festivities. Regardless of your political affiliation, we’re all indebted to those [...]

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Forget the Numbers. Ask Better Questions.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve just about had it with social media presentations that focus on the big, impressive numbers. They’re virtually meaningless to the majority of marketers. Stop trying to sell your boss on social media by telling her that Facebook has almost 500 million users, and start focusing on real reasons [...]

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