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More advice from new #bloggers
A year ago I shared advice from my social media class, 4 weeks into blogging about how to succeed at blogging. I am back, this time with advice from new bloggers 6 weeks into their new passion! I think that … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Content, Higher education, Social Media Marketing, Teaching SMM, Uncategorized
Tagged Advice from new bloggers, Blog, Blog tips, blogging, Student blogs
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A Coffee Conversation with a Social Marketer
A while back my daughter and I were having coffee with Caitlyn Scaggs, the founder of Blue Mobius Marketing. At the spur of the moment, I had Kiki record a snippet of the conversation on blogging and content marketing. I … Continue reading
Advice from New Bloggers
The students in my social media marketing classes have been blogging for 4 weeks. I asked for tips or tricks on blogging, using WordPress, or sharing content, based on their experience. Here are their 26 ideas. Continue reading
Effective Titles: Once more with feeling!
Titles drive the engagement of a blog post. Established bloggers such as Jeff Bullas suggest that you spend just as much time on producing the title as you do writing your post. Continue reading
Content Shock Illustrated
Mark Schaefer wrote an insightful post about Content Shock two years ago, explaining that a glut of content from hundreds of millions of blogs and websites was testing everyone’s capacity for attention. Therefore content marketing might be an unsustainable strategy … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Content, Digital Marketing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Media Marketing
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#Cluetrain Derailed!
The Cluetrain is derailed.
Last Spring Adage pronounced that “There is no more social media marketing: just advertising… The idealistic end to business as usual, as “The Cluetrain Manifesto” envisioned, never happened… After a promising start — a glimmer of hope — we’re back to business as usual.”
My first social media marketing class was Spring 2012. I proclaimed that “marketers must drop the megaphone – broadcasting or shouting at customers and prospects is dead! We must engage and have a CONVERSATION.” Our group projects were to work with organizations to show them how to have that conversation….
Tomorrow I will face two new sections of my SMM class.
I require them to be Google AdWord certified. Continue reading
Essential Social Platforms for College Seniors
Yesterday I surveyed the sixty students, generally seniors majoring in marketing or communications, about which social media sites were important to them. I asked two questions:
What are your three most used social media platforms in order, and
What ONE social media platform is most important – the one you would keep if you had to have only one? Continue reading
Extended Posts on LinkedIn
Have you tried the new extended post feature on LinkedIn? What has been your experience? What are your concerns?? Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Content, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Media Marketing
Tagged blogging on LinkedIn, google, LinkedIn extended posts, SEO, Wordpress blogs
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The 10 Principles of Social Media Marketing
This is the last week of my summer social media marketing class. Seven MBA students, most of whom are working during the day, have gathered together twice a week from 6 to 10 pm to discuss SMM for organizations. Last session I … Continue reading
My Content Marketing II: #Curation, #Contributed + #Branded Content
Looking back I was always a content marketing salesperson. In the days before blogs and email I folded newsletters, stamped and licked envelopes to get content to a targeted community of bank and other financial traders. I curated articles and contributed content and experimented with branded content – all before social media… Continue reading
Social Media Marketing 4 Business 