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Set Up Social Media to Give You Great Post Ideas
This guest post is by Douglas Lim of The 10 Habits of Highly Effective Social Media Marketing People. Finding articles and ideas for blog posts is an important skill for bloggers to master—and one that can now be leveraged through the power of social media. High-quality content is tweeted, liked, ...more
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How I’m Using Google+ to Create Content and Collaborative Opportunities on my Blogs
Google Plus has been a medium I’ve had a fascination with since Day 1, but it’s taken me a while to work out how to actually use it effectively in my blogging. I’ve tried a variety of things, including using it as a blog of sorts (making longer posts), for ...more
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8 Killer Tactics to Grow Your Blog with LinkedIn
This guest post is by Josh Turner of LinkedSelling. Is your blog a business, or do you hope that it someday will be? If you answered yes, then you should consider refocusing some of your social media activities toward the world’s largest social network for business. That’s right, LinkedIn isn’t ...more
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How to Use Google+ to Update All Major Social Networks
This is a guest post by Alan Cairns of bozboz.co.uk. We tend to use social networks as channels that feed into each other, with certain channels for posting content and others for re-publishing it. Widgets and apps can help pull a Twitter feed to a website, or a blog RSS ...more
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Find Fans’ and Followers’ Pain Points in 5 Simple Steps
This guest post is by AJ Kumar of Single Grain. Social media sites are great for a number of different purposes, including connecting with your readership and establishing yourself as a thought leader within your industry. However, the interactions you have on these popular social sites can also serve another major purpose ...more
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8 Ways to Get More Out of Your Facebook Fan Page Today
This is a guest post by Raag Vamdatt of The WordPress How To Blog. If you have been paying even the slightest attention to the blogosphere lately, you would have noticed that it’s abuzz with talk about the new Facebook fan pages. And there is a reason behind it—the Facebook ...more
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Question: How Do You Beat the Social Media Monster?
Over the last couple of days we’ve looked at various tactics that bloggers are using to gain traction, grow followings, and generate blog traffic on: Google+ Twitter Facebook Pinterest I’m sure that these posts gave you some great ideas for developing your interaction with fans and followers on these social ...more
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Google+ Tactics of the Blogging Pros
Over the next couple of days on ProBlogger, we’ll be taking a look at key marketing tactics bloggers are using on Twitter and Facebook. Since we covered Pinterest recently, I thought I’d explore Google+ today, and check out the approaches some of the A-list bloggers are using on this network. ...more
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The Grace of Communication
This guest post is by Lisa Johnson of LisaJohnsonFitness.com. Social media has changed my life in a fundamental way that I never saw coming. My first innocent forays onto Twitter had not prepared me for the ride I was about to go on. Through social media I have started a ...more
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