CategorySocial Media
9 Practical Ways to Start Attracting an Audience to Your New Social Media Account
Last week we talked about what type of social media account you should set up. Regardless of which you choose, you’ll want to start building an audience straight away. Remember, the value in social media is the depth of the personal connections you make, not the number of people who ...more
Social Media
When’s the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts?
This guest post is by HubSpot’s social media scientist, Dan Zarrella. Of all the data analysis that I’ve done, day-of-week and time-of-day data has been consistently the most popular. So in preparation for my upcoming webinar, titled Science of Blogging, I decided to combine all of my existing data on ...more
Social Media
Setting the Hook: Fishing for New Readers with Social Media Lures
This guest post is by Ben Harack of the Vision of Earth project. Regarding readers as fish, and bloggers as fisherman, might seem strange. Bear with me as I show you part of why I like the idea of blogging as being similar to fishing. Those of you who are ...more
Social Media
Personal Or Business Social Media Accounts: Which Is Best for You?
One of the first decisions you’ll need to make when you start using social media and participating in social networking is to choose your username. It might seem like a simple question, but the username you decide on will be closely linked to your branding, how people perceive you, and ...more
Social Media
Three Essential Tips to Growing Sales and Service, One Tweet at a Time
This guest post is written by Phil Hollows, the Founder and CEO of FeedBlitz. Twitter offers small businesses and independent professionals unique opportunities to out-maneuver their larger competitors, by using the social network as a real-time prospecting and customer service system. You can improve your pipeline and grow a stellar ...more
Social Media
How to Use Social Media to Attract a Higher Advertiser Rate
This post is by Clare Lancaster, of WomenInBusiness.com.au. As a blog business owner, your brand needs to reach beyond your blog. Your presence on social media is a valuable one. In some ways, it’s the ultimate opt-in. When someone follows you on Twitter, subscribes to your YouTube channel or likes ...more
Social Media
The Money’s Not In the List, it’s In the Connection
This post was written by the Web Marketing Ninja—a professional online marketer for a major web brand, who’s sharing his tips undercover here at ProBlogger. Curious? So are we! What impact will changes to the flow of communications on the Internet cause by the rise of new options, like social ...more
Social Media
Social Media vs. SEO: My Approach
The SEO vs. social media debate is one that has been going on for a number of years now, and it hasn’t abated. A recent guest post here on ProBlogger titled Why Social Media is a Better Investment than SEO sparked some interesting commentary on Twitter after going live. Social ...more
Search Engine Optimization
The 5 Foundations of Social Media Success that No One Talks About
This post is by Clare Lancaster, of WomenInBusiness.com.au. As I was sitting down to write my first social media column for ProBlogger I was thinking about the best place to start. Should I do a run through of the basics or jump right into reporting on my latest experiment? My ...more
Social Media
