Social Media

Social media articles focused on popular sites like Twitter, Google Buzz and YouTube.

Fell right into my lap

If You Wait for Perfection You Might Miss The Boat

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Did you ever have a problem and wish the perfect solution would come along? Let me put it this way – ever feel like you’re waiting for a “sign” before making a decision about something? Well some might call it procrastination and maybe it is just a little bit. But this kind of stuff happens to me all the time. I feel like there are little voices in my head saying “not yet” or “just give it another couple of days before you make a move”.And then all of a sudden…BAM!! It seems to appear out of the blue and the answer falls right into my lap! Well that is what happened to me earlier today when I decided to install Google+ Comments here on Basic Blog Tips.

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Your Social Media Following

How To Build An Interactive Social Media Following

65 Comments / Blogging Tutorials, Guest Posts, Social Media / /

If you want to be successful online, then building a social media following should be one of your top priorities. But there is a misconceptions some bloggers have, that success can be determined solely by the numbers. For example, in email marketing, they say the more subscribers you have, the better your chances are at selling more products. In blog readership, you get more traffic because you have that many more people that are subscribed to your RSS feed when you publish a post, therefore helping you gain more attention. Why have 10,000 fans on Facebook if only 5-15 people interact with you on every update? I would rather have 1,000 engaged fans than 10,000 non-engaging one’s.

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How I Use Social Media To Drive Traffic to My Latest Blog Post

134 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / /

Traffic is the lifeline of a blog; if you don’t have it, you don’t exist. Most people rely on the mighty search engines for their traffic. But there are other ways of getting traffic to your blog by utilizing the power of social media. The role of social media sites is front and center when it comes to driving traffic to my site. The most popular ones include; Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn in descending order in terms of traffic. This means that Facebook is the biggest traffic referrer to my site, other than the search engines. But how do I really do it?

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Instagram

Instagram Marketing for Online Entrepreneurs

44 Comments / Guest Posts, Social Media / /

Instagram was started in October 2010 by entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Michel Krieger as a mobile photography project called Burbn, Instagram has surpassed Flickr, Picasa and other well-known photo apps in terms of volume, importance, and buzz-worthiness. What’s it going to take for Internet Marketers to finally embrace Instagram and use its plug-ins to secure massive customer goodwill in the years to come.

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7 Tips to Boost Your Presence on Facebook

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Facebook is a network that you shouldn’t leave out. It is the Big Daddy of social networks. But as much as you want to stand out in that continuously growing crowd of people, there are people out there who are always ahead of you when it come to Facebook engagement. Here are 7 way to maximize your company’s Facebook presence in order to increase engagement, Facebook comments, likes and fans.

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5 Ways to Keep You From Looking Clueless on Social Media

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Your social media accounts are an extension of your business. They are extremely important advertising avenues that are both efficient and do not cost much. Social media advertising can affect the intake of new and old customers as well as provide a platform to show others who you are in the community and what services you provide.

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How to Generate Leads and Grow Your List with Facebook Marketing

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Since going public last year, Facebook has taken its fair share of bad PR and public outrage. Some of it may be justified and the rest I think is just over-reaction. I’m on a mission to show you how Facebook marketing can be an effective and efficient way to grow your business, without breaking the bank. With over a billion users, over half of which login every day, the opportunities are just too big to write off as “not worth it.” Let me show you a couple ways Facebook marketing rocks.

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