Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show, we explore the return of the chronological ti… - 1 day ago, 22 Sep 18, 6:00am -
Want more people to watch, share, and comment on your live videos? Looking for tips on improving the quality of viewer engagement? To explore how to get more engagement with Facebook Live video, I interview Stephanie Liu. More About This Show The Soc… - 2 days ago, 21 Sep 18, 6:00am -
Wondering how to optimize your marketing images for different social media platforms? Looking for a guide to help you make sure your image dimensions are correct? In this article, you’ll discover a guide to the optimal image sizes for nine of the t… - 3 days ago, 20 Sep 18, 6:05am -
Have you ever put off launching a project because you don’t have all your I’s dotted and all your T’s crossed? Then watch the Journey, Social Media Examiner’s episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing busi… - 3 days ago, 20 Sep 18, 6:03am -
Want to create social media images without purchasing expensive software? Looking for a solution you can access from any computer? In this article, you’ll learn how to create professional-looking images using Google Drawings. Why Use Google Drawing… - 4 days ago, 19 Sep 18, 6:00am -
As technology makes it easier to connect and engage with brands, do customer expectations change? And how do these changes impact trust? This trinity of factors is the subject of a new report from Salesforce Research. In their 2018 “State of the C… - 2 days ago, 21 Sep 18, 12:39pm -
It’s not often that a rock star gets looped into a marketing blog. But in this case, there is common ground. One number in particular. 55. Get it?* If not, keep reading. 55% of people have made a word-of-mouth recommendation to someone else in th… - 3 days ago, 20 Sep 18, 10:10am -
This is just one of the dozens of findings in our new research, Chatter Matters: the 2018 Word of Mouth Report. In this exclusive study, we surveyed 1,001 randomly sampled Americans to determine how we decide what to buy, and how to vote. Word of mo… - 4 days ago, 19 Sep 18, 9:00am -
It is hard, if not impossible, for a marketer to finish their first cup of coffee in the morning before they either send out an email campaign or work on a content piece. And when you combine email and content marketing strategies, you are guarante… - 5 days ago, 18 Sep 18, 1:44pm -
The majority of brand new e-commerce companies are working with a very limited budget in the beginning, which forces them to focus their marketing efforts on just one or two channels, with social media typically...read moreThe post 3 Must-Do Marketi… - 14 hours ago, 22 Sep 18, 5:34pm -
There is often a lot of confusion between marketing and advertising, and what each one really means. While they are very different, they are both required in order to create a successful business. There are...read moreThe post How Marketing Differs… - 14 hours ago, 22 Sep 18, 5:27pm -
The reverberations of social media are felt in almost every sector of the American economy, but few have experienced more of a boom than the wedding industry. Studying this relationship a little deeper shows some...read moreThe post Understanding So… - 16 hours ago, 22 Sep 18, 3:15pm -
Messenger apps have seen enormous growth over the years. The top four messaging platforms—Facebook Messenger, WeChat, WhatsApp, and Viber—boast of over 3 billion active users per month. This number is bigger than the active users...read moreThe… - 3 days ago, 20 Sep 18, 12:01pm -
As we approach autumn and the holiday season, it’s important to gear up for the rush of activity that occurs in almost every industry. Small businesses, individuals, and even larger corporations all tend to spend...read moreThe post 3 Ways Holiday… - 5 days ago, 18 Sep 18, 4:35pm -
The post 8 Important Admin Tasks to Do When Launching a New Blog appeared first on ProBlogger.When you launch a new blog (especially if it’s your first), there’s so much to do it can feel overwhelming. Having spent so much time and effort sele… - 5 days ago, 18 Sep 18, 10:00am -
The post 261: Breakthroughs that Grew My Blog from 30 Readers a Day to Profitable in Less Than 2 Years appeared first on ProBlogger.Three Breakthrough Tips That Helped a Blogger Become Profitable Here’s another episode from our Blogging Breakthrou… - 6 days ago, 17 Sep 18, 5:00am -
The post Using Templates and Checklists to Make Your Blogging Life Easier appeared first on ProBlogger.Tell me if any of these scenarios sound familiar: You sit down in front of a blank page to write a new blog post. You make a start, but you’re n… - 12 days ago, 11 Sep 18, 10:00am -
The post 260: How One Recipe Blogger Turned Her Blog Around with a Simple Mindshift appeared first on ProBlogger.How a Mindshift Changed One Blogger’s Perspective This episode of our Blogging Breakthroughs series features eight-year blogger Sarah… - 13 days ago, 10 Sep 18, 5:00am -
The post What if You Can’t Find Your Niche? appeared first on ProBlogger.Are you struggling to stay motivated with your blog writing about the same thing again and again? Or are you flitting around between lots of different topics, trying and fail… - 17 days ago, 6 Sep 18, 8:30am -
Robots already vacuum the floors in lots of people’s homes. They mow lawns. They deliver things in some cities. It looks weird and futuristic until it somehow looks normal and commonplace. We rarely see the “future” when it’s already here. We… - 11 days ago, 12 Sep 18, 1:22pm -
As I plow through the writing for my tenth book, Be Where They Are. Go Where They’re Going, what I’m most concerned with doing is helping you best understand what customers want these days when it comes to content marketing and customer experienc… - 18 days ago, 5 Sep 18, 1:06pm -
I’m not sure you’ve noticed, but the rules about subject lines on blog posts have changed. You now have approximately the subject line plus the first two lines of your post to earn someone’s full attention. If that’s true, now what? Subject L… - 69 days ago, 16 Jul 18, 10:58am -
We are all creators now. All publishers. And companies are collaborators. Okay, and sometimes, we’re fans of other people’s creations, too. But even then, there’s a change afoot. We see ourselves on the same level. We’re all the star. But you… - 99 days ago, 16 Jun 18, 5:59pm -
It’s amazing how many opportunities we get as buyers to feel dumb. Imagine you need a new laptop and maybe it’s been a while since you last purchased one. What would you look for? You’d probably glance at things like processor speed and storage… - 15 May 18, 10:46pm -
At Social Fresh, one of our core communities is finance. So we’ve been helping folks in this industry get ahead of their peers for a while now. How should finance firms be using social media and content marketing to get ahead? We’ve pulled tog… - 21 Feb 18, 6:04am -
Guest post by Carrie Kerpen, CEO of Likeable Media and author of the book “Work It: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business“ At the dawn of social media (2004 if you start at Facebook, 1997 if you are a Six Degrees purist), the ma… - 9 Jan 18, 3:32pm -
Guest post by Marji J. Sherman, Social Media Manager at CUNA Mutual Group If you have not been convinced of the value of switching from Snapchat to Instagram Stories yet, maybe hearing that in just one year, Instagram Stories has surpassed its rival,… - 30 Nov 17, 6:49am -
Is this a huge mistake? Will it ever work? Will anyone care? Anyone building an app for the first time is wondering these things. You’re not alone. “No one knows what they’re doing. You think people who came before you know everything, but the… - 16 Nov 17, 6:04am -
Guest post by Ayla Tezel, Executive Vice President, Communications at Wounded Warrior Project. Originally published here. —- The number of nonprofit organizations in the United States has skyrocketed, from more than 630,000 in 1999 to more than… - 14 Nov 17, 9:21am -
Last week I had the opportunity to both attend and participate at the Chief Digital Officer Forum in New York. If I had one macro take away from the conversations and topics covered—it was that a Digital Transformation Journey is... - 8 Jun 17, 2:39pm -
This was my tenth consecutive year attending SXSW. This means I started attending in my mid thirties during a very different time in tech, marketing and culture. There's no need to go into how different these things were or bask... - 15 Mar 17, 3:15pm -
Whether SNL knows it or not—they have just nailed the kinds of meetings marketing executives on both the brand and agency side will be having for the months if not years to come. While one team pitches "Cheeto executives" the... - 13 Feb 17, 4:57pm -
This year's Superbowl was historic on two accounts: 1. It is the first Superbowl to have ever been won in overtime 2. It will be known as the Superbowl that brought Brand Activism into the mainstream What Is Brand Activism?... - 6 Feb 17, 12:23pm -
If a brand is irrelevant in our lives—it is a brand on the decline. Some brands have to work harder than others to remain relevant. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and other brands that we interact with on an hourly, daily... - 5 Feb 17, 5:26pm -
If you and I stood on opposite ends of the number “6” painted on the floor, it’s likely that one of us would see a “6” and the other would see a “9.” As rock legend, and one of my favorite musical idols of all time, Jimi Hendrix once sa… - 6 days ago, 17 Sep 18, 8:14am -
Napa Valley, what a wonderful place to visit. Some of my favorite wineries are in Napa. Paraduxx, Far Niente, Harlan, Mascot, Nickel and Nickel, Chandon, Domain Carneros, Cuvaison, Schug, just to name a few. Napa is also a wonderful place to work. An… - 13 days ago, 10 Sep 18, 11:08am -
Customers are not going to wait for brands to get the mobile journey right…they’ll move on and find someone else who gets them. Customers are increasingly and overwhelmingly mobile-first. For the most part, many brands are still learning how to o… - 41 days ago, 13 Aug 18, 3:20pm -
Brian Solis on Digital Transformation, "Transforming businesses through digital innovation — blazing through dreams, disruption and delivery."The post Digital Transformation: Strategies for Success appeared first on Brian Solis. - 60 days ago, 25 Jul 18, 7:36am -
“Innovation starts with understanding who people are becoming, because in there are the insights into how they shop and why.” – Brian Solis, principal analyst at Altimeter Group Not too long ago, I had the opportunity to present my vision for r… - 61 days ago, 24 Jul 18, 7:08am -
You need to tread carefully, but you can use trending memes to boost your marketing efforts. Check out this infographic. - 42 mins ago, 23 Sep 18, 8:00am -
Fake news is a social problem, which won’t be resolved quickly. Here's an overview of why, and how, the issue is growing in the modern age. - 42 mins ago, 23 Sep 18, 8:00am -
Could Facebook be set to play an even bigger part in our everyday lives? Reports suggest that a new Facebook home speaker is coming soon. - 23 hours ago, 22 Sep 18, 8:00am -
Twitter has revealed a now resolved security flaw in its API which may have given third-parties access to user data, including direct messages sent. - 23 hours ago, 22 Sep 18, 8:00am -
So, the last thing you want to do is get mad at Google for doing what Google usually does. Apparently, people are mad for Google doing what it usually does. - 23 Nov 17, 7:09pm -
Yesterday Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced that Facebook would be showing us more of our friends and family and less news and corporate stuff on our news feed. For the past few months I’ve been studying social media with fresh eyes s… - 12 Jan 18, 12:02pm -
Maryam woke me up this morning crying. “I want my mommy,” she wimpered. Last night her mom died after suffering a stroke on Monday. There is nothing worse than not being able to do something about someone else’s pain. Mahin Ayatollahzadeh, Mary… - 22 Dec 17, 11:47am -
So Magic Leap has uncloaked. Rolling Stone has the best look at the technology so far. Those I look up to in the industry who have seen it, from friends to people like investor Benedict Evans, who works at A16, are mostly excited. Benedict has been t… - 20 Dec 17, 11:57am -
Recently I sat down for a long conversation with the founder of Escher Reality, Ross Finman, which claims it has the most advanced augmented reality API. This was an audio-only recording, so it also gave me a chance to try out the new Descript Podcas… - 13 Dec 17, 5:32am -
“Wolves in the Walls“, which I got an early look at, changed my life and changed my expectations of what entertainment will look like over next decade. If you go to Sundance make sure you experience this. Why did it change my expectations… - 11 Dec 17, 12:33pm -
