Does social media distract you from work and life? Wondering how to stay focused despite online interruptions? To explore how to avoid distraction as a marketer and as a human, I interview Brian Solis. Brian is a digital analyst and futurist at the A… - 2 days ago, 22 Mar 19, 6:00am -
Want to make your Instagram posts accessible to a wider audience? Did you know you can add extra text to your Instagram posts that help the visually impaired consume your content? In this article, you’ll discover how to write and add alt text to yo… - 4 days ago, 20 Mar 19, 6:00am -
Are you planning a live event? Wondering how to use Facebook marketing to reach and stay in touch with attendees? In this article, you’ll discover how to promote your live event or conference on Facebook before, during, and after the show. #1: Desi… - 5 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 6:00am -
Want to quickly grow your Instagram audience? Looking for a strategy that attracts the right kind of connections? In this article, you’ll discover how to combine an Instagram growth strategy with an ad sequence that can turn followers into customer… - 6 days ago, 18 Mar 19, 6:00am -
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. Listen now or find the Social Media Marketing Talk Show podcast on iTunes/Apple Podcast, Android… - 8 days ago, 16 Mar 19, 6:00am -
Jay Baer demonstrates how to calculate content marketing ROI, and discusses why content marketers must pay close attention to this all-important success metric. - 5 Jul 17, 9:00am -
Every brand develops in its own unique way. However, successful businesses share common marketing elements. If our blog has taught you anything, you know social media advertising is a must-do for small and large companies...read moreThe post 3 Digi… - 20 Sep 17, 10:00am -
With the rise of social media has come the rise of social media addiction. It’s easy to overlook social media and internet addiction. In comparison to opioid addictions, it seems harmless. However, when social media...read moreThe post Social Med… - 19 Sep 17, 10:46am -
An active social media presence is starting to become mandatory across many different industries, especially as more leaders realize its potential for improving services and attracting clients. Even the healthcare industry, which is notoriously slow.… - 18 Sep 17, 10:17am -
Internships are bittersweet. They offer great opportunities to get experience in the field and build professional connections, but they don’t automatically guarantee employment. When interning, your objective should be to pad your resume with quali… - 18 Sep 17, 10:00am -
In many industries, converting a consumer isn’t enough. Brands like Coca-Cola and Starbucks rely on loyal customers to keep buying their products. Any company that banks on customer loyalty has to deliver quality experiences over...read moreThe p… - 14 Sep 17, 2:30pm -
The post How to Overcome Failure in Six Powerful Steps appeared first on ProBlogger.This post is based on episode 190 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most of us don’t want to learn about failure because we don’t want to fail. But we all do. And that… - 3 days ago, 21 Mar 19, 7:30am -
The post Nine Ways to Stay Inspired and Avoid Blogger Burnout appeared first on ProBlogger.This post is based on episode 170 of the ProBlogger podcast. Most bloggers start off with a huge burst of energy and excitement. But then at some point (ofte… - 10 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 7:30am -
The post How to Get Products to Review on Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger.This post is based on Episode 178 of the ProBlogger podcast. Whether your blog is all about reviewing products or you want to review them occasionally, it’s not alwa… - 17 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 6:30am -
The post 18 Ways to Create Scannable Content for Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger.This post is based on Episode 176 of the ProBlogger podcast. You’ve chosen your words with care, and put a lot of thought into them. But no-one’s even readi… - 24 days ago, 28 Feb 19, 6:30am -
The post How to Make Your List Items and Bullet Points Super Smooth appeared first on ProBlogger.This is a post by ProBlogger writing expert Ali Luke Do you ever use lists in your blogging? They might be bullet points, tips that you’re sharing in… - 26 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 6:30am -
In July of 2006, I first learned of Humpy Wheeler, one of the foremost promotors of NASCAR. He was a guest on NPR’s news quiz show, “Wait Wait! Don’t Tell Me!” And what he did thrilled me. Sell Clean Humpy talked about running the motor speed… - 31 days ago, 20 Feb 19, 12:09pm -
There has been a big shift in how people interact with brands. In the old days, a product or service would show up on the scene, and we’d evaluate whether the product was something we could use. Sure, there were some products and brands where we fe… - 38 days ago, 13 Feb 19, 5:29pm -
This picture is my 13 year old son’s recent project. He printed out the Sunday funnies (we don’t get a newspaper so he went online and found some to print). Then, he chopped up each panel and sliced out each bit of dialog. Finally, he mixed them… - 54 days ago, 28 Jan 19, 11:25am -
Working with companies lately, I keep coming back to the same starting point: marketing is about connecting with a customer and aligning with helping them win their story. Think about yourself when you’re buying something. There’s a challenge in… - 68 days ago, 14 Jan 19, 10:35am -
The world of real estate has become a lot more software driven in recent years. Sure, ultimately, a buyer interacts with a person, but with the number of real estate apps out there, a lot of up front work happens before a real estate professional is… - 73 days ago, 9 Jan 19, 2:53pm -
What works and what withers in the realm of Facebook Ads is a constant game of testing, research, and adjustment. Beyond the usual tumult, Facebook made some significant changes to the platform this 2018 that require adjusting your strategy. Despite… - 47 days ago, 4 Feb 19, 6:44pm -
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 -
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 -
It was 2017 when I failed to deliver what would have been my eighth book. At the time, I was approaching the two year anniversary of the release of my previous work, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. I was feeling the pressure to deliver… - 5 days ago, 19 Mar 19, 9:03am -
Wow. Just wow. This is the moment that I’ve been dreaming about for a long long time. I just can’t believe it’s finally here. Your support over the years mean everything. So naturally, I wanted to share this very special moment of unboxing our… - 16 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 12:48pm -
Are you going to SXSW 2019? Fancy that! I am too. It’s been almost three-and-a-half years since my last book, X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. I’m so happy (and relieved) to share that I’m launching my next book at SXSW! Cue the tr… - 18 days ago, 5 Mar 19, 7:50pm -
Anyone who uses a smartphone can attest to the incredible power of real-time, in-the-moment discovery that leads to decisions and outcomes. But, now in an age of voice-assisted devices, we are further empowered to command information or purchase on-d… - 24 days ago, 27 Feb 19, 8:47am -
On February 22, I had the privilege of being interviewed by Greg Nibler of the daily video podcast Digital Trends Live about my upcoming book, Lifescale: How to Live a More Creative, Productive and Happy Life. (Video at the end.) Digital Trends is a… - 26 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 8:43am -
Mobile apps accounted for almost 50% of all internet traffic in 2018. Here are some more app usage stats and insights to help guide your strategy. - 13 hours ago, 23 Mar 19, 8:00am -
Facebook has released the latest version of its 'Topics to Watch' report, which highlights key subjects gaining momentum, based on mention volume, across The Social Network. - 13 hours ago, 23 Mar 19, 8:00am -
Facebook has found that millions of user passwords were being accessed internally via a plain text document without adequate protection. - 2 days ago, 22 Mar 19, 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 -
You know Pokemon-Go, right? It has hundreds of millions of users. It’s the number one most-used example of mobile AR that’s out there. It was built by Niantic Labs, a company that was started by the team behind Google Earth. So, to kick off the… - 13 days ago, 10 Mar 19, 3:23pm -
Irena Cronin called me last year. That call lead to the development of a new Spatial Computing Agency, Infinite Retina, which opens its doors today. Thought I’d give you a little detail behind what brought 20 people together, and offer the communit… - 19 days ago, 4 Mar 19, 10:19am -
I’m a bit bothered by the overselling of mixed reality, or spatial computing, at least short term (long term my kids’ lives will be dramatically improved by them, we all can see that, but that might not happen for quite a few years). Notice that… - 26 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 7:15am -
I didn’t use to understand why some people would never be able to come to evening events. And even if I had understood, I didn’t have the empathy for what they were going through, usually as parents, but sometimes as caretakers of others, such as… - 41 days ago, 11 Feb 19, 12:39am -
Silicon Valley got its first VBVR on Friday night with the opening of Spaces, which is located inside the Cinemark Theater in Oakridge Mall, and its new game “Terminator: Salvation VR.” Read below for my family’s analysis of it vs The Void’s… - 42 days ago, 10 Feb 19, 2:36am -
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