How Pinterest can help your marketing to go viral
Driving big traffic and making Pinterest a real marketing solution Guest post by Colby Almond 97th Floor When I was first introduced to Digg in 2007, I didn’t leave the computer until I absorbed every...
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Creative Commons image on Flickr by RIFAQ Guest post by Rand Fishkin CEO, SEOmoz It’s easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we’ve grown...
View ArticleWhy Google Authorship matters to your business
Three of the authors on Socialbrite appearing in Google search results. Lay claim to your own content with rel-author This is the second of a two-part series. Also see: • A visual guide to rich...
View Article11 Google Analytics tricks to use for your website
Guest post by Eugen Oprea Do you know what is the most common question that I get every day on social media, forums or email? “How do I get insights about my Google Analytics data?” People approach me...
View Article5 Facebook marketing resources you didn’t know about
Facebook’s secret world of marketing resources Guest post by Joanna Lord SEOmoz Afew years ago, many of us were skeptical about how Facebook was going to get marketers to spend a significant amount of...
View Article10 tips to take advantage of Google+ for SEO
Leverage the power of Google Plus to increase visibility Guest post by Cyrus Shepard It’s no secret. When engineers built Google+, they constructed an SEO juggernaut to dominate search results above...
View Article7 ways to get more comments on your articles
Consider commenting systems, rewards & removing barriers Target audience: Businesses, brands, marketing professionals, SEO specialists, bloggers, Web publishers, agencies, nonprofits. Guest post...
View ArticleLean content marketing: How to do it right
Leo Widrich, co-founder of Buffer, at last night’s Lean content marketing event (photo by JD Lasica). 5 rules for creating content with social appeal Target audience: Content marketers, agencies,...
View Article9 social media predictions & business recommendations for 2013
Scrollmotion’s enterprise sales tool for tablets. Mobile, social, geolocation, big data, marketing — Socialmedia.biz’s strategists eye the future The social media landscape has undergone enormous...
View ArticleLatest trends powering the Innovation Economy
Tony Perkins, organizer and founder of the Venture Summit Silicon Valley. Target audience: Startups, mature businesses, technology innovators, funders and venture capitalists, marketers. I‘m just back...
View ArticleHow Yelp is using gamification right — and screwing it up, too
Nicole Lazzaro and Tony Ventrice at yesterday’s Social Media Breakfast Club (Photo by JD Lasica). Other startups & companies can learn from its successes, missteps Target audience: UX/user...
View ArticleRoadmap conference: The rise of design culture
Jack Dorsey, founder of Square, talks user experience at Roadmap (Photo by JD Lasica). ‘Think of technology as a verb, not a noun’ and more wisdom from two days of design geekery Target audience: User...
View ArticleWhen journalists trade newsrooms for business storytelling
From left, Michael Copeland, Ben Worthen, Dan Lyons, Harrison Weber & Brian Caulfield More companies are hiring scribes to ramp up ‘content plays’ Target audience: Journalists, brand managers, SEO...
View Article2014 conferences: Social media, tech, mobile & marketing
Brian Wong, co-founder of Kiip, at the last Venture Summit (photo by JD Lasica). Our SuperGuide to 2014 conferences and events For the past several years, the team at Socialmedia.biz has assembled a...
View ArticleCuralate: A business solution for our visual age
Apu Gupta, CEO/co-founder of Curalate: “The whole Web is becoming hi-def.” Company helps companies & brands track conversations about products Target audience: Marketing professionals, SEO...
View ArticleCruiseable: Cruise vacation planning reimagined
From left, Nancy Cole, JD Lasica and Giacomo Balli of Cruiseable (taken with JD’s iPhone). Target audience: Entrepreneurs, startup teams, angel investors, venture capitalists, cruise industry...
View Article5 social media automation tools that won’t make you look like a robot
Chris Woodrich Post by Adi Englander Social media automation is a doubled-edged sword. Done right, it can save you a ton of time and radically improve your ROI. Advanced features like scheduling...
View ArticleAdvice for startups: Focus on your super-fans
Taylor Swift brought fans to her house, baked them cookies and invited them to her concerts for free, said Jordan Stone, CEO of Huckle. At Launch Festival, a top marketer discusses the importance of...
View ArticleGaggleAMP: The ‘secret weapon of online influence’
Powerful tool can kick-start a content marketing campaign Target audience: Businesses, brands, digital marketers, advertising agencies, SEO specialists, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, educators,...
View ArticleMobile app stats & growth trends you need to know (infographic)
Post by Andrew Gazdecki CEO at Bizness Apps Financial forecasters expect the mobile app industry to double over the next four years. As the evidence has indicated for some time, the mobile industry is...
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