Hottest Social Media Blog Posts

  • Panera Bread CEO to Live Off Food Stamps for One Week — and He’s Live Blogging It


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    Panera Bread founder and CEO Ron Shaich on Saturday began living off of just $4.50 a day, what he says is the average daily benefit for someone on food stamps. His endeavor, called the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) Challenge, will last one week and is designed to raise awareness that “nearly 48 ...
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  • Get to Success Faster–What I’ve Learned Works for Blogging


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    Do you want to know… The best way to monetize your blog, whether you’re brand new or have an audience? How to effectively get the right traffic to your blog? Why you need readers to share your blog, how to encourage them to do it, and the simplest way to be sure your social sharing icons never say “0 ...
    2 weeks ago
  • Spend Less Time Buildling Your Brilliant Bodacious Blog


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    B logs have become the new website! But blogs take time. You need to post at least once a week (twice is better and three times better still). So your first thought might be, “How about hiring someone to ghost the posts for me?” That’s a great idea if you’ve got the budget to hire a qualified, experienced ...
    2 weeks ago
  • How To Write Content That Your Audience Wants To Hear


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    Do you want to create content that your audience actually enjoys? It doesn’t matter if you’re a startup or a Fortune 500 business, there are two things that you should be doing to ensure your content sticks… If you want to create content that your audience wants and is willing to share, these two approaches need ...
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  • Three Personal Branding Secrets for Academics


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    People in academia live life more than a little differently from those of us in the business world. Even the rules of personal branding and networking are different. You don’t get tenure based on valuable relationships and what you have done for others. It’s based on publishing, teaching, and committee work. ...
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  • How to Take Advantage of Offline Activities to Benefit Your Blog


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    It’s so easy to get drowned in the convenience of living online. While we always hear about the “dangers” of neglecting “real” life because of online activities, it still is easy to fall into the trap of not going outside and interacting virtually most of the time. For bloggers and other online ...
    3 weeks ago
  • How Blog Ideas Can Spark Employee Excitement


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    Your company is undoubtedly filled with talented people of all varieties: introverts and extroverts, analyticals and creatives, writers and non-writers. They’re all on their way to becoming subject matter experts in their particular areas, but how do you translate technical expertise into  awesome blog content ? ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Free Marketing Ideas Part 1 – Start Blogging


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    Welcome to the first edition of my new weekly blog series, “Free Marketing Ideas”. Each week I will identify and explain a simple marketing idea that you can employ at low or no cost. This week’s topic: Start Blogging A blog is a great way to get involved in a number of different areas. Once you start ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Improving Family Life, One Blog Post at a Time


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    Michael Stelzner, SME and My Kids’ Adventures @mike_stelzner Michael Stelzner , founder of Social Media Examiner and My Kids’ Adventures ’, join the Social Pros Podcast this week to discuss starting over (but not quite from scratch), paying careful attention to where your followers are sharing your ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Using Google Trends to Create Killer and Viral Blog Posts


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    If you want to create killer blog posts for your site then you are going to need to be writing about whats hot in the world right now. I dont care if you have a wordpress blog or a review site, you need to know how to create content that connects with everyone while also using the power of social networking and ...
    3 weeks ago
  • Infographic: The Content Marketing Matrix


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    Content marketing strategies continue to change, especially with advancements in mobile technologies and access to high bandwidth is becoming commonplace. Marketers need to be more resourceful in their approach to generate content. One thing we do is often work back in complexity… we design an animation and use the ...
    3 weeks ago
  • How To Write A Rant Blog Post Without Looking Like A Jerk


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    The “rant” blog post has been around since the first blogs were published in the 1990s. They do well for some and not so well for others. At its most basic, the rant post allows an author to express disagreement or anger over something or someone in an aggressive way. Personal blogs publish rants all of the time. ...
    3 weeks ago