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Showing a client how to post to wordpress

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January 15, 2010 at 11:31 am

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The Value in Social Networking: Blogging

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Tips for creating value in Blogging & Content Marketing:

• Blogging is your best possible tool for lead generation, in my opinion.

• Blogging helps in developing relationships, and for improving your organic search results.

• Make sure your content always includes thoughtful and meaningful efforts.

• Content marketing is essentially doing great things with content but with an end goal in mind to create a sale for your business.

• Valuable content is hard work, but that this work that will lead back to a sale for your company, on top of being useful, helpful and interesting.

• Content marketing has the added benefit of helping you with organic search engine optimization, meaning it helps people that are searching for specific information find them easier.

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January 14, 2010 at 5:08 pm

The Value In Social Networking Series: Twitter

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The value in Twitter:

• Use Twitter as a communications platform.

• Use Twitter to answer the question, “What has your attention?” It’s much more fun to answer.

• Use Twitter to promote events, news, products, people, services, things that are cool.

• Use Twitter to learn about other people.

• Try to reply to 75% of the tweets in your stream.

• Ask questions on Twitter, take polls all the time. It’s the human-powered web these days.

• Point out interesting things in your space, not just about you.

Examples:

@jetblue gives travel tips

@TheHomeDepot promotes employees’ outside-of-work stories

• @wholefoods Shares links to neat things in your community.

• People use Twitter Search before they visit a city to know more about the city, so you can help them & make a connection.

Other questions you might ask about Twitter:

How Often Should I Tweet? – As often as you feel like tweeting, and as often as your audience/community will sustain.

Should I Use Services Like TweetLater? – I don’t recommend it but you can. Having a computer seems impersonal & most followers can see through it. This could result in losing followers.

How Do You Get More Followers? – Find great stories from other people and share them with a link. Share useful information that others can use. Be positive.

How Often Do I Twitter? – I’m on most everyday because it is part of my business. How often you should be on is entirely up to you. Ask yourself – How much business does this outlet help your business? How much do you need to connect to folks who matter to you? Bottom-line you get out of it just as much as you put into it.

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January 8, 2010 at 12:26 pm