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The Most Important Social Media Marketing Platform
If you could only had one social media option to support your business goals which one would you choose? Chances are you said Facebook without a second thought. As the 800 pound gorilla of social media, it should be a no-brainer but is it really the best for your business? Here are the results from Social Media Examiner’s 2013 Social Media Marketing Industry Report with social media advice for each platform. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Chart, Research, Social Media Examiner
Small Business Branding: What Is Your Super Power?
For small businesses, branding is like having a super power; it makes your firm stand out in a message-laden ecosystem. Many small businesses mistakenly think branding is expensive and leave it out of their core business plans. They miss the opportunity to position their firm. To develop to your organization’s brand identity (aka your super power), answer these ten questions. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
31 Actionable Social Media Marketing Tips Based On Research
No longer marketing’s shiny new object, social media has become an indispensable tool to achieve key business goals since prospects and customers spend at least one out of five online minutes using these platforms. This makes social media too big to ignore. Here are nine social media business benefits with thirty-one actionable marketing tips to get your social media marketing on track to succeed. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
53 Actionable Content Marketing Metrics
Content marketing is about attracting the right target audience and getting them to take appropriate action as a result of engaging with your content. Content marketing metrics is about measuring the results.
As businesses continue to move a greater proportion of their budget to content marketing, marketers must associate results with this investment that are aligned with their goals. To this end, measure what matters, not just what’s easy-to-track.
Here are 53 actionable content marketing metrics broken out by content marketing goal. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
33 Blogging Tips to Maximize Social Media Reach
While many bloggers think that blogging is about lovingly crafting each post, the reality is that you need to promote your content to ensure each post reaches its widest possible audience. To this end, think outside the blog. Since social media feeds on a never-ending stream of content, it’s ideal platform for accomplishing this goal. Here are thirty-three tips for using social media to expand your blog’s readership by driving traffic from an array of platforms.
Tags: Blog, Ian Cleary, Peg Fitzpatrick, PicMonkey, Triberr
Star Trek: 10 Content Marketing Lessons
With its mission, “To boldly go where no one has gone before,” Star Trek has built an enduring brand around amazing content.
Content marketers can learn a lot from this on-going science fiction franchise that includes five television series, twelve feature films, hundreds of novels, comics, games, figurines and more.
Tags: Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, Story
Social Media: 10 Commandments for Business
Social media like many businesses operates under a set of unstated rules. Here are 10 commandments of social media for business and actionable marketing tips to get your business on track. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog.
5 Small Business Mobile Marketing Tips [Research]
Location, location, location, the real estate cliché, has additional meaning in terms of devices, computers, smartphones and tablets. Like place, one of the 4Ps of marketing, your business’s findability influences the prospects and buyers you can reach.
When it comes to small business, your target audience must be able to find you regardless of the device(s) they use. You must think mobile and local! Here are five mobile research insights (with 11 charts) and five actionable marketing tips. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
How to Fill Your Editorial Calendar Without Breaking the Bank
Content marketing is an on-going process not a one-time campaign. It requires a continual stream of new information in a variety of forms presented across different platforms to fulfill your business’s goals and customers’ needs. The key to cost effective content creation is to develop similar content at the same time regardless of weight since each new piece of content must be re-imagined, not just reposted.
To fill your content marketing editorial calendar without breaking the bank, plan your content creation to ensure all associated content is developed concurrently to maximize resource use and eliminate planning and overhead. Here’s a chart with 21 types of content and 7 actionable marketing tips. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: Actionable Marketing Tip, Chart
25 Smartphone and Tablet Research Charts
Mobile marketing is at the top of every marketer’s to-do list but the challenge is that most of them don’t really understand how their target audience uses smartphones and tablets. At the heart of the problem is the fact that mobile marketing sounds new and expensive despite the fact that most of them own one or more of these devices.
When it comes to mobile marketing, most consumers are way ahead of marketers in their use of their smartphones and tablets. They’ve developed a variety of habits to deal with the on-going avalanche of content. To get your marketing on track, here are twenty-five research charts explained in plain English. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Blog Time Management: Lessons From Mom
For many people it’s difficult to create structure where there isn’t any and blogging is no different. Unless blogging is an integral part of your job with specific deadlines, it can be difficult to show up at your blog especially when other things are competing for your attention. Blog time management helps you to create a structure and schedule to ensure your blog becomes part of your regular routine. Here are three steps to blog time management. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
Tags: mother, Mother's Day, time management
How To Build Your Brand On Pinterest [Research]
Participants use Pinterest‘s visual eye candy differently than other social media platforms. For marketers looking to use it to build their brand and support the purchase process, understanding this point is key to attracting and engaging your audience on Pinterest. Research and charts including 5 Actionable Marketing Insights. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog
