Chris Brogan

101 Social Media Marketing Resources

Here’s a monster list of 101 social media marketing resources (the 2012 edition) to help expand your knowledge of this ever-changing ecosystem. These resources are useful for newbies and social media mavens alike, looking to learn about the field as well as to hone their business skills.

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[INFOGRAPHIC] Social Media Marketing: Choose the Right Content For the Job

Content makes social media an effective tool for achieving core marketing goals including building brand, attracting prospects, converting customers, and supporting sales and advocates. Content feeds social media’s voracious appetite for information in a variety of forms. Includes detailed options and an infographic.

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Twitter: 7 Ways to Deepen Your Engagement

Looking to leverage your Twitter engagement? Then apply the seven principals  of Dr. Stephen R. Covey‘s bestselling The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People to your use of Twitter.  In his book, Covey outlined seven practical habits to help readers become more successful. Apply these seven  guidelines to improve your Twitter usage to help achieve your business and/or personal goals. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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Social Media Images: 5 Options [Examples]

Images, especially photographs, are 2012’s social media darlings across platforms from Facebook and Twitter to Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram. What can you do if your organization doesn’t have rights to use these images and photographs across social media platforms? Here are five alternatives marketers can leverage. (Of course, don’t forget to integrate your brand!) Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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29 Sure-fire Content Marketing Idea Generators

How to break through writer's block

At one point or another, many content creators and writers suffer from a lack of ideas (aka writer’s block). They show up at the blank computer screen and don’t know what to write. It’s not their ability to write that’s the issue but rather finding the germ of an idea to develop into a complete article. (Here’s tips to ensure writing inspiration always strikes.) Here are Chris Brogan’s three tips to ensure you always have endless content topics and a list of twenty-nine topic generators that any marketer can use to create quality content marketing. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

 

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Blog Show and Tell: 3 Blogging Lessons With Examples

Do you remember show and tell? In nursery school, I had to bring in an unusual item and explain it to my classmates. Unlike my friends, I didn’t settle for an ordinary toy or household object. Instead I brought my sister. The great advantage was that she was able to talk for herself. Over the years, I’ve found old-fashioned show and tell to be a useful teaching technique because it illustrates the point better than describing it can ever do. Here are three blogging elements where show and tell can help you learn and improve your craft.

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We ♥ Bloggers Contest

To celebrate American Heart Month, we’re offering bloggers a little bit of love. We’re renaming February, Blogger Love Month and using the hashtag, BloggerLove (#BloggerLove) to mark our tweets and posts. We’re offering you 125 Free Blog Topics based on things we learned from hanging out with kids.  To show that every one of you is a winner with us, all posts that use one of these 125 titles will be featured in a roundup blog post on March 7th and be eligable to win a special prize.

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125 Free Blog Topics-Corporate and Personal Blogging

Do you need help writing Help! I can figure out what to write? Blank screen syndrome is a very real affliction for bloggers and other types of writers. Here are 125 free blog topics. These are surefire ideas to get your creative juices flowing inspired by childhood. P.S. Stay tuned for our BloggerLove contest!

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