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The Guide to Success in Social Media

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

At least a couple times a week I have someone contact me that is trying to take advantage of social networks and social media in general to promote their business. Frequently they’ve heard success stories on sites like Facebook and they want to get in on the action but don’t ... Continue reading »

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  • David

    1 year ago

    I could see us forwarding this as advice to our users, and not just because it mentions TubeMogul.
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  • Martin Canchola your Specializ

    1 year ago

    Very informative ...dont forget squidoo...over all good stuff....as long as your social media marketing campaign is well planned and executed, you will rise above the rest...so keep up the good work!!!
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  • 4four1ones

    1 year ago

    I'm not sure that I agree that Blogger is a better choice due to customizing options against the Wordpress platform. Wordpress is the forerunner of all blogging platforms with the most plug-ins available. I am interested to find out why you think Blogger is better. Blogger is free, yes, but you point out that you should get a domain. Now you can point a domain to a blogger page but I would rather have full control of my blog with a wordpress platform installed. Just my 2 cents.

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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    @4four1ones, I wrote is more customizable than Wordpress.com blogs. Wordpress.com blogs are not hosted on your server. I have a wordpress blog as well and it works great, I wouldn't switch to anything else but I know how to manage my server. Most people don't and that's why I suggested blogger is better than the Wordpress hosted Wordpress.com blogs.
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  • Nick O'Neill

    1 year ago

    @David, please feel free to forward this on!
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  • AndrewAndDenise

    1 year ago

    Very informative and simply explained. Thankyou. Yes we agree about using Blogger rather than Wordpress.com when you are not hosting your own blog.

    Blogger are more flexible about the content of your blog in comparison to Wordpress.
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  • Josh Larson

    1 year ago

    While most of your points here are pretty simple and straightforward, in concert they provide a great guide to those just starting up in the space.

    I'd add one more: track metrics. Page views, unique visitors to your blog, comments left, people following you on twitter, how many people have burned your feeds, etc. This will allow you with some hard statistics as to how your efforts are progressing.
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  • Nik Scalise

    8 months ago

    Nick, are you suggesting that a social media site owner, such as myself, should also have an individual blog site via blogger.com ect...for other social media connections? If my social media site has blogging functionality should I simply be using my own profile/blog or even then still create an outside blog? I enjoyed the read and your insights.
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