Free State Social Re-Cap: Shawna Coronado

As I mentioned earlier, I attended Free State Social Thursday and learned a ton. Here’s my key points from Shawna Coronado, who is a healthy eating blogger and author of Gardening Nude. Key points/quotes from Shawna’s Presentation entitled How Building A...

Common SEO Copywriting Myths Dispelled

By Eric Brantner During my career as a copywriter, I’ve spent hours upon hours reading about the art of SEO copywriting. I’ve read blog posts, books, magazine articles…you name it. And while I’ve learned a lot from all this reading, I’ve also realized there’s a lot of...

Use TwitRand to Hold Twitter Contests

TwitRand allows the randomization of followers and retweeters for contest purposes. The free service offers two options: Selecting be Follower List: For example, if a company is giving away a new laptop to a random user who follows them, they input their own twitter...

How to get your social media profiles crawled by search bots

Social media profiles like those found on Twitter and Facebook are crawled by search engines and are indexed. In addition, user contributions on social media sites- notes that are posted, statuses, tweets, are also indexed, sometimes at an alarming rate. Be sure to...
Lady Gaga and Social Media

Lady Gaga and Social Media

As her new video Telephone’s success suggests- over 7 million views in 3 days.  A week later, a Google search for telephone shows the 375+ articles about the video before even a description of the communications device. Whether one loves her or hates her, they have to...

Social Media Marketing: An Overview

The first aim of any business is to be known amongst their target audience. This is no different for online businesses that strive to shine out amidst billions of sites. Online businesses aim to market their site in several different manners to gain them more...

Weekly Link Round-Up March 10, 2010

Here is our weekly link round-up for the week. I especially enjoyed the ‘Who Uses Social Media More, Men or Women?’ article because it brings up the point of who uses social media and for what purpose. A Vibrant Culture of Food Blogging Real-time updates...