5 Social Media Marketing Resolutions to Win in 2015
Social media marketers had a good ride in 2014. Rise of new social networks, growing role of visual content, changing trends in social media and higher engagement, all indicates of better times in 2015.
As we are entering into a new year with a good holiday break, it might be a good time to reflect on all those initiatives you wanted to launch, but just couldn’t.
We tried to find out what can be the good resolutions for the marketers, to make to make sure they stay on …
How To Find Potential Customers On Pinterest For Your Service Business
One of the most frequent questions I hear from B2B sellers is; “I don’t sell products, I sell services, so how can Pinterest work for me? (The thinking is services don’t have the images that products have) Plus… can I actually find customers on Pinterest?”
First I can tell you that absolutely yes, as a seller of services you should be using Pinterest. Why… because Pinterest can drive traffic to your web site regardless of product or service orientation.
Over 5 million articles are being shared on Pinterest on a daily basis. According to CoSchedule who dug through …
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6 social media marketing trends to watch in 2015
Social media was on a roll in 2014. Most of the prominent social networks showed impressive growth this year both in terms of number of users as well as active users.
Image Credit: Global Web Index
With the emergence of new social networks, opportunities to grow your business via social media are only getting bigger and better.
And to leverage this, social media marketers need to stand out in 2015.
How does one stand out in such a crowded space?
By doing things differently, by delivering an extra value, and by identifying what your audience will love before your competition …
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7 Pinterest Business Tools You Can’t Afford To Ignore
If you’ve been on Pinterest for a while and have been frustrated that you’re not getting enough followers, repins, click throughs and so forth the reason could be attributed to not knowing how to fully maximize the business tools that Pinterest offers you.
Many pinners are just focusing on pinning a ton of images when they forget that there is so much more you can do get noticed. You need to roll up your sleeves and have the discipline to work on your account even when it feels like its work.
Bottom line: you have to do the hard work …
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15 best social networks for viral marketing in 2015
2014 has been a hyper active in terms of social media marketing. Seems like 2015 will be even more exciting.
92% marketers agree that social media has generated more exposure for their businesses this year. It has also become a primary source of data to understand customer behavior. This indicates that social media marketing is only going north.
Rise of new social networks
Facebook ruled the social media space for last couple of years. It had became go to place for small and large businesses to put their product and services in front of large targeted audience.
But Facebook’s growth has been stagnant …
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Visual Content Marketing Expert Reveals 5 Pinterest Boards That Every Service Business Must Include In Their Content Strategy
Visual Content Marketing Expert Reveals 5 Pinterest Boards That Every Service Business Must Include In Their Content Strategy
Regardless of what type of business you are in, it is important that you find a way to be successful on Pinterest because Pinterest is driving more buying traffic to businesses than any other social media platform including Facebook.
Shoppers for your services are on Pinterest so you need to be there too grabbing their attention and sending them to your website.
Visual and product-oriented, Pinterest is a social platform for e-commerce and its rise in sales attribution is probably correlated to the growth …
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The 7 Types of Visual Content That Multiply Reach of Your Content
We all love visual content. In fact, we love it so much that startups like Pinterest, Snapchat, Whatsapp & Instagram have reached billion dollar valuations faster than any other business in a whole man kind.
All of the above startups have one thing common: visual content. Each one is full of users who are sucker for visual content.
This wave has brought a great opportunity for content marketers and social media marketers to increase the reach of the content they create by creating relevant visual content. This was the reason we rolled up our sleeves and published popular posts: 33 …
6 Common Mistakes Businesses Make When Creating Their Pinterest Profile
Visual Content Marketing Expert Reveals 6 Common Mistakes Businesses Make When Creating Their Pinterest Profile
According to Shareaholic Pinterest is now the second-largest social media network after Facebook. You can’t deny how impressive that is because Facebook was born in February 2004 and Pinterest didn’t officially launch their site until March 2010. What that means is that Pinterest is growing as fast as ever but unfortunately a lot of businesses are making mistakes which limit their Pinterest success.
Before you start pinning away there are a few things you need to do so that you’re Pinterest business account is set-up …
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Visual Content Publishing Checklist - Run this Before you Hit “Post”
We should all know by now that visual content is important. It improves engagement, shares and conversions on your posts.
In fact, content with relevant images gets 94 percent more views than content without. The original study from content platform Skyword came out in 2011 showing that this has been true for some time now.
Below you can see that views on articles with images on average between 25-125% more views!
So if you’re not making visual content, you better start. Here is a list of resources on how to create awesome visual content, and here is a list …