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4 Useful Twitter Bots for Marketers
The best thing about Twitter is the evolution of the concept. I feel too lucky to enter the Internet Marketing world at the right time...
Social Media Gives Local Brands Home Field Advantage
Big brands have dominated advertising and traditional branding spaces for as long as advertising has existed. Their unthinkable marketing budgets have the ability to reach...
Facebook Questions: How to Benefit as a Company
In a land of a million ‘likes’ how many marketers are paying attention to the new Facebook Questions tool and how it can be an...
Top 10 Online Design Tools
As a graphic designer, you are always searching for new inspirations and tools to improve your skills and speed up the design process. The online...
6 Ways to Increase Your Influence and Persuasion
Image credit: Why Choose When You Can Have Both ? by an untrained eye Working in today’s niche markets, we all want to know if...
The Thinning Line Between SEO and Social Media
I’ve been doing SEO for as long as I can remember. I rarely stop to look at the distance I’ve made since I started; more...
LinkedIn Group versus Facebook Group
I have already reviewed how Facebook Group is different from Facebook Fan Page: a group is better to use for (two-way) discussion while a page...
Social Networks Pushing Too Hard
With the insane success of Facebook (now 500 million accounts and 140 million uniques a month) and the decent success of Twitter (close to 20...
Social Media Inception
Over the weekend my wife and I ventured out to see the summer blockbuster, “Inception.” We absolutely loved it. It’s been getting great reviews and...
2 Ways to DISlike Things on Facebook (FireFox and Google Chrome)
Ever since Facebook has introduced its “Like” functionality, many people have been wondering why there is no way to “DISlike” things there. I am not...
Tweet With Your FACE: Why Big Brands Need Social Brand Ambassadors
This is something Zappos has done for years that really needs to catch on more than it has, because: The rewards for corporations are huge,...
Getting All Employees Involved in Your Social Media Plan
Getting your entire company on-board with your social media strategy can help create an immediate impact in your social presence online. Instead of just one...
Facebook Lights a Fire Under Google- Open Graph Search Engine
image courtesy of http://trendslator.wordpress.com If you’ve been reading my posts on here, you know that I’m very into the future of internet marketing and search,...
Pay Per Face: 52 Facebook Advertising Tips & Best Practices
Facebook Ads Are Interesting… and Profitable Combine AdWords’ copywriting and analytics with image-oriented linkbait, and you’ve got Facebook ads. And it’s a new system to...
Process for Analyzing a Twitter Account
Whenever someone follows me on Twitter, I will check out their profile to see who they are and if they are legit or a spammer....
8 Villains of Social Media
Social Media Marketing sure isn’t easy. It takes time to get to know the space you’re in, to network with like minded users, and to...
Social Media & Reputation Management
Now that Facebook has officially taken over the world, it has become increasingly important to monitor your account closely as possible. A company’s social media...
Stay.com Lets You Create Your Dream Getaway – Easily
There are travel guides and tips online, travel books like Fodors or the Rough Guide, even newsstand nested travel magazines with grandiose pictures of dream...
Create a Branded Social-Sharing Bar with Apture
Last week I had some great time speaking to Apture representative who encouraged me to go ahead and give their tool a try at SEOSmarty.com....
Trackur Update- The White-Labeled Social Media Monitoring Dashboard
We are pleased to announce that one of the amazing social media monitoring dashboard tools has decided to offer its services as white-label! Trackur has always...
Creating A Social Media Marketing Action Plan – Part 3: Reporting
Now that we’ve defined our KPI’s and configured our analytics, it’s time to put together a client/management facing report that is both actionable and comprehensive....
5 Simple Steps to Viral Video Results
Let’s start off funny. The following are NOT the 5 steps to viral video results: Sit around drinking and talking about funny video ideas. List...
Quickly Embed Tweets to a Web Page with Blackbird Pie
Do you often use the screenshots of your (or maybe someone else’s) Tweet? I see the Twitter screenshots throughout the web. People use the screenshots...
BlueGlass LA : Premier Online Marketing Conference from S&S and 10e20
I’m very excited to announce today that Search & Social & 10e20 have joined forces to bring together a conference like no other, BlueGlass LA....
9 Places to Share Your Blog Feed to Automatically Update Your Social Media Contacts
Most of us are active at a number of social media sites. And I bet, we all have a blog (or several blogs). You are...
Change Your Default Twitter Following Email Notifications
By default (but optionally) Twitter sends you an email “notice” of each user who starts following you. Unlike Facebook, for example (where you have a...
Create Your Social Media Life Stream at WordPress Blog
I registered the domain for my name – annsmarty.com – two years ago (to protect my online reputation) and since then I’ve had no idea...
Get your Facebook Privacy Under Control
Because Facebook privacy is such a hot topic lately, I thought I might write something so you know where you can check your privacy settings,...
Creating a Social Media Analytics Action Plan – Part 2: Configuring Your Analytics
Last month I introduced the idea that by creating a Social Media Analytics Action Plan, you’d find it much easier to not only find the...
Search & Social Awards Winners Announced!
Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention please?! Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? Oh… wait. Wrong audience. Sorry. The Search &...