Personal Brand, Personal Branding, People, And Book

Building your personal brand is all about getting the right kind of exposure. What is ?the right kind of exposure? It is the places and activities that lift your personal brand in front of your target audience.
Lofty branding goals and big audiences are one thing. Getting there is quite another thin…

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Facebook Video Ads, Social Media, Strong Facebook Video, And Facebook Video Ad

Get the latest this week?including the dress that launched 10 million views, the brand that won the Oscars, top branded Vines, tips for making strong Facebook video ads, a new Pinterest ad unit, and follower analytics for Instagram. Skim to win the day.
Today in mind-benders. On Thursday night a pos…

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Business, Local Business Owners, Business Models, And Google

“Google is getting better at detecting location at a more granular level?even on the desktop. The user is the new centroid.” –

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11 Tactics to Get More Click-Throughs from Social Media

By Neil Patel

social media

If you want to get traffic from the social web, all you have to do is publish updates with your links in them, right?

I wish that were the case. If it were this simple, my follower and fan count would guarantee me hundreds of thousands of visitors each month from social media sites.

So, how do you get the most out of your social media following? All you have to do is follow the 11 tactics below.

Tactic #1: Twitter users love pictures

For almost all of 2014, each time I tweeted a new Quick Sprout blog post, I included the post headline …read more      

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How to Crowd-Publish Your Content Without Asking for Money

By Matthew Turner

groups of people talking at a party

If you read the headline, “Portland Entrepreneur Raises $13 Million by Enticing 62,000 People to Buy His Cooler,” which part fascinates you?

How about, “7,000 Hungry Folks Raise $55,000 for Potato Salad Project?”

I imagine, if you’re anything like the majority, those large amounts of money stand out. After all, $13 million is a gigantic amount of cash, as is $55,000 for potato salad.

But whenever I come across crowdfunding campaigns like these, it is the crowd of people who band together that captures my attention.

As a content creator, imagine what you could learn from 62,000 individuals. …read more      

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