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Fire your SEO guy. Here’s 9 reasons why social search is the new SEO.
By creating your own “news” in press releases and social media posts, you are boosting your website traffic and page rank. You still want to get “real news” too — articles in credible blogs, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV coverage. Continue reading
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PR is dead — long live social PR
PR is dead. Did you hear me? The career I’ve been in for 18 years — dead. Over. Toast. Done. It’s evolved into something much more powerful and effective. Social PR. I think that PR and social media are not separate anymore — and are in fact the same thing. I’ve seen social media evolve… Continue reading
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Is Facebook fan page advertising useless?
This week, a controversial Gallup poll declared that social media was all but useless, and that nobody was influenced by social media ads and it was all a bunch of hooey. I was immediately suspicious that results from the Gallup survey were skewed by the print and TV media. Mainstream media are late to the… Continue reading
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7 lazy ways to shamelessly promote your blog and social media posts to get more traffic
1. Use “Share This” widgets to shamelessly self promote. Whether you’re using WordPress or any other blogging or web development tool, you can use the “Share This” widget on your website to quickly promote your posts . Just install the widget on your site and right after you file your post share it shamelessly!… Continue reading
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Executive social media jobs exploding. (It’s not just for ninjas, gurus and interns anymore.)
2010 was the year of the uber-embarrassing social media blunder: Southwest Airlines threw celebrity Kevin Smith off a plane for being too fat to fly in one seat. Smith’s Tweets about the incident were not only widely read and hilarious, but a PR nightmare for the airline. The Gap changed their logo and the blogosphere errupted… Continue reading
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Seven lame, business-killing excuses for not having a social media presence.
This article was selected as 1 of 1 million WordPress posts to be on Freshly Pressed where it created a momentary sensation and 15 minutes of social media fame for me. It’s two years old now, and clients are still making excuses so I am running it first to remind you all that it’s about… Continue reading
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Even the richest men in the world can’t maintain Internet privacy.
There’s a cheap PR trick I’ve used with clients that can help you bury news you don’t want people to find. Flood the web with good news of your own by sending out tons of free press releases. Continue reading
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Social media — it’s just a very, very short story
Social media is nothing to be afraid of. It’s just a story. A very, very short story. In the world of PR, you send out a press release once a month, maybe if you’re in the Fortune 500, once a week. And you wait and wait … and wait and hope and pray and wait… Continue reading
About Me
A writer, content marketer, publicist and event promoter, I have been helping visionary entrepreneurs and event producers get the attention they deserve for over 30 years.
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