Go where your audience is This is a basic of marketing, digital or not. For example, If you are selling custom hunting bows, you wouldn't advertise in the Vogue magazine. Instead, you will analyze the reader demographics and psychographics of each magazine to determine which magazines will allow you to best reach your target audience. … Continue reading How to Choose the Most Effective Social Media Platform for Your Brand
With regular algorithm updates, search engine optimization is a game with ever changing rules. What helped websites achieve top position in search rankings last year (sometimes even last quarter) is frequently no longer a high priority or even relevant to current SEO strategies. To help digital marketers better understand the factors that determine which websites … Continue reading Search Ranking Factors: Rank Correlation for 2013 Infographic
Ever wonder how much time you should devote to social media each week? While there is no set formula, this infographic breaks down the components of maintaining and measuring a social media strategy (based on a 40 hour work week). Maintaining a social media strategy is not only about scheduling tweets and replying to mentions. … Continue reading Social Media Workflow [Infographic]
With a defined social media strategy in place, marketers can rock social media in 30 minutes a day. Sound too good to be true? It is actually possible if your daily use of social media is built upon a well-developed social media strategy. But, a strong social media strategy does not mean that your brand … Continue reading How to Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day Infographic
What is Pinterest and How to Use it Pinterest has become the third largest , as well as one of the fastest growing, social media websites. After launching in March 2010, Pinterest was slow to gain traction. But, after summer 2011, traffic grew rapidly from approximately 5 million visitors a week at the beginning of … Continue reading Things are Starting to Get Pinteresting
Twice a year, a global platform brings together people interested in better understanding and leveraging social media for their companies or clients. Social Media Week is a bi-annual world-wide event centered around the social, cultural, and economic impact of social media. This year’s second global platform was held in 13 cities from September 24th to … Continue reading Social Media Week: Continuing the Global Conversation
The following is my most recent blog on Mudbug Media's Blog au Roux about how to determine if Google+ could benefit your social media strategy. The buzz about Google+ has revved up again lately, possibly due to the negative press that has been recently circling around Facebook, like the sharks in shark week. The press … Continue reading The Pluses and Minuses of Google+
I recently wrote an article for the Mudbug Media blog titled "Build a Following with an Integrated Social Media Strategy." In the article I used Lowe's Home Improvement store as an example of a company who got it right. The following are snippets from the article about each component of Lowe's strategy: Lowe's Facebook Strategy … Continue reading Building Brand Loyalty with an Integrated Social Media Strategy
Check out this great blog on 5 easy steps for using Twitter effectively. This post explains why each step is important and how to complete it successfully. Some of the steps covered are: What to tweet about When to tweet Why to re-tweet Using hashtags (Hashtags are one of my favorite ways to draw attention … Continue reading 5 Steps to Using Twitter Effectively
I recently was given the opportunity to attend the SkillPath Social Media Conference here in New Orleans on behalf of Mudbug Media. After the event I wrote the following blog on key takeaways from the day: SkillPath - Social Media Conference I recently attended the Social Media Conference hosted by SkillPath, to expand my expertise … Continue reading SkillPath – Social Media Conference