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60 Brands Using Tumblr. By Jason Keath on Apr 01, 2011 Tumblr is a blogging platform that doubles as a social network. The site offers a unique opportunity as a blogging platform, a built in audience. There are other large blog communities, but on Tumblr the follow, like, and reblog features are dialed in, creating larger opportunities for good content to spread. This sounds like a great opportunity for every brand right? Not Every Brand Works on Tumblr The caveat is that the standard blog post does not thrive on Tumblr.

Photos, videos, quotes and questions are the currency in the Tumblr ecosystem. Fashion brands are built for Tumblr it seems, covering the site with their wears, sharing their highly visual cultures (see Bergdorf and J Crew) and even offering up links to sales (see Ann Taylor). Large websites and blogs use Tumblr as a channel for sharing company news (see Twitter), company culture (see Mashable) or to tease content (see College Humor and The Huffington Post) 60 Brands Using Tumblr 1. Publishing Brands. Everything is a Remix. Viator Travel Blog | Travel Advice, Inspiration, Things to Do, Tours & Activities. Premium WordPress Themes by StudioPress.

30) Blog. The staff know so much about our tours and guides that they had a very hard time choosing just one place! But they did. The result? A curated list of twelve exciting places featuring twelve fantastic local guides – somewhere for each month in 2014. DAVID, Account Manager, Travel and TradeChoice: Yosemite Photo Tour I’d like to head to the Southwestern U.S. and go on a photo safari tour with our guide Pat in Yosemite National Park. This part of California is so beautiful, natural, historic and just generally amazing. JESSICA, Customer Support ManagerChoice: Paris Gourmet Food Tour My vote is for Paris with Genevieve.

MIKE, Guide Support ManagerChoice: Lemurs in Madagascar Our guide Ravo’s passion for tourism within his country of Madagascar really makes me want to visit this island off Africa’s eastern coast. ALEX, Customer Support ManagerChoice: Beaches of Normandy with Marianne I’d like to visit Normandy and take a “landing beaches” tour with Marianne. I’d love to go to Patagonia. 18 Best Blogs and Websites of 2013. Here at The Culture-ist we are huge supporters of people who have created incredible blogs and websites that promote the beautiful things in life whether it be through travel, (sustainable, whole) food, artisans, women’s issues, going green, philanthropy and educating readers about cultures around the world. Here are our picks for best blogs and websites of 2013. Stories of Conflict and Love Stories of Conflict and Love does not fit squarely within the categories of an aid blog, a travel blog, or a journal.

Ultimately, Roxanne Krystalli writes about what moves her in the world — and this ranges from photography and musings on narrative and memory to reflections on mass violence, field work notes, and thoughts on feminism. The Causemopolitan Sloane Davidson, a serial philanthropist, writes about lifestyle, travel, leadership, cause marketing and CSR, women’s issues, microfinance, and nonprofits in the hopes of inspiring people to give back and create positive change.

A Casual Notebook. Blog Marketing Tips: 45 Creative, Clever And Effective Blog Taglines. Taglines are perhaps the most underrated and underused elements of personal and business blogs, yet they serve a huge function. The social web has conditioned us to move through content-based sites quickly, and if we reach a site with an unclear thesis we’re likely to click to the next thing. You also can’t count on visitors to read your “about” page. In a world that increasingly moves at 140 characters or less, having a hook such as a clever tagline can make all the difference. Taglines are your brand’s elevator pitch and help people get a quick snapshot of who you are. It’s your opportunity to be descriptive, catchy, memorable and create a unique brand for your blog. They also present a great opportunity for keyword inclusion, but not at the sacrifice of stickiness. To help inspire you the next time you launch a blog – or any type of web publication – I pulled together what I think are some of the more creative, clever and effective taglines from around the blogosphere: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

Blog Growth: How to Build a Mega-Following. Do you want to attract a bigger audience to your blog? Are you wondering how you can write content that will generate more comments, shares and subscribers? To learn how to grow a successful blog, I interview Syed Balkhi for this episode of the Social Media Marketing podcast. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is a show from Social Media Examiner. It’s designed to help busy marketers and business owners discover what works with social media marketing. The show format is on-demand talk radio (also known as podcasting). In this episode, I interview Syed Balkhi, founder of multiple popular websites, including WPBeginner and List25. Syed shares how he grew his very popular sites and provides actionable tips that you can employ to grow your own blog traffic. You’ll learn about the different types of content that work best and some profitable choices for monetization. Share your feedback, read the show notes and get the links mentioned in this episode below!

Listen Now Blog Growth. Commons. How to Write a Blog: The 12 Dos and Don'ts of Writing a Blog. Thinking about writing a blog? Been writing a blog for some time now and have yet to establish any growth (and by “growth” I mean “increased pageviews”)? Over the past 10 years I’ve refined my blogging skills—that’s right, I started my first blog back in 2001 and it is so embarrassing by today’s standards that I’m almost unwilling to link to it … almost. Blogs for writers are everywhere, and there’s often good advice on them about writing a blog.

There’s also plenty of not-so-good advice. It can be frustrating. Now I currently run several successful blogs, including The Life of Dad and this online editor blog. When Writing a Blog Do … Find your focus. Be relatable, be yourself.What sets bloggers apart from newspaper article feeds is voice. Use links within your posts. Include images. Respond to blog comments. Post to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Anywhere Else You Can. [Want to land an agent? When Writing a Blog Don’t … Set Unrealistic Goals. Limit your word count. Be negative.

Brian A. 7 Ways to Perfect Your Writing “Tone” Do you obsess about the tone of your writing as you revise? You should. Tone is one of the most overlooked elements of writing. It can create interest, or kill it. It’s no wonder that so many of the countless conversations I’ve had with writing students and colleagues have been about problems related to tone. A friend submitting a novel says the editors “don’t like the main character.” A nonfiction book on balancing a family and a career skirts the edge of whining. And of course any publication you want to write for will have its own tone, which it would be smart for you to try to match. What exactly do I mean by tone? If you were a photographer, tone would be the way you light your subject. A writer doesn’t have a soundtrack or a strobe light to build the effect she wants. Thus, the wrong tone can derail an otherwise good piece. You can detect tone problems in your own work simply by noting where your attention wanders as you reread it. 1. 2. 3.

The delete key is your friend. 4. 5. 6. 8 Incredibly Simple Ways to Get More People to Read Your Content. Blogging - Rule the Internet With Your Words. Everyone's blogging, so why aren't you? If you’ve been itching to start your own blog, irrespective of the reason behind it and the expectations, this is probably the best time to start. But before you do, you need to know the complete dynamics of blogging because at the end of the day, you’d want people to read through the content you generate.

For these readers to appreciate and follow your blog, there has to be a strategy to bring them there and valuable substance in your writing. Why Start a Blog? There are probably two fundamental reasons behind taking an initiative to start a blog. Even before we get started on understanding these two categories, it is important to realize that blogs are not your PR platforms. Blogging to Market a Product/Service When marketing a product online, a blogging platform is used for: ● Describing what the company or the product does Once you’ve chosen to go digital, your website describes your brand in its entirety.

. ● Building a brand identity.