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Cdn1.hubspot.com/hub/53/Advanced-Blog-Marketing-Ebook-FINAL.pdf. 10 Tips for Corporate Blogging. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In a world where small businesses with corporate blogs receive 55 percent more traffic than small businesses that don't blog, companies should be taking note on how to improve their blogs, attract more readers and get more results. But still, a lot of companies with corporate blogs seem to be bogged down in uniformed policies and simply aren't thinking outside the box. Afraid to take on colorful personalities or step a bit outside of their company's happenings, many corporate blogs employ an official tone announcing the play-by-play updates of company news. This is just one mistake that businesses are making in the blogging world. There is a laundry list of issues that need to be addressed when it comes to improving corporate blogs, but here we've narrowed down the key elements that companies should focus on. 1. 2.

10 Powerful Tools for the Busy Content Curator. 10 Powerful Tools for the Busy Content Curator Posted by Christine Parizo on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 Content curation doesn’t have to be a time-suck. Sometimes it’s difficult to build your own content, and with the proliferation of Tweets, blog posts, Facebook status updates, content curation can be an effective solution – sharing information posted by others. Content is extremely important in reputation-building and gaining the trust of followers, and being able to effectively share information makes your own content more valuable.

Here are 10 tools for that make content curation easier and make it worth your while. 1. Curated.by allows users to organize Tweets into collections by topic, known as “bundles,” by using a simple Google Chrome extension that displays a “Curate” button below every Tweet on Twitter.com. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. These are only 10 of many content curation sites that are available.

On Blogging. Communication. 5 Tips to Creating Genuine and Personalized Content. There are a certain group of tweets, status updates, and posts that are sent out every day that consist of what I call “The Tony Robbin’s Smile Tweet-Post-Update.” If you are familiar with Tony Robbins… you understand where I am coming from here… Here are some examples: “Let’s have an awesome week!

Lot’s of great stuff planned and new clients rolling in. Good luck everyone!” “Just believe in yourself and all your wishes will come true!” “If you don’t climb the mountain, you can’t view the plain.” “Just talked to @abdcd and it was the best conversation ever! Now… the last one in that list is not necessarily bad because you might truly think that the person was awesome (I’ve done it) but does it really have to be every person you have a phone conversation with… and do I need to know… every… time?

Where do you draw the line as a person and as a brand? 1. “This weekend’s funeral left me pondering: Do you celebrate the life lived, or mourn for what is gone and what will never be?” 2. 3. 4. 5. Custom business blog creation that lets YOUR voice be heard! | Pauline Magnusson | Ghost Blogging | Business Blogs | Blog Writing | Editing | Research. WordPress Customization.