BuzzSumo Review - Pricing and Features Before it was founded in 2014, BuzzSumo existed in what its initial investor, Steve Rayson, called a "rudimentary" version. Rayson, an already successful entrepreneur with exits from a number of bootstrapped businesses, stumbled across this early version of BuzzSumo while combing through the web trying to find out what content was trending. Rayson's first experience with BuzzSumo quickly turned into a daily habit. Realizing the potential of the tool, Rayson met with co-founders James Blackwell and Henley Wing in New York to explore the possibility of turning BuzzSumo into a fully-fledged business. Using $150,000 in seed funding from Rayson, BuzzSumo was launched.
s 2014 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Maps the Journey to Digital Business STAMFORD, Conn., August 11, 2014 View All Press Releases 2014 Hype Cycle Special Report Evaluates the Maturity of More Than 2,000 Technologies 2014 Marks 20th Anniversary of the Gartner Hype Cycle Google will start ranking 'mobile-friendly' sites even higher in May Google today announced it is rolling out an update to mobile search results in May that “increases the effect” of its mobile-friendly ranking signal. The goal is to “help our users find even more pages that are relevant and mobile-friendly,” though the company didn’t share exactly how much of an impact it expects the change to have. In November 2014, Google started labeling sites as “mobile-friendly” to denote which pages are optimized for phones.
What Would Seth Godin Do Seth Godin advocates using cookies to distinguish between new and returning visitors to your site: “One opportunity that’s underused is the idea of using cookies to treat returning visitors differently than newbies. It’s more work at first, but it can offer two experiences to two different sorts of people.” (Source: In the Middle, Starting) I built this WordPress plugin to implement Seth Godin’s idea. How to use Chirpify Chirpify gives anyone the ability to participate in an advertisement, offer or live event - simply by including that campaign’s #actiontag in their post on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. For example, let’s say a brand was running a campaign around #MovieAwards. They might offer a special VIP package to their fans & followers: All you have to do is post or reply back with a message that includes #buy #MovieAwards $50, and you’re in. Note - if it’s your first time using Chirpify, then you’ll get a message from us with a link to an Action Page where you can link your social account to a payment type and provide shipping information. And that’s all there is to it!
Free Hashtag Tracking Tools to Monitor Hashtag Performance Online Hashtag usage has significantly grown on social media over the last few years Many brands create custom hashtags for certain campaigns, making it easier to keep all relevant posts and conversations grouped together. They are particularly important on Instagram and Twitter, providing a straightforward way to group similar types of content together. Hashtag Tracking Tools help you discover popular and relevant hashtags. They show the popularity of certain hashtags over time.
Most Popular Social Media Sites Review: Why Women Are The Real Power Behind The Huge Success Of Pinterest and Tumblr and David Adelman We had fun checking social media demographics surveys from different credible sources like Pew Research Center and Burst Media and we were able to pluck out some distinct patterns that suggest women are taking over social media and we’ve turned the data into a nice infographic. The infographic that our journalists created shows that women not only use social media more often than men, but they use these sites in more ways. More women also use the top social media sites and they dominate the visual-type social websites, which are the fastest growing social networks today. No site establishes women’s dominance in social media more than Pinterest, where 33% of U.S. women online access Pinterest (for men it’s only 8%).
3 Keyword Research Tools Every Digital Marketer Should Use A focused and targeted list of keywords helps you attract an audience of qualified prospects and avoid wasting ad dollars on unproductive clicks from your AdWords campaigns. To help you develop a group of qualified keywords, I’ve suggested three tools you should use: 1. Keyword Planner. PicFlow, InstaQuote, Repost iPhone Apps for Instagram - Red Cactus Make delightful video slideshows for Instagram Create beautiful text images for Instagram Do more than like it - #Repost it Create handsome collages with your photos
addictivetips.com Despite the fact that an average Twitter user follows well over a hundred people, it can be difficult to come across new people who regularly tweet what you find interesting to read. Twitter offers the Discover section of course, but that’s quite limited, to say the least, and does not focus much on people due to the presence of Trends, popular tweets and region-wise hashtags. Discovr People might be the best choice for anyone who wishes to find interesting and relevant Twitter users, and that too in a really neat and easy-to-understand manner. All you have to do is enter anyone’s Twitter handle, and this iOS app will come up with a graphical connection chart, listing all the important and active people who have interacted with the target user in the recent past. You can expand the connections tree by hitting the icon of any profile shown as a node of the original chart. Discovr People needs a Twitter account set up on your iPhone or iPad in order to work.