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Establish the %$#! Out of Your Brand (Right Now!) with These 37 Free Resources

Establish the %$#! Out of Your Brand (Right Now!) with These 37 Free Resources
There’s so much information available to help online entrepreneurs become successful, I’m surprised more of us haven’t gone cross-eyed. What I’m not surprised by is the number of online entrepreneurs who are still struggling, who are reading blogs and soliciting advice, waiting for someone to throw them a frickin bone. When I first started out, I was stuck in that place, and it usually happened for one of two reasons: I didn’t know enough about the technical side of building a brand, so my creative voice became lost within the learning.I took advice I read too literally and didn’t make it my own. And sometimes, the advice was just too vague: Be authentic. Since there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to do this, how do you know if you’ve found your right way? What helped me move from amateur (or rather, completely lost) blogger to seasoned, was getting to know each and every step of the process. Below are 37 amazing articles that will help you get to know each crucial aspect of building a brand.

37 Facebook Pages Every Smart Entrepreneur Must Follow While every online entrepreneur will make their mark differently, there are certain aspects of doing so that are essential building blocks to everyone’s success. The most important essential? Always being open to new learning experiences. That’s how you become great. Below is a list of 37 Facebook pages to enhance your learning. Enjoy! Blogging Bloggingprowww.facebook.com/bloggingpro Blogging Tipswww.facebook.com/BloggingTips Copybloggerwww.facebook.com/CopybloggerMedia ProBloggerwww.facebook.com/problogger Spice Up Your Blogwww.facebook.com/spiceupyourblog Social Media Amy Porterfieldwww.facebook.com/AmyPorterfield Jeff Bullaswww.facebook.com/jeffbullascom/103782605406 Likeable Social Mediawww.facebook.com/LikeableBook Mari Smithwww.facebook.com/marismith Social Media Examinerwww.facebook.com/smexaminer Social Media Explorerwww.facebook.com/socialmediaexplorer Social Media Todaywww.facebook.com/pages/Social-Media-Today/18797601233 Productivity Dumb Little Man – Tips For Lifewww.facebook.com/dlmblog

16 momentos históricos en los que las redes sociales sacaron lo mejor de nosotros Internet sin duda ha transformado la manera de apoyar grandes causas. Durante años, las organizaciones no lucrativas y particulares han acudido a las redes sociales para difundir la necesidad de colaboración. Se podrían poner muchos ejemplos de la solidaridad mundial. Uno de los más recientes fue la bomba de la maratón de Boston, que provocó tres muertes y 264 heridos, donde se consiguieron más de 3,360 millones de euros en donaciones. En Asia las catástrofes naturales han hecho mucho daño a su población. No todo son catástrofes multitudinarias.

Little Known Ways to Brand on the Cheap: 99 Tips for Poor Web Startups “If you build it, they will come.” That might have worked for Kevin Costner in the Field of Dreams, but if you’ve built a good site and are expecting people to just show up, you’ll be waiting a very long time. The days of setting up shop and automatically getting traffic just by being online are over. Today, if you want to have success on the web you need a unique angle and a reputable brand so that visitors have something to remember you by. Branding distinguishes you from your competition, and having a unique identity is especially important on the Internet, because buying from a competitor’s site instead of yours is just a click away. If you have heard of branding, then you’ve probably heard two things: it takes a long time to see results, and it’s expensive. Branding in the Blogosphere Yes, you can use a blog to develop your brand. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SEO and Reputation Management 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Social Media/ Bookmarking/ Wikis/ E-Profiles 22.

Nacs_hk : Radiografía de un Community... A Spectacular List of 240+ Tips, Tricks and Resources for Content Marketing, by @attendly From beginners to old-hats, we all have something to learn about content marketing. We know you have better things to do than spending your days scouring the web for the info you need, so we’ve taken the liberty of doing that for you. Behold our epic list of the very best tips, info and resources to kick-start your content marketing strategy. Understanding content marketing Using content marketing for SEO results Tips for setting up an editorial calendar Building followers on social networks Building an email subscription list Creating effective calls to action Generating content ideas Tool to help you find content Clipboard (Bookmarking service)News.me (News curator)Curate Me (News curator)StumbleUpon (Social discovery service)Strawberryj.am (Social link curator) Must-see slide presentations Must-read blogs Must-follow Twitter users Must-circle Google+ users Must-listen podcasts Must-join LinkedIn groups Must-follow Pinterest boards Best brands using Instagram for content marketing Slideshows

4 Ways to Use Social Media to Generate Leads Do you use social media to generate inbound leads for your business? Are you unsure about where and how to focus your efforts to meet your lead generation goals? According to HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Annual Report, social media produces almost double the marketing leads of trade shows, telemarketing, direct mail or PPC. If you’re starting a lead generation campaign, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ are all excellent places to begin, but knowing how to pull leads from the conversations that happen on these platforms takes some knowledge and practice. In this article, I’ll share 4 ways you can use social media to generate inbound marketing leads for your business. #1: Twitter Chats Twitter chats are frequently scheduled discussions hosted by a Twitter account. Because of the focused audience communities that participate in Twitter chats, they are a great place to generate leads for your business. How do you start? Use the hashtag set by the host. #2: LinkedIn Groups Over to You

12 LinkedIn secrets to supercharge your social networking To know me is to know that I love—love—LinkedIn. At 150 million members and growing, LinkedIn is a powerful professional networking tool, and it’s not just for job seekers. Frankly, if you’re in the professional world and not using LinkedIn, I’m not sure what you’re thinking. Our team at V3 uses it for new business development, competitive research and analysis, participating in groups and discussions, and engaging with and learning from peers—and, of course, it’s the go-to site for savvy job seekers everywhere. One of the cool things about LinkedIn is there’s always something new to learn. Sure, the first step is to sign up and create your profile. I do a lot of corporate LinkedIn training and these are some of my favorite tricks and tips: 1. Want to ditch a connection? How to wield this magic? When you’re logged into LinkedIn, Select Contacts in the main navigation bar. 2. Sometimes it makes sense to operate in stealth mode. 3. 4. How to get your own custom URL? 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Duh. 10.

New Facebook Features: What Marketers Need to Know Are you using Facebook for your business? Are you wondering how Facebook’s newest features can help your business? To learn about what these new Facebook features mean for marketers, I interview Mari Smith 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 Mari Smith, who is known as the Queen of Facebook. Mari shares how the new Facebook features can work for your business and what you should pay attention to. Share your feedback, read the show notes and get the links mentioned in this episode below! Listen Now Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed You can also subscribe via iTunes, RSS, Stitcher or Blackberry. Here are some of the things you’ll discover in this show: Discovery of the Week

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