Social Media Marketing
These 5 Questions Will Cure That Horrible Bloggers’ Block
By Guest Blogger Sarah Von Bargen Friends, a warning. This post will not give you copy and paste ideas for blog posts. This is not where I suggest starting a meme-worthy post series like “what’s in your purse?” (Not because I don’t want to know what’s in your purse because I totally do. What’s your stance…
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I Built an Igloo + Other Thoughts About Wonder
We played in the vast cornfields, running like colts, picking the lacy white flowers called Queen Anne’s Lace, which are really weeds. Ella Wheeler Wilcox said, “A weed is but an unloved flower,” and we loved these frilly things. What I remember most from those days was the space. The wide open hills, the meadows,…
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The life-Changing Magic of Speaking Up. (This is my story. What’s yours?)
As a high school student in Palo Alto, California, I was irrepressibly curious and constantly looking for strange and exciting new experiences to try out. And if those “strange and exciting” adventures meant that I could make a little extra money on the side? Even better! That’s how I wound up sitting in a laboratory…
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Snap. Post. Kaching: 4 Ways to Get Engagement and Sales on Instagram
Guest post by Melissa Camilleri As long as you haven’t been living under a rock the past couple years, you’ll know that Instagram should be a key component to your online marketing strategy, especially as a service-based business, where the competition often believes Instagram will not work for them. Newsflash: it can and it will.…
Read More3 Tips to Avoid Social Media Madness
Sometimes I’m totally obsessed with pinning, tweeting, and blogging. Then I catch myself….Whhhhaaaaat am I doing? This isn’t work. Or is it? Dunno. I go back and forth. Is sharing this pic good for my brand because I think it’s funny—or cute? Maybe. Some things to think about BEFORE you post something on social…
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9 Strategic Actions to Take Now to Be a Thought Leader — and Become a Media Darling
So many people call themselves thought leaders now – but they aren’t. To be a thought leader takes some doing. It’s not so much about being original as it is about putting things together in an original way. Thought leadership marketing comes down to packaging your knowledge, skills, abilities, experiences, and yes, your thoughts in a way that makes you media worthy and worth listening to by your audience—a huge audience. Follow these nine steps to get going on the path to be respected, heard and reverberated out into the world.
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