More Traffic with Twitter Cards? A How To

More and more as I use Twitter, I see that the use of Twitter Cards to be the norm for large content publishers and for many indie publishers like us. And as it becomes more of the norm, I wonder if some publishers are missing out by not using them.

What are Twitter Cards, You Might Ask

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Q&A Rapid Fire: More Questions Answered

Grabbing a few more questions from our virtual mailbag, here are a few answers you may have been looking for.

I really appreciate all the questions we’ve received and we keep working our way through them.

After this, there will still be some more and look for another Rapid Fire post soon to polish them off.

There’s a lot to cover here, so let’s get right to it… Read more…

Quick Tip: Keep the Social in Your Social Media Marketing

Another quick tip from Jendi Pagano of Simple Vlogging Tips.

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Planning Your Social Media Content

Here’s a question for you and one we originally posed for our All Custom Content subscribers. Do you consciously create content specifically for social media?

Certainly, there’s a lot going on in your business and while social media has its purpose, it’s often put on the back burner when it comes to MEANINGFUL participation.

One thing you can do is pre-write your tidbits of wisdom, humor or thought-provoking ideas. Sure, the purists say you can’t plan social media interaction, but you’re not planning interaction. You’re planning interesting things your followers want to read…the interaction is the icing on the cake and that happens naturally.

Whether you decide to pre-schedule your updates using a tool like Hootsuite or you want to post them manually when you’re
available for interaction, that’s up to you.

But what content can prepare for the big social networks… Read more…

Social Media: Do You Ready Need to “Engage”?

There are a lot of social media experts out there.

A LOT.

Just like with many professions, most don’t have a clue what they’re doing. Some are okay.

Others are prolific in their online presence and are good at what they do, but often preach as though they’ve got blinders on.

You’ve heard the buzz words. Influence. Relationships.  E N G A G E.

The experts say, it’s called “social media”. Therefore, you must be social. You must engage.

If you don’t, the sky might fall. Or something.

But just like with everything else in life, no one size fits all… Read more…