This guest post is by Danny Iny of firepolemarketing.com. Everyone is looking for the best strategy for growing a blog. Is it SEO? PPC? CPV? Guest posting? Twitter? Facebook? CommentLuv? Networking? Attending conferences? Writing great content? The list goes on—I could fill a page if I had to, and I’ll bet that you could, too. [...]

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I asked Jason Falls for a guest post to mark the release of his new book, "No Bulls–t Social Media" Few can argue with the umbrella point of Brian's latest book. Technology and the reclaiming of the marketplace by consumers has brought about the End of Business As Usual. Companies are collaborating internally, with customers [...]

Read More: The End of Business Isn’t The End of Strategy

Social media marketing in Asia has doubled in the last year however companies in the region are still to master the potential of the medium, according to a new report...

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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit, Facebook's CTO Bret Taylor discussed Facebook, Google+, and sharing content on the web. Taylor was even asked if Data portability would bring you the...

Read More: Facebook’s Bret Taylor calls Google+ a “really good strategy”

Today at Brian Solis' Pivot Conference in New York City, we took a look at social media's impact on the music industry. Hope Frank, the CMO of Webtrends was joined on stage...

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There are no shortcuts to success.  Success in life is always looking at the R.E.S.U.L.T.S. of your efforts and adapting and evolving as you continue to pursue your goals.  Take a look and ask yourself “Are You Getting the R.E.S.U.L.T.S You Want from Your social media Strategy.Recommit to Continuous Learning.  Learning doesn’t end when you get out of University. To succeed you need to be continuously learning.  It is estimated that it will take [...]

Read More: Are You Getting the R.E.S.U.L.T.S You Want from your Social Media Strategy?

Not long ago I wrote about determining the value of your website or blog here on problogger.net. Now that you know how a web property is or can be valued in the free market, in this article I want to discuss a practical strategy you can apply to increase the valuation of your web property. [...]

Read More: A Practical Strategy to Increase the Value of Your Blog

Social good is one of most rewarding facets of social media – we now have a platform where we are not just giving back through our own moral compasses, but we are coming together in the name of making the world a better place. I've seen the power of these opportunities first hand with my [...]

Read More: How To Build a Social Good Communications Strategy

I unfollowed someone on Twitter the other day for one tweet. It was from someone I like, but the post was from one of those automated daily link summary websites — you know, the ones that send out a link to a page of top stories shared by you and your friends. My problem was how [...]

Read More: How To Fix Your Social Woes With A Content Strategy

For startups, a killer social media strategy is the key to success. If you're feeling anti-social and think you can keep quiet — think again. You have to take part in the world you're helping to create, and there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. Read on and sink your teeth into 11 steps startups should take to market themselves at launch.

#1 Start with research and be informed

Startups have to keep a close eye on their industry. Companies launch and fail everyday, so it's imp [...]

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Are there manageable means to bring the two worlds of new media and the traditional world of printed marketing together? Today's explosion of technology services have allowed businesses of all sizes, industries and budgets to have more options than we could ever explore with our marketing. These online opportunities can seem overwhelming. Especially to those of [...]

Read More: Tips For Merging Your Offline And Online Social Strategy

I took a look a the Where To? iPhone app (currently on sale for 99 cents – it is normally $2.99) and its 99 cent Augmented Reality add-on last week.Where To? for iPhone Can Help You Find & Share Places to Go. Optional AR View Adds to Discovery Fun"Where To?"‘s developer revealed his sales figures this week and the sales story is quite interesting. Where To? – Three exciting yearsFuturetap bought the app from taptaptap (best known for Camera+) in December 2008. The lifetime sales [...]

Read More: “Where To?” for iPhone Developer Reveals Sales Figures, Profits & Marketing Strategy

Growing up in the US, I obviously can't speak for what it's like to interact with Government agencies in other parts of the world. Here, though, there's always that degree of separation between "we the people" and Uncle Sam. Since 2009, NASA has been trying to change that, all in the name of following a 1958 legislative act to the letter.I had a chance to talk this week with NASA Social Media Manager Stephanie Schierholz about the history of NASA's outreach, as well as the future. Since so many [...]

Read More: The history and future of NASA's social media strategy

Are you confused about what your social media mission, goals, objectives, strategies and tactics are? If so, you're not alone. For years, many marketers have gnashed their teeth over the definitions and priorities of the various pieces of the puzzle. Personally, I have worked with companies and clients for whom strategy was paramount before any [...]

Read More: Is Your Social Media Strategy Sailing In Circles?

The White House released a terrorism strategy that claims Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks aid in “advancing violent extremist narratives” and should be monitored by the government.


Read More: White House Terrorism Strategy, Blames Social Media for Advancing “Extremist Narratives”

This guest post is by Marcello Arrambide of Wandering Trader. When it comes to blogging, there are different mentalities around both the quantity of traffic and the quality of traffic. At different stages in a website's development, we tend to focus on one or the other, but when we start a new blog, we primarily [...]

Read More: A Blog Traffic Strategy: Quality vs Quantity

Our Social Times PRO team has been hard at work putting together the two latest PRO reports for our business-minded users out there, and I have to say that there are a ton of valuable insights in each of these.  I'm of course biased, but I can safely say that getting involved with Social Times PRO and our sister sites on the Inside Network are the best ways to access the insights of today's social experts.

Read More: Social Times PRO: How to Monetize and Engage Players of Facebook Strategy Games

Got a question? How do you feel about paying someone to answer it? That may soon be a possibility as Quora tests credits.


Read More: Quora Trying New Strategy: User Credits

Branded social communities are to your social marketing strategy what your company website is to your internet marketing strategy. You’d never run online advertising campaigns, banners ads, or search marketing campaigns without having a place to send prospects, a place where you control the entire messaging, would you?

Read More: How Branded Communities Leverage Your Social Strategy

The Google Mobile Ads Blog provides interesting mobile statistics on their way to listing:Five mobile trends to watch and how you can get started today- 85% of mobile devices will be web enabled by 2012
- Mobile search grew by 400% in the past year
- 33% of search have local intent
- 59% of people visit a local store after searching for it on a mobile deviceHere are the five pieces of advice Google offers to businesses1. Create a mobile specific site
2. Make it easy for peopl [...]

Read More: Google’s Five Step Mobile Strategy for Businesses