We share some great articles from the week in our social media wrap up that can help with your digital marketing. Check out the 7 articles, plus the bonus resource below.
Click on each article’s title to read it now or save it a Pinterest board for later. (You’ll see a Click here to Pin it link for each resource.)
1.20 Instagram Apps You’ll Need for Better Instagram Pics and Videos
You’re bound to find some useful Apps in this list! Here is one that sounds cool: TimerCam – set your phone down (or on a tripod) and use the 30 second timer to get in the shot!
2. How to Use Ideas, Messages, and Themes to Build Your Content Strategy
An effective way to look at your business’ content strategy – the graphic makes it easier to understand how things work together.
3. How to Benefit from the LinkedIn Publishing Platform
If you’re interested in publishing posts on LinkedIn, this article gives you some great tips. The publishing platform is rolling out to all users eventually; but you can request early access through this link: http://specialedition.linkedin.com/publishing/
4. 10 Steps a Local Business Can Take Today to Improve SEO
An in-depth list of tips and resources for local SEO. This is one you’ll want to save and read when you have time to take a look at all the tools mentioned!
5. 7 Extremely Useful Online Video Marketing Tools?
A great collection of tools to help you make videos! An interesting stat: “40% of all views on videos on YouTube are on videos that are less than 2 minutes long.”
6. Tips to Plan, Research, Write, and Publish Your Content
This is a terrific guide for each step of your content strategy; with tips for writing for your audience first, and then writing so the robots can find your content as well.
7. How To Use Google+ To Engage Your Audience More Effectively
Get some helpful tips (plus examples) of more effective posts on Google+. Each platform is different when it comes to optimizing posts, so it’s always beneficial to check out what the site’s influencers are doing!
Bonus Resource: 7 Awesome Visualization Tools to Bring Out Your Inner Graphic Designer
This is a great collection of tools to help you create visuals like Infographics or Charts (if you’re not a graphic designer). And check out Statistic Brain (link is in the article) for data – you could spend hours on that site!
This week’s local-area photo is a lonely, well-worn plow on a country road.
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