Weekly Social Media Wrap Up 5-10-14

Weekly Wrap Up 5-10-14

Need some new tips for your social media marketing strategy? Get them from these top resources found and shared this week on our social sites.

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1. How To Become A Top Contributor In Any LinkedIn Group

This is a terrific guide for maximizing your time and efforts in LinkedIn Groups. Step-by-step actions with images make this a very helpful resource!

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2. Evernote And LinkedIn Launch A New Business Card App For iOS To Organize Your Contacts

A really cool App from Evernote and LinkedIn: Scan in business cards using Evernote’s iOS App, and get contact information from LinkedIn (from anyone, you don’t have to be connected). A great way to organize your contacts! Available right now for iPhone, iPad, with an Android App coming this summer.

Also see the official announcement from Evernote (click here) 

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3. Instagram, Barbershops, and the Power of Continuous Marketing

A great article and ideas for your marketing strategy: integrating social sites and keeping a continuous dialog going for engagement (using Instagram; but the strategies apply to any social media site).

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4. 5 Easy Tricks To Attract Blog Post Attention [Research] 

Great tips for writing your blog posts: short paragraphs, concise sentences, numbers represented in digits, and more…
And these 5 tricks are easy to do!

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5.  Boost Posts or Promoted Posts on Facebook: Which is Better? 

This is a very helpful resource on the difference between Boosting a Facebook Post (directly from your Page) and Promoting a Post (through the Ads Manager or Power Editor).

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6. 10 Real World Examples for How to Successfully Post Social Media Content

There are some great tips in this article for creating social media posts, and the examples for each one will give you some great ideas for your own content strategy.

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7. A Quick (but Thorough) Guide to YouTube Optimization

A helpful guide for optimizing your YouTube account.

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This week’s photo is from Clearwater Beach, FL.

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About Terry League

Terry helps small business owners with social media strategy, training and account management. With a background in marketing and training, she enjoys combining those two areas to teach business owners how to get the most out of their social media marketing. Connect with Terry on Twitter and Instagram @TerryLeague for more on social media with a mix of positive motivation and inspiration.