5 Go-Tos To Make Online Reviews Work For Your Business

By now, everyone knows that online reviews can have a tremendous impact on consumers’ purchasing decisions. Ultimately, a single review — positive or negative — can tip the scale in favor of one company over another. No doubt, the power of reviews on Google+, Yelp, Angie’s…

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How Local Businesses Can Leverage Twitter’s New Nearby Feature

Twitter has made headlines in recent weeks with the quiet launch of its experimental Nearby timeline, which allows eligible mobile users to discover tweets posted by others in their immediate vicinity, regardless of whether they are following them. This feature is currently available to a select…

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Best of 2013: No 2 – Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare

Facebook’s new Graph Search has potential for finding information about others and targeting, but also raises a lot of privacy questions at the same time

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Best of 2013: No 2 – Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare

How Record Labels Must Adapt Their Online Marketing Strategy in 2014

Marcus Taylor has spent a lot of time on various sides of music marketing and shares his factors separating those artists who are currently leading the way in digital marketing in the music industry, from those who are lagging behind.

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How Record Labels Must Adapt Their Online Marketing Strategy in 2014

Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – November 2013 edition

The end of the year is coming, and with it the time of looking back at what happened in 2013 and start trying to guess what 2014 will offer.

Usually this translates into boring lists and weird previews that really don’t understand the real meaning of the events of past.

But if someone like Dr Pete presents his on preview, well… I trust them, because very few persons have such a constant and attentive view of the changes Google commits daily to its own SERPs…

Click and discover the best about Search and Digital Marketing shared during the last weeks.

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Gianluca Fiorelli’s Super Search Update – November 2013 edition

What Everybody Missed About Hummingbird: Social Signals

Danny Sullivan joined me for a live broadcast event via a Hangout on Air (HOA) this past Halloween, and this included a major revelation about Hummingbird and Social signals. Scott Scowcroft has done an awesome job of extracting this part of the broadc…

5 ways to use Twitter for Community Building

Community Building is a brilliant way to start turning connections into customers. Twitter is a fantastic social network for community building so Sarah Bradley for State of Digital has put together an easy 5 step guide to start increasing your following, building relationships and converting customer using Twitter.

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5 ways to use Twitter for Community Building

How Local Businesses Should Size Up & Tackle Social Media

The most frequently asked question posed these days at events, webinars and new client meetings is “What is the best social media platform for my local business?” Research shows social channels are becoming more important signals in major search engine algorithms that affect the entire SEO and…

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