Social Media

What do the Eiffel Tower, Boulders Beach in South Africa, and the Caves Resort in Jamaica all have in common? The attention of Pinterest users, for one thing. Pinterest unveiled its most popular pins of 2013 on Thursday, highlighting the top 20 or so pins from the year in more than 25 separate categories, including "Places and travel" where the beautiful locations from above all fit in.

Each month, BLUE works closely with business influencers to source and develop original content around subjects that directly impact your growth. Topics like lead generation, start-up funding, leadership training, and social media implementation are just a few we'll explore on your behalf.

10 Steps to Using Digital Marketing Strategies To Find Your Dream Job in 2014 2013 is coming to an end, therefore it's time to analyze, evaluate and make changes going into the New Year. We all make resolutions about, health, wealth and happiness so why not include changing our employment situation.

How To Adjust The "Volume" Of Your Google+ Circles In Your News Feed See More, Less, or None Of That G+ Circle In Your Feed! Formerly known as the "volume slider", this little setting in your Google Circles lets you decide whether you see a LOT of that circle in your news feed or hide it and visit it as it's own thing.

Google Plus vs Facebook: Want to know why you should be using Google Plus instead of Facebook? Social media is all about the experience and our ability to create a virtual space that both compliments, accessorizes and expands our offline activities into a vibrant and interactive online space.

Have you jumped into social media feet first? Is your business now on every social site? Or have you shied away from the rapidly changing social landscape? As a business owner or marketer, you don't have infinite time and resources to be everything to everyone.

Is Google+ working for your business? Are you wondering how to increase engagement with your Google+ community? Google+ is designed to focus on one thing and one thing only: engagement. So, how can you pump up your Google+ engagement? In this post, you'll discover six ways to use Google+ posts to stimulate activity.

Are you overwhelmed by the sheer amount of time it takes to keep up with social media? Do you want to get more active on Google+ but just don't have the tools you need to accomplish your goals? Well, you are not alone!

Tweet Posting your social media updates at the right times is the key to improving your presence on any social network. All social media aren't the same. Each social network has different kinds of users and their daily activities vary. They use these networks at various times and days to engage with the updates published.

Tweet Posting your social media updates at the right times is the key to improving your presence on any social network. All social media aren't the same. Each social network has different kinds of users and their daily activities vary. They use these networks at various times and days to engage with the updates published.

Social Media can be overwhelming. There was a time when reaching out to your customers digitally, only meant sending out bulk e-mailers of your product or services. As the social media sphere has evolved, reaching out to customers digitally has emerged from being mere bombardment of products and features, to appealing to consumers aesthetically and engaging with them innovatively.

Can I Share Your Social Media & Marketing Content With My Scoop.It Readers? Want To Get Your Content Seen? Are you blogging about social marketing? If so - I need your content! (Literally!)

Shh...Pinterest has a secret. Well, lots of secrets actually. We don't know how many secrets because, well, they are secret. Pinterest is designed for sharing images with others but there is a secret side to Pinterest that many people don't know about: Secret Pinterest Boards.

If you're looking for some great tips on tools that you can use to make the most out of #hashtags, you're in the right place.

Mike is a Social Media Manager in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been working with websites and the Internet since the early '90's. He is active on all of the major social networks and enjoys writing and teaching small business owners on how to leverage the Internet to promote and grow their business.

"Saturdays is known to be the day to pin it over at Pinterest."

Pinterest is exploding! And with it, so too are the opportunities for authors to expand their reach and increase their book promotion and brand awareness. Now the third largest social network, Pinterest acts as a virtual pin board that helps you organize and share things you find on the web.

Welcome to The Beginner's Guide to Social Media! Welcome to The Beginner's Guide to Social Media! Whether you're new to social media or just looking to close a few knowledge gaps, we're glad you stopped by. By now, we've all heard how valuable-even essential-social media can be.

When launching the 2nd edition of The LinkedIn Challenge I used the 'mentions' feature quite a bit. What is The LinkedIn Challenge and what are 'mentions', you're asking? The LinkedIn Challenge is an event I run twice per year where I gather a group of international LinkedIn specialists and ask them to submit their best LinkedIn tip.

This is a guest posting from Dani. A great tutorial on how to use Shareaholic plugin to create a eye-catching floating bar. This is pretty similar with my WordPress tutorial, building a custom Hello Bar. Make no mistake; floating notification bar can increase your conversation rates multiple fold (if you do it correctly).

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You know this already, but sometimes it amazes me how fast technology moves. Just yesterday, we casually mentioned in another post that Pinterest was running an experiment with a small number of people that plays animated GIFs on the social network. Today, Pinterest announced that all users will now begin to interact with animated GIFs within pins.

Twitter Profiles Matter - Test Results. If you have been on Twitter long enough you know how important your Twitter profiles are. Recently I did a small split test on 2 different profiles to see what the results would be as far as adding new followers.

Share this on Facebook ;) Facebook is a complex ecosystem of individuals, creators, brands and advertisers, but I don't think it serves any of these groups particularly well because its top priority is to make money. Now, I don't think making money is a bad thing, in fact I hope to make some myself.