Have you noticed how social networks are becoming more about building memories? You make friends, share events, get congratulated for happy events and condolences for sad ones. You can share pictures, videos… in fact, social accounts are like the digital scrapbooks of our lives (for individual accounts) and businesses (for corporate accounts). Now, I’m immersed [...]
We’re buried in the Internet day in and day out. Being surrounded by the very things we talk about, it’s hard to remember sometimes that some people don’t have so much as the basics. Today, we’re going to walk you through one of the foundations of traffic building – a company blog. From the concept to the reality, here’s a step-by-step process to creating a company blog for traffic generation.
Since I’ve been living in the South, I can’t help but fall in love with people like political strategist James Carville who announced, “It’s the economy, stupid”. He was explaining how a virtual unknown political candidate won against an opponent who had everything going for him. In his mind, people think—and vote—with their bank accounts.
It seems like every time a new social media network pops up, a fresh spate of articles are sure to follow. These cookie cutter articles tout all the many wondrous, fantastic reasons you should hop on, jump in and climb on the bandwagon. Well, we say “enough”! Social media has enough cheerleaders, pro-social arguments and lessons. It’s time somebody put their foot down, and brought up some points about why you don’t need social media.
There’s nothing like getting off the grid for three weeks. Funny thing is, I didn’t miss it as much as I thought I would. Sure, I missed my morning routine: my home, Lucy and, of course, my social connections. That’s on a personal level, though. I’ll admit I also missed working on projects, finding solutions and the focus of mind that comes when getting ready for the next conference call. We become such creatures of habit, don’t we? Especially, it seems, when working online. 
A while back, we came across an article on Search News Central (SNC) by search geek David Harry, entitled 
Hootsuite analytics anyone? A sequel to Monitoring Your Daily Social Media Efforts, Social Media Measuring: The 4 Key Elements will take you through the ins and outs of Hootsuite analytics for Twitter and Facebook. Learn how to measure your approach, no matter what type of social media campaign you’re running.
Life is funny, isn’t it? You jump into blogging and worry about organic optimization because ABC SEO specialist said, “if you build it, they will come.” Ah, the undefined they. Well, in this case it’s they, as in, the search engines, the visitors, the conversions.
Don’t you just wish you could wave a magic wand and have influence, reputation and love with the click of a button? Wouldn’t that be fantastic? Eventually, I bet there’ll be an app for that. I’m going to call it “Insta-Klout” and charge thousands of dollars for using it – a day… just sayin.
The “Digital Revolution” is the title given to the greatest economic, social, political global movement the world has ever known. It’s changed the way we think; the way we socialize – the way we act. You’ll get different “how it started” stories depending on who you talk to and when. I have a personal theory, however, that the Digital Revolution is simply a step in an ongoing Age of Enlightenment.
