How to Deal with Trolls on Your Social-Networking Sites

Dealing with Trolls

If you’re feeling like “OMG WTF” when scrolling your comment thread, you may be dealing with a troll. Trolls aren’t just readers or customers who are complaining about your product or service; these are creatures, spawned of the Internet, with the sole purpose of being a nuisance or creating a destructive presence on your site. Trolls don’t have legitimate grievances and they don’t want to talk rationally about their concerns.

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The Value of Visualization

Power of Visualizations

Power has value. Visualizations, for all of the difficulty that is associated with creating a superb one in the ultra-competitive world of infographic promotions, have a certain power, particularly in social media. Many users love visualizations. They are perfect for our ADHD-driven world of quick bursts of information overriding the old need for large amounts of prose.

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5 Social Sites That Should Offer Online Associates Degrees

Social Media Degrees

The Internet is the greatest collection of knowledge in human history, but if an alien were to download it he’d think we were still experimenting with how to breed. And getting it fantastically wrong a lot of the time. The Library of Alexandria was not stuffed with naked bodies in improbable combinations, but it also wasn’t open to everyone.

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Have Brand Pages given Google+ New Life?

Google Plus Brand Pages

As far as the social space is concerned, Google+ just may go on to be the story of 2011. After all, it has been surrounded by more hype than we have seen in a long while. When the platform was unveiled back in June, many pundits in the tech community actually believed it could be a viable competitor to social giant Facebook.

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Infographics for SEO

Infographics for SEO

This article originally appeared on GridSix, an internet marketing training company that we support. Check out more helpful training articles there.

For years, link-bait has been the highest level of link-building available. There’s nothing better for increasing rankings than to have a viral piece of content spread throughout the internet, getting posted and reposted across a wide-array of websites, blogs, and social media sites.

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Your Google Plus Business Page (quickly)

Google Plus Business Page

QUICK! How much time should you spend building your Google+ Business Page? That’s right – 5 minutes.

Now, how much time should you spend working on your Google+Business Page once it’s built?

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Gaming: The Latest Key to Success for Tagged.com

Tagged.com Gaming

If you were to ask the average person or even a social media expert to name profitable social networks, they would list some that truly are profitable such as Facebook and a bunch that have yet to achieve true profitability. One that would not get mentioned by many is Tagged.com.

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In the Meantime: What Businesses should do In-Between Sales

Something to Post

Not every business can sell to the same customer daily, many must wait months or years before they can connect with a returning customer. This is especially common in amongst the Automotive Industry and in the age of a customer service evolution, it is more important now than ever before to maintain a relationship with customers in order for them to become loyal and return to your business.

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Viral Marketing: How Contagious is it?

Viral Marketing

The term ‘viral marketing’ may not sound particularly pleasant but it can be the key to a business’ online market success and has taken the internet by storm over the last few years.

Viral marketing is an extremely powerful marketing tactic which, if successful, will change your business forever. Viral marketing is basically good old-fashioned ‘word of mouth’ which, whilst always massively important, has been supercharged thanks to the Internet.

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It’s Not Called Social Media for Nothing

Social Media Golden Rule

No matter what social media platform you use, there is one mistake you can make that will make you disappear fast than you can click your mouse, and chances are you are making it.  In a word, that mistake is self-indulgence.

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