For Car Dealers, Exposure is a Key Point on Social

Coastal Lighthouse

I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it’s the main point, but it’s definitely one of the keys. Exposure on social media is an extremely high-potential benefit of having a strong presence on social media sites, particularly Facebook.

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What We Want to See: Make Yourself More Personable Online

Fun Man

So you have a Facebook page for your business, you have a Twitter account, you’re doing all you think you need to do to have a good, strong online presence. And that’s very good, but all the tweets in the world might not amount to a hill of beans unless you remember one very important thing: the human factor.

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How To Keep Filling Your Blog With Valuable Content

Treasure Chest

We’ve established that search engines and social media platforms thrive on content. We’ve gotten to this point because it’s what people crave.

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Unify Your Content, Search, and Social Strategies

Content Search Social

It’s very possible that I’m beating a dead horse on this one, but I’d rather beat a dead one than a live one.

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Second Quarter Changes to Search and Social Strategy

Two Quarters

Some may try to call me out on the title of this post. “Don’t you mean ‘strategies’ plural?”

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Photo Pages are Website Content That Keep Giving on Search and Social

Photo Pages

Experts can offer whatever reasoning they want about why sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest became successful, but at the end of the day it’s a no-brainer that they turned pictures into the ultimate addictive hook to their sites and apps. We are visualizing creatures. We love to see things more than we love to read about them.

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More Evidence that Women Rule Social Media

Woman on a Computer

Women rule social media. There have been numerous studies that show that sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest are dominated by women. 75% of women according to Pew Research Center use social networking sites compared to 63% of men. This is important to understand.

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The Actions Needed to Build True Brand Ambassadors

Happy Customer

You’ve gone through all the steps. You knew that we were going to be talking about brand ambassadors. You learned why they’re important. We showed you how to identify them, then we discussed how to approach them. Now, it’s time to wrap it up with the hardest part of them all. We’re going to talk about how to sustain them as true brand ambassadors.

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How to Approach a Potential Brand Ambassador About Social Media

Approaching a Customer

You’ve made a customer extremely happy with their purchase and exceeded their expectations. They’re smiling, shaking your hand, and thankful that you earned their business. They show all of the signs of being a potential brand ambassador. Now, how do you actually convert them from happy customer to brand ambassador?

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How to Identify Potential Brand Ambassadors

Brand Ambassador

Let’s assume, for a moment, that you have step one on the path to building your Brand Ambassador Factory covered. For those who don’t know, step one would be to make sure that your business is operating in a way that creates extremely happy customers and clients. There’s nothing I can say on this social media blog to help you there – run a good business and make people more than satisfied with the results you deliver. If you aren’t doing that, social media can’t fix it.

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