Social Media, Marketing, and Beyond

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This week I read up on Google’s latest warning to guest bloggers and the sites that love them. I learned about 101 places to find royalty-free images for my website. I said, “Amen, sister!” to Michele Linn’s post where she proclaims, “your editorial calendar is not your content marketing strategy.” And I perused a delightful list of link building ideas (spoiler alert: it’s about great content creation).

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With the speed of change and technological disruption in the field of marketing, it's vital that marketers gain creative courage to stay relevant.

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Have you addressed employee separation in your social media policy? It needs to address your corporate accounts and individual employee participation.

I've been on a software safari in search of the perfect tools to keep me on track and in check. Here are a few of my new favorites. Are they yours, too?

There's a cool way you can add interactivity to your images and videos without having to know how to do any fancy coding. Learn more about this fun service.

Words of Wisdom: "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." Mark Twain

You know all about search, but what other ways can you find LinkedIn prospects? Check out these great LinkedIn features for finding contacts.

Wish you could could create great looking email newsletters and promotions without leaving your Gmail account? With Flashissue, you can do just that.

Last October Google announced its open source project, Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP). Toward the end of February 2016, Google began rolling out AMP.

John H. Patterson is considered by some to be the father of modern sales training. Learn more about his approach and how it still works today.

Words of Wisdom: "Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does." Steuart Henderson Britt

What is content curation? Copying and pasting someone else's content? Just regurgitating someone else's ideas and linking to his or her post? No! Learn more about the right way to approach content curation.