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Instagram Announces Shopping Feature: What You Need to Know

Instagram is going to jump into the ecommerce ring with its new shopping (a.k.a. product tagging) feature. Today Instagram announced some big news for its retail business users. They're testing a new feature that will allow retailers to tag products within their photos, just as you would tag another user in a photo. Only these new product tags are ...
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How to Do a Yearly Blog Review

Understand how your blog has grown and the fruits of your blogging labor. A lot can be accomplished in 365 days, and unless you take the time to evaluate the last 365 days  how can you have a proper perspective of what you can expect in the next 365 days? Do you have a yearly review process for your blog? Not to be confused with a blogging ...
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Top 11 Things That Are Killing Your Pinterest Success

These are exactly what you shouldn't be doing if you want to harness the power of Pinterest. In case you weren’t aware, Pinterest has massive potential for driving blog traffic. And I’m not talking short-lived, low-quality traffic. I’m talking long-term, highly engaged traffic that can be a total game-changer for your blog. The best part about ...
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How to: Google Analytics Goals Like a Boss

A simple walkthrough for creating effective Google Analytics Goals to track your progress. Do you have goals as a blogger? I’m not talking about aspirations, hopes and dreams like, “I want to be as cool as Michael Hyatt some day.” I’m talking about the kind of goals you can track through Google Analytics. Not that I don’t fully support dreaming ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Twitter Dashboard

A new way to monitor your mentions, stats and even find people talking about you that haven’t mentioned you! Twitter recently unveiled it’s latest tool for businesses and brands— the Twitter Dashboard. It’s a tool meant to help businesses better monitor their mentions, stats, and connect to their audience. In Twitter’s own words: Twitter ...
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Don’t Just Boost Social Media Engagement, Scale It

Widen your gaze: It’s not just about optimizing your posts for highest engagement, that doesn't scale. I'm going to show you what does. There are approximately 43,235,901 blog posts written about "how to get more engagement on social media" (rough estimate). Some good. Most bad. The good ones will give you solid tactics for optimizing how you ...
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7 Ways to Crush Twitter Lists Like a Boss

Twitter lists can be a powerful networking tool if you know how to use them. Before we get into that though, let's start with an analogy. If you were invited to the biggest cocktail party in the world, what would you spend the majority of your time doing? Would you be shouting out the headlines to your latest blog posts? Walking up to random ...
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Social Media Icon Set: Flat, Minimal, Accurate and Updated

The most meticulously updated and accurately crafted minimal social media icon set on the internet. Now includes the new Instagram icon! I have a pet peeve. Okay fine, I've got more than one of them. One in particular has to do with social media icons. It may be silly, but I just can't stand seeing outdated social media icons. In an attempt to ...
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Social Media Logos: 20 Most Popular Networks [Free Download]

Your always-updated, one-stop resource for the most current social media logos for the most popular social networks. As social networks grow from bootstrapped tech start-ups to a thriving social platform, they’re bound to undergo some logo changes. I have a particular sensitivity to when these social media logos change because branding is one of ...
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