4 Must-Have Social Marketing Blog Shortcuts to Help Spread the Word

social-marketing-tipsYou’ve just written an amazing blog post, uncovered an incredible new tool or piece of software and now you want to tell the world about it. The problem is, you don’t want to come off as too self-promotional. Nobody likes a “social marketer” who just markets themselves.

So how do you make it easier for your followers, groups and friends to share your message? You integrate it with your blog posts and vice versa! Here are the easiest blog tools to make sure you’re maximizing your social networking efforts by making it easy for people to share your posts in just a few clicks.

1. Twitter Tools -  Alex King’s helpful Twitter Tools plugin will integrate your blog posts with Twitter and optionally let you create digests every day or week of your tweets and/or posts. Easy to install and start using – this is a Twitter blog plugin that you won’t want to be without!

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4 Must-Ask Questions that Will Connect You to Your Customers

clientsReaching your target audience is about more than putting up some products, writing some snazzy descriptions and promoting it, hoping for the best.  It’s about asking real, relevant questions that get their attention and get them involved with what you have to offer.  In a sense, you’re “speaking to them” on a level they can relate to.

But what questions should you be asking?  Here are four of the best questions to know the answers to before you start your marketing plan.

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How to Generate Great New Ideas On-Demand, Just By Opening Your File Cabinet

swipe-fileDid you know that right now, there are thousands of terrific ideas, headlines, and sales ideas sitting all around you?  They’re on TV, in magazines and newspapers, nestled in the classifieds and all over the internet.  And they’re even hiding out…in your junk mail.

These are the treasured tidbits that every serious business owner watches out for.  That one letter with a return address you don’t recognize on the hand-written envelope.  That piece of mail marked “Private and Confidential”.  That magazine ad that looks so real you have to touch it to believe it.

These are all prize-winning pieces of the swipe file.

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