Top 4 Essential Mobile Apps to Monitor Your Blog Success
Blog success is one of the cornerstones of business in this century. Here’s an article on the same and the 4 tools that will help you achieve it.
4 Old School Marketing Tactics That Still Work On Social Media
There will always be new
trends in the world of digital marketing, but that doesn’t mean you should
overlook old school methods. These tricks are still popular for a good reason –
they work! Whether you are putting together a magazine ad, a radio commercial,
or a social media post, some strategies never go out of style.
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Let’s take a look at 4 tactics
that still yield results.
Tactic #1: Get Endorsements from Authorities &
Influencers
It’s human nature to play
“follow the leader” when it comes to making buying decisions. When we notice
that someone we admire is endorsing a product or service, we sit up and …
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5 Clever Strategies for Greater Instagram Exposure
We know the power of video marketing.
More people are getting access to devices and networks that allow them to
consume more video content. The leading video marketing platforms receive and
send a lot more traffic than the search engines. Instagram can be a great way
of receiving highly-targeted visitors.
To get the best of the traffic and conversions from Instagram, you have to make many followers. You also have to
master how to maximize Instagram likes for more engagement. The more you get engagements on your Instagram, the more leads you generate on your account for your business.
How to
Maximize Your Instagram Exposure:
Instagram released their algorithm
in …
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How to curate your Instagram aesthetic and create a brand identity
Do you know that Instagram aesthetic is effective in establishing your brand? Do you want to learn how to use your Instagram aesthetic to create a brand identity?
Instagram is proving itself to be a force to be reckoned with in establishing brands. According to HootSuite, Instagram has over 800 million monthly active users, and not to mention the highest interaction rate of any social media platform at 2.2 percent per follower.
Here’s a real-life example from Jumper: McDonald’s posted a video of a sizzling hamburger on both Facebook and Instagram. In four hours the company’s 64 million Facebook followers …
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How to Promote Your Service-Based Business on Instagram
Too often, marketers and marketing strategists speak of social media in too nebulous terms. The different platforms all draw different audiences and require a content strategy that targets our ideal avatar on that platform. This is true whether you are selling business consulting services, time management training services, or any other type of service, online or off.
Your ideal buyer displays different behaviors and interacts with content differently on all the various social platforms. This is why we want to spend some time today talking about just one specific platform: Instagram.
What are the special considerations you need to make …
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15 of the Best Free Stock Photo Sites to Use in 2018

by Mary Whitman
Visuals are the power force of your content marketing campaign. You know it, and you use them pretty often whenever you promote articles, products, and services.
The problem is: it can get quite pricey for you to create strong visuals for each piece of content. That would mean hiring a professional graphic designer or photographer, or purchasing photographs online.
This is where free stock photos come in handy. Yes; they can look cheesy when you opt for the most obvious and most common pick. When you choose carefully, however, free stock photos can pretty cool. You can modify them, so you’ll add …
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The Top 7 Social Media Marketing Trends going into 2019
We all know by now how important of a role social media has on your business strategy. If you’re not on social media, you’re making things significantly harder on your business than they need to be.
However, social media is constantly changing and it’s hard if you’re a social media marketing manager to understand how social media is changing the game. We’re going to break down the top eight social media marketing trends of 2018 that are completely changing how we look at social media.
1. Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is already being implemented in small ways, but it’s leaving a …
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Get Hashtag suggestions for posts in Viraltag easily with RiteTag
by Hinu Jain
Tired of guessing which hashtags for your social posts actually are getting engagement? Ready to stop manually testing hashtags in Instagram search to see if they’re banned? You can now get easy-add hashtag suggestions for your Instagram photos, Tweets, Pinterest image uploads. RiteTag is a lightweight but powerful hashtag solution that rides right inside Viraltag’s Scheduler, Custom Scheduler and also in the Viraltag browser extension!
RiteTag’s hashtag suggestions are not only topic-relevant, but they are only suggested if they are currently getting engagement. They are color-graded to show which are:
Best for Instagram (rainbow)
Best for current engagement (green)
Best for …
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7 Tricks to create an Infographic that goes viral
Did you know that 74% of marketers rely on visuals in their social media marketing campaigns, and 56% of them rely on infographics?
It’s easy to understand why visual content is such a success in the online world. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is not just a random saying. There’s a lot of truth behind it. The human brain is faster and more effective at processing visual information. When processing text, the brain has to put in much more effort, which is exactly why the online audience doesn’t have an impressive attention span in terms of reading …
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Why is adding Semantic information to your images important?
by Gloria Kopp
We spend so much time focused on creating attractive visuals for our blog posts, that we tend to overlook certain details; Details like the Title, Description, Alt-text and Captions that go alongside the images. It may look like a simple caption or a default name like ‘DXD00001’ to photos is fine, but this is far from the truth. Here’s a complete guide on why these details are important and how including them will go a long way in blogging success.
What Semantic information do I add to my images?
Once you’ve added and image into your blog, you’ll see a number of attributes :
URL …
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How to Make Gifs: Creating 30 Gifs in 1 Day With No Experience
Have you ever had an idea that sounds great on paper, but turns out to be a nightmare in practice?
30 click-to-tweet gifs to make my next post more shareable. It couldn’t be that hard. There are obscure twitter bots set to spew out randomly generated images for crying out loud – you just record something, stick it on a loop, put text over it, and boom, a quick and brilliant marketing resource generated for the post. Job done.
That wasn’t what happened.
I struggled with the first gif for hours, looking up endless guides and how-tos to …
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4 Ways To Upgrade Your Social Media Visuals
With billions of shares passing through the social platforms each day, it is getting harder to stand out on social media. Back in the day when Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn were just getting started you could succeed by just publishing great content.
Now there is so much noise that you have to have something extra just to get someone’s attention.
It’s exhausting.
That’s why I think it’s so important that creators focus on making their social media visuals world class. It’s that extra little thing that can make your share stand out like a beacon.
You’ve already created amazing content, don’t let it …
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