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Welcome to our May Blog Hop!This month we are so excited to help you in your business and life. You’ll find fabulous articles, how-to’s and resources for you today that have helped each consultant, blogger and business owner on the hop in their own lives and businesses. Get ready to be inspired for a wonderful month ahead of you as you move along through the blog hop.
You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Vicki Heise at Vicki Heise ~ Live Your Healthy Life on Natalie Bradley’s Blog Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you make sure to see and learn from all of the articles featured here today.
Visual content marketing can consist of all sorts of visual media.
Here are some articles picked just for you to get you started with visual marketing.
1. How to Create Brand Memes for Social Media Marketing
Memorable brand memes can bring more visibility to your personal brand as well as attract new fans and followers.
2. Boost Your Social Media Clicks 60% with Better Images
For images to engage, they must be trend setters and cater to both the networks’ design and desires of their audience.
3. How to optimize social media marketing efforts using Microcontent
“microcontent should be an ultra-short abstract of its associated macro content”. This is because people are more inclined to view (and share) smaller pieces of content. Images, infographics, illustrations, & more.
4. 3 Tips for Creating Great Visual Marketing
Love Love Love these visual mktg ideas & I’ve been wanting to experiment with ‘live streaming’!
5. How To Make Your Marketing Meme-tastic!
Memes can be anything & how to market them! Fun Fun!
Bonus Tip: Follow all my visual content marketing tips on my Social Posties™ Facebook page. Get daily tips as well as memes to share!
That’s a wrap for this month’s Blog Hop post. Let me know if you have any questions…
The next stop is Robin Hardy at Integrity Virtual Services on Natalie Bradley’s Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again next month!
Blog Hop participants lineup:
1. Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Consulting
2. Rochelle Togo-Figa at RTF Coaching
3. M. Shannon Hernandez at The Writing Whisperer
4. Jill Russo Foster at JillRussoFoster.com
5. Deb Brown at Touch Your Client’s Heart
6. Vicki Heise at Vicki Heise ~ Live Your Healthy Life
7. Kim McDaniels at iBiz Design Duchess <<– you are here!
8. Robin Hardy at Integrity Virtual Services
9. Heidi Kleine at Worth it Woman
10. Ronda Neufeld at Ronda Neufeld Relationship & Life Coach
Welcome to our April Blog Hop!This month we are so excited to help you reach your business and life goals, featuring articles, how-to’s and resources for you today that have helped each consultant, blogger and business owner on the hop in their own lives and businesses. Get ready to be inspired for a fabulous month ahead of you as you move along through the blog hop.
You may just be starting the blog hop or may have come from Deb Brown at Touch Your Client’s Heart on Natalie Bradley’s Blog Hop. If you get off track at any time, the full lineup below will help you move along from blog to blog so you make sure to see and learn from all of the articles featured here today.
Sorry, I’m not much of a writer and I’m fine with that. I think everyone feels that occasionally, maybe all the time. But that shouldn’t prohibit you from creating content for your blog and social media.
Curating content is the process of distributing other people’s content that your ideal client finds informative, helpful, downright vital to their business. And it makes you look like an expert! How? By providing your ‘peeps’ with curated content, or information you find important to them, you are the person they will turn to for help and business.
Curating content also provides you with the opportunity to put your ‘spin’ on articles/info as well as fills the void of ‘what to post’. Put your personality into it!
Tip #1: Finding the content to curate
There is so much information out there and the authors LOVE it when you help them go viral! My two favorite places… Google Alerts and Alltop.com. It’s simple, pick a topic or interest then post to your social media or blog for your followers. Add a sassy little comment that will entice them to read, and don’t forget a hashtag!
Example: Let’s say I post every Monday with information about mobile marketing (which I do by the way on my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Google+). A Google Alert is sent to me once per week of a compilation of articles/posts that are out there online. I choose to post 3 times per day so I vet and choose 3 articles, infographics, or memes that would be informative. Here’s an example:
Tip #2: Scheduling
Make it easy by scheduling your 3 Facebook posts for the day within Facebook. Set & Forget!
Now for the other places I post (Twitter, LinkedIn & Google+), there’s all sorts of auto-posting mechanisms out there but I choose to use Buffer (it’s FREE). Here’s a detailed article on adding the Buffer extension to your browser: http://bit.ly/1OsvOG9 Then you can Buffer articles, images, tweets, blogposts, almost anything.
Set-up your Buffer account and schedule your posts to post to the other networks. How-to’s are on the Buffer site.
Tip #3: Express Yourself!
Expressing yourself and your personality is a part of branding your business. Add your humor, experience, story telling, or viewpoint on a subject by introducing the content you’re curating. Or just add a commentary to the content to start a discussion.
Bonus Tip… Curate or Die: Why You Must Curate Content in 2015
Here’s a collection of curated content about….wait for it….Content Curation. You can see how this site uses curated content and provides you with a huge amount of information on how-to. And as always, if you need some help in getting started, I’m happy to help!
The next stop is Jill Russo at JillRussoFoster.com on Natalie Bradley’s Blog Hop! Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again next month!
Natalie Bradley at Natalie Bradley Consulting
Deb Brown at Touch Your Client’s Heart
Kim McDaniels at iBiz Design Duchess <<– you are here!
Jill Russo at JillRussoFoster.com
Robin Hardy at Integrity Virtual Services
