Building your online community should be one of your key objectives if you are trying to build your business or your personal brand. Even if you are not building an online business, your online community is still an important business metric. I am working on building the online side of my business. While consultancy, training and speaking projects are well established, this year I wanted to concentrate on building passive online revenue streams. You cannot monetize an online business without an engaged and supportive community – JSB Building an online business doesn’t happen overnight, despite the “build a six-figure business in 90
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Michael Stelzner, Founder and CEO of Social Media Examiner and creator of Social Media Marketing World took to the stage on the morning of Monday 18th April to deliver his keynote address to 3,000 attendees. As a social media marketer the Social Media Examiner Industry Report is one I await with great interest. Michael and his team survey over 3,000 marketers on a range of social media topics to find out what’s hot, what’s not and what’s posing a challenge to social media marketing professionals. While the full contents of the 2016 Social Media Industry Report will be released in May we
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3,000 people attended the recent Social Media Marketing World (SMMW) 2016 event and every attendee will have had their own unique experience. But I thought I’d share my very own social media rollercoaster with you as I’ve had lots of comments and interaction from you on social media hungry for more in-depth insights. So in this post I will share my top 10 highlights from the world’s biggest (and in my opinion best) social media marketing conference for marketers. I was a first-timer to #SMMW which is organised by Social Media Examiner but it wasn’t my first time in San Diego
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I’m a news-hound. I guess it’s the journalist in me. My husband says, ‘once a journalist, always a journalist.’ I consume news practically all day from waking up to my clock radio at 7am with Cathal MacCoille from Morning Ireland reminding me what day it is and wishing me a ‘very good morning’, reading news from Twitter links, listening to news shows on the radio in the car, to finally receiving mobile notifications from The Irish Times, Irish Independent and TheJournal.ie. Coverage around the centenary celebrations has been dominating all news platforms recently so it got me thinking… What if social media was around in 1916?
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