This week’s Future of Publishing features Ramon De Leon, an early pioneer in deploying social media as a business solution and creating social content designed to be spread on Facebook from day one. As a result, De Leon has some surprising insights on creating content designed for social media. Hear what Ramon De Leon of Domino’s Pizza has to say in this Future of Publishing interview:
Freelancing, no matter the product or service you offer to your clients, means living on the financial edge every single day. With no health benefits, no pension and no guaranteed salary, the slightest error in judgement can often lead to an immediate financial crisis and this fact serves to highlight the absolute necessity of a solid education in money management for all freelancers.
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Social media monitoring tools can be easy to learn but difficult to master. That’s why Murray Newlands has made a series of SMM tutorial videos for his TV series, Future of Engagement. These videos should serve as a guide for learning how to monitor social media and using your tools effectively. Hear what Murray has to say below:
Highlights:
SMM has a wide array of applications…
Including blogging and affiliate marketing…
Don’t disregard your analytics!
Newlands says that you should use a product with good analytics, like Alerti.
After my previous guest post on Google trends, Gail was kind enough to ask me to introduce Rankpanel. This post is intended to provide you with an overview of our new service and a quick example of how it can help you.
For all websites that get search engine traffic (basically all websites) it is necessary to track their rankings. This is one thing Rankpanel – our powerful and free service – allows you to do.
In order to conduct search engine marketing in a professional fashion you require information on keywords, positions, competition, keywords popularity and other factors. Rankpanel provides you with this data.
Up until now only big companies with the cash had access to these sorts of tools, but not anymore! With Rankpanel you can gain access to all these things for free after a short registration (we don’t even ask for your credit card information). [click to continue…]
Image Credit: AWDP ~ Click Image to Read Google Acquires PostRank
As I predicted, Google has killed PostRank. Whenever something is truly useful, it is absorbed by what I call collectively “The Borg” – then crippled (as PostRank was) and later killed off (as is happening to PostRank May 1, 2012).
The same thing happened when Yahoo! acquired MyBlogLog and I wrote that Yahoo! Killed MyBlogLog.
