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How Facebook Calculates What Appears In Your News Feed

By Mari Smith | July 18, 2014

The problem with Facebook organic reach can be summed up in one single graphic: Only 6 percent of your fans are seeing your content in their news feed. The other 94 percent are not. Some sources indicate that organic reach may drop to 1-2 percent in the near future. Others say it’s destined to hit zero; it’s…

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9 Steps To Creating Engaging Content [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Mari Smith | July 12, 2013

[Guest blog post by Craig Silverman]: Great content can spark engagement, foster relationships and generate new leads. It can also help to establish you as a thought leader. Content is seemingly the gateway to a new world of success for every professional and business. You must have a plan in place that helps you to…

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How To Succeed At Relationship Marketing With One Simple, Universal Method

By Mari Smith | July 2, 2013

[Guest blog post by Jay Baer]: Every day, consumers get overwhelmed by a flood of  invitations on the web from hundreds of companies asking them for likes, follows, clicks, shares, comments and attention. These invitations are in addition to all the legacy advertising that constantly bombards us, too. There are two major ways for companies…

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10 Proven Ways To Improve Your Facebook Reach

By Mari Smith | June 2, 2013

Many Facebook fan page owners struggle to get more of their fans to see their posts in the news feed. On average, most Facebook page posts reach a mere 16% of fans in their news feed. However, the good news is that number could be much higher, like 47% or even more. But the bad…

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Facebook Relaxes Page Cover Image Rules: Use This Tool to Test 20% Rule

By Mari Smith | March 25, 2013

Facebook recently (quietly) changed its Page Guidelines around Cover Images. Previously, you could not have any price or purchase information, contact information, references to Facebook features, or calls to action. Now, you can. The main rule that remains in place for Cover Images is that you cannot exceed 20% text. Why is this? So that…

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14 Ways To Get More Facebook Shares [INFOGRAPHIC]

By Mari Smith | February 15, 2013

Share is to Facebook as retweet is to Twitter. It’s all about how VIRAL you can get your fan page wall posts. Of course, you want plenty comments and likes on each post — this activity certainly helps boost your post visibility in the news feed of your fans. But, if you can craft the…

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Let’s Show These 46 Awesome Leaders Some LOVE!

By Mari Smith | February 14, 2013

Happy Valentine’s Day! Do you absolutely LOVE your customers? And all the people in your extended community, too? I sure do! In fact, I’d like to celebrate this global day of love by showing some *LOVE* to these special peeps in my community. Everyone in this group of 46 heart-centered entrepreneurs from around the world…

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Biggest Moments In Social Media Marketing — Wins and Fails

By Mari Smith | February 4, 2013

As the worldwide social media audience continues to grow, the impact of brands’ wins and fails are amplified that much more. If you create a big win, your victory is awesome. But if you fail, your mistake gets played out on the biggest virtual public stage. We can learn a lot from the companies that…

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Microphone Tips For Recording Great Audio In Your Videos

By Mari Smith | January 28, 2013

Here’s another fun video tutorial for you in our Year of the Video series! This one is all about how to ensure you have excellent AUDIO when recording your videos. There’s nothing worse than coming across what appears to be an excellent video that you really want to watch… but it has terrible audio quality.…

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