5 Creative Ways to Use LinkedIn Company Pages
Does your business have a LinkedIn company page?
Have you noticed how other businesses are using LinkedIn lately?
A number of larger brands are creatively using their LinkedIn company pages, and some of them are doing some cool things.
Here are five brands using their LinkedIn company pages creatively.
Check out what they are doing to learn how you can tell your story, generate leads and engage your communities through your LinkedIn page.
#1: LinkedIn—Develop a Campaign
Let’s start with LinkedIn. Why not learn from the source itself? LinkedIn’s own company page offers some insight into what works for effectively engaging your target audience. 
8 Tips for Running Social Media Promotions
Have you thought of using social media contests and sweepstakes to build and engage your audience?
Previously I wrote How to Run a Successful Social Media Contest outlining some important foundational steps: be clear on your marketing objectives, know your audience, understand different promotion types and plan ahead!
If you’re looking to gain even more traction with social promotions, here are eight additional tips to enhance your next social media campaign.
Ensure Your Promotion Doesn’t Get You In Hot Water
It’s difficult to run a successful campaign if your promotion is blocked, removed or challenged in a court of law. So before we get to the fun part of marketing, there are a few logistical tips to keep in mind.
3 Steps to Determine if Social Local Mobile Is Right for Your Business
There’s a new buzzword marketers are using and, unlike some buzzwords, this is one that you should probably learn.
The term is SoLoMo and it stands for “social, local and mobile.”
What it describes is the convergence of social, location-based and mobile marketing into a new category of tools that many businesses are using to acquire new customers.
The odds are you’re already familiar with some SoLoMo tools such as Yelp, Foursquare and Groupon. But you may not be familiar with how to use these tools to attract new customers. That’s what we’re going to talk about here. But first, let’s take a look at how SoLoMo works.
You're probably familiar with many SoLoMo tools already.
Social Media Promotions and the Law: What You Need to Know
Are you thinking of using social media contests?
Do you understand how the law could impact your activities?
Keep reading to learn more…
Why Legalities?
One of the best ways to grow your business is to give stuff away.
Whether your business is a small enterprise, a website or blog, or a large multinational company, hosting giveaways is sure to increase traffic, awareness and potential new readers or customers.
Sponsoring or hosting a giveaway comes with rules and regulations that many don’t know or understand.
How to Measure the Return on Social Media Contests
Have you thought about running a social media contest? Wondering how to best measure your return on investment (ROI)?
This article will help with three case studies.
But first, about that ROI… It took some time after the advent of online advertising before marketers started asking, “What are these ‘eyeballs’ worth that I’m paying for?”
With social media, the tough questions around metrics started being asked much sooner. As marketing budgets stay tight, it’s no surprise that the need to show results is high.
So when it comes to contests on the social web, how do we go about evaluating ROI?
Investing in Your Social Media Contest
Before you can demonstrate a return, you must first make an investment!
How Bloggers Can Use Book Reviews to Connect With Experts
Are you looking to get the attention of experts in your industry?
Who writes the books your readers like to read? Experts do. And when these professionals share their knowledge in a new book, there’s one thing they highly covet—book reviews.
In this article I’ll share the power of a book review and how you might be able to review a brand-new book.
How Social Media Generated $300,000 in Software Sales in a Weekend
Logos Bible Software has worked hard to build its email list of 300,000. So choosing to shun that email list for its Black Friday promotion says a lot for the chosen alternative – social media.
Practically every other online retailer – and Logos is 100% online – blasted customers with their post-Thanksgiving email promotions.
But this software company solely relied on social media, from testing its ideas to launching the promotion to letting the resulting word of mouth do the work for them.
In response, Logos generated $300,000 in sales in those few days – three times what it brought in during the same period the year before. Not only did it add to the bottom line, but also Logos significantly expanded its fans, followers and customer connections to support future efforts.
