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		<dc:creator>Chad Goulde</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you believe that blogging can effectively help your business grow? It&#8217;s true, as long as you&#8217;re able to build real connections with your target audience. And, how do you do this? Well, there are various ways to achieve success through blogging connections. The most important thing is that you publish relevant content that can [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/2-strategies-for-building-real-connections-to-help-your-blog-succeed/">2 Strategies for Building Real Connections to Help Your Blog Succeed</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15391" alt="ID 10078955 2 Strategies for Building Real Connections to Help Your Blog Succeed" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-10078955.jpg" width="300" height="199" title="2 Strategies for Building Real Connections to Help Your Blog Succeed" />Do you believe that blogging can effectively help your business grow? It&#8217;s true, as long as you&#8217;re able to build real connections with your target audience. And, how do you do this? Well, there are various ways to achieve success through blogging connections. The most important thing is that you publish relevant content that can help your audience solve issues they&#8217;re having.</p>
<p>But, once you publish your content, what do you do next? The most popular answer to this question is: share it on various social media networks. Many bloggers spend about 90% of their blogging time, creating and sharing their content. Then, they evaluate the stats of the post. If the numbers don&#8217;t meet their expectations, they try the exact same tactic, over and over again. This is counterproductive, and it&#8217;s a blogging mistake.</p>
<p>Here are two proven strategies to help you successfully build real connections through your blog:</p>
<h2>1) Create Controversy</h2>
<p>In general, people enjoy controversy. They like to compete and fight about “small” things. When you write your content, take advantage of this. Create some type of controversy and get your audience to debate about it online. Believe it or not, controversy drives blog visitors to share and spread the word.</p>
<p>But, don&#8217;t just create any type of controversy. Not only must it be relevant to your niche or industry, it must be intriguing. Savvy blogger, <strong>Derek Halpern, wrote a post about “Design is King.” This successfully created controversy as other savvy bloggers reminding him that “Content is King.” He successfully made the post very popular by targeting other writers who he knew would “hate” the idea of what he was saying. Many chimed in to share their personal opinions. Tons of visitors joined in on the fight over whether content was king, or design was king.</strong></p>
<p>In the end, Halpern gained 1,000 new subscribers from that one controversial article alone. How can you utilize this strategy to build real connections with your audience?</p>
<h2>2) Reach Out to Communities</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15393" alt="ID 10027894 2 Strategies for Building Real Connections to Help Your Blog Succeed" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-10027894.jpg" width="199" height="300" title="2 Strategies for Building Real Connections to Help Your Blog Succeed" />If you find a community online that could benefit from your content, reach out to them. Halpern used this strategy when he published an article about a spa he visited. According to him, they had no knowledge of the benefits of email marketing. Now, he knew that his current audience of online marketers would understand the post. However, his goal was actually to reach out to massage therapists to essentially market his services.</p>
<p>He reached out by sharing his content with a message therapist magazine&#8217;s editor. The editor shared the post on the magazine&#8217;s Facebook page. That one simple shared link successfully sent Halpern 700 new leads.</p>
<p>This just goes to show that you can build real connections by reaching out to various, related communities. This is a very powerful strategy for building a loyal audience.<b></b></p>
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<p><b>Author Bio: </b><em>This article was created by savvy blogger, Chad Goulde of The Blog Builders. Learn the art of building real connections through blogging from <a href="http://www.theblogbuilders.com/how-to-start-a-blog/">TheBlogBuilders</a>.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, there are thousands of options to invest money in online marketing through the Internet. The problem that we face as entrepreneurs is that we do not have the money specifically earmarked for this purpose in order to take the first steps. There are thousands of other priority needs to be met first. As a [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/final-guide-to-successfully-implement-social-media-marketing-in-start-ups/">Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start-ups</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15374" alt="asddsa Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/asddsa.png" width="300" height="143" title="Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" />Today, there are thousands of options to invest money in online marketing through the Internet. The problem that we face as entrepreneurs is that we do not have the money specifically earmarked for this purpose in order to take the first steps. There are thousands of other priority needs to be met first.</p>
<p>As a consequence of this reality, what we need to do is focus on the strategies which generate new clients that show real interest and effectively use our service. In the last 5 years we have learnt several lessons that we would like to share in this article.</p>
<h2>1. First of all: construction of a solution</h2>
<p>As much as we would like to have thousands of clients to pay us for our work, we have to understand that we always start with one, the first one.</p>
<p>We can use any mechanism to attract the first client, no matter if it is through the social networks. It is essential that we, as an entrepreneurship, solve a real and concrete problem for the client.</p>
<p>Are we effectively solving a problem to our first client? The answer is very simple. If he is willing to pay for having it solved, then we are on the right track.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not worth investing in marketing through the social media if we don’t have a product that is up to the circumstances. As a result, the first thing we have to do as founders of a start-up is to focus on the client and solve a problem for which he is willing to pay.</p>
<h2>2. Customer knowledge: key differentiator</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15376" alt="dsdsdsds Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/dsdsdsds.png" width="300" height="167" title="Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" />Now, once we develop our solution centered on the client, we will be able to know his profile, and accordingly, be able to reach more clients with the same characteristics through their social networks.</p>
<p>There are clients who prefer images and users who like extreme games, jewelry or accessories. On the other hand, there are clients who prefer videos, or those who play online or those who like to learn to cook through the web, etc.</p>
<p>Understanding in what network our potential clients are is very important. It might be on Facebook, on Twitter, on LinkedIn, on YouTube, on Pinterest, etc., or a perfect combination of the ones just mentioned.</p>
<p>The key issue is that if we understand our clients, we will see that the paradigm has changed in this new era of the social networks. It is not like it used to be, that one had to invest in traditional media (radio, TV, and the paper) to make the client notice you. It is about them now. In other words, it is about what they like and what they want to share.</p>
<p>All in all, we need to change the question “how much is it to be engaged in advertising?”, and instead, ask ourselves “what do clients like and why do they share it on their social networks?”</p>
<p>Specific examples are Nike and CitiBank that are, little by little, figuring how it works. They do not base solely and exclusively on marketing straightly investing their big annual budgets, but they do it creating communities and contributing to those with value. For example, Nike has created a community so that those who play golf are able to share their experiences (with videos, articles, reports, latest news, etc.) and organize tournaments, events, and different activities that, logically, will be later shared through the Internet.</p>
<p>Marketing in social networks is changing the world, and, as entrepreneurs, it is important that we understand it to be able to implement it later in our favor. The investment is not essential today, since what is vital now is what the client really wants and needs us to provide him with.</p>
<h2>3. Transparent marketing in customer service</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15378" alt="ffdsadas Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ffdsadas.png" width="300" height="175" title="Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" />Lastly, in this change of paradigm, our action was to take our customer service center straight to the social networks, where the users can communicate directly with us in front of everyone and request what they need (from a suggestion to a complaint or a demand.)</p>
<p>In this way, they are the ones who have the microphone and the command, as it should always have been; and not just a phrase “the customer is always right.”</p>
<p>This has several concrete benefits which are so interesting that are worth mentioning:</p>
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<li>When a defect is out there for all to see, it generates an importance and immediacy that makes us work internally quicker as entrepreneurs to correct it.</li>
<li>Other users see the answer in due time and form towards that client in question and it generates an interesting domino effect in our start-up’s favor. Being able to observe how an enterprise cares about and gives answers to its clients in a serious way is a key differentiator.</li>
<li>As it is public and transparent, we can use these testimonies freely in our own website. These testimonies help us to convince our future users that are “evaluating” the possibility of hiring our service to, at least, make them try it.</li>
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<h2>User in the offline world</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15380" alt="ID 100109814 Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-100109814.jpg" width="300" height="182" title="Final Guide to successfully implement Social Media Marketing in Start ups" />We understood, as from day one, that since we do not deal with our user in the offline world because our entrepreneurship is carried out solely through the web, the first obstacles to overcome were distrust and insecurity. This mechanism was the key to our success. It is very easy today to go into a group or page on Facebook and know if it is real or if everything is set up/simulated.</p>
<p>We know that these items are not the same for all entrepreneurships; the rules of the game vary according to the sector. We also know that it is not easy to implement it successfully (there are many other priorities before this one.)</p>
<p>The truth is that this is a medium and long- term effort. It is not achieved over night. It is like in the offline world, everything takes time and dedication. The sum of little actions is what makes the difference.</p>
<p>Additionally, and in a direct relationship with this item and in our favor for the hard work as entrepreneurs, each “like” and each “share” in social networks is taken as a positive vote towards our entrepreneurship. This is correctly and each time read by search engines such as Bing, Google and Yahoo, which, in the future, will present our product in online searches organically a step higher than the ones of our competition.</p>
<p>Finally, let’s remember that this social media context grows day by day, that the potential is huge and that the rules of the game for our entrepreneurship and its online marketing strategy change rapidly. In conclusion, the sooner we start, the more we will be able to learn and the more advantages we will be able to take in order to raise our sales and revenues.</p>
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<p><strong>Author Bio:</strong> <em>Written by Cristian, Co-founder of <a href="http://www.elmejortrato.com/">elMejorTrato.com</a> in Argentina and <a href="http://www.omelhortrato.com/">oMelhorTrato.com</a> in Brasil.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social media has both positive and negative side. The purpose for which it gets utilized only can decide its actual benefit to mankind. Earlier, different forms of social networking tools became popular for fun element; however, nowadays, these tools are commonly used in almost all spheres of work culture, as the different social networking tools [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/own-a-business-you-need-a-savior-social-media/">Own a business? You need a savior &#8211; Social Media</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15362" alt="ID 100131999 Own a business? You need a savior   Social Media" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-100131999.jpg" width="300" height="199" title="Own a business? You need a savior   Social Media" />Social media has both positive and negative side. The purpose for which it gets utilized only can decide its actual benefit to mankind. Earlier, different forms of social networking tools became popular for fun element; however, nowadays, these tools are commonly used in almost all spheres of work culture, as the different social networking tools helps to have real good visibility for a website among the masses. That is why, social media optimization is looked upon as promising thing by those who wish to launch a new business set-up or those who want to re-launch a product or a service to have a considerable increase in the sales. Being free, chances of using various tools of social networking might go out of control; however, by sticking to the norms of good social media marketing practices, desired success can be attained by the owners of both small and mid-sized businesses.</p>
<h2>Role Played by Social Media in Small Businesses</h2>
<p>Making apt use of social media for small business helps to share ideas across the masses over a common platform. The target audience is given a chance to allocate thoughts and views with respect to a product which is either about to get launched, by means of virtually created forums that engages people in healthy discussions. This in turn helps to generate useful user based content that can be used by the manufacturers or the producers to provide appropriate solutions to the end users. People working in small sized organizations get an insight that can be used to improve all levels of communications, to ensure smooth delivery of the finished goods to the customers.</p>
<h2>What is Social Media Management?</h2>
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<p>Management of social media tools proves helpful to have better supervision of both incoming as well as outgoing communications that takes place by means of Internet. Besides, various other activities related to marketing are also taken care of in a well-organized way. Social media marketing tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, MySpace, Flickr, Digg, Orkut, etc., are restructured to reach maximum number of people. Irrespective of the location of a customer, he/she is engaged in a healthy conversation to which desirable solutions are provided accordingly.</p>
<p>Across the world, many professionally working firms provide social media optimization services that can be hired by interested individuals. Social media experts working in social media firms work in collaboration with skilled search engine optimizers (SEOs) and content developers, who make sensible use of different social media tools in a competent manner. These tools when used along with various techniques of marketing in an integrated way do help to attain wholesome positive results. Online activities like scheduling an effective search engine optimization campaign, making use of email marketing and various campaigns of search engine marketing (SEM) helps to earn good results. Apart from that, they ensure better administration of various activities such as, what the end users feel and perceive about the products that are being delivered to them. All these things are automated by the media experts, by using multiple social media marketing services in such a manner that it caters really well to the actual requirement of having real good visibility across the world.</p>
<h2>How to Use Social Media for Business?</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15364" alt="ID 10073623 Own a business? You need a savior   Social Media" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-10073623.jpg" width="293" height="297" title="Own a business? You need a savior   Social Media" />The potential of different types of social media technologies is very high. By using appropriate social media for business, very good interaction with desired end users becomes possible in a better way. Another good thing about them is that, they are absolutely free and easy to use. All it takes is creating a proper user profile along with a password or an account that has to be used to describe the details regarding the organization, the product that it has to offer, specifications of the product, benefits that one can derive by using the products offered and a provision for the customers to post suggestions, in case if a user doesn’t get expected results or satisfaction after using the product.</p>
<h2>Tips to Use Social Networking for Business Efficiently</h2>
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<li>In order to promote businesses by making wise use of various social networking techniques, proper planning is mandatory. A proper user profile needs to be created along with an email id. After that, future strategies can be designed in such a manner that business gets marketed in the desired manner.</li>
<li>A page for the users has to be created that should describe the exact nature of a business in a few words. Besides that, it should also comprise of description regarding the products as well as services that are about to get offered. A provision has to be made by means of an email id and a valid contact number for the customers to interact directly.</li>
<li>Multiple pages have to be created that not only provide update information with respect to the products, but a good good-quality content written in such a manner that would compel the target audience to buy the products, thereby leading to sales.</li>
<li>Try to add an element of fun in between, so that the end users keep visiting the pages to stay tuned in. For example, offering holiday or festival celebration wishes, as and when any festive season arrives.</li>
<li>If it is possible, games can also be included that are related to the services or the products that are being offered. This way, website visitors find it amusing every time they visit the web pages. Promotional tricks such as offering attractive discount options or free coupons on the purchase of items can be presented sometimes.</li>
<li>Try to make good use of social media integration by linking the web pages to various popular social media tools like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, etc. Links can be supplied on the web pages to reach large number of people. RSS feeds too can be attached, so that updates regarding any new announcement or information regarding upcoming events keep getting displayed.</li>
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<p>It is essential to remain soft whenever one makes use of <a href="http://www.numerounoweb.com/services/smo-company-toronto/">social media services</a>, so that it doesn’t appear as if they are directly selling something. The content that gets used up should be drafted in such a manner that it would appear informative, as well as makes the target audience feel that whatever is being offered is going to benefit them. As the main aim is to earn trust and confidence of the end users, it is important to be genuine in all online marketing activities.</p>
<h2>What is Social Media Marketing Plan?</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15366" alt="ID 100126656 Own a business? You need a savior   Social Media" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-100126656.jpg" width="198" height="300" title="Own a business? You need a savior   Social Media" />At-times, making use of different types of social networking tools can become confusing, if they are not used in a planned way. By formulating a proper and a long term plan, various tools of social network can be exploited fruitfully. A marketing plan based up prudent usage of social media tools does just that. To assure desired benefits in the long run, the plan needs to be improvised every now and then, by taking proper efforts. To make things work, the plan must comprise of the following things:</p>
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<li><b><i>A Well-crafted Social Media Marketing Goal</i></b><i> &#8211; </i>By this, it means that, one must be very clear with respect to both immediate and long-standing objectives of a business. For example, it is often difficult to expect sales right from the early days of using social media marketing. After building a strong network, it can become possible to expect good sales.</li>
<li><b><i>Appropriate Selection of Social Networking Tools</i></b><i> – </i>From the available plenty of tools of social networking, wise selection of appropriate tools is important for a business. For that, assistance of expert social media managers can be taken as and when required. They study the nature of a business and accordingly, suggest usage of tools that would help to enhance the sales for a particular business. There is really no need to make use of all the tools or to make use of those tools that gets used up by the competitors. One should always stick to what works best for oneself.</li>
<li> <b><i>Correct Optimization of the Social media Tools</i></b><i> -</i> By this; it means that there isn’t any need to run after every new social networking tool that comes up in the online world of marketing. If a business can gain desired visibility and publicity by using tools like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, then there isn’t really any need of looking further to any other tool of social media. In addition, having properly optimized blogs is sufficient to reach the desired and set goals of marketing.</li>
<li><b><i>Proper Estimation of Costs Involved</i></b><i> -</i>  It is important to estimate costs involved in various aspect of social media marketing such as content generation, and management of the social medial tools. Besides that, it is also important to measure success at frequent intervals. If any discrepancies are found, those have to be improved immediately and things that do not lead to desired results have to be cut off.</li>
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<p>Apart from the above mentioned things, it is also suggested not to have the attitude of pleasing everybody. It is really not needed, when the target customer is niche specific. Besides that, having relevant content always pays well to have direct interaction with the end users. By building communities, social media marketing for business can do wonders to a small or a mid-sized business. Nothing has to be left to chance as the constantly increasing competition hardly leaves any time or scope. Making regular use of social networking tools proves supportive to grab attention of target customers.</p>
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<p><strong>Author Bio:</strong> <em>Alexander Vesia works at Numero Uno Web Solutions, which is a <a href="http://www.numerounoweb.com/services/smo-company-toronto/">social media optimization company in Toronto</a> that provides SEO, SEM, SMO and web design services to its clients in Toronto and over the globe.</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/own-a-business-you-need-a-savior-social-media/">Own a business? You need a savior &#8211; Social Media</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lorenzo Galbiati </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that job seeking can be one of the most frustrating tasks in our career. Compiling a CV and typing up dreadful cover letters can take up all of your free time, with the result of being ignored by over 90% of the perspective employers. But whose fault is it? For once, try [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/how-can-personal-branding-benefit-your-career/">How can Personal Branding benefit your career?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15352" alt="ID 10074110 How can Personal Branding benefit your career?" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-10074110.jpg" width="300" height="199" title="How can Personal Branding benefit your career?" />We all know that <b>job seeking can be one of the most frustrating tasks in our career</b>. Compiling a CV and typing up dreadful cover letters can take up all of your free time, with the result of being ignored by over 90% of the perspective employers.</p>
<h2>But whose fault is it?</h2>
<p>For once, try to switch perspective. <b>Try to think like a recruiter</b>.</p>
<p>Recruitment can also be a hard, frustrating task. For instance, Costa Coffee (a popular British coffee shop chain), recently received over 1700 applications for eight barista jobs in Nottingham (source: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/19/eight-jobs-costa-attract-1701-applicants">http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/feb/19/eight-jobs-costa-attract-1701-applicants</a>).</p>
<p>Going through dozens of CVs and Cover Letters, all typed up in Times New Roman on a white boring page, can be even worse than job seeking. All applications look similar, and decision making can become extremely difficult and overwhelming.</p>
<p>At this point, you’ll decide to go the easy way. <b>You’ll pick the few candidates that stand out from the crowd, and call them up for an interview</b>.</p>
<p>Starting from this reasoning, Go Brand Yourself, a presentation going viral on SlideShare, explains <b>how job seekers can benefit from 5 Branding principles</b>. The presentation shows in 5 easy steps how to build a strong Personal Brand based on one’s unique skills and identity, and how to leverage this newly built Brand to stand out during the application process.</p>
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<p>Also, Go Brand Yourself was created to give some inspiration to those who are currently struggling with their job seeking, and to give a practical example of how creativity and Personal Branding can really make you stand out of the crowd.</p>
<p><b>Go Brand Yourself was uploaded on SlideShare on Sunday, and in less than 5 days it received more than 20.000 views</b>. This seems to suggest that Personal Branding can really work, not only in job seeking, but also in boosting your online presence.</p>
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<p><strong>Author Bio: </strong>Lorenzo Galbiati lives in London, where he works in Marketing Research and Strategy. He’s the author of Go Brand Yourself, and is extremely excited about the positive feedback that his work is currently receiving. Lorenzo is now building a personal blog and thinking about his next presentations.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/how-can-personal-branding-benefit-your-career/">How can Personal Branding benefit your career?</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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		<dc:creator>Kersti Küla</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been some changes in Youtube Channel view. We drew up a small info graph to bring out the logic of how your channel art images are displayed in different devices. For optimal results on all devices Youtube recommends uploading a single 2560 X 1440 px image that has been optimized to fit all [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/youtube-channel-view-changes-infographic/">Youtube Channel View Changes [INFOGRAPHIC]</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><a class="disabled" href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/yuutuubi-sourcekood_1.png"><img class="alignright size-Width300 wp-image-15418" alt="yuutuubi sourcekood 1 300x991 Youtube Channel View Changes [INFOGRAPHIC]" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/yuutuubi-sourcekood_1-300x991.png" width="300" height="991" title="Youtube Channel View Changes [INFOGRAPHIC]" /></a>There have been some changes in Youtube Channel view. We drew up a small info graph to bring out the logic of how your channel art images are displayed in different devices.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr">For optimal results on all devices Youtube recommends uploading a single <strong>2560 X 1440 px</strong> image that has been optimized to fit all other devices.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Here are all the numbers you need and you can even <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/yuutuubi-sourcekood_1.pdf">download a handy PDF Infographic.</a></p>
<h2 dir="ltr">1. How it works on TV</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The whole image will be used! Aspect ratio is 16:9</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Width:</strong> 2560 pixels</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Height:</strong> 1140 pixels</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">2. How it works on Desktop Max</h2>
<p dir="ltr">The “safe area” (channel art at minimum width) will always be visible and the areas to the right and left might be visible depending on the viewer’s browser size.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Width:</strong> 2560 pixels</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Height:</strong> 423 pixels</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">3. How it works on Tablets</h2>
<p dir="ltr">Youtube is using a slightly wider slice on tablets.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Width:</strong> 1855 pixels</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Height:</strong> 423 pixels</p>
<h2 dir="ltr">4. How it works on Desktop Min and Mobile</h2>
<p dir="ltr">There is a minimum size at which point the site would no longer adapt and a scroll bar would appear in the browser window.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Width:</strong> 1546 pixels</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Height:</strong> 423 pixels</p>
<p dir="ltr">This is the “Safe area” given that text and logos will not be cut off.</p>
<p dir="ltr">On mobile Youtube is using the safe area scaled down to the width of the mobile screen which varies by device.</p>
<p>Did we miss something? New changes? Let us know in the comments.</p>
<p>Check out the related posts:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/4-free-facebook-landing-page-creation-tools/">4 Free Facebook Landing Page Creation Tools.</a> Use Facebook landing pages and here are some free tools available to get your basic Facebook landing page up and running.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/22-inspiring-examples-of-facebook-page-designs/">22 Inspiring Examples of Facebook Page Designs.</a> Collection of pages to give you inspiration.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/facebook-cheat-sheet-sizes-and-dimensions/">Facebook Cheat Sheet: Sizes and Dimensions</a>. Here are all the sizes you need for Facebook.</li>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is fresh top 10 social networking sites&#8217; market share data in US for the month of April 2013. It has some interesting changes. On the interactive chart below you can dig into what happened in April 2013. Moving up Youtube continues to go up to its highest level ever. Youtube has started to move [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/top-10-social-networking-sites-by-market-share-of-visits-april-2013/">Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits [April 2013]</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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Here is fresh top 10 social networking sites&#8217; market share data in US for the month of April 2013. It has some interesting changes. On the interactive chart below you can dig into what happened in April 2013.</p>
<h2>Moving up</h2>
<p><strong>Youtube</strong> continues to go up to its highest level ever. Youtube has started to move up from November 2012. People are spending more and more time on the video sharing site bringing its market share of visits to 24.74 percent.</p>
<p><strong>LinkedIn</strong> is another site that has reached its highest market share of visits. LinkedIn cracked the 1% barrier for the first time growing from low 0.63% in December 2012 to a record high 1.03 percent in March 2013. May is an active business month and that may help the business social network to grow its market share even more.</p>
<p><strong>Tumblr</strong> continues its upward march achieving another highest market share of visits, reaching 0.52 percent in April 2013.</p>
<p><strong>Pinterest</strong> is slightly up. It has moved from 1.14% in March to 1.17% in April. Looking at the numbers of the pinning site over the last few months seems to indicate that the numbers have been stabilizing.</p>
<h2>Moving down</h2>
<p><strong>Facebook</strong> has given up some market share and fallen to its lowest numbers in almost 3 years. Facebook is still the dominant social networking site but the loss of 1.43% of market share means tens of millions of visits lost.</p>
<p><strong>Twitter</strong> has been dropping like a stone lately. It has fallen to 1.60% of market share of visits. This is the lowest number in more than a year and the trend-line seems to point down.</p>
<p>It is hard to say what&#8217;s behind the declining numbers if the leading social networking sites. It seems that one factor that brings down the numbers is the fact that usage through mobile apps is not tracked. The other factor may be that the market is saturated and people are less active when using these sites. This does not mean that they stop using social networking sites but there&#8217;s less &#8220;excitement&#8221; that translates to less frequent usage.</p>
<p>However, the percentage of the market share held by the top 10 sites has also slightly declined, suggesting that people are using more niche social networking sites.</p>
<p><strong>Instagram</strong> is moving up. <strong>Yahoo Answers</strong> continues up achieving the highest level in more than 3 years. <strong>Google+</strong> is moving sideways.</p>
<h2>Market Share of Visits [March 2013]:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Facebook 57.08% (-)</li>
<li>Youtube 24.73% (+)</li>
<li>Twitter 1.60% (-)</li>
<li>Pinterest 1.17% (+)</li>
<li>Yahoo! Answers 1.14% (+)</li>
<li>LinkedIn	1,03% (+)</li>
<li>Google+	0,77% (-)</li>
<li>Tagged	0,51% ( )</li>
<li>Tumblr	0,52% (+)</li>
<li>Instagram	0,43% (+)</li>
</ul>
<p>To put the percentages in perspective then the absolute number of visits of <strong>1% of market share is approcimately 33.7 million visits</strong>.</p>
<h2>About this chart</h2>
<p><strong>The chart below is in logarithmic scale</strong> so that the smaller sites wouldn’t just a single line around 1% of social network market share. Every month in the chart lists the top 10 sites of that time by the market share of visits. Please note that it is just a percentage and 30% in January 2011 is a lot less than 30% in December 2012. The gaps in the the lines mean that the site wasn’t in the top 10 at that time.</p>
<p>I used an interactive chart making software Tableau Public for this visualization. If you don’t see anything below please try reload. If all else fails then <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/top-10-social-networking-sites-by-market-share-of-visits-april-2013.png">look at the image</a> or download the chart in <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/top-10-social-networking-sites-by-market-share-of-visits-april-2013.pdf">PDF format: Top 10 Social Networking Sites by Market Share of Visits</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email marketing is a complicated business, taking a great deal of time and energy. Or is it? It depends on the tools and techniques you use to support your efforts. The best of the bunch deliver everything you need to drive email marketing success without having to invest in new staff or buy expensive software. [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/how-to-make-complex-email-marketing-simple/">How to make complex email marketing simple</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15315" alt="ID 100162534 How to make complex email marketing simple" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-100162534.jpg" width="300" height="188" title="How to make complex email marketing simple" />Email marketing is a complicated business, taking a great deal of time and energy. Or is it? It depends on the tools and techniques you use to support your efforts. The best of the bunch deliver everything you need to drive email marketing success without having to invest in new staff or buy expensive software.</p>
<p>You need tools that give your business the in-depth customer analysis required to ensure measurable returns on your marketing investment. What do the best, most powerful, and simplest applications provide? I’m going to look at tools that support three of today’s most popular email marketing routes: desktop, mobile, and social media engagement.</p>
<h2>Making desktop email campaigns easier</h2>
<p>Let’s take <a href="http://www.emarsys.com/en/">Emarsys</a> as a good example of an application which drives better email marketing, saving businesses a great deal of time and hassle. Here’s what their email marketing application delivers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gives you in-depth customer intelligence so you gain a better understanding of your customers and prospects, basing enquiries on any aspect of the data</li>
<li>Creates integral customer life cycle clusters that can be customised for more or less instant in-depth insight</li>
<li>Analyses demographics, opens, clicks, behavioural, and financial information to drive creative segmentation and targeting</li>
<li>Plans and automates complex multi-channel campaigns and lifecycle programmes in no time</li>
<li>Creates personalised campaign content automatically and re-purposes it easily so you don’t need to know anything about html code</li>
<li>Creates real time transactional responses to save marketers time, remove the risk of mistakes, and deliver customer service excellence</li>
<li>Sends different versions of the same content to different people according to their interests and sales cycle status</li>
<li>Creates one-click integrated communications across email, social media, mobile, and the web for multiple customer touch points</li>
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<h2><strong>Making mobile email campaigns easier</strong></h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15317" alt="ID 100161683 How to make complex email marketing simple" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-100161683.jpg" width="300" height="211" title="How to make complex email marketing simple" />Here’s how a top-performing system like Emarsys’ can make email marketing to mobile devices easier:</p>
<ul>
<li>Senses automatically which device or platform people will use to open your message and displays the right content  every time</li>
<li>Replicates a slimmed down version rather than the entire message</li>
<li>Lets you include or leave out any sections you like for mobile consumption</li>
<li>Allows better-proportioned images to maximise the power of your messages’ visual impact</li>
<li>Lets you convert live links into big, clear buttons for a better user experience and higher response rates</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Making social media email engagement easier</strong></h2>
<p>And here’s how the right tools can help you maximise the power of social interaction for email marketing:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gives you the choice of either sharing the entire email message on the social network of your choice, or picking and choosing elements of it. It also lets people choose which parts of your email message <i>they</i> want to share</li>
<li>Post-sending, you can track messages’ footprints and monitor success via in-depth social reporting</li>
<li>Allows you to identify and track brand champions and influencers</li>
<li>Lets you talk to users in a new way</li>
</ul>
<p>As you can imagine, doing all this on a DIY basis would be nigh on impossible, taking a vast amount of time, and putting you at serious risk of making a brand-damaging mistake or missing a critical trick. But with the right support from the right tools, <a href="http://www.emarsys.com/en/">email marketing</a> brilliance is plain sailing.</p>
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<p><strong>Author Bio:</strong> <em>Michael Palmer, an Oxford based business graduate and writer. His writing covers many subjects, including business, marketing, HR, fitness, and football.</em><em> </em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this world of globalization, there is a cutthroat competition between various companies selling the same types of products. The products that the numerous manufacturers make needs to be promoted efficiently among potential customers residing all around the world, so that the manufacturers and the companies reap rich rewards by selling their goods, as far [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/creative-and-profitable-video-marketing-through-social-media-online-sites/">Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15288" title="Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Online-Video-Marketing.jpg" alt="Online Video Marketing Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites" width="300" height="133" />In this world of globalization, there is a cutthroat competition between various companies selling the same types of products. The products that the numerous manufacturers make needs to be promoted efficiently among potential customers residing all around the world, so that the manufacturers and the companies reap rich rewards by selling their goods, as far as the profits are concerned. It is considered as a sin these days, if the companies do not chalk out innovative methods of promotion of their products. In such situations, the companies are believed to attain a stagnant entrepreneurial condition, which is not a good sign at all. The companies can resort to internet marketing for the effective promotion of their products.</p>
<h2>Using Visuals to target potential customers</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15291" title="Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ID-10082547.jpg" alt="ID 10082547 Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites" width="300" height="225" />In this cyber age, it is very easy to get access to the internet, at any corner of the world, unless that corner is the remotest part of the earth. Internet users are increasing day by day. So, the potential customers of any products and services are also increasing by the passing day. Setting up the computers and getting internet connections within the organizations are very much cost effective for different types of companies all throughout the world. The companies also get internet marketing tips at their fingertips, when they browse the internet. The tips can also be obtained from the different experts, who are easily available in different parts of the world. The global nature of the internet allows the visibility of the image or visuals and content written about your products to the global populations.</p>
<p>The visuals must be presented in interesting manners, so that they seem appealing to your potential customers. You can market and promote your products and services efficiently, aided by different types of videos endorsing your products and services. But the videos must be created innovatively. Your product and services must be shown in the most positive light possible. But before releasing the videos in the internet, you have got to register with online sites, concerned with the promotion of different types of products and services. Besides involving in all these activities, you need to possess a website of your own, through which your foreign customers will be able to order your products and services. You have also got to release innovative promotional videos in the online sites, informing your potential customers, comprising the global internet users, about numerous offers which are providing them with from your company.</p>
<h2>Utilizing Social Media to promote your Videos</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15294" title="Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/sdasdasdasdas.jpg" alt="sdasdasdasdas Creative And Profitable Video Marketing Through Social Media Online Sites" width="300" height="249" />You can take the help of skilled and renowned film makers for making the videos. The memory space that your promotional videos occupy must be optimum. The message conveyed through the videos must be well understood by all. When you release the videos in the premium online sites dedicated to different types of videos, you must ensure that they appear in the premium search list of the internet. You may rope in celebrities for the endorsement of your products. This will foster instant connection between your products and services and your potential customers. You can also make the videos funny, so that the number of people, viewing the videos, increases by leaps and bounds. Social media is a strong tool for internet marketing these days. Effective marketing of different types of products and solutions through social media is unknown to many.</p>
<p>But you need not worry as an entrepreneur if you do not know the methods of marketing through social media websites. There are many online institutes, where you can learn about the tactics in the related field. So you will be able to promote your services and goods, by sharing videos on your goods with your friends, relatives and the other members of the online sites, who form a huge part of the global population as a whole. The local businessmen and organizations are also able to popularize their products, solutions and services, through the most popular social media sites. So, the social media sites have proved to be remarkable inventions, as far as the global business is concerned. With the development of different types of businesses, this improves the economic conditions of a country as a whole.</p>
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<p><strong>Author Bio:</strong> <em>The writer of this article Shelly A. Hanson is a frequent blogger with her new topics in the web. <a href="http://www.traccfilms.co.uk/">london video production</a>, Film production, Corporate video production are some of her written stories helps the readers a lot.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year there is one or the other industry which is on high demand. During 90’s the emergence of Internet market transformed business definitions. And nowadays without an Internet connection you are left to the state of a ship without radar. Starting from bank transactions, ticket bookings to travel bookings etc. internet drives everything. And [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/fastest-growing-companies-make-huge-investments-in-mobile-computing-devices/">Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15275" title="Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ID-100105250.jpg" alt="ID 100105250 Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices" width="300" height="183" />Every year there is one or the other industry which is on high demand. During 90’s the emergence of Internet market transformed business definitions. And nowadays without an Internet connection you are left to the state of a ship without radar. Starting from bank transactions, ticket bookings to travel bookings etc. internet drives everything. And internet needs to be carried almost everywhere in portable form factors and mobile computing devices. So the time has come when Mobile computing devices are going to enjoy primacy over other devices and technologies. <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511766/mobile-computing-is-just-getting-started/">Mobile computing</a> includes mobile communications, software and hardware. Hardware of mobiles includes the handset or the components of the handset. On the other hand, software refers to applications which are running on the mobiles.</p>
<h2>Big brands</h2>
<p>As mobile devices are offering options of interacting with friends and families at bare-basement rates, consumers have started using mobile connections for web browsing and most of the interactions every day. And all this is happening at an astonishing speed. Quite obviously fastest growing companies don’t want to miss the opportunity and that’s the reason they want to invest in high values in this industry. Some of the companies which have already made immense progress with investment in mobile computing is Dell,<strong> </strong><a href="http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/adobe">Adobe</a><strong>, </strong>Apple, Cisco etc. Some of the other major players with respect to mobile computing are AT&amp;T, GTE, MCI. Dell every now and then introduces special discounts on their products, the latest one offering <a href="http://www.myvouchercodes.co.uk/dell">11% off all dell laptops</a>.</p>
<p>Other reasons which could be highlighted regarding companies’ investing in mobile computing devices are:</p>
<h2>Shifting of Customer base to mobile<strong> </strong></h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15280" title="Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-10093737.jpg" alt="ID 10093737 Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices" width="300" height="225" />It has been observed that the users are shifting to mobile computing at a lightning speed. Practically everything you could have ever thought of doing on a computer can be done on a tablet or even a smartphone today. People are taking the benefits of getting their travel tickets, accommodation bookings done via mobile. This year, mobile bookings have increased to a substantial count.</p>
<h2>Mobiles move with consumers everywhere</h2>
<p>Mobile devices are always available with the customers wherever they go. Due to which they are more comfortable as they know that they can browse and find out any location or destination they wish to explore. Alongside they can  get any solution via their mobile search options. It can be browsed any time, whether they are watching a movie, lined in the queue, walking  along the sidewalk etc.</p>
<h2>Expand the Market to a remarkable extent</h2>
<p>Some of the renowned companies like flip board and Instagram, have seen a remarkable increase in the growth of mobile subscribers in China, Turkey, Brazil and many other countries. Many new mobile apps features have wooed subscribers to stick to their mobile devices most of the time.</p>
<h2>Preferences about the right mobile device</h2>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-15281" title="Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices" src="http://www.dreamgrow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ID-100159954.jpg" alt="ID 100159954 Fastest Growing Companies Make Huge Investments in Mobile Computing Devices" width="300" height="210" />End users are quite finicky with respect to their handsets or mobile devices. <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/how-to-create-your-social-media-strategy/">Social Media Companies</a> like Facebook and Twitter has done a marvellous job by including the social component into mobile phones. End users always look for the right kind of device which will let them make more of their “everyday”!</p>
<p>There are numerous other benefits as well with respect to Mobile computing. It increases productivity, reduces communication operating costs, cuts down on functional time wasted during long hours of travel. Goes without saying that the fastest growing companies are making huge investments in mobile computing devices and keeping pace with the world which is moving at a blazing speed!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing most business owners do when they want to increase engagement and Likes on their Facebook Pages is create a contest app. Yet so many people are still doing it wrong. They’re confused by Facebook’s complicated rules, and they don’t know how to create an app that actually does what they hope it [...]<p><a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com/the-elements-of-a-perfect-facebook-contest-app-infographic/">The Elements of a Perfect Facebook Contest App [INFOGRAPHIC]</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.dreamgrow.com">DreamGrow Social Media</a></p>
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<p>Creating that perfect app is both an art and a science, and our new infographic will help you make sure you’ve got everything you need in the mix. <strong>Bonus: we’ve included a few tips about how to promote the app once it’s done.<br />
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