1. Humanize Your Page

2. Associate with the Right Brand Crowd

3. Seed Your Product

4. Meet Your Audience in Real Life

5. Speak the Language

6. Invest in Content

7. Utilize Facebook’s Native Mechanisms

8. Socialize All Your Media

Go take a look for a better definition of these 8 items and then come back so we can discuss in the comment area.

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Blogging and article marketing go hand in hand. In fact, one of the most frequently asked questions I get is “can you use your articles on your blog?”

The answer is not only a huge YES! In fact, if you are not using your articles on your blog you are leaving tons of traffic on the table.

3 ways to repurpose your content on your blog

1) Entire article/parts of your article – You can repurpose your entire content into a blog post. It’s a great way to create lots of blog posts when you have lots of articles. While you can do this, it’s generally not a strategy I recommend.

Why?

Because you can get more than one blog post out of your content. You can turn most articles into a blog series. If you have have written a 7 tips article, that can be a 7 post series on your blog. You can also turn your sub-headings in your content into a blog post series.

2) Begin the article – Another strategy that I recommend is to begin your article in a blog post and then use the “more tag.” Instead of placing the entire article in one blog post, you can begin the article in a post on one page and then finish it on another page in your blog.

In a WordPress blog you use the “more tag” for this, and all good blogging platforms have a way to do this.

And don,t just cut off the article in just any place. Build some “article intrigue” but continuing as your article at a crucial point so the reader will be excited to read the rest of your article.

3) Blog to EzineArticles – This is my favorite blogging strategy to use to bring a ton of more traffic to my articles. In this strategy you begin the article on your blog. Make sure you use a compelling title to capture the reader’s attention. Then at a crucial point in the article you invite the reader to “click here to read the rest of the article” and send the to your article on EzineArticles.

When I first began to experiment with this strategy, I wondered if people would mind going more than one place to read an article. The consistent feedback I get is that once you have captured their interest they don’t mind being directed somewhere else to finish the article.

You can see examples of how I do this and get many more great tips and videos on my blog at http://FromtheDeskofJeffHerring.com

From Jeff Herring – The Article Marketing Guy

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I have been using Google Docs for about 1 year now and it has drastically increased our productivity here in the office. Having a common repository allows multiple people on my team to work on projects together. This gives us quicker turnaround and better synergy. No longer do we have to wait or look for a document on someone’s desk or desktop. Or if you are like me, I work on multiple computer in the course for the day – Google allows me to start a document on one computer, move to another computer and pick up right where I left off.

Oh and it is free. This is a great way for a ministry to get started without having a great big outlay of cash. But don’t take my word for it. Take a look at the Video Below.

This video, along with a printable guide, can be accessed at http://www.google.com/chat/grandma. Feel free to share this link with your grandma—or grandpa—or, well, anyone who wants to video chat to help get them up and running.

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Major new features in this release include a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten. Theme developers have new APIs that allow them to easily implement custom backgrounds, headers, shortlinks, menus (no more file editing), post types, and taxonomies. (Twenty Ten theme shows all of that off.) Developers and network admins will appreciate the long-awaited merge of MU and WordPress, creating the new multi-site functionality which makes it possible to run one blog or ten million from the same installation. As a user, you will love the new lighter interface, the contextual help on every screen, the 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements, bulk updates so you can upgrade 15 plugins at once with a single click, and much more. But don’t take our word for it – Watch the video below.

If you can’t see the video click here

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So like many of my clients and members, you are probably asking, “OK, now what? How do I get traffic to my Fan Page and how do I keep traffic coming back?”

That’s a great question, and we’ll answer it by taking a closer look at 7 strategies to bring in consistent and highly qualified traffic.

7 Traffic Strategies

1) Create your own name – Once you have your page up, you’ll need to get 25 or more fans in order to choose the domain name you want for your page. Let’s say you want to call your page “glassware projects.” Once you have 25 or more fans you would go to Facebook.com/username to apply for the name you want.

Being able to send someone to Facebook.com/glasswareprojects is easier than the big multiple number and letter domain name they give you.

2) Invite your Facebook Friends – You already have a Facebook Profile Page, so if appropriate for your Fan Page, invite all your friends from your profile page to join your Fan Page.

3) Invite your email list - This is a no brainer but many people fail to do it. Announce your Fan Page to your list, and let them know you will be sharing tips that you share no where else online. Say this only if it is true, of course.

4) Use Social Marketing SignPosts – Use Twitter, YouTube, EzineArticles, your blog and any other Social Marketing platforms to invite people to become a part of your Fan Page.

5) Have regular features – This is gold for consistent traffic. When you have a regular feature your fans look forward to it. The day of the week you have your regular feature could well me the day you get the most consistent traffic. Examples could be an article, video or tip of the week.

6) Ask questions that deliver tips – So few people do this yet it is so powerful. Asking questions invites and gets you interaction, plus people share their tips thus bringing in more folks who want to learn the new tips.

7) Stay consistent – If you want consistent participation, you have to be consistent yourself.

And now you are invited to check out my Fan Page at http://GoUseThisStuff.com where you will find articles, videos, templates and much more on how to grow your business

And there really are tips I only share over there…

From Jeff Herring and the Social Marketing Blueprint.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jeff_Herring

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Courtesy of Josh Highland (http://www.joshhighland.com)

Just wanted to take a few minutes today to point you to an amazing article by Bradford Shimp called

4 Reasons to Add a Podcast to Your Blog

Brad expertly discusses various reasons for why you should have a podcast on your blog. The best part is now with all of the software available as well as online technology like blogtalkradio.com and others. There is no reason why you can’t podcast. But don’t let me tell you all of it. Take a look at Brad’s post here

4 Reasons to Add a Podcast to Your Blog

J. Richard Byrd

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How to Use Social Media for Greater Ministry Effectiveness

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How important is social media in Church Growth?

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