Archive for the ‘Social Media best practices’ Category

7 ideas to turn PowerPoint slides into social media marketing gold

Humble PowerPoint slides can go a long way if you use them creatively on the social web. Here are seven ideas to get the most out of your slides.

Picking through the bones of Social Media failures

By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columnist I’m morbidly fascinated by failure. As of late, I’ve been scouring the web looking for failed social media programs. Unfortunately, I can find plenty […]

Can you make money managing social media?

In a blog post almost two years ago about the best business idea for social media marketing, I made a prediction that I think stands up. I said that there would […]

Confessions of a “Type A” Blogger

A guest post from {grow} community member Taryn Erickson A perpetual ‘go-getter’ by nature, when I jumped into the Social Media scene it was a calculated attack. I was on […]

The hidden costs of social media conversation

It’s all about the conversation. Have you heard that a thousand times? It’s a ubiquitous mantra of the social web to the point where sometimes I think it takes over as the […]

For Google Plus, the party is over before it starts

Google Plus won’t be the Facebook killer gurus predict because the psychological switching costs are too high.

Social media marketing progress in a developing country

Case study: How 20 high school students ignited a social media success

Now here is a neat trick. Precisely as your read this exciting guest post from the brilliant Jon Buscall, I will be meeting him for the first time in Stockholm, […]

Stop shoving social media down my throat

It’s time to step up and address one of the great myths pervading the social web — that an essential best practice is decentralizing social media marketing and pushing it down […]