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April 22, 2013

Turn social into your own personal media empire

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Your personal newsroom calls for authentic, purposeful engagement

Chris AbrahamIf you read your local newspaper or a typical magazine, you’ll realize that most journalism is specialized. You have your columns, reporting, reviews, editorials, letters to the editor, and ombudsman. However, most companies don’t have the volume or diversity of news required to need such staffing.

That said, enough does go on each and every day in your office, among your staff, in your business, in your industry, with you and your very own personal brand that you need to cover the entire newsroom on your own, including the advertising and publicity (because like the news, everything comes down to driving revenue, and if you can’t prove that all the time, energy, and resources you’re spending online aren’t feeding sales, your one-man-social-media-band is not long for this world.) Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Chris Abraham, Content creation, New media, Social media | Tagged content creation, content marketing, Facebook, Social media, social media for business, social sharing, Twitter, What to share on social | 3 Replies
June 5, 2012

Don’t fall in love with the shiny toy of the day


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Remember, you’re only renting in social media

Chris AbrahamWhat you’re learning by “renting” your pages on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress.com, LinkedIn, and Google+, is portable, which is to say that everything you’re doing, experiencing, and learning will improve your ability to engage and market online into the future. So, that’s good.

Invest instead in engaging visitors, drawing online attention, encouraging social sharing and telling compelling stories

The downside is that all good things come to an end. The recent Facebook IPO backfire reminds us that even Facebook, with its 900 million active users worldwide, can still fall, as did MySpace and Friendster before it.

It is essential that you keep your eyes up and forward, always mindful that there will not always be Facebook and that there will be another Facebook coming down the line before long. Be sure you don’t become so tethered to your Facebook page that you lose sight of the bigger picture of social media — your message, rather than your medium. Always remember “the essence of the Way is detachment,” according to Bodhidharma. Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Chris Abraham, Facebook, Social marketing, Social media, Social media marketing, Social sharing, Viral marketing | Tagged bodhidharma, Facebook, friendster, Initial public offering, Linkedin, myspace, social media presence, social sharing, utterz, vbulletin | Leave a reply

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