social media marketing

Since the launch of the Kindle back in 2007, the publishing industry has changed forever. The explosive growth of ebooks has been ongoing and in 2011 digital books outsold print for the first time on Amazon. Although outside of this online marketplace, paperbacks and hardcovers are still outselling their electronic counterparts, this is still a strong indicator of a rapidly growing trend that demands our attention.

Given our modern technology, practically everyone has a smartphone, tablet or other handheld...

Social media and email marketing are two of the digital content marketer’s most powerful weapons. Like the sword and shield to a knight, or a gun and lasso to a cowboy, social sharing buttons and optimized email messages help define the image of the modern digital marketer. Similarly, for Drupal marketers, our user accounts are the crest to our knight’s shield, or the buckle on our cowboy’s belt; a distinctive mark by which we shall be known and remembered. So, why not combine these powers by making including social sharing buttons and a Drupal user account link in the signature line of every email you send?

Customized vanity URLs are a great way to make your mark on social media. Anyone promoting a social media account should make use of these easy to read, customizable options, instead of relying on numerical or nonsensical defaults.

Facebook's Power Editor tool contains a wealth of features to get the most out of your Facebook advertisements. Their audience targeting capabilities allow marketers to optimize and customize the reach of their ads and make the most out of their social media campaigns.

Twitter is the most instant of the mainstream social media tools. Have a thought, or a message, tweet it out, and its soon replaced by the next tweet, just one note in the chorus of chirps and squawks that populates our online lives.

But, perhaps you want an organized archive of your Twitter presence. Maybe to track the effectiveness of a campaign, report back up the chain of command, or use as training materials throughout your organization. There are a number of social media services and analytics programs that provide such features, but if you want the raw data. there is no better source than Twitter itself.

As the digital marketing landscape begins to settle, the lines between content and social media messages are becoming increasingly mixed. Marketers who are looking for a risk-free way to post user-generated social media content should embed posts directly to their blogs, articles or web pages. This blog post teaches Drupal marketers how to embed social media posts.

Leverage your social media authority in a whole new way with the latest in online currency -- Pay with a Tweet. Learn about this social commerce tool: what it does, how it works and what it will do for your business and content strategy.

With Yahoo’s recent acquisition of Tumblr, many have asked themselves what these two companies could possibly have in common. Not much, but Yahoo’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, is making an active effort to revamp the tech giant’s image.

It only makes sense that she would set her sights on one of the youngest, most up-and-coming social platforms around. Perhaps you should, too. Many people above the age of 25 may not know exactly what Tumblr is what it does. But learning about what it can do for your content marketing efforts may just earn you a coveted spot with the 18-25 set.