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Maria Novak
Maria Novak

Landing Page Definition And Description of Different Landing Page Types

In this digital age, many web users (not only those who are entrepreneurs or professional marketers, but also hobbyists) are interested in different aspects of internet marketing. They want to create websites, blogs, and landing pages and start earning big money immediately.

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Natalie Lesyk
Natalie Lesyk

How to Create a Business Social Network And Get It Profitable

First and foremost, we will dive into the importance of social interaction. Why do people need social interaction? Put simply, we are social animals and cannot survive without connections to others. No wonder the most horrifying and psychologically painful torture for prisoners is the complete deprivation of human interaction in solitary cells. Everyone knows about the so-called Mowgli kids who had no chance to communicate with their peers while growing up and were not able to learn any language at all.

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Maria Novak
Maria Novak

How to Create an Impressive Logo For Your Website or Social Network

Everyone understands the importance of an impressive logo to a company. It doesn’t matter whether you run a well-established business or are launching a start-up – either way, you need to catch people’s attention by all possible means. Visual attention-getters are the most important, as the majority of people (approximately 90% of the population) are best equipped, both physiologically and psychologically, to understand and memorize information taken in through visual channels.

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Kyle Ford
Kyle Ford

SoundCloud and Ning

We’re excited to announce that we’ve worked with SoundCloud to offer a brand-new integration for our Ning Creators.

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Google +1 Share Button: Now on Your Ning Network! More Controls Over Sharing

Do your Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons need some company? Now, add Google’s “+1” share buttons to every piece of content on your Ning Network, with a single click. Google’s +1 buttons “let people who love your content recommend it on Google search,” and share it on your stream with the new Google+ network. Just as with Network Like and Facebook Like, you can add a Google +1 button to:

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Natalie Lesyk
Natalie Lesyk

Social Media Goals Every Business Should Measure

We’ve seen social media growing from a simple way of keeping in touch with people towards the important weapons in the marketing stream to achieve social goals. It is foreseeable to use social media goals examples to look for the competitors and achieving your best to set up the desirable social media goals and objectives for your team. You need to stick to a well-devised plan to achieve success in social media world.

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admin

Analytics As a Secret Weapon of Your Community

Social media marketers are always looking at the best ways to get ahead with the most powerful marketing techniques. When marketers used to think about social media marketing in previous times, they had a thought about using only social networks for the same. The major focus is on the creation of appealing content to get in the reach of the right people who are able to enhance your company’s social presence. Social advertising is indeed the best way to reach towards the target audience to give them a message about your work.

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Ernie Hsiung
Ernie Hsiung

Integrate Your Network with Your Blog or Website

One of the great things about having a network on Ning is that it’s fully self-contained. You have a place to host discussions or share videos and photos, all in one place.

That said, many people have external blogs and have set up a network as a way for readers to get to know each other and interact with the blogger. Here are some tips you can use to integrate your blog — or external Web site — even more smoothly with your network.

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admin

Is Social Networking Right for Your Brand?

In the past few weeks, I’ve been asked the same question by a number of large brands:

“What’s the best way for us to incorporate social networking into our brand strategy?”

I think that there are a few ways to answer this question. First, social networking isn’t for everyone. Knowing what will and won’t work for your brand, your company, and your customers upfront is critical.

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Brenda Peterson
Brenda Peterson

How to Deal With Antagonistic Members

Many community managers are either too slow or too fast to remove antagonistic members. They either remove the antagonistic member without fully realizing the role this individual plays within the community, or they spend copious amounts of time trying to convert the antagonist into a happy member.

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Guest Blogger
Guest Blogger

How User Guidelines Help Your Community

Online community guidelines detail the types of behaviors that are and are not appropriate on your community. They include things that some might consider obvious, but they also include items that are somewhat unique to you and your community. I liken an online community to a country. Each country has culture, laws and social norms that make it different from every other country.

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admin

How To Spread A Network Like Wildfire, Part II: One Great Piece of Content

It is not an exaggeration to say that Funny or Die is the best example of a social network that was created with One Great Piece of Content.

Unlike The Chronicles of Narina on YouTube, Funny or Die was no accident. It was constructed. That’s what makes it beautiful to you and me. You don’t have to be Will Ferrell to do it. You just need to be paying attention.

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