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The latest news & trends in influencer marketing, to help you select the right influencers and run your campaigns successfully.

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How to Repurpose Your Blog Content for Periscope

Have you noticed that your Twitter feed is filled with more links to watch users’ content on Periscope? Several of our community members were early adopters on the video streaming app that’s less than a year old. They’re participating in weekly and group “scopes” so

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How Hiring a Virtual Assistant Helps Grow your Blog

Like many of our community members Lashawn Wiltz works a full-time job, while balancing her family demands and her photography blog, Everyday Eyecandy.  For about a year, she’s been mulling over the idea of hiring a virtual assistant to help grow her blog’s reach. Lashawn

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How to Promote Your Live Periscope Events

In March 2015, Twitter launched Persicope which it acquired the month before. Since then Periscope has been on fire. Bloggers, marketers and even rock stars like John Mayer are broadcasting live from their mobile devices with the Periscope app. Although Meerkat is a lofty competitor to

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How to Pitch Back for a Sponsored Post

One of the biggest gripes for influencers are PR or brand pitches they receive that sound a lot like a sponsored post, but don’t include any compensation. Maybe the brand requests a designated number of social shares, a blog post deadline or wants to review your post BEFORE

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How to Pitch Back for a Sponsored Post

One of the biggest gripes for influencers are PR or brand pitches they receive that sound a lot like a sponsored post, but don’t include any compensation. Maybe the brand requests a designated number of social shares, a blog post deadline or wants to review your post BEFORE

Blogging TIps

How to Pitch Back for a Sponsored Post

One of the biggest gripes for influencers are PR or brand pitches they receive that sound a lot like a sponsored post, but don’t include any compensation. Maybe the brand requests a designated number of social shares, a blog post deadline or wants to review your post BEFORE

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Media Interviews for Bloggers: Show Your Expertise & Weigh In on Hot Topics

There’s a trend you’ll see in newspapers, radio shows and even major media outlets like HLN and CNN. They’re all interviewing bloggers! Major media organizations consider bloggers experts and they also reach out for bloggers to weigh-in on the hottest topics.  Below you’ll read several examples

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How to Get Great Local Blog Content

One of the best ways to build an audience is to create great local blog content. Your first readers are usually your friends and family. But you can easily expand your audience and get loal PR representatives to recognize your blog. Here’s how to find

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How to Get Great Local Blog Content

One of the best ways to build an audience is to create great local blog content. Your first readers are usually your friends and family. But you can easily expand your audience and get loal PR representatives to recognize your blog. Here’s how to find

6 Content Strategies & Lessons Bloggers Can Learn from Magazines

The sales of magazines in the U.S. have been steadily declining. In fact, newstand sales of magazines fell more than 14 percent in 2014 according to the International Business Times. Even though fewer people want to grab a magazine, they’re goldmines for bloggers when it