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Buzzstream Review: A Tool for Email Outreach Management

Buzzstream ReviewEmail outreach is an effective way to promote your brand, but it can also be very time consuming.

Quite a few software tools have been created to help make email outreach simpler and one of the most popular tools for email outreach is Buzzstream.

I’ve tried Buzzstream myself and this post goes into some of the features and the pros and cons of using Buzzstream.

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How to View Twitter Share Counts after Twitter’s API Shutdown

How to View Twitter Share Counts after Twitter’s API ShutdownMany of you may have noticed that on November 24, 2015, Twitter removed its share counts and tweet buttons have been replaced with buttons that do not show the number of tweets that a web page has received.

Twitter’s decision to close off its API has also affected many other apps that display Twitter share numbers, including SharedCount and Scrapebox which now are unable to display the number of Twitter shares.

I’ve found a few options to view Twitter share counts. Here they are:

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10 Popular Pinterest Marketing Myths that You Probably Believe

10 Pinterest Myths You Probably BelieveMost people know that visuals are becoming increasingly more important for online marketing.

Studies show that adding visuals can increase views of your content by up to 96%.

But despite all the research on visual content marketing, a lot of people still aren’t using visuals in their content or aren’t marketing their visual content optimally.

Through the years, I’ve studied visual content and the channels in which visual content is promoted.

And I’ve found that there are a lot of myths on how to do use visual content effectively.

Here are 10 Pinterest myths that many people still believe. Are you guilty of believing these popular visual marketing myths?

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5 Reasons Parrots are Better Marketers than You

5 Reasons Parrots are Better Marketers than YouI’ve been watching bird videos on YouTube recently, which I mostly do in the evenings on the weekends to relax.

One thing I’ve noticed is that some of these birds have much larger audiences than most people.

And a business blogger, I thought it would be fun to do an analysis and see what lessons we can learn from our fine feathered friends.

Although the bird owners that are publishing these videos are not marketing experts, some of them have built enviably large audiences of thousands of followers.

We can learn a few lessons from their success. Here are a few marketing insights that we can learn from popular birds.

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LinkedIn Pulse: 9 Lessons and Changes in LinkedIn Publishing

LinkedIn Pulse: 7 Important Changes to LinkedIn PublishingLast year, I published a study on how top LinkedIn publishers are getting featured on the Pulse. It is one of the most popular posts on my blog with over 3,000 social shares.

Soon after, I started publishing my own articles on LinkedIn. I managed to get one out of three posts featured in a content channel, resulting in hundreds of new followers and even subscribers to my blog.

I took a break for awhile because I was busy with other things, but I’m planning on continuing soon.

Publishing on LinkedIn can be a great way to create awareness for your business or personal brand.

But I noticed some important changes to the platform that you may want to be aware of and also wanted to share a few lessons learned from publishing on LinkedIn.

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