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Social Media Strategy for Bloggers

Social Media Strategy for Bloggers – Integration to Promotion

So you’ve started your blog? Great! Welcome to the club. Now what? Don’t you want the world to know about your blog? Ofcourse you do, otherwise you could have written on your Diary instead. But if you are not a popular person already or don’t have fan following, how can you reach to a large audience? There are so many blogs out there, how would you stand apart from the rest? A well-defined Social Media strategy for bloggers like you is the answer.

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Love thyself, date thyself!

She is pretty. She is beautiful. She never breaks my heart. She loves me. She smiles at me each time I look at her in the mirror. And I gain confidence in my abilities. She is me.

When was the last time you looked at the mirror and admired yourself without the odd, guilty feeling of narcissism?

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The Great Indian Chamcha - Several Ways to Claim the tite

The Great Indian Chamcha – Several Ways to Claim the Title

In this post I am sharing with you different ways to claim the title “The Great Indian Chamcha”. And the good news is that everyone is given opportunities for that throughout their lives. Statutory WARNING: Before you proceed and read the entire post, please make sure that you are sane enough to digest humor and accept some bitter truths. If you are ‘If I don’t like what you say, you must rot in hell’  type, get the hell out of my blog right now! For the rest of the world, welcome.

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Mailchimp Snap - Easiest Way to Send Photo-based Newsletter from Phone

Mailchimp Snap – Easiest Way to Send Photo-based Newsletter from Phone

Mailchimp has smartly combined two latest trends of Social Media – Image Content and Mobile Access to create this simple but really powerful mobile app Mailchimp Snap. With the rising popularity of mobile platforms and availability of highly efficient mobile devices, now a days you can do virtually everything from mobile. As a small business owner / Startup / Entrepreneur / blogger / Online Marketer / Social Media manager , may be you are already using mobile devices more for writing and sharing blog posts, managing your Social Media presence. But to send a Newsletter (atleast using Mailchimp – one of the best newsletter services where you can start for free) you had to get back to PC. Not anymore.

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Hootsuite Grade Your Social - Measure Twitter Performance

Hootsuite Grade Your Social – Measure Twitter Performance for Free

Using Twitter can be fun, but measuring Twitter performance can be real pain in you-know-where. Here is a real cool tool to measure your Twitter performance and get actionable insights to improve it. Hootsuite Grade Your Social – a free tool from the awesome team behind my favorite Social Media Management tool Hootsuite. I am using Twitter from April 2009, though started taking it seriously much later. At the time of writing this article I have 11.1 K followers on Twitter, not a single 1 acquired from any mass twitter buying schemes. But still the big number “11.1K” doesn’t matter, if I am not using it effectively. Over the years I kept learning and implementing, hence improved a lot. But after using this Hootsuite Grade Your Social tool, I found out many more areas of improvement. Let me show you.

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Entrepreneurs Vs Businessmen - What is the DIfference

Entrepreneurs Vs Businessmen – What is the Difference?

From inception of my thoughts about business, marketing , commerce and all related terms I always lived with a dream of having my own business, handling employees and becoming a world class leader. But always had a theoretical doubt, which later turned out to be a practical one.

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Ramanuj Mukherjee #IconsAround Interview

#IconsAround Interview: Ramanuj Mukherjee – Bengali Entrepreneur Spreading Legal Education

I’m back with another very inspiring interview in your favorite #IconsAround series. And this is very special for me. Because I met this person during a Kolkata Tweetup in 2010 when I first started using Social Media. Since then I am blessed to have this person as a friend. Though I couldn’t meet this person face-to-face in all these years, but following him online daily. I’ve observed closely over the years how that law student I had met over coffee, has grown into an inspiring Entrepreneur spreading legal education among masses. Beyond legal education, his posts inspire people to do what they love. But above all, if you get to talk to this person, you’ll learn what humility is all about. Keep reading.

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Evernote - How It Saved My Neck ( & blog) and Can Save Yours Too!

Evernote – How It Saved My Neck ( & blog) and Can Save Yours Too!

Imagine that you are a blogger and one fine morning you wake up and find that one of your most popular blog posts isn’t showing its images. You search for the images in your server, your hard disk … but you can’t find the images there! And as the images are related to the content of the blog post, you can’t replace those with new images either. What would you do?

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