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50 Experts Share Their Best Free Social Media Apps

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50 Experts Share Their Best Free Social Media AppsYou know you need social media sites to promote your blog posts.

You don’t have the time to promote at all of them.

By using social media apps, you can promote on your phones.

You can get the promotion done and save time by promoting on your mobile phones instead of having to find a computer.

By using the best social media apps, you can save time and effectively promote your content. By using the apps on your phones, you’ll be able to promote to more places than you could on a desktop computer since you can promote “on the go.”

However, as time goes on, smartphone apps keep changing.

Which are the best social media apps in 2018?

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5 Reasons Your Blog Needs Social Media Monitoring

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Social Media Monitoring Tips to boost engagement

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Are you struggling to take control of your social media promotion?

Struggling is futile.

Blog promotion covers so much territory, you need to use what’s at your disposal to manage your social media promotion.

What is at your disposal, exactly?

You could use social media management tools to help you.

On the other hand, you can use social media monitoring methods.

This post will cover what social media monitoring entails.

Then, guest author Desmond Rhodes will explain how you can use social media monitoring to boost your readers’ engagement.

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Introducing Storybrand on Instagram and Snapchat: How to Make Money in a New Era

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Instagram and Snapchat Stories: Storybrand

How to Have an Instagram and Snapchat Storybrand:

Cash In On a New Era of Brand Storytelling

Benjamin Shepardson

Did you know the United States government used to issue a $500 bill?

It’s true. The last one was issued in 1934, and William Mckinley, the 25th President, was featured on it. These days, due to their rarity, the bills are worth more than their face value- anywhere from $600 to $1,500.

Likewise, Instagram Stories and Snapchat are worth more than their face value. Many marketers focus on major platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram (not necessarily Instagram Stories), and YouTube. Live content often finds itself at the back of the queue. However, these platforms are dripping with money-making upside. Here’s how you can cash in on a new era of brand storytelling with Instagram Stories and Snapchat.

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Do You Want to Be a Social Media Content Creator or a Blogger?

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Where do you create your content?

Blogs or social media sites?

Disadvantages to maintaining a blog exist:

The financial expenses, trying to optimize for SEO, and people complaining they don’t want your emails bombarding their inboxes are just a few.

What are your options?

You could be a social media content creator and post your articles at social bookmarking sites.

You could write at revenue sharing sites like Virily and Steemit.

You could post your content on social media sites like Facebook.

Guest author Catherine Vanvonno evaluates which is better for you to do: post your content on your website or only be a social media content creator and post your content on Facebook.

Her evaluation is based on the following criteria:

Information Delivery

Design

Statistics

Ownership

and Interaction.

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How to Easily Start Expanding Your Brand With These Unusual Social Media Hacks

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Are you looking for ways to generate website traffic using social media sites?

Does Your Social Media Manager Know How to Use These 23 Awesome Free Tricks? offers 23 unusual social media tips and tricks to help your content get noticed online and help your content generate page views.

Today’s guest author Joe brings you 6 more. Altogether, you’ll have 29 unusual social media tips and tricks.

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Does Your Social Media Manager Know How to Use These 23 Awesome Free Tricks?

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23 growth hacking tips you can do without your social media manager

Are you comfortable promoting your blog posts on social media sites?

Every site?

Only the mainstream sites?

None at all?

Recently, a question was posed to the Grow Your Blog Facebook Group: “What is one social media platform you’ve never used (that keeps pinching your brain?)”

I eagerly awaited the responses. I hoped to learn about new social media I wasn’t familiar with yet.

To my surprise, everyone indicated they were uncomfortable using mainstream social media sites.

This post will explain how to use 4 mainstream social media sites to promote your blog using free, little-known methods.

Save your money outsourcing your social media needs to a social media manager. After reading this post, you can be your own social media manager.

The social media sites covered in this post are Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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Network Security Threats: How Social Media Acts as a Threat

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How network security threats affect you

Do you feel at risk using social media?

You know the inherent dangers.

United States news publications have been discussing how vulnerable the United States is to foreign hackers.

Are you concerned about network security threats since the United States government confirmed the interference of Russian hackers in the 2016 election?

If not, guest author Chirag Thumar explains 6 reasons you should be.

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How to Make Money with Snapchat Online or with the App

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snapchat online or on your phone equals blogging success

Bloggers turn to social media for help promoting their blogs.

Businesses use Instagram for help with branding.

Can Snapchat help bloggers and other content creators like Instagram and other social media sites do?

I asked my friend and social media expert, Lisa Sicard.

Her guest post explains how you can use Snapchat to further grow your blog or business by generating traffic and ultimately making money.

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How to Leverage Social Media to Make Money with Your Blog or Business, 4 Ways

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How to Make Money with social media

In our blog post, How to Make Money Blogging with a Social Media Plan, 11 Ways, guest author Nicholas Byrd and I recommended 11 ways to grow your blog or business using social media.

Nicholas and I devised an 11-step strategy for increasing your email subscribers using social media.

In today’s article, guest author Muhammad Shoaib suggests 4 different steps you can take toward growing your email list with social media. Together, you have a 15-step action plan toward growing your website with social media sites.

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How to Make Money Blogging with a Social Media Plan, 11 Ways

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How to make money blogging, an 11-part action plan

Today, people ask how to integrate social media and SEO, a question worth asking.

Do people care how to integrate social media into an action plan for financial growth? They should.

Today’s guest author and I will explain how to use an 11-part strategy to make money blogging.

The post references how to make money blogging using Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat.

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