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Social media has given companies unprecedented access to their target audience. Not only are they able to provide a way for customers to see what is going on with their business but they can catch negative or positive feedback through live monitoring of sites like Twitter.

This also presents an issue – stories that they were once able to quietly take care of (or ignore) can now take on a life of their own. Through the Internet, an incident either large or small can escalate until it threatens the reputation of a company that is left scrambling to fix things.

Below are four examples of how different major franchises tried to put out the flames that were sparked through social media during times of crisis.

1. Nestle

Back in 2010, a video was launched by nonprofit Greenpeace about Nestle’s sourcing of a company known as Sinar Mas. For those that don’t know, Sinar Mas is the largest palm oil producer in Indonesia. It has been alleged to be responsible for mass deforestation that resulted in both the endangerment of natural species and the destruction of a number of communities.

The video targeted Nestle for its financial support of this company, which is also known to use cheap labor to create its product. Not taking into account the open and viral nature of social media, it did not launch an effort to deal with the problem in a constructive way. Nestle didn’t speak to their customers or Greenpeace or even pretend to consider the issue. Instead, it contacted Google and asked the Internet giant to remove the video from search results and the original YouTube clip.

…More at How Businesses Manage a Social Media Crisis

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Getting more attention or readers for your blog is always a great concern. It translate to getting more traffic by offering what potential readers want. See below for some tips I found online and thought I would share with you.

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With practically everyone and their cat writing a blog these days, you need to distinguish yourself to get noticed. That can be difficult sometimes, but certainly not impossible. Keep reading for some tips to give your blog a better chance of getting found and read.

This article picks up on where I left off in a previous article. In that piece, I covered the importance of creating a great headline, explained how linking to older posts can help you, and why you should link to other bloggers. I also touched on details such as filling in your page title and description, creating URLs that look good in social media, and attracting and keeping an audience by blogging more than once a month.

That may sound like a lot, but there's always more to learn. Neil Patel introduces these points in the form a negative – “don't do this” – but I prefer phrasing them in a positive way. I believe you'll remember them better if you're told what to do up front rather than what to avoid.

I'll start these new tips off by talking about how you write your post. The phrase “keep it simple” never applied to anything like it applies to the web. For all the images and videos you may find online, much of the most valuable web content comes in the form of text. Unfortunately, most people reading on the Internet have short attention spans. There's always the distraction of something else to click, checking Facebook or Twitter, and the fact that an electronic display still isn't as easy on the eyes as words on paper – especially if your visitors are reading your words of wisdom from a small mobile device….More at More Ways to Get Attention For Your Blog

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Most business experts agree that marketing is everything. This art comes first in every business venture.  Marketing blends and integrates all the functions of the business together and presents them to customers in the form of advertising, promotion and other marketing activities. This is why most online businesses or websites consider marketing seriously. The importance of marketing lies in its ability to bring the business to the market – where customers dwell and opportunities thrive. In the case of websites, if one wishes to have his site linked to thousands of other sites in the internet, also known as backlink, then you may consider article marketing as your first option.

Apparently, the benefits of article marketing are endless, probably because countless possibilities could happen to you. But these things are certain and fundamental. What’s so great about article marketing is that it is the easiest and fastest way to promote your site. Not to mention, not only is it easy and fast, it’s free of charge. Contrary to the typical marketing strategy in the corporate world, where hundreds and even thousands of dollars are spent, article marketing is free. Later on, we will run through some of the basics in article marketing.

Another benefit is that it gives you instant exposure. Ever heard of stories where a song or a book gets that instant success overnight? This is also true with article marketing. It gives you a direct and instant exposure, period. Another proven benefit of article marketing is 100% efficiency. This technique is sure to win if used as a strategy. Then of course since it is marketing, once the effort is done and the seeds have been sowed to the field, all you have to do is watch and see your website get promoted passively! This means that everyday your site will be promoted, more and more customers will link you, and more visitors will attach your site, and this will go on and on.

So how will I do it? Let’s get our hands dirty now as we learn the basic type of article marketing. Here it is.

1. First, try to make an article or a review about your brand, in your case – your website, what you are selling or what you are about. For example, if your site is about guitars, you may want to make an article about guitars.
2. Then post it to popular article directories in the internet.

One or probably the top directory we have today is www.ezinearticles.com. Post it there and have it published. Ezine Articles hosts thousands of articles and are categorized in many sections. You may check in their site for further reference.

1. Then here is the one last thing you shouldn’t miss out – attach your website at the end of your article post, i.e. www.yourguitarguru.com. You may want to attach “for more resources or for further reference, pls. visit my site” or “Learn guitar tabs” with your website in there.

When you do this, visitors can follow you to your website, which is our main goal by the way. There are other article directories our there. But these site directories are at the top: EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com and SearchWarp.com. You may consider these sites in your priority list.  Since article marketing is limitless, other web masters can take your content to their own site. Talk about passive marketing.

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