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Your content, everywhere: The 17 best tools to get your content its largest audience

Nov16

by Sindy Cator on November 16, 2014 at 7:00 pm

Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Lists, Social Media

This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. When you’re creating useful, actionable, epic content, everyone deserves to see it. So how do you get your hard work and effort seen by the largest audience possible? We’ve considered that question often at Buffer, as we try to maximize our content so it reaches the people who need it. There are certain strategies you can put into place for spreading your content far and wide, and there are a good number of tools that can help these strategies run super smooth. Here are the tools we use (and the strategies we…

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Why ‘build it and they will come’ no longer works for mobile apps

Nov16

by Sindy Cator on November 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

Jordan Wright is the co-founder & CEO of Comfy, an Austin startup changing the way university students find housing. “Build it and they will come” hasn’t worked in app stores for years. In today’s crowded app stores, you must put in the elbow grease to help your app show in top results. Only then will your app get the visibility you need to cross the tipping point into potential monetization. Mobile apps aren’t the gold mine they used to be, but the app industry is still brimming with opportunity. With the right combination of passion, savvy and patience, you can…

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Why ‘build it and they will come’ no longer works for mobile apps

Nov16

by Sindy Cator on November 16, 2014 at 4:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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8 great Chrome extensions to transform your ‘New Tab’ page

Nov16

by Sindy Cator on November 16, 2014 at 2:00 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Roundups

The ‘new tab’ page is something you probably look at for a lot more time than you think every day, so why not put it to work or get it to do something other than just show new tabs? Here are eight great Chrome extensions to beautify, redesign or put your new tab page to work. Earth View from Google Maps My personal favorite at the moment, Earth View simply replaces the new tab page with a random satellite image of the globe from Google Earth. Many of the images will have you wondering where they were shot, so Google’s put a…

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SEO simplified for short attention span

Nov16

by Sindy Cator on November 16, 2014 at 12:00 pm

Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Social Media

Barry Feldman is a content marketing consultant, copywriter, social media advisor and more. This post has been adapted from an original version on his blog, Feldman Creative. “We really do want to understand SEO.” I was on a conference call with a client who said that. And then: “Let’s plan to have a 15 minute call where you can explain SEO to us.” Gulp. Can SEO really be simplified to that extreme? Well, I do love a good challenge. But I don’t love SEO. I’m not the analytical type. If SEO isn’t exactly your cup of tea, here we go: SEO, with a spoonful of sugar….