Each month we start our Quick Tip Tuesday series with a roundup of useful, hands-on digital marketing advice from experts in their fields. We’ve extracted the most useful information into bite-sized tips that you can start using right away. We’ve also provided links to the full articles in case you’d like to read more about the topic.
Here, then, are 5 quick tips we’re sharing this month:
1. Ever find yourself hunting around for the perfect image for your blog post? This is a list of great websites that offer free photos. Worth bookmarking!
2. How powerful is your writing? Take a look at Jon Morrow’s list of 317(!) power words that you can start using today. Of course, you don’t want to overdo it, but working in words like gullible, blinded, risky, bumbling, vulnerable, warning, devastating in the appropriate places can go a long way to punch up your blog posts.
3. When writing an email newsletter or promotion: “Cut your message in half, twice.” We like this advice for just about anything we write, from web pages to blog posts to email newsletters. Read the full story from Scent Trail Marketing.
4. Remember the “social” part of social media. Whether you’re having a conversation in person, on the phone, or through your social networks, here are 12 ways to be sure you have better conversations, including tips like:

• have a purpose
• focus on others
• follow up

Try them – it’s not rocket science, but these suggestions do work.
5. It’s fine – and important – for a business to show some personality in its social interactions, but there are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed. This list of Twitter etiquette tips from the Huffington Post offers some straightforward advice to consider. We would recommend keeping these tips in mind no matter what social channel you’re using:

• Eat it, think it, but please don’t post it
• Could a pastor discuss this at his Sunday service?
• Upload a professional profile picture
• Tag your friends with consideration
• Take your complaint offline
• It’s not all about you!

Read the full list here.
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