Mash Up #9

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Hi everyone, its time once again for our weekly Mash Up! This week was a busy and stressful one. Between work, working on my contest entry for Traffic Generation contest (By the way, please if you haven’t already, head on over there and comment, Retweet, and Stumble it for me. Thanks guys!) and being a little under the weather, I have not had much time to read that many articles this week. This week there will not be any design articles but, I did find some great articles in social media, SEO, email marketing two really incredible inspirations to help take your mind off all the stress in your life.

Each week, I try and gather articles that I have read that I found helpful and might be useful for our readers. I find most of these great articles from my Twitter Stream, bookmarking sites, and through my RSS feeds in Google Reader. Sometimes I find great articles through my reader’s comments.  I try and visit everyone’s sites who leave a comment, if you are using ComLuv then I have a better chance to see your better articles. So if you want us to start sharing your articles, all you have to do is produce killer and useful content that will help us out and I will share your articles.

Social Media

The Rules of Social Media Engagement
"Social media is a critical enabler of engagement, connecting businesses with customers and the people who influence their decisions and perceptions. If we look at other important customer facing functions within the organization such as customer service or sales, training on procedures and company-specific value propositions and solutions in a variety of applications is part of the regiment. Social networks present opportunities to reach a variety of important segments that complement the structure of any organization and as such, in addition to standard community management, delegation is necessary to engage on all fronts combined with the wherewithal to do so."

12 Twitter Mistakes You Should Avoid
"Today I wanted to share 12 Twitter Mistakes that I have learned from personal experience and some from common sense."

SEO

8 Reasons SEO Audits are Needed Before Sites are Built

"If you’ve worked in the SEO industry for any significant length of time, you’ve inevitably had a situation arise where a brand new site was being planned or an existing site was being overhauled and you were brought in to ensure the new (or new version) site would get SEO.

And unless you have magic fairy dust at your beck and call, you have also had to deal with the fact that you were called in after the new site was already planned.  Or more likely, the build was already taking place.  Or worse, already done and in launch mode.  Unfortunately this is the wrong time to be doing SEO, let alone performing an SEO audit."

Marketing

Beginner’s Guide to Email Marketing for Bloggers

This article is all about email marketing and where to start if you are a beginner. I have been interested in email marketing for a while now, and I am slowly building my lists. All though my list is just starting out, I do not want to send those spammy emails. This article will help avoid those types of emails.

Inspiration

Totally Epic Illustrations by Michal Ivan
"Time for some badass inspiration! From time to time we get to see some fantastic, epic illustrations and that’s just the case of Michal Ivan’s work. Prepare your sword, get your game on"

30 Beautiful Photos Shots of Macro Animals That Amaze You
"Macro photography is the art of taking close-up pictures that tell details which can’t be seen with the naked eye. In this Showcase of Inspiration series of photos we present 25 beautiful examples of macro photography. A round-up of some truly revealing and inspiring macro photographs which are sure to have you marveling at the world around you. These are Amazing Shots from talent photographers."