Want to learn the signs of fake social media influencers? Do you know how to find original influencers?
Social Media: Signs of Fake Social Media Influencers
Here’s a quick summary:
Inadequate profile info Sudden spikes in follower growth Follower-engagement ratio Fake, inactive, and bot followers
Consumers are seven times more inclined to trust a social media follower than a celebrity. Influencer marketing is effective.
Many brands fail to take advantage of this strategy because they don’t have suitable partners to work with.
You don’t have to be an influencer to say you’re one. Anyone with no money and shady morals can make it look like they are by buying fake social media followers.
On social media sites like Twitter and Instagram, this is prevalent.
Here are some indicators that an influencer may not be as influential as they appear to be.
It’s easy to manipulate the social media platform, but true influence needs someone to take the time to cultivate a devoted fanbase. Trying to settle for less is a proven method of killing your influencer marketing ROI.
To achieve success most influencers have worked for years. The outcome is a genuine connection between the influencer and the audience.
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Here are some interesting Christmas facts you need to know. And 2 Famous Christmas Songs for You!
The tallest Christmas tree ever displayed was in Seattle, Washington. It measured 221 ft. tall.
When the Candy Cane was invented in Germany, it was made into a J for Jesus. The red stripes symbolize his blood.
Black Friday is not the busiest shopping day of the year. The two days right before Christmas are.
It is a tradition in Japan to eat KFC for Christmas. Orders must be placed two months in advance.
Jingle Bells was originally a song about Thanksgiving in 1857. It was also the first song ever played in space by astronauts, Walter Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford.
1 in 3 men waits until Christmas Eve to do their shopping.
Christmas came from the words Cristes Maesse meaning “mass of Christ.”
Christmas trees usually grow for close to 15 years before they can be sold.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer got his start as an advertising gimmick for Montgomery Ward in 1839.
Paul McCartney earns $400,000 a year from his “Wonderful Christmastime” song, (which is widely regarded as the worst song ever recorded).
Christmas used to be illegal. Oklahoma was the last U.S. state to declare Christmas a legal Holiday in 1907.
Christmas is not Christ’s birthday as many believe. According to the bible, Christ was actually not even born in the winter.
Bing Crosby’s version of “White Christmas” is the highest-selling single of all time.
It only took six weeks for Charles Dickens to write “A Christmas Carol.”
Americans purchase 1.6 billion Christmas cards every year.
Visa cards are used about 6,000 times every minute during the Christmas season.
Franklin Pierce was the first President who put up an official White House Christmas tree.
December 25th was likely chosen because it coincides with the pagan festival Saturnalia where there was partying, gambling, and gift-giving.
Christmas lights were so expensive that they used to be rented rather than sold. An electrically lit tree was a status symbol in the early 1900s.
A Facebook study in 2010 revealed that two weeks before Christmas is the most popular time for couples to break up.
The top six Christmas tree-producing states are Oregon, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Washington, and Wisconsin.
From performers to maintenance workers, approximately 220 people are hired for the Disneyland Christmas Parade.
The first Christmas celebrated on American Land was in 1539 in Tallahassee, Florida. There were no trees or presents, just a religious mass.
The highest-grossing movie about Christmas since 1980 is Jim Carrey’s “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” It came out in November 2000 and pulled in $260,044,825.
The Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School in Midland, MI hosts 130 Santas each year where they gather and learn about the history of St. Nick, popular toys, and Santa etiquette.
The abbreviation X in X-Mas is not an abbreviation. It actually stands for “Chi”, meaning Christ in Greek.
The most popular theory of why we leave cookies and milk out for Santa is because Dutch children would leave food and drink out for St. Nicholas on his feast day.
The concept of caroling had nothing to do with Christmas. Medieval carols were liturgical songs in the 12th century while traveling to different homes that came from a tradition in England of wishing good fortunes to your neighbors in exchange for gifts.
The Ancient Greeks considered the mistletoe an aphrodisiac, which is probably why kissing under the mistletoe will bring you luck in your love life.
The reason we give presents during Christmas is to symbolize the gifts given to Jesus by the three wise men.
Virtual reality (VR) is a new technology and it’s getting better with the help of technology. VR can help you to have a real-life experience of a virtual world that might be similar to the real world.
VR is a bit different from augmented reality (AR).
Virtual Reality: Advantages and Disadvantages
Virtual reality is based on a combination of software and hardware. VR technology can help people in areas such as engineering, gaming, education, media, medicine, eCommerce, etc.
Advantages and Benefits of VR
This technology (VR) has many benefits and advantages. Some of the positive impacts of VR are listed below:
Like A Real World
Virtual reality gives the user a feeling of being in a different world while playing games, watching a movie, etc. VR gives the user the impression of actually being inside the game experiencing every move as if it were real.
Simulation and Practise
VR technology can help people to conduct training and practice by simulating real-world operations like surgery, combat, flight, etc. It’s the best practical advantage of this technology. You can learn to perform operations like fly a plane, drive a car, or a boat, without risking your life.
Details of Locations
Planning a vacation can be a tricky job. But with the help of VR technology, you can get a detailed view of any tourist location and decide if the trip is worth their time and effort.
Shopping and Decision
Virtual reality can help you to shop or to make better decisions. If you like to shop for interior design for your house, just looking at the designs it’s not easy to decide on a perfect match. Virtual reality can put together the designs and the interior of your house for a better decision.
Learning Improvements
VR technology can help to improve your learning abilities. Fields such as content writing and editing can benefit from VR technology. Also, doctors can learn new practices to improve the lives of their patients.
Disadvantages of Virtual Reality
VR technology is very effective but it has some cons.
Low-Flexibility
Virtual reality doesn’t offer flexibility in making changes to the pre-set program sequence. If a student in the classroom wants to raise some questions, in the real world they are free to do but in the virtual world isn’t feasible.
Obsession and Addiction
Many people can become obsessed or addicted to anything if they get involved with it for a longer period. Many tend to like games that allow violence and other illegal activities, but if that turns into addiction they will likely commit the crime in the real world.
Expensive
VR provides a fun and amazing experience but it’s not cheap. VR technology is still expensive to most people.
Isolation
After spending a lot of time in the virtual world, people become addicted to it and tend to enjoy it more there than in the real world. Thus, they spend more time with their friends in the virtual world like in games. This eventually leads them to become isolated from the real world.
Unreal Expectations
Training in the virtual world and real world are entirely different things. Many people cannot give their best when exposed to the real world because any action they take will have real consequences.
If you understand all the advantages and disadvantages of VR technology, then you can understand the meaning of the virtual world and its characteristics.
Virtual reality can be amazing and educational, but also can be addictive and isolated.
Addiction can generate health problems such as depression, anxiety, etc. You need to pay attention if you use virtual reality for games or training.
There are many different types of blog posts you can create. Here are 7 effective types of blog posts you need to know. These blog posts are fun to create and will keep things interesting for you and your readers.
Step-by-Step Tutorial (How-To Posts)
Tutorials are one of the best types of blog posts for any niche, topic or business.
“How to” headlines tend to get more traffic and shares. That’s because they solve a specific problem the reader is having right now.
To come up with a tutorial topic, just think of the biggest problems your audience is dealing with. Then teach them how to solve it, step-by-step! The easier your tutorial is to follow, the better.
Checklists or Cheat Sheets
Everyone loves cheat sheets and checklists because they make things easy! You can create cheat sheets and checklists as handy references for any kind of task.
Think about what tasks are common in your niche or industry. What do most of your audience do regularly? Could they do it better if they had a handy checklist or a cheat sheet to reference?
This type of blog post is also great for getting more email subscribers because you can offer a downloadable PDF version of your cheat sheet if the reader signs up to your email list.
Free Giveaway or Contest
Looking for a blog post that will get you tons of traffic and shares? Then you need to run a giveaway on your blog!
This type of blog post can quickly go viral and help you grow your traffic, shares, and email list fast.
Free giveaways don’t always have to be physical products. You can also offer digital downloads like an e-book, an infographic or anything around your niche of work.
To run your giveaway, you can use RafflePress if your site runs on WordPress. Also, there are some other WordPress plugins you can use.
Storytelling
Storytelling is scientifically proven to have a powerful impact on the reader’s brain. Also, success stories are some of the most popular stories to share.
You can write a case study about yourself or someone else. Think about the biggest successes in your blog or business, and share how you achieved them. Be specific and give numbers and facts whenever possible.
Influencers and Expert Roundup
Every niche has its influencers. These are popular, influential people who are thought leaders in their specialty. They often have huge social media followings and everyone shares their blog posts.
To inspire your followers, you can share a list of the best influencers to follow or the best blogs in your niche. You can also add a link to their Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook page. If they have a website leave a link to that too.
This “expert roundup” type of blog post has a lot of benefits!
Establish you as an industry expert
Serve as outreach to connect with powerful influencers
Attract a lot of shares and backlinks to your blog
It’s a win-win-win for you, your readers, and all the influencers you include.
Answer All Questions
Compiling answers to frequently asked questions in your niche is a great type of blog post.
Where should you get the questions from? If you’ve already built up an audience, you probably get questions via your blog comments, social media, or emails from your readers.
You can easily find frequently asked questions online.
Here are a few places to look:
Try a few Google searches related to your niche and look for a “People Also Ask” box with related questions.
Use forums related to your niche and look for popular or repeat questions.
Use AnswerThePublic.com to look up questions and other keywords.
Use Quora to find common questions
Share What Others Are Saying
You can also come up with a post that covers what people are saying. The subject can widely vary. It can be about a newly launched product, a video that just went viral or a social campaign.
Choose a topic that your audience can relate to.
Start to create these types of blog posts and will generate more targeted blog traffic. Keep going and create useful, informative and high-quality posts to help your target audience.
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