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The Dark Side of Social Media Data.
I was sitting in my living room watching Top Gear, my daughter playing in the garden with our dog and a hose, when the call came…’There’s been an accident. Your wife has been cut out of the car and airlifted to hospital.’ It’s a strange thing that happens in these situations…on the outside I had…
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Building Your E-mail Subscribers Through Social Media.
Because social media has such a broad reach, it’s a great solution if you’re searching for ways to get more subscribers to an existing e-mail list. Some people are reluctant to sign up for e-mail lists because they feel their inboxes are already bombarded with unwanted messages. However, if you try some of the suggestions…
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The Principles of Contagious Content: Social Currency.
Why do some things catch on and what makes some content more contagious? Is it down to luck or is some content just more viral worthy? Hundreds of research hours have been dedicated to solving this mystery and the findings show that there are six key principles to creating contagious content. Lets have a look…
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Save time: understand the 4 key ways to manage social media
Managing social media can be a real drain. Whether that’s maintaining a reliable output of good content or handling incoming enquiries, sometimes it feels there just isn’t enough time in the day. If you’re supporting more than one or two social channels then you’ll quickly find there isn’t enough time in the night either! You…
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A beginner’s guide to Pinterest
If you’re not on Pinterest yet, you should be! With over 70 million users worldwide this social platform is one of the hottest sites for photography, yet so many businesses are still unsure about it. In a nutshell, Pinterest is a visual pinboard site that lets you ‘pin’ or collect images and add them to…
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What Social Gaming Can Mean For Your Business!
If you’re on Facebook for personal use, the likelihood is that you won’t have been fully immune to the countless requests when it comes to social gaming. From the Candy Crush Saga to Bubble Witch and beyond, gaming is taking place at unprecedented levels, and it’s now entirely inevitable. What difference does this make? Well,…
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How to Promote Your Business or Brand on Tumblr.
Believe it or not, Tumblr is a fantastic platform for marketing. Most brands tend to overlook it, setting their sights on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest or Instagram, instead. We’re not entirely sure why that is. Perhaps they don’t know much about the platform, its demographic or even its potential. In that case, now is…
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Facebook treats us like guinea pigs and we do not care.
When the news first broke that Facebook had been using our timelines to run social experiments on us it probably shouldn’t have been as surprising as it was. However, what has surprised me even more is that they seem to have gotten away with it without recourse. The general public have just carried on posting…
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Why Having A Great Website Will Increase Your Social Respect.
Why Having A Great Website Will Increase Your Social Respect You’ve built up an impressive social following, you’re posting all the right things at the right times, people are engaging, liking, sharing and commenting – you, sir or madam, deserve a huge pat on the back! But why is nobody actually following through with their…
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The Fastest Ways to Increase Your Instagram Following.
Instagram is quickly becoming one of the biggest social media outlets. With more than 150 million users – and that number keeps growing larger each day – you have a large pool of potential followers. Whether you’re using Instagram for business or for personal use, you want to have a lot of followers. More importantly,…
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The Importance Of Design In Your Social Media Strategy
It’s now common knowledge that Facebook posts tend to perform better where there is an image involved. Posting out a straight up status update as a brand is risky, and if you’re going for that approach, you’d better hope that what you’re saying is going to make people sit up and take note! To take…
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5 Of The Best URL Shorteners Available
The road to social media success is a long and arduous one. There is no quick fix and it can become very time consuming. For a lot of businesses, social media has become one of the hardest marketing platforms to crack. The best place to start is with the simple things. Everyone shares their links…
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