Social Media
The principles of Contagious Content: Triggers
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 making contagious content. I recently explained the…
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Should You Buy Twitter Followers?
Picture yourself as a Twitter user. You’re in a “Content Discovery” state of mind, browsing around popular tweets. You stumble upon someone interesting. Do you “Follow”? What goes through your mind: Who is this person? What have they written about themselves? How many tweets have they posted? Over what period of time? And most importantly:…
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Optimizing Your Content for StumbleUpon Engagement.
StumbleUpon’s community is filled with active users who love to discover and share content from a wide variety of topics and interests. One of the best ways to earn your blog some new traffic or more exposure is to promote your content on the platform. When done properly, StumbleUpon users will engage and interact endlessly…
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10 Reasons Why Auto Direct Messages Are Bad for Your Brand and Business.
It’s almost impossible to exist in social media without receiving an Automated (auto) Direct Message (DM). Especially infamous on Twitter (which I love), a case will be made here that 99% of the time the DMs sent add no value for the recipient and, worse, irritate. Ultimately, they can lead to damage to a brand…
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What #bringbackourgirls teaches us about social media
Remember #bringbackourgirls? No? It’s over 100 days since a group of Nigerian schoolgirls were kidnapped by Boko Haram, prompting an outpouring of sympathy on Twitter. The great and the good lined to be photographed holding pieces of paper with the hashtag, including US First Lady Michelle Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and an assortment…
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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 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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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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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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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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David and Goliath: Small Businesses Benefit Most From Twitter
The Internet is making increasing inroads into our daily lives, with a large proportion of businesses now maintaining an active web presence in the hope of ensuring their place in an increasingly competitive marketplace. With such a focus on web presence, Digital Marketing is now seen as an essential aspect of any company’s business strategy,…
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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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