Social Media

Optimizing Social for Business Social media is a prevalent and highly discussed topic. Many businesses attempt to use social for business, but fall short of their expectations because they don’t develop a strategy. When used correctly, social media channels can boost your visibility and help you generate new leads. 1. Don’t Assume Every Platform is…

Social marketing trends for 2014 1)      Videos – Videos are likely to continue as a top social marketing trend into 2014. With the new video feature on Instagram, it has become popular for brands to create short films showcasing different trends, events and promotions. As social media audiences are now used to this, it is…

Twitter – 10 fun facts. 1) The platform was supposed to be named ‘Twttr’, before they settled on ‘Twitter.’ 2) Every second there are 10 tweets that mention Starbucks! 3) Barack Obama’s victory tweet was retweeted over 800,000 times – the highest number of retweets ever recorded! 4) The average Twitter user has 208 followers…

We are quite sure that many of you using Social Media frequently look at rival accounts of those accounts of your close connections and why how those with high followers have managed to get others to follow them with such success? Let’s look at a few key pointers to increase your following on social media…

It will not suprise many that there are fake accounts on all social media platforms and this number is increasing as more and more people realise the full potential that the likes of Twitter and Facebook hold for business and network marketing. It is said that around 5% of Twitter accounts are fake, this may…

Once you realise how time consuming managing your social media accounts really is, you will need to look at varied social media management platforms to help with the likes of scheduling posts and tidying up following on your accounts etc. I am sure that you will have heard of HootSuite, Sendible, SproutSocial or MarketMeSuite but…

Tips for businesses on Instagram Instagram was launched three years ago (October 2010) with the mission to make mobile photos “fast, simple and beautiful.” Today, it has more than 150 million users across the World – including many celebrities and famous brands. What makes Instagram different from other social networking sites? Instagram simply allows users…

Guest Blog from Katherine Garner of MustardSeed Cooking. I was recently asked to do a short business talk at a networking group I attend and decided to talk about one of my favourite subjects – Twitter. Now I’m not an expert and don’t claim to be so, but I have learnt a fair deal since I’ve been using…

Vine first introduced itself to us on January 24, 2013,  a new application from Twitter that allows you to film and share mini six second maximum looping videos. A great simple to use App that has taken off for keen social media users with it’s ease for sharing across Twitter and Facebook. As more and…

Now that Christmas is well and truely appearing on the horizon, if not for same staring them straight in the face, we need to tak a quick look at how you can use social media for Christmas marketing campaings. Here are some tips on how social media can increase your brand presence and SEO over…

There have been some big changes in how estate agents market property of recent years from the introduction of the internet as a standard means of research for consumers to the ever evolving major property portals such as Rightmove and Zoopla. The ability to display property listings to a massive online audience has without doubt…

How to increase ‘likes’ on Facebook For all companies it is important to have good social media coverage in order to drive website traffic and gain a lager customer reach. Facebook is the second largest search engine so is a great way to do this! But once you have set up the page, how do…