Estate Agency using Social Media, a winning formula?
As an estate agent who started in the business back when the only technology in the office was the telephone and photocopier it would be fair to say I was not exactly a resident of the social media community. But 18 months ago when I established Lime Estate Agents in Preston, Lancashire we turned away…
Twitter photo tags 6 ways to use them
Twitter photo tags could work for your brand. If you had 241 million users of your service you’d be quite happy right? Wrong! Twitter’s growth is not quite as meteoric as they’d like. So. If this was your business what would you do? Correct, you’d copy a competitor. That appears to be what Twitter had…
Is it Better to Have Been on Twitter and Neglect it or to Have Never been on Twitter Before?
What if you made a Twitter account for your business, used it consistently for a few months and the all of all the sudden fell off the face of the planet? Would it harm your companys’ social status? Is it better to have not even made an account at all? These are the questions we…
LinkedIn company page products and services are going, going… gone!
Changes to LinkedIn Company Pages are afoot. On the 14th April 2014 your Products & Services tab will disappear from the Company Page. LinkedIn have decided to replace the Products & Services section with a new feature – Showcase Pages. Now you might think they’re just the same but with a different name, right? Wrong! Let…
Tips to earn social links
Social media can play an important role in your search engine optimisation strategy. There are numerous ways of being social online, from using sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Pinterestto commenting in blogs and forums. As well as helping promote your business and engage with customers, these can also help you earn valuable links. Here…
How important is your Social Media profile to Employers?
There are two ways to look in to this topic. Firstly that an employer will be attracted to a new employee who has social media skills to bring in to their business and secondly it’s a new way for employers to find you so building a strong profile on social media for yourself could in…
Why not to start a tweet with @
One of the little quirks of Twitter is that if you start a Tweet with @ the only people who can see your tweet are the people following both you and the account you tweeted. So for example if you Tweet “@Logotag are the coolest #socialmedia window tags I’ve ever seen!” the only people who will see…
What do Selfies, Sport Relief and MH370 have in common?
Last week I posted a ‘No Makeup Selfie’ on Facebook. Now as you may have noticed I’m an overweight, beauty-challenged, balding bloke, so my post read as follows: Feeling left out, so here’s my picture without makeup…by which I mean coffee The thing I really like about this sort of stuff is the way that…
To Guest Blog or Not to Guest Blog.
A few weeks ago the wired world was somewhat shocked when Google announced that it was going to punish a guest blog network. Google didn’t name the offender (many believe it was MyBlogGuest), but it did set social media ablaze as everyone tried to figure out what this development meant. So what exactly does it…
10 Reasons to Use Nurph for Twitter Chats.
10 Reasons to Use Nurph for Twitter Chats Check out these 10 amazing reasons to use a Nurph Channel for your Twitter Chat. 10) Chat Planning Log-in to Nurph and schedule a Twitter Chat. Just add the Time, Topic, Questions, and click “Save”. Hey presto, you have a Chat page which you can tweet to your Followers. 9) RSVPs Do…
Twitter Finally Rolls Out Photo Tagging
Remember back when you were a teenager, and you and your friends found this great restaurant and it was your own special place to hang out and you loved it so much? That was until your mom mentioned that she adored that place too, and then you never wanted to go there again? Yeah. That’s…
The Social Side of Pubs and their Punters – Whose round is it?
So, you are sitting in the pub and the person you’re with has gone to the bar or toilet, leaving you all on your own. What do you do? Apart from hoping that they haven’t gone to the loo for a number two, you whip out your phone and pretend to look busy. We’ve all…