5 Great Ways to Reach Your Target Market.
For some of the folks who have chosen a niche or have one in mind, one of the biggest misunderstandings is how you actually reach your target audience throughout the marketing process from face to face business networking to social media. This can definitely be something that holds a real estate agent back from really…
Should you Cater for every single Customer?
Online shopping has to be part of everyone’s business plans. As a business person you have to try and cater for every single customer. If somebody wants to give me their money, I will try my hardest to make it easy for them. Some like to come into the showroom, sit down in our comfy…
The Benefits of a Blog.
Did you know that there are millions, MILLIONS of blogs out there? Apparently 20,000 new ones are started daily! There are many benefits of running your own blog. Whatever sector you are in they can help bring new clients business in, keep your customers up to date & really stamp your name down as a…
Snapchat: How Can Non-Profits Benefit from this New Social Media Platform
Looking back at 2013, there’s no doubt that non-profit organizations have matured in their ability to leverage social media to promote their causes. As we set forth in advancing our communication strategies for 2014, it’s time to look beyond the “holy trinity” of social media, Twitter, Facbook and Youtube. It’s time organizations begin pushing the…
YouTube Tips: The Importance of Keeping Video Short.
The Importance of Keeping Video Short Video is one of the most popular search terms used by Google users today. It would appear that our appetite for video is insatiable. The internet is awash with video clips, films and other audio visual combinations. With the advent of video, streaming through a web browser, so many…
4 Sites that Will Improve your Social Media Knowledge.
One of my top three social media safety tips is “educate.” By educate I mean it is important you are educating yourselves about social media, because the more you know about the topic the better position you’ll be in to educate your children about it. The same goes for me – I need to keep my knowledge up-to-date so…
Know your Hashtags
Hashtags are bigger this year than last year (& they were huge last year!) & with more & more businesses realising that the world of social media is worth getting involved with, now’s the time to get to know your hashtags. A very brief hashtag history: The first use of hashtag was from @chrismessina who…
Lost with Social Media?
Lost with Social Media? We all keep hearing how important it is these days to have our business promoted on Social Media, but the problem is that there are so many different social media platforms it seems easy to get lost! Now I don’t confess to being in any way a “social media wiz” but…
Twitter tools part2: Make Tweeting Easy.
Tweeting is easy. Now when you know how to know better your audience and manage followers, lets focus on tweeting. I’m not saying its not. But if you want to manage your brand profile or personal brand you want to make this properly. This will take your time. When you’re not social media marketer (name it as…
Out with the Old, in with the New – the Role of Content Creators in the New Media
The media has been going through a difficult spell in the past few years, and many of those problems it has to be said, have been caused by those working in the industry; just look at the recent phone hacking scandal in the UK for one prime example. Another factor, meanwhile, has been the development…
Create engagement on your Facebook business page without ads
If you’re a community or social media manager, you know that managing a Facebook business page is not as simple as it used to be. Facebook is getting crowded, and their user base isn’t growing at the pace it once was (in fact in some of its biggest markets Facebook is actually losing users). In…
Bad Language on Social Media – The most common Spelling Errors.
It is where most of us spend much of our time typing away, social media is where everyone is hanging out and sharing their news and interesting content to share from others. With social media being so busy, it is inevitable that we will see some spelling and grammar mistakes along the way. Below is…