Why Instagram Video Is Becoming an Essential Marketing Tool for Brands
Like Vine, Instagram recently rolled out video support which allows account owners to share content in short spurts. The big difference is that Instagram videos can be up to fifteen seconds long, more than double the limit imposed on Vine. On Vine, six-second videos loop continuously, which can make it quite difficult to create a…
What a Simple Facebook status can lead too.
Recently I helped to start a 1800 mile journey for 46 bikes that will be used by Children at an Orphanage in Bulgaria. These bikes we’re purchased, donated, serviced and fixed by a unemployed 50 year old local man who lives near me in North Yorkshire. I was randomly scrolling down my news feed and…
Why your brand should focus on Google+ in 2014
Google+. Many have heard of it, ignored it, laughed at it.. but for those of us who manage communities or a brand’s social presence, we are starting to see just how important it really is. Here’s why your brand should be focusing on Google+ in 2014: 1: It’s Google! Companies invest large amounts of…
Sharing is Caring. Watch what and how do you share!
Social Media is about networking and sharing. Sounds obvious. Simple, you would say. But let just ask yourself What are you sharing? Maybe better How do you share things? Let me show you few things you should do before and while sharing. Making this simple things you will show respect to your followers, no matter its…
How to grow and promote without a blog.
What if you’re not confident enough to blog all the time? If you run a small business, you will hear EVERYONE telling you that you NEEEEEED to be on social media. You also apparently NEED to blog and produce content. Videos, pictures, articles, posts, comments etc Well the truth is that these just aren’t an…
How Your Company Should Be Utilising Social Media to Interact with Customers
Companies who hadn’t embraced the internet were left behind a long time ago – at the very least, a company website is now a must. Now, it’s likely those who aren’t using social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are going to follow the relics who refuse to move with the times. Social media…
Alternatives to WhatsApp
With the big news that Facebook has bought WhatsApp (from 2 chaps that were ironically turned down for jobs at Zuckerberg’s company!) for just over £11million, there will be folk who now think it’s not cool (as it’s owned by Facebook) as well as those who don’t want the biggest social media company getting access…
How many Social Media Sites should you be Active on?
In April we will be celebrating our third year of trading. 2014 is our make or break year as we are now fully established and people hopefully know about us. Thankfully, the majority of our customers have returned to us each year, so we must be doing something right. One of my daily roles is…
#lovecurling
The Winter Olympics are in full swing (better than the ‘normal’ Olympics in my opinion but that’s another blog post!) & the nation has, once again, as it seems to every four years, fallen in love with curling. I’m not surprised, it’s awesome, I’m hooked when it’d on & both our men & women of…
Video and Social Media.
Having a video made to promote your business is certainly the first step in the process – these days, it’s not enough to just hire a video production company to make the video, it won’t just get seen by itself, you need to promote it, push it and keep doing so to ensure people see…
Is Social Media Coming of Age As a Brand Communications Channel?
“I remember when you could be utterly stupid without the world finding out”, was just one response to the Justine Sacco saga, but it puts in a nutshell the enormous impact of social media in launching or burying a career. No matter how impressively Sacco’s CV may read, her ‘utterly stupid’ twitter regarding Africa and…
A search technique you may not realise you can do on Twitter:
Once you realise the potential behind Twitter for your business and for lead generation, we can start to look deeply in to targeting people / accounts for trends, their likes and their interests and even complaints their sharing against your competitors. OSLG – Outbound Social Lead Generation. It’s all about comments and feedback consumers are sharing…