5 Steps to getting started with Social Media.
Whether you run a large business, a pub or a small local store, you can tap into the power of Social Media to increase your fan base, understand your customers better and generate more sales. If you have been contemplating starting with Social Media for a while, but don’t know where to start, here are…
10 Tips to keep Twitter clean.
Leadamo Academy bases its blogs on twitter. We have covered many topics in the last year including building twitter connections /and hashtags for example but rarely talk about twitter as an entity. Twitter and racism; is there a connection asks Leadamo Academy? It was interesting therefore to find a study by the think tank Demos. As a knee jerk reaction…
How do I talk to celebrities on Twitter?
It is very common for any body new to Twitter to immediately follow names and brands that they recognise, indeed new accounts now are prompted to follow some of the better known faces and companies on Twitter upon sign up. Once you are aware that celebrities are using the likes of Twitter it is natural…
The importance of a company twitter policy
No Time to Tweet? Leadamo Academy suggests why this is big mistake in contemporary business practice and why a company twitter policy is essential. Leadamo Academy writes a lot about Twitter. For a social media platform that only allows 140 characters there is much to say. All the social media advisers wax lyrical about the…
Developing a social media customer service strategy.
Should you use social media to stay connected with your customers Leadamo Academy has suggested processes for gaining customers. But now we asking how far you have considered a social media customer service strategy. Have you integrated social media into any customer service strategy? No? Then have a look at some reasons why you should. In…
5 Mistakes Most Businesses Make Using Facebook.
My friend and college over at Uniquely UK, Erika (she who makes divine jewellery!) recently wrote a blog post about Getting Facebook Updates and it prompted me to think about how we use Facebook as small business owners and where we all typically go wrong. Using Facebook as a promotional tool, a marketing tool is a new concept…
Are you using Twitter correctly?
Twitter now stands at over 15m users in the UK from figures produced September 2013. With this growing social media networking becoming more and more important in the everyday lives of consumers and businesses, let’s run through some useful hints and tips for Twitter: Keep your Tweets brief is you can and grab people’s attention with headline comments.…
Marrying Social Media to traditional Market Research.
The advent of social media has thrown plethora of opportunities for marketers to uncover insights about consumers and their discussions surrounding brands, company or on any topics. Traditionally, marketers were relying on conventional research methods to obtain or gather data about consumers or on any topic. Questionnaires, surveys, interviews, focus group and other approaches were…
Social media is great. In moderation
I’m a big fan of social media. It’s a great way to keep in touch with friends, to follow events and, as a marketer, to help my clients engage with their target audience. But like any new technology, it’s been overhyped. In the 1950s it was widely assumed that we would all be driving atomic…
Learning and Understanding Social Media.
I’m writing this blog entry having spent the day at the York Railway Museum attending a S.E.O. (Search Engine Optimization) workshop and training course. In today’s fast pace of life, business owners need to try and be one step ahead of the competition. In the past, customers dug out the old yellow pages, thumbed the…
Events and Social Shares: How They Go Hand in Hand.
Like many businesses, you are probably wondering how to get more of the wonderful social shares and interactions that other companies in your sector boast about. Sometimes it feels as though there is a secret formula that only a handful of people are privy to. This isn’t really the case, but a lot of hard…
11 positive changes that you need to make to your Twitter – now!
As a Twitter fan, user, trainer and manager I see a lot of tweets and I see a lot of good and bad activity on the super highway of communication. In fact, I’m often mocked for my attempt to rid the world of poor tweeting. I’m just very passionate about my industry, and I try…