Social Media is gathering great pace and many people say it is here to stay. With this in mind, we look at some important facts that need to be considered when using Social Media platforms such Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest etc. Social Media is about building relationships and offering quality engaging content. Of course, your…

Bandwidth is increasing and video production costs continue to decrease, indeed video recording and playing devices are on nearly every mobile appliance we own so businesses are beginning to embrace video as a successful way to market their products / services to clients online. Videos are Engaging, Educating and Entertaining and videos that attract immensley…

Twitter… Twitter! This great platform is growing in popularity and increasing all it’s figures and firmly catching up with other marketing / social platforms. USA is the biggest user of Twitter with approximately 51% of members. UK is in second place with 17%. Approximately 24 billion searched performed on Twitter per day. 1 Million Twitter…

Facebook now recognises the #HashTag – Are they too late and have Twitter got ‘Market Saturation‘ on this commonly known social media icon. What we all know as the ‘Social Media’ hashtag is known to orginate from Twitter in 2007 and was soon formalized by the patform making ‘highlighting’ it and making it clickable. The…

With the rise of social media, the beginnings of the fall in popularity of traditional media such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television has been more and more evident within the results of recent surveys and polls carried out within the industry. More advertisers are moving their marketing budgets from off line activities to on…

Now that Social Media is a well established form of marketing for businesses across the globe, how do you decide which of the platforms is the best for your business? Our suggestion with business marketing advice is that businesses need to “really invest time and money in order to be present wherever their target audiences…

It is a craze on the likes of Twitter that you will undoubtly come past whilst browsing Tweets – The likes of #TeamFollowBack, #FollowForFollow and similar hash tags which are trending in order to acquire account holders more followers, likes, subscriptions, views etc. Anyone using these hastags simply wants to be followed and in returns…

Welcome to this blog post that will give you extra ideas to further expand your social media reach to help drive interest in your business and brand. It is now commonly known that a random and inconsistent presence on Social Media will not get you results and the kind of interaction that drives target audiences…

Now over a year since we launched the #SmartSocial Award on Twitter and we already have had such a great collection of winners to include those from sectors such as Estate Agency, Gardening, Insurance, Cup Cakes, Art Galleries and Crowd Funding Agencies. Each Sunday morning the hours between 9-12pm see a host of entries received…

Relatively a new comer to the ‘Social Media’ scene, Pinterest is a fantastic and engaging platform that allows for image sharing and pinning and best of all, tremendous for SEO and brand awareness for businesses. “Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo-sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests,…