social media
10 Reasons Why Auto Direct Messages Are Bad for Your Brand and Business.
It’s almost impossible to exist in social media without receiving an Automated (auto) Direct Message (DM). Especially infamous on Twitter (which I love), a case will be made here that 99% of the time the DMs sent add no value for the recipient and, worse, irritate. Ultimately, they can lead to damage to a brand…
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Building Your E-mail Subscribers Through Social Media.
Because social media has such a broad reach, it’s a great solution if you’re searching for ways to get more subscribers to an existing e-mail list. Some people are reluctant to sign up for e-mail lists because they feel their inboxes are already bombarded with unwanted messages. However, if you try some of the suggestions…
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A beginner’s guide to Pinterest
If you’re not on Pinterest yet, you should be! With over 70 million users worldwide this social platform is one of the hottest sites for photography, yet so many businesses are still unsure about it. In a nutshell, Pinterest is a visual pinboard site that lets you ‘pin’ or collect images and add them to…
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How to Promote Your Business or Brand on Tumblr.
Believe it or not, Tumblr is a fantastic platform for marketing. Most brands tend to overlook it, setting their sights on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Pinterest or Instagram, instead. We’re not entirely sure why that is. Perhaps they don’t know much about the platform, its demographic or even its potential. In that case, now is…
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Facebook treats us like guinea pigs and we do not care.
When the news first broke that Facebook had been using our timelines to run social experiments on us it probably shouldn’t have been as surprising as it was. However, what has surprised me even more is that they seem to have gotten away with it without recourse. The general public have just carried on posting…
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The Importance Of Design In Your Social Media Strategy
It’s now common knowledge that Facebook posts tend to perform better where there is an image involved. Posting out a straight up status update as a brand is risky, and if you’re going for that approach, you’d better hope that what you’re saying is going to make people sit up and take note! To take…
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5 Of The Best URL Shorteners Available
The road to social media success is a long and arduous one. There is no quick fix and it can become very time consuming. For a lot of businesses, social media has become one of the hardest marketing platforms to crack. The best place to start is with the simple things. Everyone shares their links…
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Kicking Your Marketing Imagery up a Notch.
In marketing, we’re often told – force-fed, rather – unique content is absolutely essential. Believe it or not, when they say content is king, it doesn’t exclusively refer to text-based content. Attractive, engaging and relatable images are also essential to a successful content marketing strategy. Visual content is even more important when you throw social…
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Responsibility? The Social Buck Stops at the Company.
Responsibility. A simple, but incredibly important word. Corporate Responsibility, an even bigger word and a potential minefield for the uninitiated. Let me ask a question. As a company, would you happily turn to an individual, and give them complete carte blanche to spend your company money on whatever they wanted, without any form of sign…
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How Social Listening Helps in Real-Time Marketing.
How often do we decide to cut off the communication with a company because we receive tons of marketing junk? Over 90 percent of consumers do that because the messages and promotions overflowing their inbox are simply irrelevant. In order to reach its customers, companies must be in tune with their needs and respond to…
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Creating a social media strategy for your business.
Have you thought about your social media marketing strategy? For some it may seem unusual to incorporate this into your marketing plans but it is pretty much the norm for many businesses and brands these days and you can’t ignore it. Social media marketing should be merged with your traditional marketing efforts. Here’s 5 tips…
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How to Rank Higher in YouTube Search Results.
In case you didn’t know already, despite the fact that Google owns YouTube, what works for Google search engines does not necessarily work for YouTube search. In other words, just because a video ranks highly in Google search doesn’t mean it will in YouTube search, and vice versa. Is the difference that important? Um, heck…
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