3 simple social media tips that will make your fans and followers love you

3 simple social media tips to make your fans and followers love you

Julia Claire Campbell Content Creation, Nonprofits, Social Media 8 Comments

Does this sound like you? You dutifully post every day on two or more social media profiles for your organization. You try to follow the 80/20 rule (no more than 20% of all posts directly promoting something for your organization) but sometimes get caught up in posting boring news clippings and event listings.   You frequently post inspirational quotes, cute …

Giving Tuesday

Nonprofits, social media and fundraising: #GivingTuesday is a few of my favorite things

Julia Claire Campbell Fundraising, Nonprofits, Online Fundraising, Social Media Leave a Comment

I know you’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. To most, these are revered celebrations of online consumerism and the chance to stomp on strangers for the lowest priced television. In response to this, but also as a great idea in and of itself, #GivingTuesday has been embraced by the nonprofit and philanthropic world as an alternative to the …

Daily Dose – Use Pinterest in your marketing plan

Julia Claire Campbell Social Media 3 Comments

Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Use Pinterest in your marketing plan Yesterday’s post introduced you to the fastest growing social networking site, Pinterest. Now that you’ve checked it out, requested an invite and signed up, I will share just a few ways you can use Pinterest to promote your business or nonprofit. 1) Share infographics on …

Daily Dose Social Media Tip of the Day – Check out Pinterest

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Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Check out Pinterest   By now I’m sure you’ve heard of Pinterest, one of the fastest growing social networking sites on the web. Three reasons why you should check out Pinterest today: It is growing at an exceptional rate. Pinterest does not currently release information on web traffic, but ComScore has estimated that the …

Daily Dose Social Media Tip of the Day – Do they even know you’re there?

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Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day “We created a Facebook page and a Twitter account a month ago. But very few people have connected with us. What gives?” To this problem I always pose the question – Have you told anyone that you have these accounts? Have you let your network know how, and WHY, they should connect …

Daily Dose Social Media Tip of the Day – Don’t get caught up in numbers

Julia Claire Campbell Social Media 1 Comment

Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day for January 22, 2012 “How can I get 10,000 fans on my Facebook Page?” “My competitor has 2,500 followers on Twitter – how can I get that same number?” Valid questions. But they miss the point of social media marketing. Social media marketing is about building relationships, sharing information and resources, all …

Daily Dose Social Media Tip of the Day – Get visual!

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Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day for January 20, 2012 I have clients who say “my business isn’t very interesting to people outside the industry” or “my nonprofit cause isn’t ‘sexy’”. I’m willing to bet that’s not true. Every business and nonprofit has a story to tell. You just have to get visual. Photo opportunities can be …

6 Ways to Acknowledge and Reward Supporters with Social Media

Julia Claire Campbell Social Media 2 Comments

In 2012, marketing efforts will continue to focus on social media to build organizations and businesses, to raise awareness for causes and products, and of course, to better connect with clients, customers and supporters. This is great! However, from what I’ve been reading, the purpose of most social media marketing campaigns seems to be getting the most Likes on Facebook, the …