Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – 10 Ways Your Business Can Use Valentine’s Day on Social Media (This post is also up today at The Glass Heel.) Love it or hate it, Valentine’s Day is upon us! Consumers worldwide are expected to spend over $14 billion this year on candy, chocolates, stuffed animals and the like. Despite …
Should you automate your posts? [Daily Dose]
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Should you automate your posts? I recently read a great post discussing the “end of automation“. It discussed the problems with posting to Facebook and other social media sites through third-party applications (like Hootsuite and NetworkedBlogs). Many people (including me) use third-party applications to save time and to share information more …
Daily Dose – #ThankfulThursday
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – #ThankfulThursday It’s #ThankfulThursday! Despite the hashtag in front of it, this weekly event is not limited to Twitter. Use your social media channels every Thursday to show your gratitude towards your most active and engaged followers and fans. Thank people for following, for sharing, for reading, for commenting. Thank them for just being …
Daily Dose – When should you post?
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – When should you post? “What is the best time of day to post to social media sites?” The answer to this question (and to so many other questions related to social media) is – IT DEPENDS. With that said, my informal method for posting content is: If the content requires reading, …
Daily Dose – Embrace the change
Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – Embrace the change Facebook Timeline is coming. (Cue the music from Jaws…) You can run and you can hide (as in, delete your Facebook profile). But, if you are a Facebook user, you won’t be able to avoid it. In a post on it’s blog Tuesday, the company announced that the up-to-now …