Daily Dose – Social Media Tip of the Day – How to combat Facebook Fatigue “One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room. Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.” – Seth Godin Unless you are completely new to the social media marketing …
10 Ways Your Business Can Use Valentine’s Day on Social Media [Daily Dose]
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 – 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 …
Daily Dose – Use Pinterest in your marketing plan
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
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?
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
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 …