Building a good presence on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ should be a central part of any digital marketing strategy. A strong following can boost your business visibility online, and it’s a great way to engage with customers on a more personal and direct level. With a strong following also comes a ready audience for promotions and messages, which can be shared and passed on, extending your reach and growing your business.
As the internet has become more and more of a permanent fixture in our lives, it is now paramount for modern business owners to maintain a good reputation online, even if those businesses aren’t particularly online-orientated. Many of us turn to the internet first to source places to buy products and services: seeking everything from […]
Social media influencers might have had a bad rap recently, but plenty of businesses are still open to working with them. The key is to spend time researching the type of social influencer that will add the most value for you – and extend your audience in the right direction. If it’s an avenue you’re currently […]
Many small businesses growing their following on Instagram – jewellers, vintage sellers and artists – have been hit hard by Instagram’s algorithms. Since its acquisition by Facebook, Instagram has focused on monetising a platform that seemed…unmonetisable. It started pushing advertisers into feeds, changing how posts from people you follow show up and even disappearing hashtags […]
As you’re most likely already aware, the internet is packed with business advice. But there’s so much of it floating around, it can be tricky to select which guidance to run with and which to give the boot. Paradoxically, floating in a noisy sea of advice in this way can be isolating. Cutting through the […]
270 million fake Facebook accounts[1], 48 million fake Twitter accounts[2] and 6.4 million* fake Instagram accounts[3]: what’s going on? Having a large number of followers on social media is supposedly testament to two things: your success as a business, and your level of investment in customer communication. So it’s no wonder that growing follower numbers is […]
Do you have a Facebook Page with a reasonable number of likes but dwindling organic reach / engagement? Facebook made it clear that the last algorithm update centered around ‘engagement’, which means that posts generating good conversation between people will show higher in the News Feed (if you haven’t read about it yet, check out […]
Anybody can be a celebrity nowadays thanks to social media, which has effectively given everybody with an Instagram account or YouTube channel a platform from which to launch “Brand ME”. While some people turn their noses up at self-made celebrities, savvy business owners know that they can harness the power of these social influencers to […]
2017 saw online content creation absolutely explode, chiefly due to the increased ease which people can share new and interesting things with the world. Technical developments have made social content sharing accessible to all budgets and skill levels – for both businesses and individuals alike! There are numerous ways in which the content creation sphere […]
The good news is they most likely won’t. On Tuesday 16th January, YouTube announced changes to the qualifying criteria for its Partner Program. To apply and be accepted for the Partner Program, instead of simply having a total of 10,000 views, your channel will need: 1,000 subscribers AND Minimum 4,000 hours watch time, in the […]
If I was being cynical, I’d translate Facebook’s latest statement as basically code for ‘We’re making it even harder for small businesses to get seen in people’s feeds. So… pay us more.’ Facebook announced yesterday (11 January 2018) that it will be prioritising ‘meaningful’ posts in feeds. Meaningful is, of course, completely subjective, so Facebook […]