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.
Every business owner wants to know: Is social media working for my business? It’s a fair concern on the minds of many business owners. You may have heard the response that social media is free, so why not use it? It costs your business nothing. But that’s not true. Spend an hour of your time […]
At a recent Yell conference for small businesses and online advertising, I had the pleasure of meeting a lovely hypnotherapist/life coach who had the following to say about social media: When I first started working, we didn’t even have telephones. We had to go outside, walk a couple miles up the road and spend four […]
Have you ever used LinkedIn to write or receive a professional testimonial? Are your clients and customers using LinkedIn — personally or as a business? Taking the time to write a testimonial is a great way to show that you value and respect your clients and partners. Plus, once you write a testimonial, LinkedIn automatically […]
How does your Facebook experience change if you turn the wall settings to private? Following on my last post about the pros and cons of having a Facebook wall, I did a highly scientific* experiment using my personal account. I would still have the wall, but no one would be allowed to comment on my […]
If your business uses Facebook to help drive visitors to your website, to increase brand awareness, or for any other business reason, have you thought about whether to enable or disable the wall? So just what is a Facebook wall? Your Facebook wall is where your status updates are posted to your personal profile or […]
Remember when you met Facebook? I do. The year was 2004. I was in a college newsroom in Manhattan, Kansas, attempting to put out the daily paper, despite being distracted by this brilliant new website. It had something to do with social networking, or so they said. That night and for many more to come, […]
Being able to post on both Twitter and a Facebook page at the same time can be a great time-saver for the small business owner. So instead of logging onto each social media platform to post your latest special offer, useful link or snippet of news, there are tools that allow you to post to […]
It’s fairly typical of the climate we are in at the moment that small to medium sized businesses are looking to market themselves online in new ways, to help with the acquisition of customers. Blogging is often the first thing they try, based on advice from experts that this activity enhances SEO opportunity; meaning more traffic to your […]
Online reviews are a great way of amplifying your positive word-of-mouth Online reviews aren’t just for hotels, holidays and Hollywood movies anymore – people are sharing their opinions on businesses big, medium and small. It’s becoming the norm for people to tap away on their keyboard in order to let their feelings be known after […]
The question “what time of day is best to post messages on Twitter” is one lots of people ask once they’ve set up and account and have started to get to grips with the platform. You can fire out tweets whenever you like, but sometimes it can seem like you are shouting from the rooftops […]