Social Media

How Well Do You Do Social Media?

Keeping content up and fresh; covering all the social media bases; getting engagement… It’s a full time job – and very demoralising when you don’t seem to get returns for your sweat and tears. Here’s a quick tip – if you’re not getting ANY interaction on your posts, check your settings! I found I had switched mine recently which meant no-one was seeing anything I put up! Well here’s a kid – and I mean kid – who got it nailed from the get-go. Seriously, this kid is a future marketer – and he’s already showing us how easy it… Read More »How Well Do You Do Social Media?

New Year Resolutions – Social Media

Well here we are in mid-February and today I happened upon this site by posterous.com researching what people intend to do with their social media tools this year. Makes for interesting reading. Seems most folk are separating out their personal and other contacts to share differently with. Many are being a little more discreet (although not sure that’s universal seeing some of the messages lately!) Finally, more people intend to dedicate less time to their social media interactions. Me? I’m on Twitter, Facebook , Linked in and Foursquare. The last one I got caught up in early – the competitive side of… Read More »New Year Resolutions – Social Media

Social SEO Leapfrog – Barb Ling – Review

Social SEO Leapfrog Review, Social SEO Leapfrog, Social SEO Leapfrog Reviews I received a review copy of this product today. Firstly, it was delivered efficiently along with an offer to sign up and receive further goodies, an optional bonus webinar on the topic, an invite to join a free Facebook Group and a range of further offers to consider. No hard selling. I just downloaded the main product which is the SOCIAL SEO LEAPFROG. To be honest I had no clue what the product was really about and the Title didn’t help me a great deal. I’m surmising it has… Read More »Social SEO Leapfrog – Barb Ling – Review

Tips to Promote Your Website

Congratulations! You’ve completed your very own website. All your products and services are now presented to the online world. You have developed propositions and sales copy to catch your target audience’s attention. So, you have accomplished everything you should do in building up a great company web site.

Or have you?

Promotion is the key to online success. There are free and paid methods that you can utilize to promote your site.

Here are ten guidelines on how to effectively promote your site:

If you have started to promote your site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audience’s attention. Be patient.
Try and experiment with each promotional method until you determine which works best for you. Free promotion is an option. There will be a process of trial and error until you find what works best.
Make the most of free promotion sites. Search engines and directories can doRead More »Tips to Promote Your Website

Key Tips on Managing Facebook Engagement

People are using Facebook increasingly for business and many are wondering why they are having trouble getting noticed and so commented/liked and shared.

Here are a few things to focus on to make sure your page improves.

How many posts do you actually talk about yourself? Doing this occasionally is good – people get to see the personality of your business – but talking more than 1 in 5 posts about yourself can become wearying for your audience.
Remember that this is a social network so be social, not one-way. Encourage communication and make sure you comment on peoples comments or at least like them. Remember to like their posts too.
Create engaging posts – PostPlanner has some good starters for free on their site and if you look around you can be creative in how to get people talking – polls, questions, controversy, news stories, sharing fun videos .. once you ‘get it’ you’ll findRead More »Key Tips on Managing Facebook Engagement