Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’
How to Get Verified on Social Media
A verified account, page, or profile is essential for brands, businesses, public figures and organizations that are on different social media platforms. It gives more credibility, which translates to trust and legitimacy of an entity. Popular social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and others provide a checkmark that is either blue or…
Read MoreHow I Break the Twitter “Rules” and Get 108 Million Impressions
It was tough being different. I was not doing things as they expected. Breaking the rules. They really didn’t like it. Their comments and insults were daunting and confronting. How dare you do that that. You are doing it wrong. You are a robot. But I pressed on. Standing out and breaking conventions takes courage.…
Read MoreIs Social Media Marketing Really Effective?
It’s hard to believe that social media has been around since 1997 when the earliest networking site, SixDegrees launched! (It doesn’t exist anymore.) During the 2000s, we saw many of our currently favorite sites appear. Now, let’s look at the number of users each site has: LinkedIn: 500 million users (Jan. 2018) Facebook: 2.072 billion (Jan.…
Read MoreHow to Make and Use GIFs to Increase Twitter Engagement
Each social media platform has evolved to excel at sharing certain kinds of content and – despite its shortcomings – Twitter is one of the best platforms for sharing news about your business, your blog posts, and certain graphics, especially GIFs. GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) are those animated mini-movie graphics that last just a second…
Read More3 Best Social Media Platforms for Your Business
In the business world, there is a common perception that to increase your brand presence, you need to be active on every platform out there. This is extremely overwhelming for many businesses, particularly those without a social media coordinator, since posting fun and engaging content regularly can be very time-consuming. But being successful doesn’t necessarily…
Read MoreHackers, Stay Away: Protect Your Social Media Marketing Today
For many small businesses, social media marketing is a tool to get your message out to potential customers cheaply. So many small businesses have turned do it, and are putting information on it that they should not, that hackers have started making them targets. Protecting your social media marketing accounts from hackers is possible on…
Read MoreHow to Use Twitter Analytics to Find the Best Times to Tweet
I like how easy it is to get to Twitter analytics and get some quick overviews of what has worked and what has bombed. Discovering your top tweets, top mentions, top followers, top media tweets, and the like is all summed up for you. However, I’ve always wanted to know the most productive time of…
Read MoreGrow Your Reach Using Twitter Chats
Twitter is a great way to connect with others and stay informed. With it, you can easily publish content that will reach hundreds—if not thousands—of people. Even better, you can repost original content to get even more exposure. Why Are Twitter Chats Important for Business? A Twitter chat is a conversation involving a group of…
Read MoreWhy It’s Important to Engage Angry Customers on Twitter
Haven’t you ever tweeted about a poor customer experience, product, or service? I know I have. There’s something cathartic about sharing it in the Twittersphere. Well, now there’s a new study that shows how important it is for businesses and organizations to respond to complaints and angry Tweeps. It will affect your bottom line! Twitter released…
Read More5 Free and Easy Ways to Promote Your Small Business Today
Twenty minutes. That’s all you need. Ten minutes to read this blog. Ten minutes to carry out one of the five actions below. Time: twenty minutes. Cost: zero. Not too much to promote your business is it? OK, so let’s get on with this. Tell one stranger you meet about your business In a supermarket…
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