I’m speaking at Ovaleye’s online Back to Business Building Summit September 27-30th. The purpose of this free online web conference is to bring together experts to share on topics that will bring our small businesses to the next level. Growth is the focus at this event. Choose from four days worth of topics ranging from [...]
Many of my clients have asked me to help them with finding some direction in Social Media. Most of them have dabbled around a bit and setup some accounts buy aren’t sure what to do next. Others are intimidated because they think Social Media Marketing will consume loads if their valuable time. The honest truth [...]
About a week ago I had a very sad and angry night. Late at night I updated all of the apps on my iPhone, including Hootsuite. Immediately after the update the app crashed every time I selected an option, I decided it could wait until morning. The next day the Amazon cloud servers had a [...]
There are a mass of unwritten rules for social media, and even then they are in the eye of the beholder. Here is a collection of great Social Media tips and their contributor: Remember at all times that social media is public – it can leave a permanent first impression about you or your business. [...]
Once you have been active on Twitter for a while your account can easily become unmanagable. There are tools available to help clean it up and keep it up so Twitter can perform the way its meant to. The first great tool I’ve come across is UnTweeps. This essentially searches through the people you follow [...]
Most Twitter users access tweets from a third party like Hoot Suite or Tweetdeck, rarely visiting the original, Twitter.com. Over the past several months Twitter has made improvements in leaps and bounds, making another visit to their site nearly vital. The most noticeable change is the new layout. This was a very big change, as [...]
This one thing is often neglected, which can lead to less people following and liking you or your business. Take the time to fill out your bio and info pages on your social network profile. Really think about what you’re writing, don’t just fill in the space. I personally will not follow a person if [...]
In the past few days Twitter has rolled out a new feature called “you both follow” to a small percentage of accounts. One of my accounts is included in that group; see the image to the left for a screenshot including this new feature. I really like this feature as it allows users to relate [...]