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Are you using Facebook Video as part of your Strategy?
Posters are used to posting video to Facebook – last year saw more video uploaded on Facebook and Twitter than YouTube. This year so far users have uploaded 75% more video than they did last year – yes it’s a big deal. By Mark Zuckerberg’s own admission Facebook will...
How are you using LinkedIn ?
I was doing some one to one training today and as usual I was preparing to go through the whole social media MOT when my ‘student’ cut to the chase and requested we went deeper into LinkedIn. With good reason his profile was out of date and didn’t reflect his current...
Being Self-employed – the best ‘job’ I ever had
When I left the corporate world in 2010 I was probably ill prepared to dash into the uncertain world of self-employment – indeed I often wonder if I would have made the same decision had I been blessed with the benefit of hindsight! As someone much wiser than me once...
What use is Instagram in my Marketing Strategy?
One of the platforms to watch in 2015 is undoubtedly Instagram. Any platform that is almost totally image based is really not to be ignored. The question I’m frequently asked is how do I use it? How do I get to engage with people on it? To that effect here are a few...
Why you should bother with Twitter
I’m often asked why should I bother with Twitter and indeed what is the point of a marketing on a platform that only affords you 140 characters to get your message across. Well in its short life – Twitter was only born in 2006 – it has been well adopted in business...
Is Social Media responsible for the death of Grammar ?
How important is correct grammar to you when reading or indeed posting on Social Media? It seems to me that knowing a your from a you’re or a Ur is no longer important when trying to deliver your message to the masses. Other bones of contention are there, their or...
2015 the year of video
Following up from my last post where I gave you my thoughts on where Social was going in 2015 lets expand on the point of 2015 being the year of video and in particularly YouTube. I’m constantly asked where and how to start with video. Whilst there are no cast iron...
Social Media Training 2015
The turn of the year is a great time to look back and look forward on Social Media Trends and changes so here’s my blog on where I see things going the stuff that’s hot and the stuff that’s had its day – it’s a personal opinion but I have taken notice of many Social...
How easy do you make it for your customers to follow you ?
We have a Guest Blogger today - Nigel Mills of MBM - an IT support company from Wombourne near Wolverhampton in the West Midlands. We have all been to venues where there are ‘follow-us’ signs for the latest Social Media platform or offers to win the latest i-pad in...
Instagram and its part in your Social Media strategy
Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched four years ago It is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking platform that enables its users to take pictures and videos and share them. As well as photo sharing...