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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...
Pinterest continues to come of age
Just a few weeks after my latest Social Media briefing the 'Pinterest Lunch' its all change at the funkiest of all the Social platforms. The site continues to evolve and now has more options when you login as well as the message options that were added earlier this...
Facebook Outage – The World held its breath
Facebook have yet to comment on a 30 minute or so down period. It happened at 20.30 BST tonight. Many Facebook users are reporting that the social network went down. The total outage affected both Facebook’s website and mobile apps. The Social Media Giant posted a...
Twitter ups its Advertising game
The ill-fated attempt by Twitter to take some of the social media advertising revenue currently enjoyed by Facebook just got a little smarter. The Micro-blogger now has a plan and this is where it can really score for advertisers big and small. Promoted Accounts and...
Pinterest introduces Messaging
The hugely versatile Platform Pinterest has introduced a messaging aspect to its offering. Pinterest which is becoming more and more a tool in the armoury of the Social Media marketeer just got a little more savvy. The new tool allows people to collaborate on projects...
How to attract likes on Facebook
Whenever I train SMEs and business people they seem obsessed by increasing the number of likes on their business page and whilst numbers are important to a degree (30 likes to get access to Insights - for instance) they are by no means the be-all and end-all for using...
Google + from ugly duckling to swan!
Ok I fully admit I’ve been lazy where Google + is concerned. I created a profile did a few posts and paid lip service to creating a business page but never given it the place in my social media marketing it deserved – until now. I was asked by a client to major on the...
How Wifi and mobile has changed European holidays
Remember the days not so long ago when just about the most costly thing you could do was go abroad and forget to 1. inform your mobile phone service provider or 2. leave roaming on when you switch your phone on again at the airport? Last week I went to Prague, a...