We started out this blog series talking about how it’s a truly social web out there. No one can argue that. People are flocking to Facebook (a billion active monthly users) and are spending a large portion of their Internet time on social networks. Because of this, the experts tell us, as business owners, we …
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Earlier in this blog post series, we talked about how each social network is just a little bit different and our approach to each one should be carefully crafted. At the time, I cautioned against simply using social media integration tools to broadcast the same thing across your social networks. I stand by that advice …
While many bloggers work with social media to grow their target market audience, there is so much opportunity to meet with and connect with other blog owners. You can share advice, find service providers, promote one another’s content, connect each other to resources and other people. In short, if you’ve got friends…you’ll go far. Always …
Over the past couple of posts, we’ve been working on helping you understand your target audience and find your unique positioning when it comes to social media. These are crucial first steps to becoming a social media success and once you have those items a bit clearer in your mind, you’re ready to start experimenting …
Crystal (www.crystalandcomp.com) and I had another super productive G+ Hangout yesterday! This time we had a guest – Andrea Green of www.greenbacksgal.com is a YouTube Guru and talked to us about ways to use YouTube to enhance our content and draw in more readers. Watch the video below of our live hangout! Be sure to …
When You Know Your Target, Social Networking Gets Way Easier If you’ve been operating your website and business for a while, you probably have a good idea who your target market is. But your social media audience could be considerably different. Plus, each network is unique, so how you approach each one might be quite …
We’ve all seen pages on Facebook with thousands…even millions of followers. We’ve seen the same with Twitter and other social networks. It may seem a little overwhelming if you’re starting with a small following and it may feel like you’re just not going to get anywhere if you don’t have a huge following. But the …
Facebook has more than 901 million active users! This week, we are going to discuss how we can tap into those users to build our blogging community and increase our traffic! This week during our weekly G+ Live Hangout, we had two guests to help us teach you how to use Facebook… Susie at Susie …
UPDATED 02/18 – The next G+ hangout RSVP page is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c59vcj8pd1jcmv860ijlh6j8kq0 be sure to follow me to stay informed of each week’s. We had a great G+ hangout yesterday discussing the ways to use pinterest, great tools for helping to maintain it, linkies you can use to get your name out and more. Because …
Last Tuesday, I co-hosted a G+ Live Hangout with Crystal and Company. Several of you guys attended and I think it went extremely well. This week we will be discussing Pinterest and giving you some suggestions to make it work for you. So, On Tuesday February 12th at 10 am Central (11 EST, 9 MST, …
Social media is one of the most important business communication developments in a long time, but it’s also one of the biggest sources of distraction and is often a time suck for otherwise productive business owners. Learning to manage your own social networking time will help you leverage all those great benefits and help you …
If you’ve ever looked at Wikipedia’s “list of major active social networking sites” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites), you’d see they list over 200. That’s a lot of social networks to potentially get involved in, but of course, you can’t be in al those places. Nor, do you need to be. You may find that some of those networks …
