Choosing the Right Social Media for Your Business – Part 3
In the first two installments of this series, we discussed ways to kickstart your social media efforts through Twitter and Facebook, while also developing an understanding of the way secondary sites, like LinkedIn and Flickr can help you round out your social profile. Today, we’ll dig into the final pieces of the puzzle so that you can walk away with an understanding of how to integrate a complete social media experience into your business’ natural marketing efforts. The Nature of Viral Video You’ve probably heard of the Old Spice guy and the ensuing viral youtube video campaign that...
read more21 QR Code Marketing Ideas & Free QR Code Generator
QR codes (Quick Response codes) are hot! Essentially they are barcodes which can be scanned using most modern smartphones (app usually required – many are available fore free). Once scanned they do fancy things, like take you to a website url, display a message or open up a contact business card which you can save on your phone! QR codes can be printed on anything – Tshirts, business cards, flyers, adverts, billboards, products, screens…you are only limited by your imagination. But that is only half the battle…what are you going to use them for? 21 Top...
read more25 Slideshare Marketing Tips – Maximise Your ROI
In terms of social media Slideshare is often overlooked, however Slideshare is the largest online community for viewing and sharing presentations. You can view, upload, embed and easily share your business presentation across the web. Although the volume of viewers is a fraction of the larger social networks, Slideshare commands a much more high-end, business-orientated clientele and ties in nicely with professional networks such as Linkedin. Slideshare is widely used by business decision makers, B2Bs, public companies and industry experts. Creating even a simple presentation using...
read moreGetting Started With Slideshare (User Guide)
What Is Slideshare? Slideshare is the largest online community for viewing and sharing presentations. You can view, upload, embed and easily share your business presentation across the web. It is widely used by business decision makers, B2Bs and industry experts. Why Is Slideshare Useful For My Business? Much like Youtube (video) and Flickr (images), Slideshare provide a platform and distribution point for your files. They take care of hosting and make you presentation more widely available (eg they display related presentations in a similar way to Youtube thus increasing your...
read moreChoosing the Right Social Media for Your Business – Part 2
In case you missed part 1 of this series, we discussed the finer points of social media and explained why you should start your social media journey with Twitter and Facebook rather than trying to accomplish everything at once. We also provided some quick action steps to help you do just that. In today’s post, I’m going to assume that you’ve already dug into Facebook and Twitter and are ready to move into some of the other prevalent, but less talked about social media platforms. I want to stress that while some of these might be fantastic fits for your business, not all of them...
read moreTargeted Facebook Ads : Friends Of Connections Frustration
It seemed like a great idea – targeting friends of connections, but it was only recently I found out how jack it was and left me frustrated and with mixed opinions on Facebook and their technical development. The idea of using “friends of connections” targeting is brilliant. Quite simply you target your ads to friends of the people who already like your Facebook page (or event etc). The advertisement will now display along with the name of friends who already like the page. This gives the ad more credibility and also shows you’re mate is...
read moreChoosing the Right Social Media for Your Business – Part 1
Social media, which was once dubbed “Web 2.0” and was mocked by mainstream marketing professionals, has quickly become a mainstay in the modern business environment. I know it sounds cliche, but social media isn’t just for early adopters anymore, and though it’s certainly not a substitution for a great marketing plan, it can greatly enhance your company’s marketing and customer relations efforts. But what exactly is social media, and how does one get started? Furthermore, where are the boundaries between social media and other platforms? Let’s talk about the...
read moreBlog to Facebook Syndication Sucks!
Keeping it brief; RSS feed to Facebook syndication can suck! And the new spiderhousepr website is a perfect example of what can happen when you forget to turn it off! We haven’t been blogging or being very social recently…we’ve had a lot of work on along with updating our own website to be more inline with our current services. So there hasn’t been much Facebook action. Our blog is sync’d to our Facebook Page to save time – it always has been and all is good when we’re blogging in a normal manner….but when we add lots of new posts...
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