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...

Remove Via @Addthis – WordPress Plugin Twitter Tweet Button

If your reading this I really hope you found it before spending hours trawling the Addthis forums looking for answers or documentation. Just two simple steps are required to remove the intrusive “via @addthis” from your tweets and twitter button when using the WordPress plugin. This short tutorial / guide was brought about after much frustration. Having installed the (excellent) Addthis WordPress plugin (for social bookmarking, sharing etc with analytics) it seemed everyone wanted to remove the intrusive “via @addthis” which is added to every tweet shared. There were...

Choosing 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...

Choosing 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...

Blog 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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