Posts Tagged ‘ facebook ’

How NOT to Use Social Media!

Although it's a little late for April Fools Day please enjoy this chart we came up with to illustrate how social media will NOT make you rich! [ READ MORE ]

The Benefits of Social Media

We've recently wrapped up an intensive benefits assessment of social media for business and would like to offer our findings in multiple ways. Below please check out the slideshow, it will give you the basic content and bullet points on this topic. Underneath that please see a 3 part video series featuring additional commentary and explanations. Total running time for all 3 videos is 15 minutes[ READ MORE ]

Are Facebook Friends Real Friends?

Once you create your Facebook page one usually goes through an intense 3 month period of cataclysmic addiction and novelty. You analyze all your friends and what they're up to online. You're constantly checking your page to see if anyone has written you or posted anything new. You are excited each time you find another old face popping up online- it's a honeymoon and you are head-over-heels. But after a few months the excitement dies down and you begin to shift into maintenance mode. The constant checking switches into an "email mode" where it's more routine than exciting. Also you notice that the amount of new friends you're adding has died down to an occasional addition. After a while you're pretty much done adding new friends and get into a Facebook funk. That's ok. It's natural. [ READ MORE ]

10 Reasons Why You Should Use Twitter

1. You can drive traffic to your website by posting links on your Twitter feed. 2. You establish yourself as more relevant than your competition who is not using Twitter. 3. You gain experience in how to package content in a short space (aka speak the language of the internet). [ READ MORE ]

Social Media: Goals, not Tools

A big mistake that businesses make when it comes to social media is falling in love with the tools themselves, aka making it about the products and not the people.  The tools change.  No one ever heard of Twitter a few years ago but now it’s through the roof.  Facebook is a household name now [ READ MORE ]