All Entries in the "Social Media" Category
Dear Facebook: My Features Wishlist
Dear Facebook, I love your service and the opportunity to connect with family, friends, peers, and clients. While I realize you are primarily an ad-supported site, following are some feature enhancements that I would be willing to pay for. Yep, you could increase revenues from business users like me who would be willing to pay [...]
Why You Should Repeat Tweets on Twitter
Twitter is an active community and when you follow a lot of people there, the content feed moves very quickly. Because most of us don’t spend all day on Twitter (we have work to do, right?!), we only see posts that are currently displaying at the time we log in. Because of this, when it [...]
How to Shrink Your Links (and Why You Should)
There are a number of link shortening services out there that let you take a long website URL and shrink it down to around 10 characters. This option has become quite popular, especially on Twitter where space is limited to 140 characters and long links take up valuable real estate. But shortening your links can [...]
25 Must-Have Online Tools for Managing and Growing Your Business
1. Google Analytics – This free monitoring tool allows you to keep track of website traffic including where your traffic comes from, keywords visitors use to find your site, and other trends. 2. Tweetdeck – If you are participating in Twitter, this is my favorite tool for monitoring Twitter activity. You can set up columns [...]
Have you imported contacts to LinkedIn lately? It’s easy–here’s how…
LinkedIn has been getting more buzz than usual lately due to recently surpassing 100 million users. Here’s an interesting infographic with details. LinkedIn makes it really easy to import contacts from your mail system, and it does NOT send annoying automatic e-mails to your contacts. Instead, LinkedIn displays a list of your contacts, including details [...]
20 Ways to Overcome Bloggers Block and Write New Blog Content on a Regular Basis
Five years ago I got so frustrated with blogging that I took a hiatus for several months. The pressure of coming up with quality content consumed me and took the fun away. That’s when I realized that bloggers are as susceptible to writer’s block as novelists. When I returned, I vowed to find a better [...]
How I Use Tweetdeck to Manage and Monitor Twitter
Tweetdeck is a free application that you can download to your desktop and use to monitor activity on Twitter. I’m constantly recommending it, as well as answering questions about how to set it up, so I thought I’d share my Tweetdeck strategy here. Columns Tweetdeck allows you to set up columns for different purposes. I [...]
Very Cool Social Tool for Sharing Information Products, Books, etc. to Create Viral Marketing Campaigns
I came across a great new application for sharing digital files in exchange for a Tweet or post to Facebook. It’s called Pay With a Tweet and it allows you to create a button that site visitors can click to “purchase” your download. Instead of paying currency, they agree to post a tweet or Facebook [...]
35 Ways to Market Content with Social Media: Share Articles, Blogs, Videos and More to Grow Your Business
By Stephanie Chandler There is no denying that the popularity of social media is increasing by the day. For sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (herein known as “The Big Three”), the fastest growing demographic consists of users 35 years and older. Though social media was once considered a fad for kids, it has evolved [...]
The Visa Business Network – Featuring this Blog!
The Visa Business Network launched earlier this week and I’m happy to report that they are syndicating The Small Business Growth Strategies blog as a resource for entrepreneurs. Other resources you will find on VBN include a unique goal-setting program where you can access goals like launching a Facebook page, managing cash flow and using [...]
