Ari Herzog

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Facebook Followers: Profiles vs Pages

Ari Herzog

It was the winter of 2011 when Jon understood the value of a page but didn’t think his consulting business needed its own. Facebook explains following : “When you follow someone, you see their posts in your news feed. You automatically follow people you’re friends with. I didn’t. Income came from multiple places. .

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6 Readers Share Why They Read Blogs by Email

Ari Herzog

I don’t follow RSS feeds as it would be just one more thing I would have to stay on top of. Liz Hover, a Canadian digital media manager : I’m not a fan of feed readers. I find the layout of feed readers noisy. I follow quite a few blogs, and I would miss a lot of great content if I used a reader. I devour email.

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Day 19 of My Facebook and Twitter Sabbatical

Ari Herzog

I’ve tweeted and facebooked under the agency’s name, but in my mind my sabbatical has remained true for I haven’t updated my own feeds. To be fair, I haven’t stayed off the sites completely as I’d been working for a nonprofit agency and created accounts on both social networking sites.

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Learn About the COVID-19 Test From Someone Who Took It

Ari Herzog

When my Facebook news feed showed an acquaintance who tested negative, I reached out to him about writing a blog post to help soothe the frustrations and fears that I’d been hearing about in recent weeks. A nurse asked me some questions, then I had a brief consultation with a doctor, and then my nose was swabbed. COVID-19 is here. .

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Learn About the COVID-19 Test From Someone Who Took It

Ari Herzog

When my Facebook news feed showed an acquaintance who tested negative, I reached out to him about writing a blog post to help soothe the frustrations and fears that I’d been hearing about in recent weeks. A nurse asked me some questions, then I had a brief consultation with a doctor, and then my nose was swabbed. COVID-19 is here. .

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Looking Back at 6 Months of Tweeting

Ari Herzog

With more people and their updates appearing in my news feed, I tend to click the “reply” button more frequently and press the “retweet” button more often to share noteworthy thoughts and links with my online community. The 440 people and organizations I am following on Twitter today is progressively growing.

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Meet 7 Twitter Influencers Who Follow Millions

Ari Herzog

Every business and every consultant should try to follow all their customers, to get feedback, and follow all prospective customers, to stay a step ahead of competitors. It was very hard for me to engage with anyone since my feed was full of people I didn’t know. Martin Zwilling ( @StartupPro ).

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