Janet Fouts

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Buh bye Facebook “Explore Feed”

Janet Fouts

Back in October Facebook rolled out an experiment called the “Explore Feed”, moving non-promoted posts from publishers and brands to a tab on the left side of desktop feeds where Facebook said one could find content “automatically customized for each person based on content that might be interesting to them”. Bottom line?

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What’s the best social media marketing tool for scheduling your updates?

Janet Fouts

With so many different social media marketing tools to choose from, it can be difficult to find the right solution; one that helps you save time and helps you improve your results. Evergreen content queue. Content categories, which are a life-saver for those who, like me, tweet a lot on a daily basis. Social media analytics.

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Marketers are freaking out about Facebook

Janet Fouts

It’s a bit long, but here are some highlights from his post : “…recently we’ve gotten feedback from our community that public content — posts from businesses, brands and media — is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.” The effects of this announcement.

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When content calendars are not the answer

Janet Fouts

Content calendars can be an excellent tool to plot out your social outreach strategy for creating and sharing content over time. It may be tempting to fill in the calendar with all the marketing info you possibly can and call it a day. What does a content calendar look like? All good right? Yes and no. Bottom line?

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Marketers- Stop multi-tasking social media

Janet Fouts

We all *think* we’re doing great when the Twitter alerts are rolling, Email’s pinging, Facebook is always open and your RSS feeds are pushing you new content to share. Here are a few tips to make the time you spend working on social media marketing tasks, and your entire day, more useful to everyone. Efficient right?

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Is Article Marketing the Way to Build Traffic to Your Blog?

Janet Fouts

In February Google rolled out an update to their algorithms likely directed at sites that duplicate content for article marketing as well as those that “spin&# articles (replacing phrases and words so they aren’t exact duplicates and then posting to article hosting sites). Maybe not anymore. So what’s a blogger to do?

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There Is No Free Social Media For Business

Janet Fouts

Businesses flocked to both networks and created free accounts to market their wares as well as paying a nominal fee to get their content in front of interested users. Many businesses have shifted to using social sites as customer support venues, marketing platforms and communities.