Ignite Social Media

MARCH 30, 2020

Please see prior posts: Social Media Marketing in the Midst of COVID-19 (Mar 16); and Social Media Marketing During COVID-19: March 23 Update. Federal distancing guidelines were extended until at least the end of April, meaning we’re going to be in the midst of this for a while longer. I’ve even bought some of these offers.

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Ignite Social Media

MAY 3, 2019

This week, Facebook held its annual developers conference to announce the road map for their suite of products and platforms. The focus of the F8 announcements supported this statement and how Facebook is building a more privacy-focused social platform. You may have already noticed that your Facebook app looks different.

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Pam Moore

MAY 27, 2016

It’s no surprise that Facebook is still one of the hottest social networks around. Check out these statistics published by Facebook as of March, 2016. As with anything in life or business, when there is opportunity for goodness, there is also much opportunity for risk and even damage to your brand and business.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 18, 2015

May is small business month, so as a follow-up to a blog post I wrote recently , I tracked this small business owner, Ira Zoot from TicketStub.com, and interviewed him. Mr. Zoot originally claimed that he, as a small business owner, has been crushed by Google. The average traffic for Ticketstub.com®

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yMarketingMatters

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

It’s time to check in: How is your social media marketing doing across the channels that your business is active in? And are your Facebook posts being shared frequently so your Facebook Insights are mostly “green” and look like this: For most SMB’s, answering these questions can be a reality check. Defining Social Media.

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Pam Moore

APRIL 14, 2017

billion daily active users on Facebook, it’s no surprise businesses large and small are hopping on the business marketing engine that Facebook has become. One very important factor for success on any social network including Facebook, is visual marketing. With more than 1.23

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Later

JUNE 24, 2020

Here’s everything you need to know: Instagram Expands Shopping Features to Include More Small Businesses and Creators. Over the past few months, Instagram has announced several new e-commerce features to help small businesses navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 11, 2020

While Facebook, YouTube and Instagram are still seeing significantly more users than Snapchat each month, using Snapchat for business could still be an effective way for your brand to reach a new audience. First things first: Know that Snapchat might not be the right social media platform for every business.

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Meta + Facebook This was a particularly update-heavy week for Meta & Associates, as they held their Meta Connect 2023 conference and unveiled several updates aimed at enhancing user engagement and streamlining content sharing. For small business owners, this could open new avenues for customer engagement.

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BeingOptimist

APRIL 7, 2019

Facebook 0. If you have an online business and wondering how to increase your sales without spending much of your money then you should start doing email marketing, Here in this article I would let you know the best email marketing tips and tricks which would help you to increase your sales and get more than 1000 email subscribers in 30 days.

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Absolute PA

MARCH 9, 2012

Facebook Pages are getting a whole new look! On February 29th with just one month’s notice, Facebook announced that the design and features of Pages will be getting a drastic make over. Not only will Pages look different but there are strict guidelines too. the main changes and what they mean for your business.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

OCTOBER 24, 2018

According to a 2018 industry report by Social Media Examiner , 87% of all marketers indicated that their social media efforts generated more exposure for their businesses and 78% reported increased traffic to sites. Facebook Pages to Watch and Ad Insights features. How does your brand follow grammar and punctuation guidelines?

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Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that two of the top reasons most businesses fail when it comes to online marketing and social media is lack of planning and impatience. The heart of digital and social marketing success is community. Set expectations and guidelines for all members in the community. Planning takes focus and time.

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Pam Moore

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Did you know that two of the top reasons most businesses fail when it comes to online marketing and social media is lack of planning and impatience. The heart of digital and social marketing success is community. Set expectations and guidelines for all members in the community. Planning takes focus and time.

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Pam Moore

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Are you tired of your Facebook cover image, Facebook advertising images, Facebook Group image, Twitter cover images, Pinterest board covers and LinkedIn images not looking as beautiful as the cool social media kids (aka visual savvy social marketers)? With social media, the only guarantee we have is change.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 6, 2013

Baby Bullet’s Facebook page lit up. There wouldn’t have been a Facebook page for the mom to post on out of frustration by the lack of response. Facebook and Twitter are the two most popular social media sites available today and they are leading the game of social PR trouble. Comments were being posted every few minutes.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 31, 2013

Facebook just made another major change to its terms of service. This week, Facebook made a sudden U-turn, and now you can run a promotion without using a third party app , including user actions as voting and entry mechanisms (likes, comments, shares). This will naturally appeal to very small businesses stretched for time and money.

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Writtent Blog

APRIL 19, 2013

This week’s marketing news discusses the ways to increase e-mail deliverability, improve motivation for writing, Facebook Mobile App content optimization and tips on how to create high quality content. E-mail deliverability is vital for building trustful and loyal audience for your business. Image Source: PT Pitsburgh.

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Sprout Social

JULY 7, 2016

billion people logging in daily, Facebook is a huge resource for your business. The marketing potential is high, but how do you maximize it? Facebook Business Pages need to be treated differently from your personal profiles. Here are some Facebook Business Page tips to up your marketing game.

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Hootsuite

MAY 3, 2023

In addition to understanding the latest market trends and knowing your way around numbers, you also need to be a savvy marketer. The best agents know that marketing and generating leads is an ongoing effort, one that helps you build your personal brand, expand your network, and grow your real estate business.

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Pam Moore

JUNE 12, 2019

This is because at the heartbeat of social media, business and life is people. People are the heartbeat of business. People are the heartbeat of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Communities create markets, but only after you make the first investment in the human beings within. Definition of the OPC.

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Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe How to monitor your athletes on Twitter by cinta5 on October 28, 2009 The list is piling up with athletes who are behaving inappropriately on Twitter. Larry Johnson is the latest and received a $600,000 fine. Education is the key!

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Diva Marketing Blog

JANUARY 23, 2012

For the most part, social networks and social media were never really intended for business communications. Facebook, Twitter and even Google+ began life helping people connect to family and friends. Smart marketers began to develop guidelines or house rules that set expectations for both sides of the conversation.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 23, 2011

Each element has its own chapter: F ocus, L anguage and Content, I ncentives & Motivations & Outreach, R ules Guidelines & Rituals, T ools. While the road map of FLIRT doesn’t go into specific tactics, its a good brainstorming exercise for any marketer. I particularly appreciated the process of the FLIRT model.

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Freelance Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Sports Teams: Times Have Changed, Adapt! As linked in the previous post , some programs are handling it better than others by drawing up guidelines for players and consequences for any social media misconduct.

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Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

It hasn’t been a problem yet&# , “My kids are good, they’re responsible and know what they are doing, nothing has happened, nothing ever will&#. “Facebook seems harmless&# , and besides, all they do is text&#. Update their status on Facebook. Establish usage guidelines for those as well. Share music.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 19, 2021

A freelance social media manager is a social media marketing expert who provides on-demand services. Good community management requires being organized and meticulous (ensuring no customer service issues are missed), following the brand’s tone of voice guidelines, and having genuine interactions with the community. Download them now.

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Diva Marketing Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

I want to pass along a story that a participant, a small business owner, shared of how she discovered that one of her managment employees felt his job was boring and un-challenging. Let's call the business owner Ruth and the employee Bert. Her company was a small business where she tried to create a trusting environment.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses by American Express OPEN Forum. Helpful guidelines on plugins, post titles, pages, permalinks and pinging improve the search engine rank of and increase search traffic to your WordPress blog. Share this on Facebook. 20 Excellent Free WordPress 3.0 Themes by Blogfreakz.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 9, 2020

Editor’s note: As we all navigate marketing during a global crisis, we’re re-focusing the Social Spotlight on brand efforts in the current climate to connect, sustain and grow relationships through social. . Tune in to our Facebook Live discussion on April 9 at 4 PM EST as Stacey D. View this post on Instagram.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 11, 2011

In addition to the video embedded here in the post , I’ll offer some additional tips, guidelines and rules of thumb that I’ve found to be quite helpful in my vlogging experience. Could be because I tag my videos with “Small Business Marketing&# more times than not. Image: BenSpark via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Lucy Hall

JULY 27, 2015

However there are some stats out there, which give us some guidelines to help us decide the perfect post length for each platform or post. Apparently according to Twitters guidelines they say that Tweets with 100 or less characters enjoy 17% more engagement! Facebook – 40 Characters. Nothing more and nothing less. .

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 11, 2012

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. Through a division called “ American Express Market 3D “, American Express is doing Inbound Link Building, Social Bookmarking, and General Directory Submissions.

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Lucy Hall

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Businesses have been broken due to the negative way that have responded to to negative feedback on social media. If you are lucky enough to have the resource in house, the good news is people can be trained to do this well, as long as you have some good social media guidelines in place. Says Sarat Pediredla - Hedgehog Lab.

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Diva Marketing Blog

JUNE 18, 2012

Diva Marketing/Toby: What I’m most curious about is the why the State of Maryland chose to create a Pinterest Pitch Contest to bring attention to the small business owners of the state. Diva Marketing/Toby: Pinterest and contests go together like PB&J. Diva Marketing/Toby: What were your goals for the contest?

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 2, 2013

Facebook has plans to incorporate them some time in the near future. Here are a few guidelines for using hashtags for brand promotion: Keep them short. They can enhance your social media branding experience and open you up to whole new markets. But you should figure out a way to do it creatively without annoying your followers.

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Writtent Blog

JANUARY 21, 2014

You’ll likely find it’s the fastest way to source original content for your articles, and far more effective than putting questions on your Twitter or Facebook. Don’t answer your cell phone, don’t check your Facebook, and don’t stop. There’s a lot of ancillary work that goes on behind-the-scenes for content marketers.

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