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Scheduling Posts on Social Media – Please don’t do it
OMG. I really think that this one of the worst things you can do on Social Media, be it Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Instagram. Or any of the others. And that applies to brands and you as an individual. Actually, when would you schedule a social media post from your own personal account? You wouldn’t. […]
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Run Your Social Media for £100 a month? Hmmm.
Can it be done? Probably. But what are you going to get for a £100 a month spent on your social media. Might it might be a bit 3rd rate. Or worse. It’s more a matter of “I don’t think it is possible to run the social media for a business for just £100 per […]
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Lessons from Twitter on how to quote tweet wisely
If you’ve ever used Twitter on your smartphone, you will be aware of the ‘quote tweet’ functionality. ‘Quote tweet’ essentially allows you to cite another user’s tweet but send it to your followers as ‘you’, for example: ‘Quote tweet’ is great when you’re short of ideas. And you can secure yourself some retweets as a […]
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Charities. Choices. Social media.
Charity marketing used to be pretty straight forward. In a nice palatable way you would raise awareness of the issue, crisis, disaster, whatever it was. And then go straight for the – donate now. Straight for the wallet. Rattle a tin in high foot fall places, phone in a donation, text a fiver and so […]
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Phood for thought. Pheed.
There is a lot of noise right now about Pheed, the new social media network that allows users to charge others to subscribe to their – well, Pheeds. So is this the new face of social media? A social platform that gets the “money” thing right out in the open from the get go? Knife […]
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Pinterest analytics – ads next.
This week saw Pinterest introduce some pretty basic but free analytics to the platform. And they are pretty basic and probably need a few bugs ironing out. Selecting a date range is a nightmare. Without wishing to sound too geeky – it’s all over the place on Firefox. The stats look to be split down […]