Today’s blog post is meant to inspire those of you starting out in your businesses or perhaps stalled in your businesses and thinking the big brands or larger companies are the only ones getting all the followers on social media. We found out through Social Media Examiner.com about a work-at-home mom who has capitalized on social media and the number of her followers is quite amazing. Read on to find out…
So many social media posts, so little time! Now that many of you have accepted social media as part of your business marketing mix to get more followers who hopefully will turn into buyers of your product or service, where does one find the time to add these new tasks to an already full plate? Well, we thought we’d share with our readers some tips on how you can be more efficient in…
Whether it’s a company blog post, article on your website or other content marketing piece, publicizing it on social media, particularly Facebook, is important for maximum leverage and visibility. But to make sure your Facebook fans are getting to see your company’s Facebook content, read on. As we discussed in an earlier business blog post, each Facebook user has a news feed that is based on their network and their pattern of activity….
An article I read recently gave great examples of how big brands successfully use the most popular social media like Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest to reinforce their branding to current and potential customers. Here are three popular companies and how they brand themselves across different platforms: Let’s start with Target. They seem to have cornered the red color market and it works beautifully for them. Their Facebook cover image shows a…
By now, most of you know that setting up a Facebook page for business should be included as part of your marketing mix. But are you maximizing it to its full potential? In order for that to happen, one thing you need to do, if at all possible, is to run Facebook Contests. Not only does it help drive more traffic to your Facebook page but helps you to get more LIKES….
Now more than ever, having a strong branding for your business is essential to standing out over your competitors. But as a small business owner, we know it is tough to compete against those with big advertising dollars who can easily promote their branding image. So what do you do? We found some helpful tips from an informative blog targeted to small business owners. It’s called smallbusinessbonfire.com and here is…
Whether you are looking for Facebook page developers like us who can create and set up an eye-catching Facebook page for your business or you plan to do it yourself, this blog post is for you! Here are some informative tips we found on a blog by hubspot.com: Think of how you want to classify your business. Facebook provides six different classifications to choose from: Local business or place, artist…
It’s that time of year again! After Black Friday is over and everyone has shopped Small Biz Saturday it is Cyber Monday! People sit at their desks and peruse website after website looking for great deals to snatch up. Well, have I got a great deal for you! The Savvy Socialista Cyber Monday Giveaway! That’s right! I’m giving away over $1300 in goodies from some of my very favorite online…
Thanks to a program called EdgeRank, Facebook is deciding for you what comes through on your newsfeed on a regular basis to save you from being bombarded with too many posts from all your different “likes”. Unfortunately, as a business owner, this means the algorithm program determines which Facebook fans get to see your business posts based on those who “like” or comment on them. If your fans don’t take…
It’s no secret that Facebook is constantly changing up the rules on users – whether we’re using Facebook for personal or business purposes. Sometimes it just makes you want to scream, right!? But not every change is necessarily a bad thing… Users – any user, including non-fans – can post on fan page walls and like-comment-share fan page content. So basically, a Facebook user doesn’t have to “like” your…