How To Bootstrap Your Social Media Efforts on a Shoestring Budget

How and Where to Start Your First Social Media Campaign

Social media marketing is a beast everyone wants to tackle. According to Pew, approximately 79% of internet users are on some form of social media, which makes it a vast audience to reach. And while posting is free, this is an area that’s become astronomically competitive. From Fortune 500 companies to your local coffee shop, almost every company looks to try and improve their social media.

7 Effective Tips to Win More Likes on Your Instagram Photos and Posts

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It might have started as a brilliant platform to share captivating moments with family and friends, but Instagram today is now more than that. The numbers alone are staggering; as of June 2016 Instagram had 500 million monthly active users (MAUs), 300 million daily active users, 20% of internet users are on the social media network and it is experiencing a 16% monthly growth. These are numbers that will make any marketer sit up and as a brand you need to take notice.

Who Is Your Social Media Talking To?

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In real life, if you were talking to a customer who was right in front of your face, would you ignore them or simply talk at them? No, you wouldn’t. You would most likely listen to them (we’d hope, anyway), and you’d take into account everything from who they are to what they are saying – good or bad. Social media should be an extension of how you treat your customers in person which is simply in a way that allows you to talk to a lot of them at once.

How and Where to Start Your First Social Media Campaign

How and Where to Start Your First Social Media Campaign

A social media campaign is something that will not begin with a bang. If you’re thinking that the campaign will begin as soon as you post your first tweet, you’re wrong. The campaign goes on in a subtle way, and does not show immediate effects. It takes a lot of time, so if you’re not ready to invest a few hours every day (and a couple spare minutes every now and then) to social media, you should look for agencies in Melbourne and Sydney.

Depending upon your brand and the scale of your campaign, there can be various ways to start your social media campaign. Here are a few tips to help you out.

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Six Things to Do with Your Facebook Page and Why

Six Things to Do with Your Facebook Page and Why

Every small business owner has a Facebook page. Now what?

Some few of them are very adept at sharing and posting and putting up their specials – but most of them are not.

But before we go too far into what you should be doing, let’s double down on one point. Your Google+ page may be even more important for SEO and driving traffic than your Facebook page. So do everything below with BOTH your Facebook page and your Google+ page too (even if you’re barely maintaining that Google+ page).

If you’re primarily a B2B business, you may want to do the same on LinkedIn. And if you’re sure that your customer base is actively using some other social media, then by all means, do all of the following there too.

This article is primarily focusing on what small businesses can and should do to get more traffic from the activities they take part in on social media. There are other benefits too, but for now we’re mostly focused on driving organic traffic from Social Media posts. Some of that traffic will naturally go to your social media profiles, rather than directly to your website. That’s the nature of the beast, so be sure that people can easily navigate from your social media profile pages directly to your site.

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Google Gives Businesses Multiple Reasons to Create Google Plus Accounts

Google Gives Businesses Multiple Reasons to Create Google Plus Accounts

With the number of brands on Facebook reaching the 15 million mark, according to Venture Beat, Facebook looks to have yet another demographic firmly in the bag. Its main competitor, Google Plus, still lags behind in users, and it may always be second favorite. However, with powerful business integration and search integration as part of its design, Google Plus is something every business should consider using. Even in second place, Google Plus may be as useful to your company as Facebook.

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