With over 11 million users, Pinterest has rightfully earned its spot at the top of the social media class. If you are one of those 11 million people who spend, on average, 98 minutes on pinning to your heart’s content, you might as well make the most of your efforts, right? Here are 8 Pinterest…
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Using Pinterest to Grow your Twitter Followers & Facebook Fans
A great thing about social media is that if you are connected with someone on one platform, chances are pretty good that it makes sense to connect with them on other platforms, too. If you follow the best practices for Pinterest and fully populate the available fields on all your social profiles, you know how easy…
2 Ways to See What’s Working for you on Pinterest
There are lots of people who can’t hear the word “analytics” without experiencing a rise in blood pressure. Analytics are a common element of working and building your business online, but we’ve found that many small business owners either don’t have the time to intensely track stats or don’t have the inclination to do so….
Why Recent Google Plus Changes Are Bad News for Facebook
Facebook fan pages are set up in such a way that fan page admins cannot access personal profiles nor non-public updates posted by individual users, and also must wait for individuals to Like their fan pages in order to begin building a relationship. Google Plus business pages initially were set up in such a way…
Social Media News Round-Up: Mid-December 2012
This time of year we are all so busy with the holidays, yet platforms are rolling out new changes we need to keep up with. For some “in case you missed it” type news, here’s a list of tweaks, improvements and all-out changes that have been (or will be) occurring in social media. Twitter has…
5 Social Media Practices to Stop Doing in 2013
Like anyone else, I find myself reflecting on the past 12 months this time of year, along with looking ahead to 2013. We as individuals and business owners make plans, set goals and think a lot about what we’ll keep doing in the new year and what we’ll change. If I had my druthers, these…
Pingraphy, A Pinterest Management Tool
Do you hate to “Pin & Run”? You know, when your Pinterest activity shows 12 pins in the span of 8 minutes, then no activity for the next 5 days? Enter Pingraphy, a Pinterest management tool that allows you to schedule your pins to post gradually over time. For those of you who use Buffer,…
Pinwords Image Creation Tool
The use of images is critical in social media engagement and business blogging. If including attribution and a link back is possible, a great photo source option is Creative Commons. When searching for an image for a Facebook status update, an attribution- and royalty-free website like MorgueFile.com is a “must visit”. But if you can’t…
What is “Safe” to Pin on my Pinterest Boards?
Now that the dust settled a bit regarding Pinterest and copyright infringement concerns, and a suggested list of Pinterest Best Practices has evolved, (addicted) pinners also have the added benefit of easy – and safe – sharing between popular photo, video and e-commerce websites, and Pinterest. So what are the current signals that an image or page…
Do You “Vacation” with Social Media?
Summertime may be the “high season” for vacationing, but no matter what time of year you head out of town, chances are that you’re bringing social media along. This infographic from MDG Advertising highlights social users’ habits and practices as they relate to both making their initial travel plans using social media as well as checking…
