Facebook Ads Shrinking on Mobile News Feed
On August 19, Facebook will be rolling out some changes to their ads appearing in the Mobile News Feed. What’s the reasoning behind Facebook’s changes to the ad format? According to the Facebook Business blog, it is to “match the look and feel of the new Facebook design introduced earlier […]
4 YouTube Studio Metrics You Should Pay Attention To
Social media is constantly updating. Whether it’s the character limit, privacy settings or analytics – it’s important to keep in the know. YouTube announced a few months back that it would be slowly transitioning its Creator Studio over to YouTube Studio. So, what’s the difference? Upon clicking on Analytics, users […]
Podcasting as a Marketing Tactic: What You Need To Know
Producing enough captivating, relevant content is a major challenge for many B2B marketers. With podcasts rising in popularity, they are now an important part of the marketing mix for a modern brand strategy. Podcasting is a great way to provide information, inspiration, and knowledge to your audience, all while remaining […]
How Marketers Can Build Trust Through Storytelling
We live in a busy, noisy world. To stand out as a brand, it is important to find that “wow factor” and build trust among your target audiences. These factors can be achieved through storytelling. Whether your objective is to grow an audience or sell a product or service, or […]
Take A Journey with Instagram Stories
Whenever I am talking to someone about social media, I always talk about showing everyone your company’s journey. Whether you’re releasing a new product, going to a tradeshow, or even showing what’s going on behind the scenes. Your audience wants to see that process and have an inside look at […]
3 Ways to Increase Organic Traffic on Social Media
In recent years, social platforms have engaged more of a “pay to play” strategy for brands and businesses to reach their audiences. Social platforms, like Facebook, are prioritizing friends and family posts over company updates in the newsfeed. As marketers with budgets to adhere to, we strive to improve the […]
Tools to Help Spice Up Your Social Media Presence
When you’re scrolling through social media, you come across hundreds, if not thousands of posts. Many people don’t stop to read every single one. That means a lot of posts are not being seen. How do you solve this problem? Make attention-grabbing posts that include images, GIFs, and videos to […]
How to Optimize Your Twitter Schedule
There are over 67 million active Twitter users in the US every month, according to Business of Apps. This can make it complicated when trying to create engagement with your specific target audience due to the huge flow of tweets that come across each user’s screen. To help marketers better […]
A B2B marketer’s guide to LinkedIn analytics
LinkedIn may have gained its reputation as a professional networking and job search platform, but its benefits in social media marketing especially in the business to business realm can’t be overlooked. When weighing the benefits of adding LinkedIn to your social media strategy consider these three metrics: Conversions Measuring conversions […]
Google+ Cancellation: How Will it Affect Your Marketing Strategy?
Google announced that it will be shutting down Google+, its social network platform in August 2019. This will give Google+ users a 10-month period to migrate their data before the official shut down. The announcement came shortly after it was revealed that an undisclosed security vulnerability exposed users’ personal data on the […]
5 Ways to Drive More Traffic to Your Website Through Social Media Platforms
To get your website the attention it deserves, your social media accounts may need a virtual facelift. Social media is an ever-growing medium that has endless capabilities. Actively engaging with your target audience on social media can help build brand awareness and ultimately drive more traffic to your website. Here […]
Getting Started with Live Streaming: Everything You Need to Know
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube are only a few of the social media sites that are starting to incorporate live streaming as an integral part of their platforms. This is because within the past year, live streaming has turned from an extra feature to a necessary feature for social media […]
How to Use LinkedIn Targeting Options
LinkedIn advertising is a great way to effectively reach executives and decision makers right in their newsfeed. Compared to other paid advertising players like Google AdWords and Facebook Ads, LinkedIn’s targeting options are much more advanced. You’re able to target by job title, industry, degree, company, and much more. When […]
3 Facebook Updates You Should Know About
Facebook is evolving for the average B2B consumer. A little while back Facebook released their 2017 Q4 results. In them, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO, said that “2017 was a strong year for Facebook, but it was also a hard one.” Zuckerberg and his team plan to focus on […]
Four Tools You Can Use to Analyze Your Twitter Data
Twitter is used by businesses to communicate with their customers, view what’s trending around the world, and identify their audience. Twitter’s analytics provide an easy way to see the activity of your tweets and audience demographics. If your business wants to analyze more specific data about your Twitter, the following […]
Social Media Engagement: What Is It and How Do I Improve It?
Do you ever feel like your social media is a one-sided conversation? Do you feel as if no one is ever responding to your posts on social media? This might be because your social media platforms have low engagement. What is Engagement? In the most simplistic terms, engagement is when […]
A Beginners Guide on Facebook Stories
Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook fourteen years ago. ‘Thefacebook’ was originally only available at Harvard, but gained popularity quickly. Ever since the beginning, Facebook has been adding new features that help enhance the users’ experience. These updates and features have made Facebook one of the largest and most widely used social […]
What You Need to Know About Facebook’s Latest News Feed Change
It’s hard to remember the time when our Facebook News Feeds weren’t cluttered with ads and branded content. It seems that over the years, the social media platform has abandoned its ways as a social platform connecting people, and focused on distributing news and online ads. Perhaps this is one of […]
4 Social Media Updates You Should Know About
Keeping up with the latest trends and updates in the social media space is harder than keeping up with the crazy Kardashian family. It seems like every week we hear about Instagram copying another Snapchat feature in the on-going battle between the two platforms. Here are four social media updates […]
Twitter Changes to 280 Characters: Pros and Cons
Well, it finally happened. Last week, Twitter changed their character limit from 140 to 280. From what I’ve seen and heard, the reactions are mixed. With the increase comes new creative ways for marketers to get their message across and potentially many long, boring tweets. Pros More Freedom With 140 […]