Hello everyone! It looks like I’m only going to be able to get one blog post up a week for a little. Last week I had a client/buddy that was having the issue of the Facebook pages not showing up if you were not logged in to view them.           Here’s what it is supposed to look like:   Instead it was just pulling up the Log In screen to log into Facebook and not recognizing it. However if you were logged into Facebook then typed the URL in it would show up. I quickly saw in the settings under Manage Permissions that the country restriction was not default and...

Auto Posting Your Blog Posts Using Hootsuite RSS Option Hootsuite has an array of options even on the free account. The free account lets you have 5 social accounts connected. You could have just 5 twitter accounts if you wanted. One option on the free account as well is connecting  your RSS feed from your blog to Hootsuite. You get 2 RSS feeds on the free one. You can schedule it so that each time you make a new blog post it will push it out to the social media accounts you choose automatically. If you do not have your RSS feed url then please refer to my other post on How To Follow Blogs and Making...

Following Blogs and RSS Feeds You can follow Blogs and websites by following their RSS (Really Simple Syndicate) feeds. The universal icon for an Really Simple Syndicate  is an orange background with little waves going diagonally up. You can think of it like a Facebook news feed but without everyone’s personal posts and the clutter everywhere. It will strictly be updates from the website’s blogs etc. Another cool trick is searching for the URLs to the feeds you would like to burn such as Pinterest, Youtube, Twitter, and Tumblr. Most social networks have the ability to have one. We have...

Basics Of Pinterest Pinterest is number 3 on the list of Social Media sites right now due to the amount of traffic it help increases. The majority of the website is still female users (that like to make purchases at that) which can be a great tool to utilize to sell products online and increase more awareness to your brand. We’ve seen some boards with over 17,000 pins on them. As with the other Social Media Sites sharing (Repinning on Pinterest), commenting, and liking on others posts are the best way to approach the platform. Click More for the full blog post. When you first sign up you will be...

How To Turn Off Twitter Tailored Trends Twitter has been making some recent changes. They have come out with a Tailored Trends option that was automatically checked “ON” for you. This is a quick post and video on how to turn it off if you were out of the loop the last couple of weeks. Twitter is also changing their search options. We have generally been on board and liked the changes twitter has made in the past. Twitter doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon and we are looking forward to going to some or hosting events with the hashtags to see what results that will bring. Ok...

Building A Following With LinkedIn Groups  LinkedIn Groups have a lot of uses. There are open and closed groups. With open groups you hit join and you are automatically apart of the group. Closed groups you need an invitation or request to join. The majority of the time you get accepted into the group from our experience if it is a closed group. Within groups you can ask questions to professionals and you get very helpful tips and advice. There’s also useful blog posts, shared articles, and other tips in there. We spend more time in the groups than on the newsfeed in LinkedIn. Read More And See...

How To – Creating A Yahoo Local Business Listing Yahoo Local is one of the many options out there to have your business listed to help with search results. By taking 10-20 minutes to complete all of the local listings for your businesses can really help people find your business and increase the overall traffic to your business. The other main sites are Google and Bing. Take a look through all of the steps and the slide show that will guide you along. There really isn’t any special tricks or tips as far as setting up the Yahoo listing. It’s pretty straight forward but as always if you...

How To Upload An Image To Craiglist Posts Craigslist is a great free resource to help other people and bring in leads for your business. It’s also great for freelancers looking for side jobs or even full time positions working for themselves. In the real estate section of Craigslist and some of the other sections it gives you the option of uploading pictures. For services and other sections you will need to do the following. Step 1: You will need to have the picture online somewhere. If you have a website post the picture on there and grab the link to the picture. If not use a free service,...

How To Create Your Bing Business Listing Microsoft’s Search Engine Bing has a local business page. It’s called Bing Business Portal. Google still accounts for roughly 80-83% of the search results performed on the web. Yahoo and Bing will come up with the same search results and account for roughly 15% combined between them. However you still need to create a local page for your business through Yahoo.com and also through Bing. This will show you step by step instructions on how to create a Bing Business Page. Step1: Go to http://bing.com and type in the search bar “bing business...

How To Set Up A LinkedIn Company Page LinkedIn is a fantastic Social Media Networking site for B2B and professional networking online. This How-To will go through how to set up a company page once you have your regular profile set up. We will come out with another blog post on how to set up your normal profile and how to optimize it in the next couple of days. The direct link to the LinkedIn company pages http://learn.linkedin.com/company-pages/     and below are the instructions. Step 1: You must have a company email address in order to go further. If you do not have one then you will need to...