A few days ago I was talking to Kimberly Reynolds  (Savvy Media Marketing ) about a Facebook app posting without knowing it would. It had me thinking about how much information is out there for people to see and what information companies have of yours. I have thought about this in the past and accepted it a while ago. All of my information is out there on the internet and if someone really wants to find out about me they will be able to. The thought process for me was “Well if it’s out there I might as well control what people see” and that is where the social media profiles come...

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...

Google +1 Button The Google +1 (plus one) button has been out for a little while now. Just recently they have made more of an update to it so you are going to want to make sure that this button is on your website. When people plus one your website it will effect search results and ranking for your website. If you haven’t noticed you can +1 websites in the search results within Google as well. Doing that directly off the search engine will help those different sites get ranked. That option is not available for Facebook and Twitter on there. Google+ is not trying to compete with the social networks...

Pinterest Search How It Works This blog post is about how the Pinterest Search works and some tips to help get found through the platform. After helping a client and being suggested to write this post it’s been put off for a couple of days but here we go! This blog post is tailored around having an account set up a little bit. If you have not signed up for the platform yet send us an email through the contact page and we will make sure you get one. You can also check our our other post on Basics of Pinterest. Before you start you should try to figure out the one main thing you are going to want...

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 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...

 Hashtags (#’s) & Why You Want To Be Using Hashtags The hashtag symbol is # (number sign, pound key).  Hashtags are a powerful way to jump into a conversation, start one, or categorize important lists and keywords. Twitter, Google+, and Pinterest are a few of the social media platforms that utilize them. Social Media, including utilizing the hashtag feature is an inexpensive way to get your name out there and start connecting with people. Using hashtags is vital for businesses of all sizes. You don’t have to have thousands of followers to jump into a conversation and start engaging...

Twitter Search Tips We are going to go into some Twitter Tips by using the advanced search option, Hootsuite, and a little trick on Bing to find tweets in a specific area. This social platform is great for so many uses! You can use it to strictly follow news and interesting articles to be able to sit down and get caught up right away, get weather / local / global news, participate in conversations or start your own using # tags (hashtags), customer service, retention, advertising (we will have a post soon on the advertising options), prospecting, sales, contests, keeping up with friends, and much much...