10 Ways to use #Twittervine for your Business

My morning ritual #vine #socialmedia goo.gl/V1RlD — Lilach Bullock (@lilachbullock) May 1, 2013 About three months ago, a new app that works with Twitter, named Vine, was launched. This easy to use and already very popular app “lets you capture and share short looping videos.” Vines are basically regular tweets, but in a different format: [...]

How To Run A Successful Social Media Contest

People love contests – it almost doesn’t matter what the prize is, just so long as there is one to win! However, many  businesses don’t consider this simple yet highly effective marketing technique, probably because they think it’s expensive, time-consuming and overall not worth it. However, social media offers the perfect medium for running contests [...]

Your Social Media Brand: What It Says About You

Quick tips for getting it right Ok, you’ve got you handle on Twitter, readied your Facebook timeline, got your YouTube channel up, dabbled with Pinterest, Quora and LinkedIn, surely that’s enough, not more work? Why is social media branding important? Well, thinking about branding across your social media footprint deserves a little attention. Don’t worry, [...]

101 Tweet-Tastic Tools for 2013

Twitter Bird

As much as I love Twitter, I have to admit I haven’t seen that familiar blue Twitter home page in quite a while. Why? because although Twitter is amazing, I can only fully leverage it by using a range of Twitter tools. I’ve written several blog posts on Socialable about some of my favorite and [...]

50 Twitter facts that’ll fascinate small businesses

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Most people who read my blog and know me will know how much I love Twitter.  I find it fascinating how Twitter has grown, it really has had an exponential growth in terms of membership, usage and popularity so today I thought I would share with you 50 fascinating facts about Twitter: 5 years ago Twitter [...]

Should you tweet while you sleep?

Effective social media is about engaging with your community. So the idea of automating that engagement so that it happens when you are off, presumably doing something more pressing creates a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand it is clear that the more successful you are in terms of making connections the bigger [...]

Twitter rebrands and reveals its new logo

Twitter has redesigned the iconic bird.  The new logo, which was revealed recently on Twitter’s blog, replaces Twitter’s old bird. “From now on, this bird will be the universally recognizable symbol of Twitter. (Twitter is the bird, the bird is Twitter),” said Doug Bowman, Twitters creative director. “There’s no longer a need for text, bubbled [...]

How often should you tweet?

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How often do you send Twitter updates out? Is it consistent or completely random and varies? How much is too much and how much is too little? And what about whether you should send scheduled tweets out or only “real live” updates? There is a lot of debate about how frequently you should tweet. I’m [...]

Let me introduce you to Buffer

I’ve been using Buffer for a while now so really felt a need to write a review on this great social media tool that is still relatively newish although is becoming more and more popular.  Created just over a year ago by Joel Gascoigne (in his bedroom!)  Leo Wildrich joined a month after and became a [...]

12 Killer Analytic tools to measure your success

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Are you measuring your results online?  Are you merely gathering data? (e.g. measuring traffic, page views, clicks and more for your website)  You really do need to also interpret the data, identify and summarise relevant parts, and understand the meaning and implication of this data so you can tweak and improve what you’re currently doing.  [...]

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