Today’s post is a guest post contribution from Taylor Manning. If you’re running an online business, you know SEO {search engine optimization} can be terribly confusing. Search engine rankings, authority, backlinks and all of technical terms and strategies can seem like mumbo jumbo to someone who is learning about it for the first time. There’s […]
The Beginner’s Guide to Periscope for Bloggers
It’s only been out for five months or so, but the newest social media platform and app – Periscope – is making headlines. New social platforms seem to pop up everyday and it’s hard to know when to pay attention and when to let the trend pass, but Periscope has all the markings of an […]
Micro-Blogging and Building Your Online Presence
Did you hear of the guy who left his full-time job to make a living on Periscope? Or the photographer who gets paid by brands to mention their products on his Instagram account? There’s also the guy who runs 24 Twitter accounts and makes a living off of it. No, this is not going to be a […]
How to Get More Followers on Social Media
Without a doubt, the most effective way to increase your following on social is to find and follow people in your niche. This has a two-fold goal: It helps you keep a pulse on what other people in your niche are sharing, and it invites them to follow back. Commenting, engagement, and sharing relevant content are […]
Tell Your Story on Social Media {in a Way That Doesn’t Annoy Your Followers}
It’s never intentional. A blogger or small businessperson starts up a website and quickly realizes that the way to bring traffic to their writing or business is through social media. Within a few weeks, this person is on all platforms, sharing links everywhere, and hoping that the “spray and pray” method will work. I’m going […]
How to Increase Social Sharing of Your Blog Posts
As a blogger, there are two primary ways to get traffic to your blog — Google search engines and social engagement. With SEO traffic, you are working to outshine other blog content so that Google will push your post up to the first page of search results. Social sharing is a bit more fickle, but can […]
My Blogging and Social Media To Do List
A list of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks — broken down by platform. The following post is as much for my benefit as yours! It’s a no frills task list according to platform. It’s what I aspire to {and only accomplish in part} with my online business and presence. I’m sure it’ll be helpful to many of you as well!
8 Tips to Rejuvenate your Facebook Page
Many of us have spent a long time building up our Facebook business pages. Now that organic reach is {nearly} dead, some people have abandoned their pages to look for audiences elsewhere. However, some of you may want to soldier on — learning the ins and outs of what it means to build a Facebook […]
Everything You Need to Know About Twitter Lists
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Twitter Lists are the single most essential organizational tool for managing Twitter. Without them, you will be lost, disorganized, and unable to track the best tweeters in your niche. What is a list? A list is a group of tweeters that are centered around […]
IFTTT | Social Automation for Working Smarter Not Harder
I can hear what you’re thinking…Oh no! Not another social media tool to learn! I’m not introducing a new platform today, but I am going to show you how to use all these tools in the most efficient way possible. If your blog or website is the storefront to your business or platform, social media is your […]
Never Miss a New Pin From Your Favorite Pinners Again
This is one of those hacks that I wish I’d known about months ago. Today, I’m going to show you how to keep track of your most favorite Pinterest boards. It’s so simple! Here we go. Step One: Get a Feedly Account (or some other RSS reader). I love Feedly. It’s easy to star things, […]
Social Media in a Pinch
Time is always in short supply. Be a blogger or a small business, some of the “expert” social media strategies take a long time…my own advice included. Unfortunately there are still some widely held beliefs that social media is simply a place to goof off, or it’s a quick and “easy out” solution for marketing […]
The Best Spots to Find Great Content to Share
As a social media manager, you are not only responsible for sharing relevant and helpful information in your client’s niche, they will probably have anywhere from 2-8 social profiles that need a constant supply of edible content- and it can’t always be their own. So how do you find out where the best stuff is? […]
The Ultimate Guide to the #Hashtag
It’s time to pay attention to hashtags if you’ve been ignoring them as some quirky “twitter language”. Hashtags are now on every major social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Google plus, Pinterest, and Instagram). I’m going to break down the hashtag into normal everyday language in hopes that beginners will be able to see the value […]
How to Use Pinterest if You’re a Blogger
If you’re anything like me, your Pinterest boards are probably a scattered mess of recipes, ideas, crafts you’ll never do, blog posts you love, etc. etc. Today I want to talk about how an organized Pinterest account can make all the difference in your following and traffic! Pinterest is only as good as the way it’s arranged. […]