The other day I was looking up a business and went to their website. I searched around a bit on the website and saw case studies from 2001. It made me stop and think about the company. Do I want to engage with a company that has 10-year-old case studies? I then went to check […]
Oh, how I love a good infographic. This one (from the awesome Techvibes) illustrates just how much social media use is growing and changing in Canada. Three things really stand out for me. The first is the huge jump in the number of LinkedIn users. This might be due to its recent IPO, but I […]
Getting started in social media can be confusing, but what can be even more confusing is trying to figure out whether or not it’s working. How do you know what to measure and how do you measure it? The answer to this question is going to be different for every business. We’ve gathered a few […]
Hashtags are all over the place on Twitter. When they are used correctly, they can help make your tweets easier to find in searches and help boost your visibility. This article from Search Engine Land mentions a few reasons why hashtags should be part of your social media strategy, of which this is probably the […]
Setting up a Facebook page is easy, but the hard part comes when you’ve got to figure out what to do with it. Ice cream shop Cold Stone Creamery is one company that has done an amazing job working with Facebook pages and has shown that they really understand the marketing potential of Facebook. Cold […]
Social media doesn’t have to strictly rely on Facebook and Twitter. There’s another social media tool that has the potential to be hugely successful if you can manage to get the formula right – YouTube. Getting the formula right is the tricky part. If you can get the right blend of ingredients in your video, […]
When you hop into the world of social media, you start to hear this word everywhere. Engagement. It’s thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean and how do you do it? Last month, I helped my co-worker create her own Fendi bag via Bergdorf Goodman’s Facebook page. It was part of a […]
Back in the day, many businesses relied on word of mouth for advertising. There’s nothing more effective than someone you know giving a personal recommendation for a product. It has always worked fairly well. Someone really loves your product, so they tell their friends and those friends tell other friends, and it continues on. (Like […]
I read an article from Ars Technica earlier this week that really got me thinking. It was about a study done at Elizabethtown College about how adding personal tweets to your business Twitter feed can affect your credibility. Most people would think that business accounts should be just that – business accounts. That’s understandable, as […]
Three years ago I purchased a book called “Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here”, with the intent to read it on a flight to Toronto. After a couple weeks of sitting on my coffee table, it got added to a growing “read this” pile. It wasn’t until last week that I finally got around to […]
