Sunday Catch Up – You Spend How Long Online?! Edition

We Brits spent 323 million hours watching online video in February.  Hitwise also revealed this week that we spent 37 BILLION hours online in 2012 (not including mobile views). I have an unhealthy fascination with stats, I blame my science background…  What are we doing with our time online and how can we as marketers [...]

Rock Social Media In 30 Minutes Per Day

Do you find social media to be a huge time vampire, waiting to be invited in.  Then pouncing, fangs bared and sucking all the hours from the day minute by minute? Ok, perhaps a slight exaggeration there… It is easy to get sucked into social media cleverly disguised as marketing and lose track of time.  [...]

Sunday Catch Up – The Making Content Work Edition

There’s so much happening right now and not enough time in the day, I thought I would take a leaf out of Bonnie’s book and do a quick round up of articles that caught my eye that may help you too. This week, the focus is on content marketing and content production because it is [...]

Create Amazing Graphics With The Logo Creator (Drag n Drop Simple!)

It’s not often I enthuse about a product, especially graphics!  I wanted to share this video showing you inside the Logo Creator and why I think it is the best thing since sliced bread.  If you’re graphically challenged like me, you’ll love this nifty little piece of software.  It can create far more than logos!  [...]

The Ultimate Social Media Image Sizes Cheatsheet

Social Media Image Sizes I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been searching for a Facebook image size to do a new quick tab image. I’ll admit my Twitter profile still needs doing too! Lunametrics have come to the rescue with the ultimate social media image size cheat sheet.  It may not be [...]

B2B Social Media: Educating Your Prospects Through Pinterest

Pinterest isn’t the first platform that springs to mind when thinking about B2B social media is it?  What’s a load of pictures got to do with generating leads and selling to businesses? Earlier this week I was purusing the Ultimate Blog Challenge Facebook feed and a Pinterest post caught my eye.  Not because it was [...]

Pondering About Pinterest – Is Pinterest Useful For Local Business?

Not being a visual person or a social butterfly for that matter, I’ve had my blinkers on when it comes to Pinterest. A conversation over in the Social Media Masterminds group on Facebook gave me reason to ponder on Pinterest a bit more. What Is Pinterest? Pinterest is a social pin board – an image [...]