With the introduction of place rich pins, Pinterest dove head first into the online mapping game. While Places Pins were created primarily so travellers could map out their travels, it is great news for local businesses! How to Create a Pinterest Map Board 1. Click the plus button and select create a board 2. Name […]
How to Create Pinterest Rich Pins to Power Up Your Pinterest Marketing
ContentsWhat are Pinterest Rich Pins?Information you can provide in a rich pinHow to add rich pin data to your website or blog Approve Your Rich Pins What are Pinterest Rich Pins? Pinterest is an interactive pin-board where you can digitally “pin” your images and videos. A Rich Pin is essentially a super pin – it includes […]
How to Use Pinterest for Local Business Marketing
Can you really use Pinterest for local business marketing? That is the question! Many small business owners I speak with look at me as if I have two heads when I mention Pinterest. While the social site is growing rapidly in popularity, it isn’t as popular as old favourite Facebook. Of course, there’ a but… […]
7 Blogging Lessons From Your Christmas Jumper
It’s Save The Children’s National Christmas Jumper Day today, 13th December. You can take part (just like Richard Branson) by tweeting your pic to @savethechildrenuk and use the hashtag #XmasJumperDay Ready your knits for @savechildrenuk #XmasJumperDay tomorrow! http://t.co/eBaH1GA9Kf Here’s mine pic.twitter.com/WK6S5bHzmP — Richard Branson (@richardbranson) December 12, 2013 Can Your Jumper Teach You To […]
Facebook Local Business Pages Now With Prominent Star Ratings
Facebook star ratings are nothing new. In fact, if you have your Facebook Page set up in the Local Business category then you should already have the rating feature available to you. Within hours of reading the Techcrunch blog about Facebook testing star ratings on business Pages, I started seeing them pop up all over […]
Google Plus Custom URLs – To Claim or Not To Claim?
A few days ago, Google announced a raft of updates to the Google Plus platform including Google Plus custom URLs. It all looks very exciting! You can watch the announcement event on the video below, or Social Media Hat posted a great summary. ContentsGoogle Plus Custom URLsGoogle+ Custom URL – what you need to knowIs […]
WordPress 3.7 Automatic Update Feature (Should You Use It?)
WordPress 3.7 is here (doesn’t seem like 5 mins ago 3.6 was released!) Named “Basie” after jazz musician Count Basie (yes, I had to go look up who he was…) WordPress state that version 3.7 contains “some of the most important architectural updates we’ve made to date .” It wasn’t a totally smooth update to […]