I’ve been watching the story of Paris Brown, Britain’s first Youth Police Commissioner unfold over the last couple of days. I wouldn’t have noticed except my ears perked at the mention of her Twitter account that brought on the backlash. For those of you not familiar with the story, Kent’s Police Commissioner thought that it […]
Are You Giving Up Sex For Your Social Media Fix? [Infographic]
Social media has become part of every day life for many of us. Even for me, who isn’t a keen social media person. I still log in dutifully every day on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter and check my feeds. It hit me yesterday just how ingrained social sites had become in my life when I […]
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. […]
How To Add A Pay With A Tweet Button To Your Posts [Video]
Pay with a Tweet is a social payment system where people can “buy” your information for the price of a tweet or Facebook share. It allows you to offer information or downloads in return for people tweeting about your offer. Once a reader has tweeted or shared your link with their contacts, they are given […]
Share Content And Create Buzz – A Really Simple Way To Get More Re-Tweets, Likes and +1’s
When you publish a blog post, article, video or anything else online, it’s pretty standard practice to share content you create on your social sites. As the search engines get more advanced, social mentions are becoming more important for ranking too. It’s not enough that your content is shared by just you. One of the […]
Easily Create Your Own Quote Images In WordPress [Video]
Quote images are taking over the social sharing space. From Pinterest to Facebook, can you go a day without seeing a quote image fly through the stream? As a service business owner with limited graphic ability, sometimes it’s difficult to take advantage of the latests trends in image sharing. When it comes to online visibility, […]
Yoast WordPress SEO: Open Graph Tags and Twitter Cards [Video]
My recent blog post about setting social sharing image thumbnails with Open Graph tags was perhaps not the most tech free and simple as it could be! If you use WordPress, these Open Graph tags can be set really easily using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. While I was in the Social section of Yoast […]