Using Facebook for Local Business can be quite a challenge. When you see your peers and competitors furiously spamming Facebook groups with 2, 3 or even more profiles used for business, it’s tempting to fall into the same trap. While the news that the reach for Facebook Pages is lower than ever, having a well […]
You Are What You Share (Or How Your Personal Status Updates Directly Impact Business)
You Are What You Share Have you ever looked closely at how you come across on social media? YOU. Not your business but you as an individual? In this day and age of re-tweets, re-blogs, shares, re-shares and hashtags, you can see something that catches your eye and pass it on in a click of […]
Runcorn Business Networking and Seminar Morning (I’m Speaking Again!)
How excited am I? I’m speaking at the business networking and seminar morning in Runcorn orgainised by Bear Behind Events. It’s a fabulous opportunity to put some faces to names. Not to mention drink coffee and have a chat. Now we get to the nitty gritty – what’s in it for you? The seminar theme […]
Consistency and Courage – Looking Forward to 2014
Consistency and Courage The New Year is well under way, and if I had a New Year resolution it would be broken by now! I have been reflecting a lot on 2013, what went well (and not so well). What I achieved and trying not to beat myself up on the stuff I didn’t achieve. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Not Everyone Will Like You (and it Doesn’t Matter Anyway) [Infographic]
The 30 Day Facebook Fanpage Challenge started on Monday in a flurry of activity and mad clicks. One of the tasks within the Facebook group is to add your Facebook page to a document – basically so we can get to know other pages of interest to us and follow along. It was a great […]