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5 Tips to Be Pinworthy

What do these Pinterest trends mean for marketers? You must make your images, especially photographs pinworthy. Here are five tips to help make your content more pinnable.

 

1. Create great images.

As with any other form of social media, you need valuable content. This means no promotions! Understand your audience is on Pinterest through the use of your social media persona. Rather, translate your business’ information into visual presentations to build engagement. Take time to brainstorm how and what to present on Pinterest.

 

Boosting your Social Media Literacy

We have found the below 5 steps targeting business owners to boost their social media literacy - and boost their business!

1. Understand that relationships with customers, staff, suppliers, distributors and other business contacts extend beyond the four walls of your office. Whether you agree with the idea of social media or not, millions of people around the world use social networks every day and if you own a business, social media literacy is a must.

Social Media Strategy - Increase Social Engagement

Engagement with your audience is one of the great advantages of social media marketing, but creating meaningful conversations is as much an art as it is a science.  Engagement increases brand loyalty and public conversations can serve as free advertising.

Twitter: Something interesting to say?

With one little well written phrase on your Twitter account, you can attract the attention of more people than you can even imagine.  Whether you are experienced, new or not yet on Twitter this post has been put together to provide a brief overview for your business strategy.  You may be aware that although Twitter doesn't cost any money to join, it can take up a great deal of time, so it is important to use your time wisely.  Below are just a few top tips to remember when tweeting:

Ofcom's latest research

Ofcom has just released a 341 page report on telecommunication trends in 2011, below are some very interesting statistics regarding smartphone usage.

Facebook to go public?

Reports from the US say that Facebook is likely to go public in the first quarter of 2012, with an estimated IPO valuation of more than $100 billion. It is the most closely watched private companies in the world. Even a valuation at $100 billion is 50 times it's estimated revenue last year.

Marketing for websites

You may have a beautiful design for your website, but if it is not being seen by the right people then you are acheiving nothing. Marketing your web design is now crucial with over 346,000,000 sites around the world, getting your site on page one for the correct search phrases to capture targetted traffic is just as important than the design of your web pages.

LinkedIn - Another DotCom Bubble?

New York saw amazing hikes in LinkedIn's share price with yesterday's share offer - at one stage the shares were trading at $122 after they originally opened at $45 each.

This outstanding interest in social media stocks is surely paving the way for Facebook and Twitter to follow suit.

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