Social Media Account Dilemma: Personal Account vs. Brand Account

Social Media Account Dilemma: Personal Account vs. Brand Account

When creating a social media account, people still get confused if they should use a personal account or a brand account. The social networks where you must have a company profile and where to create: Facebook: http://facebook.com/pages Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/pages/create LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/add/show If you violate these terms of service, your profile can be taken down without notice. [...]

Little Known Youtube Tools

Little Known Youtube Tools

Youtube offers quite a few resources that few people know about. Several options help you create your videos, while the others help you watch others videos.

Three Words Revisited

At the beginning of the year, I joined in the blogging meme, 3 words. It’s time to check in on how I’m doing on that. To recap, three words I wanted to summarize me in 2011 are:

Create
Consistent
Results

Streamlining Social Media, Local SEO, and Mobile Marketing: Episode 18

Streamlining Social Media, Local SEO, and Mobile Marketing: Episode 18

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What is the best time of the day to update social media?

What is the best time of the day to update social media?

Updating your social media accounts, like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, is valuable. But, did you know that posting at various times of the day can increase your chances of being seen? Here’s a condensed list of times:

Best time to update your blog:

  1. 9am EST publish to be read on your site or RSS
  2. Share the blog post to Facebook at 10am, especially on Saturday’s
  3. Share the blog post to Twitter at 4pm, especially on Friday’s

Best time to update Twitter:

  1. When to tweet: This depends mostly on who you’ve connected with. 14blocks can give you a great snapshot of the past day’s ideal times to reach the most engaged Twitter followers.
  2. Strategy to increase Twitter followers: follow & unfollow people during late night or early morning hours

Best time to update Facebook:

  1. 11am, 3pm, and 8pm ET (especially Wednesday’s but not Sunday’s)
  2. Morning posts are most effective
  3. Top of the hour, then bottom of the hour (0:00 – 0:15 or 0:30 – 0:45)

Best time to update Youtube:

  1. Friday or Sunday
  2. Follow other social media guidelines to share video

 

 

 

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Use Slideshare to repurpose your presentations

Use Slideshare to repurpose your presentations

Slideshare has been around for a few years. It’s a great tool for sharing your Powerpoint and Keynote presentations from speaking events. It is also useful as it’s own multimedia destination. By posting a presentation, you’ll find some great backlinks for SEO benefit. Post links within your presentation and description back to your website. In addition, embed the presentation into your blog as you see below. See Slideshare’s 2010 Zeitgeist below.

SlideShare Zeitgeist 2010
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Find the latest viral video: Mag.ma

Find the latest viral video: Mag.ma

We love watching and sharing videos.  By scanning through Facebook and Twitter, you’ll likely discover many videos being shared daily just by your existing connections.  Sometimes these are videos created by the person sharing, and other times it is just something important to the person.  At other times, the videos are just funny to watch, [...]

Social Media Shortcut: Upload your videos to multiple places with Tubemogul

Social Media Shortcut: Upload your videos to multiple places with Tubemogul

Sharing your videos to multiple places at the same time can increase not only how many people you can reach, but also how viewers discover your website.  By sharing your video to multiple places at once, as well as filling in the complete information with keyword descriptions and a link to your own website or [...]

Youtube connects with your Facebook Friends

Youtube’s newest blog post indicates that now it connects our friends on Facebook, Gmail, and Yahoo

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