Weekly Social Media Wrap Up 9-13-14

Weekly Social Media Wrap Up 9-13-14

Get tips and strategies for your social media marketing in our weekly Social Media Wrap Up.  We choose 5 top resources each week to share that will help small business owners. Read the 5 articles now (or save them to your Pinterest account for later). This week’s topics include Twitter conversion tips, the current “state” of social media marketing, plus tips on Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn Groups.

Just for fun, we include a photo from our local area here in Florida!

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1. The State of Social Media Marketing: Fall 2014 Edition

If you want a helpful wrap up of some of the biggest changes across the major social sites over the past few months, then use this post from Top Dog Social Media to get caught up. 

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2. 7 Researched-Backed Tips on Improving Twitter Conversions

Twitter has gone through some major changes over the past year, and it may be time for you to adjust your strategy. This post from the Crazy Egg blog gives you a list of helpful tips including using images, knowing why people follow you, Twitter cards, best time to Tweet and more..

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3. How Brands are Marketing Themselves with Instagram

With six tips on how to use Instagram and six rules to follow for best brand practices, this post from Benchmark Email is a great resource for businesses.

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4. 5 Pinterest Marketing Tactics That Produce Big Results

The tips in this post from Jeff Bullas blog will give you some ideas on how to set up boards when marketing a service, a product, an experience, a book, and You.

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5. The Secret Sauce of LinkedIn Groups – Finding Your Customers and Meeting Their Needs

Get some helpful tips on optimizing LinkedIn Groups from the Firepole Marketing blog, including one of the top tips: join groups your target audience has joined. And then, of course, you need to be helpful not “sales-y”.

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This week’s photo is one of our many shore birds found along New Port Richey area beaches.

About Terry League

Terry helps small business owners with social media strategy, training and account management. With a background in marketing and training, she enjoys combining those two areas to teach business owners how to get the most out of their social media marketing. Connect with Terry on Twitter and Instagram @TerryLeague for more on social media with a mix of positive motivation and inspiration.