Weekly Social Media Wrap Up 1-25-14

Here is our weekly wrap up of the top articles we’ve shared across all of our social sites for the week. We spend hours each week on content curation (reading, sorting and sharing) of the most helpful resources for your social media marketing. 

You’ll find the top 5-7 articles in this list (just click on each article’s title to read it), along with a corresponding Pin for each. You can simply pin the resource to one of your Pinterest Boards for later reading.

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This week’s top resources:

1.  Snapchat for Business: How Your Marketing Can Benefit From Photo Messaging.

A helpful guide for using SnapChat and why you may want to, especially if
your target market is 13-25 year olds.  Click here to Pin it

2.  53 Ways to Market Your Google Plus Hangout on Air.

A great resource for getting the word out for your Hangout on Air, across all your social networks! Click here to Pin it

3. Tell your business story, one blog at a time.

A terrific article on how to blog about your business in a way that interests and helps your readers! Click here to Pin it

4. The Rise of Visual Storytelling.

Are you planning on increasing visual content in your 2014 marketing? This post will give you some tips and strategies. Click here to Pin it

5. Planning Your B2B Marketing Approach to Social Media: 3 Key Angles

Building brand awareness – showcasing your expertise  – making contact: this is a great resource for using LinkedIn and Twitter in your B2B marketing. Click here to Pin it

6. 8 Myths of the Zombie Content Apocalypse

A great take on all of the recent buzz about content marketing, with some tips to help you put together a strategy that’s right for your business! (Plus if you’re a Walking Dead fan you’ll get a kick out of the article & comments!) Click here to Pin it

7. Several resources for Facebook this week:

News Feed FYI:

Facebook announced an update to their algorithims which will result in link-posts receiving higher reach than text-only posts.

9 Ways to Counteract Facebook’s Big Algorithm Change

This article from the Buffer Blog addresses the overall decline in Page reach is . Get some great ideas for optimizing your page and increasing reach
across multiple platforms.  Click here to Pin it

Two Infographics that you will find helpful (with the Pins from our Pinterest Boards so you can easily re-pin the resources to your Boards:

Facebook Page Checklist – a terrific way to check the
components of your Page. An Infographic from Andrea
Vahl.  Click here to Pin it

Facebook Image Dimensions – a very comprehensive
Infographic from Jon Loomer. Click here to Pin it

We hope you find these resources helpful. Feel free to share any posts you’ve seen this week that we’ve missed!