Do you find it a challenge to keep up with the latest in social media? Use our weekly social media wrap up: a collection of articles and resources, to get up-to-date tips for your social media marketing. We share the top 5-7 articles from the week that we feel our readers will benefit from in their digital marketing strategy.
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1. 7 Creative Ideas to Find Your Social Media Groove
A helpful list of tips for optimizing your social media strategy! The first one is so important for small business owners: “Tackle social media on purpose” – you need to plan your time online and stick to a schedule.
2. 5 Social Media Lessons I Learned from Peter Pan
A great article on how to connect with and guide your audience. (And you’ll enjoy it if you like the Disney Peter Pan film!)
3. Resources for creating Infographics and other Visual Content: 2 Resources
The first link (click here) is an overview of Visme – which is a free tool for creating all kinds of visual content: “Animate Marketing Visuals with Visme”
The second resource (click here) is an article from Social Media Examiner: “How to Create an Infographic That Boosts Social Shares and Leads”
4. 4 Must-Use Tools to Curate Twitter Testimonials
A very helpful article on 4 tools that will help you collect and display testimonials you receive on Twitter.
If you’re not using one of these tools you can use the “Favorites” feature on Twitter to collect testimonials, and/or you can simply embed a specific Tweet in a blog post (just click on the “More” option under a Tweet).
5. 10 Types of Visuals to Boost Your Social Media Engagement
A fantastic guide to creating visual content: from a team picture to an action shot to the selfie , you’ll get some good ideas for your brand’s visuals here.
6. 12 Types of Blog Posts to Drive More Traffic to Your Blog
This is a terrific resource for blogging. Choose a few from the list that will work well for your business blog and then create your content calendar alternating between the types of posts you choose.
7. Guided Search: a new way to find what you’re looking for
Pinterest announced their new Guided Search yesterday and you can learn more about it on their official blog. Looks like it’s rolling on out mobile first, then the web. Watch the 2 short videos in the post – they help to explain how this is such a cool new feature!
This week’s local photo is a Great Horned Owl in the New Port Richey area.
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