Weekly Social Media Wrap Up 5-3-14

Social Media Wrap Up 5-3-14

Use this weekly post to get some helpful tips for your digital marketing strategy. Our weekly wrap up post lists the top articles found and shared this week, with information that will help your small business.

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1. Pin Like a Pro: 8 Simple Ways to Take Your Pinterest Pins Up a Notch

With Pinterest’s new Guided Search feature rolling out, this article offers some great tips on optimizing your Pins. A great image, a link and a keyword-driven description may get more users to click on your Pins when discovering them in this new way to Search.

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2. A Handy Design Guide for New Twitter Profiles

If you are working on a new Header photo for your Twitter account, you’ll find this post/Infographic very helpful. Your new Header shows up differently on a web browser and mobile, so take note of the “safe area” in the graphic.

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3. 38 Blogging Masters Reveal Their Number One Tip for New Bloggers!

You don’t have to be a “new” blogger to get some helpful tips from this article! Any blogger will be able to find a few tips here that can be implemented today.

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4. Stand Out On Instagram Using Native Images

Get some good tips on creating native content: “As this concept relates to Instagram, native content would be an image that looks like one of your friends posted it.”  (as opposed to a blatant advertisement)

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5. Top 7 Facebook eCommerce Apps for Businesses

If you want to sell something on your Facebook Page, then check out this great resource! The top Apps are reviewed, with price information as well.

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6. The Truth about Google + for Business (and Content Marketing)

This is a podcast from Jay Baer with guest Martin Shervington which explains how Google+ works for business, as well as addressing some of the recent rumors about the social site’s demise.

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7. Everything Facebook announced at F8 2014 in one handy list

This is a list of announcements from Facebook’s recent F8 event. You’ll be hearing more about how this affects users on a day-to-day basis, so stay tuned.

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Our local photo this week is the bike trail in the J.B. Starkey Wilderness Park 

 


 

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.