Need help keeping up with news and updates in the social media world? Let us do the work for you! In our weekly post, we highlight 5 “must-read” articles for your small business – use these resources to get tips on social media strategy or specific social media platforms. Plus we share any important updates from the week from the major sites in the News section at the bottom of this post.
Click on each title below to go to the original article or save it as a Pin on your Pinterest account with the “Click here to Pin It” text.
1. 7 Things you Should Really Do in Social Media Marketing but Probably Don’t
by Katerina Petropoulou on the Twitter Counter Blog
Check out this helpful list to make sure you’re doing these items on a regular basis in your social media marketing.
2. Is Live Streaming Video Right For Your Social Media and Content Marketing?
by Keith Quesenberry on Social Media Today
Have you tried live-streaming yet? If not, this post offers up some reasons you may want to, as well as the current options available.
3. How To Check Your Hidden Facebook Inbox
by Mike Allton on The Social Media Hat
You may have missed some important messages on Facebook, and this helpful tutorial shows you how to find them (I had a few from 2013 I totally missed – but luckily they were spam, and not important.)
4. 7 Productivity Hacks for Smart B2B Content Marketers
by Rachel Foster on the Business to Community site
Use these tips to increase your productivity (for any small business owner, no matter what your daily routine).
5. Messenger Bots: What Are They, How do They Work, and Why Should You Care?
by Andrew Hutchinson on Social Media Today
If all the news from Facebook about Messenger “Bots” sounds like an alien language, then learn more in this informative post. Even if your business has no immediate plans to create your own Bot, as consumers, we will probably all be trying them out soon.
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News from the Week:
We will be sharing some of the top updates and announcements from the major social media platforms here. Click on each title to read the full article / announcement and then stay tuned for further developments and/or strategic tips (on our Facebook and Twitter sites) as we all learn more!
- F8 Update: A helpful summary of highlights from Facebook’s F8 Conference (from the Buffer blog) https://blog.bufferapp.com/f8-facebook-features
- Instagram: Introducing Video Channels in Explore (from the Instagram blog) http://blog.instagram.com/post/142799175657/160414-explore
- Snapchat rolls out 3D Stickers (from TechCrunch) http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/13/how-to-use-snapchat-3d-stickers/
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