Category Archives: Social Media Marketing

Helpful tips and interesting social media news to help you better understand the growing industry of social media marketing

EDUCATIONAL EVENTS | Bloggy Boot Camp – Conferences for women in social media.

Bloggy Boot Camp – Conferences for women in social media. www.bloggybootcamp.com In October 2009, Bloggy Boot Camp was launched as an extension of The SITS Girls blog community. Designed as a conference series, attendees have the opportunity to grow their online business relationships in person, as well as increase their understanding and education of blogging…

INSTAGRAM | 4 Steps to Managing Your Profile Online

Starting today, the popular app Instagram is now available on the web. By visiting www.Instagram.com you can now log in to your account to view, like and comment on the photos posted by the people you follow.     1. Getting Started Log in to your account using your User name and password.    …

GUEST POST: “Customers don’t go to social media to be marketed to. They go to interact with their friends and fans.”

Earlier this month I interviewed a candidate for one of our social media roles. In talking about his last internship with a huge technology developer, this driven recent college grad explained how he tried to approach their social media strategy. “They were just pushing out messages from public relations and marketing, but they didn’t really…

PAY PER FRIEND: The High Cost of Buying Online Communities

Did you know you can pay money to get people to like you? Seriously. In today’s growing social media market it’s not hard to find online companies that will literally pay people (aka bots) to like, follow, friend and subscribe to any one of your many online accounts. Whether the cost is $5 or $5,000…

Facebook Adds New Fan Page Features

Facebook recently added some new features that makes it easier for Fan Page administrators to manage their content. The latest improvements now allows administrators to assign administrator roles and schedule posts. There are five different categories now available on Facebook. In descending order of the most permissions, they are Manager, Content Creator, Moderator, Advertiser and…