It’s never intentional. A blogger or small businessperson starts up a website and quickly realizes that the way to bring traffic to their writing or business is through social media. Within a few weeks, this person is on all platforms, sharing links everywhere, and hoping that the “spray and pray” method will work. I’m going […]
My Blogging and Social Media To Do List
A list of daily, weekly, and monthly tasks — broken down by platform. The following post is as much for my benefit as yours! It’s a no frills task list according to platform. It’s what I aspire to {and only accomplish in part} with my online business and presence. I’m sure it’ll be helpful to many of you as well!
IFTTT | Social Automation for Working Smarter Not Harder
I can hear what you’re thinking…Oh no! Not another social media tool to learn! I’m not introducing a new platform today, but I am going to show you how to use all these tools in the most efficient way possible. If your blog or website is the storefront to your business or platform, social media is your […]
Social Media in a Pinch
Time is always in short supply. Be a blogger or a small business, some of the “expert” social media strategies take a long time…my own advice included. Unfortunately there are still some widely held beliefs that social media is simply a place to goof off, or it’s a quick and “easy out” solution for marketing […]
The Best Spots to Find Great Content to Share
As a social media manager, you are not only responsible for sharing relevant and helpful information in your client’s niche, they will probably have anywhere from 2-8 social profiles that need a constant supply of edible content- and it can’t always be their own. So how do you find out where the best stuff is? […]
Blogging and Twitter: How to Grow Your Following into the Thousands
I am SO EXCITED (as evidenced by my use of CAPS) for this guest post today. Kate Hall is a good friend, fellow blogger, and master tweeter– and I begged her to share with me her tips and tricks for using Twitter. She’s currently got 8936 followers, earned the good ol’ fashioned way — by following, […]
Most Bloggers Think About Social Media the Wrong Way
Do you ever feel like your spinning your wheels on social media? You publish a post and then it’s time to get to work sharing it all over Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Google +? We hope that the traffic comes in and our numbers go up and our audience is engaged. And then we feel so […]
A Beginner’s Guide to Hootsuite
Social media can be overwhelming. Scratch that– it is overwhelming. As bloggers, it seems mind numbing that after all that work to write a post, you then have to be your own PR and market it on every platform known to man. Hootsuite aims to make social media just a bit easier. There are a […]
How to Navigate the Blogher Website and Publishing Opportunities
*Two days after writing this post, BlogHer rolled out a completely new design. Sigh. Anyway, some of this is still relevant though the screenshots will be a bit off.* It took me almost an entire year to figure out the BlogHer site. No offense to the lovely ladies who run it, but with so much […]
Creating Custom Social Media Buttons to Match Your Blog Theme
You’ve seen them around. They are those cute customized social media buttons that those fancy schmancy designers make. Now, you will make them! You can pay someone (like me) to make them for you, but if you are feeling ambitious, why not try it out yourself? I’ll give you step by step instructions. There is […]