There are many professionals and businesses out there these days that tout they are experts in the social media realm. However, due to the ever-evolving nature of social media (which is still a very young industry), you want to make sure your social media manager or agency has the following qualities:
In celebration of the new month of September, this week I joined an Instagram challenge run by a fellow online entrepreneur. The challenge is only a few days in and I am keeping up so far; however, when I looked at the hashtag on Instagram this morning to check out fellow challenge participants’ photos, I was disappointed to see that the hashtag was being used by many other users who were definitely NOT participating in the challenge.
(Let’s just say, there were some questionable photos!)
Welcome to Day 5 of our Hashtagitude Launch Series: Social Media Success! Today is the LAST day of our launch series and may seem like a simple enough tip…but there’s more to the tip than you may think! Be sure to read to the very end of the post for a special offer!
Oftentimes we see people and businesses hop onto social media platforms and forget that social media is all about being SOCIAL: these people/businesses start posting away about themselves, selling whatever wares they can with each post.
And then they often hear crickets in return.
Welcome to Day 4 of our Hashtagitude Launch Series: Social Media Success! Just one more day until we finish the series and reveal a special surprise! We hope you’ve been enjoying these tips.
Remember our tip from Day 2 of this Social Media Success Series? We talked about the kind of content you should post on your social media profiles to reflect your brand.
Welcome to Day 3 of our Hashtagitude Launch Series: Social Media Success! We’re halfway through the week, so gear up for the next few days with this tip. Don’t forget that on Friday (Day 5) we will have a special surprise for you all!
Now that you have a uniform profile picture across all your social media accounts and have an idea of what kind of topics you want to post about, you want to work on finding people to follow/connect with. Besides your friends and family, you want to follow and connect with people and other brands that interest you and that may help your brand out in the future.
Welcome to Day 2 of our Hashtagitude Launch Series: Social Media Success! Let us know if you have any questions about this tip!
Do you ever find yourself at a loss about what to post on your social media accounts?
First, ask yourself:
What kind of content do I like to read? What kind of content do I want my brand to be about?
Welcome to Day 1 of our Hashtagitude Launch Series: Social Media Success! Today we have a quick and easy tip to start you off with, so enjoy!
How many social media accounts do you currently have? Chances are, you have an account on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and maybe even Instagram and Pinterest.
If you plan on utilizing all of your social media accounts for business or professional purposes, be sure to have a uniform photo and username across all your accounts!
Hey everyone! We are excited to announce our official launch of Hashtagitude today. We decided to change our business name and branding to best reflect our personalities and also to serve you, our customers, in a better way.
Not only are we still offering great social media marketing services, we now offer social media coaching (both individual and group) and a dynamic mix of digital marketing services! We will also have digital products soon, so stay tuned for further updates!
To celebrate our launch, we are holding a five-day series on our blog around social media success tips–tips that you can start implementing NOW, no matter what level of expertise you have in social media. This series runs between August 17 – 21, with an awesome surprise on Day 5 of the challenge–so be sure to check back daily!
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We thank you for being awesome and celebrating our launch with us!
— Helene + Ryan
Tweet, tweet! Are you on Twitter yet? I have been a Twitter user since 2007, so I have seen how the social network has evolved for good (and for bad).
Even though Twitter has been around for almost ten years, most people still don’t know how to use Twitter. The most common question I receive from my clients is how to use Twitter properly.
How DO you start using Twitter without stepping on other Twitter users’ figurative toes?
In June, I visited New York City with my boyfriend and co-founder, Ryan. We visited the Empire State Building (ESB) on June 19th and saw this sign (in the photo above) near the observatory entrance. Since Ryan is the visual expert between the two of us, he figured he had a chance to enter this contest and possibly win one of the grand prizes.
Fast forward to yesterday, August 3rd: I did some sleuthing of the hashtag, #ESBHeartOfNYC, to see who the other contestants were. It seemed like not many people were using the hashtag, so our chances of winning were even higher. However, I found it strange that across all of the Empire State Building’s social media channels, there was no mention of this hashtag or the contest. I posted on their Facebook Page and received the response in the photo above.
“Hi Helene — Please note we do not currently have a photo contest running. When we have any further information we will post it here and on our other social channels so stay tuned! In the meantime if you’d like to submit your photo for our Facebook Fan Photos Album please send it to us via private message. Thank you.”
Then why did they have that display up at the Empire State Building?
