Every website needs to have certain elements to it. This post shares the 6 essential features for your website that will ensure it’s User Friendly and that the User Experience is the best it can be.
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Pinterest is a great source of referral traffic for bloggers. Since I started actively investing my time in using Pinterest to promote my blog content, the traffic to my site has more than doubled in four months. Pinterest is now the number 1 source of referral traffic to my blog, responsible for over 70% of my page views/session. To get started on making this happen for your blog, you need to start at the beginning by setting up a Pinterest Business Account for your blog or website. In this post, I’m going to talk you through how to set up…
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Do you want a FREE Social Media Consultation? What Is It For? Are you running your own Facebook page, but you’re not really sure what you’re doing? Or you think you know, but you’re just not getting the engagement you want? Or maybe you’re on Instagram, but you’re not really sure what it’s for or how to use it to grow your business. Do you have people telling you that you need to be on Twitter and Pinterest? Book a FREE 30 minute consultation with me and together we can review what it is you’re doing, we can talk about…
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There has been a lot of chatter around the new Facebook and Instagram algorithms. Basically the techy guys at Facebook (who own Instagram, FYI) want to take Facebook back to the beginning when it was a more personal social network rather than your news feed being filled up by posts from all the pages and groups you like. This is great for individuals, but as a page manager what it means is that unless your audience engage with your posts the algorithm isn’t going to show your posts in the news feed of your followers. So Now What? One of…
Read More How To Turn On Notifications!As entrepreneurs I think we often find ourselves asking that all important question – what is the point? Why do we, as entrepreneurs, do it? We can go and get a 9.00 to 5.00 job where we earn a salary, go home, forget the stresses of the day, spend that quality time with our families, go to bed and then do it all over again tomorrow. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It’s normal. It’s safe. It’s security for your family. We can do that! Or Can We? Entrepreneurs have a fire inside them, this urge to not only…
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If you’re not already following hashtags on Instagram, you should be. Following hashtags on Instagram is a great way to engage with the community using that hashtag. I’m sure you have noticed by now, that we’re a little bit obsessed with Hashtags, and the best place to play with, and make use of hashtags is, of course, on Instagram.
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December 3rd was the ‘SMS’ birthday and this year the SMS is 25 years old! Happy birthday to the SMS. 25 years ago, the first SMS was sent from Vodafone Test Engineer Neil Papworth from his computer to the phone of the then CEO of Vodafone, Richard Jarvis. I was watching the clip on Sky News this morning where they were interviewing Neil Papworth and he said that in all this time he has never even received so much as a pint as thanks for sending the very first SMS. Fast Forward 25 years. Can you imagine a world without…
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Social media is constantly evolving. The various social media platforms we use every day continue to evolve on a daily basis. I have pulled together a few fun facts about social media that you may or may not know. Active Users in Q3 2017: Facebook: The number of Facebook users topped the 2 billion mark, it is by far the largest Social Media network on the internet. This is based on the number of users who log in to their account over a 30 day period. Instagram: Instagram boasts 800 million users worldwide. Twitter: The number of active Twitter users is 330…
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When I first had the idea to give social media coaching a try, I knew I needed a ‘test case’, so when a friend of mine mentioned that she was going to start her own clothing line I approached her to find out what her plans were with regards to the social media marketing of her new brand. She didn’t have a plan. I saw the opportunity for us to help each other and so I offered to be her social media coach in the run up to the launch of her new woman’s wear clothing brand.
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I’m a big fan of ‘good manners’ – etiquette! The reality is that I am a mom who is trying to raise my children to be good people who are always kind, polite, respectful and who mind their manners. What it boils down to really, is basic human decency, good manners and etiquette! So how does etiquette work in an online environment? Well, there are a few simple rules you can follow that will ensure you leave your online audience and network wanting to interact with you again.
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