hottest trend in social media
The hottest and newest trend in social media is moving to Geotagging sites. What is that you ask? Geotagging is a mobile application that allows real-time tracking of your activities and location. Basically, Geotagging takes advantage of the GPS technology that’s built into smartphones to build a community at a street level instead of just at a global level. Most major social media sites are adding this to their platforms at an accelerated rate. Yahoo was the first to bring it on with Koprol in 2004. A few years later in 2007 a Gowalla was founded. It wasn’t until social media exploded that people started to even notice these platforms. With the popularity of Foursquare in 2009, Geotagging seems to be the HOTTEST thing around. Jumping on this band wagon is...
the three E’s on facebook
So you have a fan page now and you want to increase traffic but simply don’t know how. Try using the three E’s. They are Educate, Engage, and Entertain. These will help your page flow and get more people interested in your page. So let’s go into further detail about the three E’s, shall we…. Educate means to tell people about your service or product. Like how it can affect their lives or the planet. Be the expert. Tell them all there is to know about your service or business. For example, if you were a children’s author. You want to tell them about the love of reading. Maybe some statistics on children that read at a young age. How to get their children interested in reading. The benefits reading books can have on their child’s life. Teach them...
why linking works
Links are one of your best friends if you are trying to increase your organic search optimization. When you link something to your website, Facebook Fan Page, Blog, etc. you are placing that social media outlet on an internet spider web. Whenever someone searches for the link you put on your site, Your site “Pings”. Just like a spider web, when you flick the center eventually every single strand of it shakes. Links are the same way. For example, say you posted something about the new movie Sex and the City. Every time someone looks up Sex in the City you get a ping. Will this put you on page one of Google? Probably not. However with enough “pings” on your sites, it will increase your exposure and eventually you can end up on page one and not pay a...
increase facebook traffic
Social media is the wave of the future. Whether you’re posting pictures from your latest party, playing Farmville, or trying to promote a new business. Social media is a daily part of most people’s lives. If used correctly it can be a wonderful marketing tool for your business or service. So like most businesses you created a fan page, invited all your friends, and now what? How do you drive traffic to your Fan page? How do you get people you don’t know to “Like” it? Here are some great tips to help you get your page started and Increase traffic to your page. Everything you post on your page should not be there to read but be there to be discussed. You want people to talk about your page. Word of mouth is a powerful...
moving gently through change
Change happens. It can be painful and difficult. Each one of us has experienced some form of loss. From the time we are thrust from the womb, we pass through a cycle of birth and death that continues until we take our final breaths. Life is just that – beginnings and endings, births and deaths, starts and stops – change. It’s not change itself that’s most significant. How we respond to that change defines our quality of life. Change is unavoidable. It’s a part of life. As we grow we develop character and learn perseverance through change. Are you in the middle of a painful life change? This is the first in a four part series illustrating a few guidelines for moving gently through change. You may or may not believe it now, but in moving through...
social media done right
Helping you figure out how to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media to it’s fullest, is what Lorie is all about. She will give us the tips and secrets from the professionals for social media success! I use my knowledge to assist clients in this new wave of web marketing. I also put my five years of upscale retail management experience to work bringing a higher level of success to everything I touch. My three years of experience in the hotel industry (Sales Department, Accounting, and concierge) helped to polish my business savvy. Although my main focus is social media, I has a strong background with fundraising for a large non-profit organization and chaired several events. I am a proud mother of three beautiful children. I live happily in...




