SOCIAL MEDIA

5 Ways to Build Your LinkedIn Network

22 Apr 2014

With more than 277 million members, LinkedIn is the number one professional networking site on the internet. A hub for experts and key-decision makers from all business sectors, the platform provides ample opportunities to grow your prospects and drum up leads. On LinkedIn you can establish your professional credibility, promote your business and build meaningful […]

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New Facebook Video Ads Platform

15 Apr 2014

Facebook are always on the lookout for their next game-changer and in early March of this year, they took on the television by launching a new video advertising platform. Termed by Facebook as Premium Video Ads, this feature taps into the popularity of online video to offer advertisers another opportunity to reach their audience with […]

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6 Ways to Grow Your YouTube Subscribers

22 Mar 2014

As with any social media platform, you’re unlikely to get results from YouTube by uploading content and letting it sit there. You need to build an audience to get views on your content, get wider exposure for your brand and grow your authority on the network. On YouTube, your fans can choose to subscribe to […]

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Twitter Testing a Fave People Timeline

18 Mar 2014

Like to follow a bunch of accounts but don’t always want to see their tweets in your feed? Twitter may have the answer… What is ‘Fave People’? Twitter is trialling a new timeline feature called ‘Fave People’ in their Android alpha application – a mobile app the company uses to test changes before they move […]

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5 Ways to Improve Your Reach on Facebook

15 Mar 2014

Your Facebook page is worth nothing without your fans. No matter how excellent your content, if it isn’t viewed and engaged with then it’s wasted effort and will simply sit there doing absolutely zero, zilch, nothing for your business. With Facebook constantly changing its algorithms and bumping-up the difficulty of getting your posts in feeds, […]

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Click to Call Button in Sponsored Tweets

12 Mar 2014

In an effort to improve the value of advertising on the network, Twitter is investigating the possibility of featuring a click-to-call button within sponsored tweets. Known as direct response advertising, this would do “as it says on the tin” and enable users to directly engage with the advertiser via a click. Twitter’s Vice President of […]

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Facebook Buying Drones to Connect Africa

05 Mar 2014

Now that Facebook wear the crown for biggest social network in the world, they are upping their game to head into new realms. Space is their next endeavour with the company in talks to purchase 11,000 drones that would provide internet access to isolated, developing communities. These advanced, solar-powered drones are built by Titan Aerospace, […]

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Facebook Introduces New Feature – Highlights Feed

28 Feb 2014

Facebook have begun testing a new ‘highlights’ feed so you can skim through your friend’s most important life experiences with ease. The highlights feed update was pushed out to all ios users last weekend (21st-23rd February) and according to the app’s change log, didn’t include anything more than simple bug fixes. This clearly was not […]

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