Luckily, we here at Lakeshore Branding are no strangers to using twitter, both personally and for business. And even though we advise clients on using Twitter everyday, it’s still good to be reminded of the basics and best-practices of the popular micro-blogging service regarding business use. That said, we’re glad to see Twitter has released Twitter 101 for Business, an online guide to Twitter. Twitter 101 includes getting started to understanding twitter lingo, complete with best practices and case studies. The guide can also serve as a resource to keep on hand for getting current and new employees up to speed. Twitter 101 won’t be a replacement for social media consulting services, but it will be a good platform for getting a solid grasp on twitter, and being able to spread some knowledge company-wide.
We were poking around making some updates for our client So Cute and Cozy, when we saw that their twitter page was in a beta testing of a new top navagation. Twitter has added a new search feature and drop down that shows the current trending topics. The industry buzz is that searchability is one of Twitter’s killer features, and indeed, it looks like the microblogging service is starting to put it more front and center. It looks like the company is either testing it out or doing the gradual rollout thing. Twitter’s focus on search started when the company acquired Summize, a search tool built using Twitter’s developer API (application programming interface) and turned it into the Twitter Search feature. The search for GreenWerks which is another one of our clients showed the current results we have come to enjoy with search.twitter.com. Hooked Up Installs is one of our newer social media clients and was blown away by the – Read the full article
Internet marketing is a combination of the technical and the creative side of the Internet. It includes the designing of a marketing strategy for a product, including its development and advertising up to its sales. Internet marketing ties with placement of product in the virtual spheres of customer engagement and streams online. Social Media The growth of social media has given birth to new dynamics of marketing. These websites provide the vital interface between businesses and their target audiences. No longer is representation on all the major outlets a superfluous positive; it has now become essential: a necessity. Garnering a presence in the social media circles – such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest – is an effective marketing strategy as millions of users and potential clients log in daily into these channels of virtual interface. All that businesses have to do is maintain a regular, updated presence on such streams and make use of a free, resourceful – Read the full article
Like it or not, Instagram is pretty big right now. It’s cool. It’s cross-platform (available for Apple and Android devices). It has a lot of users (about 30 million – and growing). It takes beautiful pictures no matter what your level or experience in photography is. Let’s not forget, too, the fact that the photo sharing app was acquired recently by social networking giant Facebook for approximately $1 billion in cash. If you’re managing or marketing a business, it makes perfect sense to use Instagram as a marketing channel of sorts. The only question is: how? To answer that, Lakeshore Branding came up with this quick guide on how to use Instagram for your business – and enhance your visibility on the Web. If you’ve only gotten started with the app, we hope you find these tips useful; if you’ve been at it for awhile now, let us know in the comment section below how you think Instagram supports your – Read the full article
Back in the era of small-townAmerica, most businesses were on or near the town square and in the course of their everyday life, customers would be in the area. If they had to deal with issues, they could easily connect with the shops and stores where they did business. Today, social media could be considered our virtual “town square”. Almost everyone passes by once or twice each day. Savvy businesses, both large and small, are staking out locations in the social media town square to provide their clients with more convenient customer service. Here are six companies that are getting the job done. Small Businesses Using Social Media LP Products is in the highly competitive business of selling printer ink and toner. They’ve worked hard to develop relationships with their customers through Facebook and they don’t just see it as a pipeline to pump their coupons out to consumers. I know a customer who wanted to get off their mailing list and found – Read the full article
Links are a very important element when it comes to search engine optimization. Sites that have many quality links coming in from other websites are usually ranked higher than those that have fewer incoming links. How do you leverage the power of SEO to get others to discover your images? The following are some awesome link building tips for photographers. 1. Build links slowly You need to come up with a strategy for building links gradually. If you build 40 links in a single day and then go for a whole month with no new links, your rankings might improve for one day only, and then go down for the rest of the month. Search engines value websites or blogs which have consistent activity, whether it is building incoming links or posting fresh content. 2. Join photographer communities Find communities and forums for photography and create a profile. Remember to include a link to your site in the profile. Each – Read the full article
There’s a new social media darling in town. And – like Facebook and Twitter – it’s bringing in tons of buzz and millions of new users. (Around 11.7 million users so far, in fact.) Pinterest is what it’s called, and, as the name implies, it’s a pinboard-style social photo sharing website, which, since its launch in March 2010, has taken the Web by storm. We wouldn’t be surprised if you decided to integrate Pinterest as part of your search engine optimization and social media marketing efforts. After all, where the people go to is where the business is. We do hope you do it right, though! That’s why we came up with a list of best practices and fantastic tips for using Pinterest to improve your SEO performance. Enjoy! Using Pinterest for SEO Post fresh, repin-worthy stuff. It doesn’t matter if it’s on Pinterest, Facebook, or Twitter: people will only share your stuff if they think it’s cool and fresh – Read the full article
In today’s world, the Internet is being increasingly used for all kinds of business ventures. However, there is one industry – the health and fitness industry (fitness clubs and fitness professionals) – that doesn’t often make use of the Internet due to the mistaken belief that this kind of business can only be conducted face to face. As a result, they end up missing out on the enormous benefits that online marketing offers. Quite a number of fitness clubs, fitness specialists, and personal trainers promote their businesses mainly through word-of-mouth advertising. Some of them shy away from the Internet because they imagine it will be very costly to venture into online marketing, SEO, or social media marketing. This is the wrong mindset. Here to convince you (hopefully) is a list of ways you can immediately enhance your online presence. Blogging There are many free and easy-to-use tools available which can be used to create a business blog. For instance, – Read the full article
