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How to Schedule a Post in WordPress

WordPress is a fantastic platform! Watch the tutorial below to learn how to schedule a post in WordPress. In order to determine what time is best to publish new content utilize your website analytics for peak traffic hours. If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments below.

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Expand Your Toolbox: Social Media News

Keeping up with the constantly changing landscape of social media is a daunting task.  This high rate of change levels the playing field for small and large entities alike.  The key component of coming out ahead is being “in the know.” Sifting through sources and looking for relevant content takes time IF you don’t know where to [...]

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Expand Your Toolbox: Twylah

The “Expand Your Toolbox” series serves to introduce social media resources to organizations new to social media or desiring to expand their current strategy.   Twylah is an easy and effective tool that can be useful to organizations that use Twitter as a main part of their social media marketing strategy.  Twylah organizes tweets according [...]

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Social Listening Strategy – Part 2: Social Mention

This video is an organization’s beginners guide to using Social Mention for their Social Listening Strategy. Businesses, personal brands, non-profits and churches should all use Social Mention for relevant topics. Listening and awareness of online conversations about your organization/brand is vital to responding appropriately. Social Mention Defines itself like this: Social Mention is a social [...]

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Social Listening Strategy – Part 1: Google Alerts

This video is an organization’s beginners guide to setting up Google Alerts for their Social Listening Strategy. Businesses, personal brands, non-profits and churches should all have Google Alerts setup for relevant topics. Listening and awareness of online conversations about your organization/brand is vital to responding appropriately. What are Google Alerts? Here is Google’s definition: Google [...]

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Don’t Forget about LinkedIn

  It isn’t uncommon for people to ask me, “What is that LinkedIn thing? Do I need one?”  As businesses and nonprofit organizations have begun to seek the potential benefits of social media for their organization, they have reluctantly started creating social media profiles.  Finding the right mix among several different platforms is necessary to a [...]

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Should my business use Pinterest?

  Could the latest social media addiction in women be the next marketing opportunity for small businesses?  Although Pinterest began two years ago, the last few months have produced a 2,000% increase in pageviews (TechCrunch).  This growth has not only raised eyebrows, but it has captured the screens of millions of viewers.  With that punch, [...]

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Small Business Slow To Adopt Social Media

In a recent survey by Hiscox, it was reported that nearly half of all small businesses in the United States are not using social media for their business. The findings included: – 47% of respondents indicated they did not use social media for business purposes at all For those that did use social media for [...]

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What is Social Media?

Social Media refers to activities, practices, and behaviors among communities of people who gather online to share information, knowledge, and opinions using conversational media. – Lon Safko “The Social Media Bible”   Social Media is an umbrella term, defining all of the activities that come together in a utility that uses multiple communication mediums’ of words, [...]

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