The Rise of the Angels (and the Entrepreneurs) 9 Fun Facebook Page Examples to Spark Your Creativity. Are you looking for creative ways to engage your Facebook fans? Do you need some fresh ways to infuse fun into the Facebook experience? This article will examine nine Facebook pages that bring excitement to their Facebook pages . My hope is you’ll find inspiration for your own page. NOTE: Many of these Facebook apps are developed by a third party and have a standard look and functionality. . #1: Seasons 52: “Mini Indulgence” Quiz Seasons 52 is a restaurant chain with signature desserts called the “Mini Indulgence.” The reason this works is because it asks personal questions about things you like to do and “matches” those things with the type of dessert.
Take the quiz to find out which dessert matches you. Key Takeaway : Create a quiz that is all about your customers . #2: Grey Poupon Society of Good Taste This is another interactive app that requires fans to “Apply” to be a member of Grey Poupon’s inner circle . You must apply to get into the Society. #3: ABF U-Pack Moving: U-Pack-A-Cube. Cómo administrar Foursquare para marcas. Les hemos hablados sobre muchas opciones que tienen las marcas en redes sociales. Pinterest, Instagram y otras redes sociales novedosas que quizás no tienen la misma base de usuarios que Facebook o Twitter pero que nos dan una gama de funcionalidades muy interesante y que nos permite comunicar otras cosas –y de forma diferente- a nuestros usuarios.
Hoy, para variar, vamos a volver a ver cómo se puede aprovechar uno de los booms más importantes de los últimos tiempos: la plataforma de geolocalización Foursquare. Si somos una marca, ¿cómo podemos usarlo para mejorar nuestra presencia online? Afortunadamente, desde hace un tiempo Foursquare también inauguró un espacio para marcas en su servicio, que brinda otras funciones diferentes a las que se pueden acceder con un perfil de usuario. Con los perfiles para marcas podemos acceder a diferentes formas de interactuar con los usuarios sin perder de vista el propósito general de la aplicación. 4 Surprising Ways to Use Google+ for Business. Google+ is more than just Google's answer to Facebook. It's also an all-in-one communication tool and office taskmaster. From filtering email to collaborating with colleagues to hosting video conferences, the search giant's budding social network offers features some business owners might not be aware of.
Here's a look at four ways to use Google+ for everyday business tasks: 1. Filter and organize your Gmail with Google+ Circles. Digging up important messages from a constant barrage of emails can be daunting. But Google+ Circles -- the tool that allows you to group people by relationship or category -- can help you filter and prioritize your inbox. To begin filtering your Gmail messages via Google+ Circles, log in to your Gmail and click the down arrow adjacent to your Circles. Related: How Google+ Can Improve Your SEO (Video) 2. If you haven't hosted a Google+ Hangout before, you'll need an account linked to Google+. Related: Getting Started on Google+ 3. 4. 10 Things Entrepreneurs Should Be Tweeting About.
Apart from creating a vibrant branded Twitter account for your startup, business owners should consider creating their own personal account on Twitter. Fans and followers often want to connect with the person behind the brand. Giving customers and prospects a glimpse into the entrepreneur's life and mindset can allow them to cultivate a deeper relationship with customers separately from the brand. The goal, of course, is to increase customers' loyalty to the brand. Here are 10 things every entrepreneur can tweet about, which can allow your clients and prospects to see another side of you: 1. Recent Articles From Lewis Howes 2. 3. Related: 5 Tips for Using Social Media as a Customer Service Tool 4. Just remember that your opinion paints a public image, which means you should be cautious about which opinions you choose to share -- ideally only those which are congruent with your market. 5. 6. 7. Related: Want Better Twitter Results? 8. 9. 10. What types of tweets would you add to this list?
What Your 'About Us' Page Is Missing. Survey: Most companies still not capitalizing on social media. For traditional businesses, social media is like a virus: it’s furious, fast-growing, and impossible to ignore. According to a new survey released by the Stanford Rock Center for Corporate Governance, the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and The Conference Board, less than a third of companies today use social media for business purposes. Executives not confidently using sites like Facebook and LinkedIn to support their corporate strategy whether it’s for the purposes of communication, brand management or identifying risk.
In the report, 180 senior executives and corporate directors of North American public and private companies, were surveyed for their opinions on social media. The findings reveal a disconnect between companies’ understanding of social media and how they are applying it to their business. The key findings from the report include: Read the full report here Image via Shutterstock. 8 Ways to Improve Your 'About Us' Page. Which page of your website gets the most visitors? If you're like most businesses, your About Us page is at or near the top of the list.
That's great--unless you treat your About Us page as an afterthought. After your site gets potential customers interested in your products or services, they naturally head to your About Us page--often within three to four clicks--to make sure your company is the right choice to provide those products and services. That's why your About Us page is often your website's make or break page.
Of course writing about yourself and your business is awkward, so many About Us pages read something like this: "NextBigThing Technologies is a global solutions provider that redefines enterprise networking and connectivity by providing a unique blend of innovative world-class services and outstanding customer experiences. " Sounds impressive, especially if you like buzzwords. So take a different approach. Start with the customer's needs. Forget what you do.
Fluff is boring. Venngage Helps Startups Design Infographics Cheaply and Easily. New York Restaurant Puts Instagram on the Menu. A new restaurant in New York City has implemented what it's calling an Instagram menu, directing patrons to pictures of food posted on the popular photo-sharing site to help them decide what to order. When three-week old Latin-American restaurant Comodo — located in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood — noticed guests were repeatedly snapping pictures of their entrees and uploading them to Instagram, it decided to capitalize on the trend.
The restaurant has embraced the hashtag #ComodoMenu and added it to the bottom of its real-life menu, encouraging guests to add, share and check out photos of food offered at the establishment. "People love taking pictures of food when they go out, and we wanted to use what was organically happening on social media sites and turn it into a helpful and fun tool at the restaurant," Comodo owner Felipe Donnelly told Mashable. "We've been encouraging guests to post pictures on Instagram to spread the word, and the feedback has been great. How Small Businesses Can Use LinkedIn to Recruit. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. In one sense, LinkedIn has revolutionized job recruiting, but in another sense it hasn't. After all, the social network is just a giant database of potential employees. To actually recruit, you still have to email or even — gulp — pick up the phone.
If you're a small business, you have to do some number-crunching to determine how much to invest in LinkedIn. If you're looking to fill just one or two positions, then spending $7,000 or so for LinkedIn Recruiter might be a bit extravagant. However, you also have to calculate how much time it takes to recruit and screen applicants yourself and maybe consider the fact that without a professional recruiter on board, you may be making a costly mistake. Of course, small business owners are constantly grappling with such calculations. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Supporting Sponsor. 47 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed.
AOL May Have Invented Email's Next UI Paradigm. Bill Wetherell, a senior director of UX design at AOL, is struggling to find a recent message from his wife in his Gmail inbox. He’s mashing and mashing and mashing on the down-arrow key while squinting at his laptop screen. Wetherell eventually finds the right email, but not before admitting his true feelings for Google’s popular messaging product. "It’s a frickin’ mess right now," he says. "I just want to find that frickin’ email, but I have to go all the way down here--wait, wait, there it is--way down here. This is basically the inbox fatigue we’re all now dealing with. " The exercise is not without a purpose: Wetherell is in New York to show me the true innovations of AOL Alto, a new service that the company promises will revolutionize how we interact with email, which goes live today as an invite-only beta program. Stacks, Not Folders How many times have you searched your Gmail account for an old photo?
The innovation derives from, of all things, snail mail. Less is More. Using Instagram For Business: Reasons and Tips (Infographic). X Don't miss new posts and infographics! Subscribe to our Digital & Social Media Marketing Blog and Get a FREE eBook “Facebook Strategies” We never share your e-mail April, 2014 News Hey, it’s been a great month for our clients so far (and, therefore, for us). inShare Subscribe to Our Updates and Get a FREE eBook "Facebook Strategies"! We respect your email privacy Recent PostsSocial Media and SEO: Synergy Tips It's not a secret that search engines pay atImpromptu Social Media Marketing Imagine you own a company in New York City a10 Social Media Marketing Mistakes Every Business Should Avoid. 1) Not having a strategy. Popular Posts 1-646-637-3895 info@NewMediaForce.com Get a Free Quote + Strategic Recommendations for Your Business Name: Email: Phone: Website: Subscribe to our Social Media Marketing & PR blog updates. *We never share your contact information Facebook Like Box Subscribe to us on YouTube!
InShare3 Using Instagram For Business: Reasons and Tips (Infographic). inShare18 inShare18. Sequoia's Jim Goetz On Enterprise Startups. 8 Tools You Can Use for Successful Blogging. I get the irony of blogging about blogging but given I already talk about talking, I’m okay with that. This isn’t a topic I typically hit on but as the thoughtLEADERS Blog continues to grow and thrive and I get people asking me about what works and what doesn’t, I figure it’s worthwhile to dedicate some airtime to the topic of building your blog following and turning it into real value. No, I’m not Chris Brogan and this isn’t going to be some massive SEO/SEM treatise. This is nothing more than a list of the best tools, techniques, and widgets I’ve learned and used over the years. I use and believe in these tools and I hope you’ll get as much value out of them as I have. First, allow me to spell out some social media principles and beliefs so you understand how and why I use the tools I do.
Outposts: I believe in outposts (e.g., twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook) serving as a first point of contact for someone to run into me and my business. Make it Fun: Entertain first. Cash: I’m a capitalist. Tr-training.s3.amazonaws.com/UEDay2HrofPwr.mp3. Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy | Inc. 5000. If you're like most busy business owners, you're probably thinking to yourself, "I barely have enough time to run my company, now I have to worry about social media? " Social media can seem overwhelming and daunting, but if you break it down into tiny little pieces, it's actually quite doable. And with new, affordable management tools on the market every day, the process can be more than worth it to your bottom line. I just hosted 15 customers at our VerticalResponse offices and talked to them about this very subject.
One woman, who sells her goods on eBay, posts to Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter every hour. But another woman doesn't because she doesn't really know where to begin or what to say. This is what we say to people: You've got a ton of great content at your fingertips that you might not think is interesting, but I'll tell you, your followers do! Share Great Content 1. If you sell goods, you've got pictures. 2. 3. 4. Save Time by Pre-Scheduling Posts. TED Reveals Top 20 Most-Watched Talks, Sir Ken Robinson Tops The List. When Freemium Fails. What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day.
Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown-up home room every day. You should too. The first hour of the workday goes a bit differently for Craig Newmark of Craigslist, David Karp of Tumblr, motivational speaker Tony Robbins, career writer (and Fast Company blogger) Brian Tracy, and others, and they’ll tell you it makes a big difference. Here are the first items on their daily to-do list.
Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour. Tumblr founder David Karp will "try hard" not to check his email until 9:30 or 10 a.m., according to an Inc. profile of him. If you need to make sure the most important messages from select people come through instantly, AwayFind can monitor your inbox and get your attention when something notable arrives. Choose Your Frog. Russia, Brazil, Mexico & Turkey: Emerging App Markets For The iPhone. Two years ago, the total overall revenue generated in the Apple App Store was predominantly generated by the United States. Looking at the revenues generated by the top 200 highest grossing apps per country in June 2010, the US was responsible for 45% of this revenue in the Apple App Store for iPhone. The current state of the Apple App Store for iPhone shows that the top 200 highest grossing applications in the U.S. generate 31% of the top 200 highest grossing applications of all countries combined.
In other words, the share of revenue generated outside the US increased significantly over the past two years. This shows that the app industry is truly becoming more and more of a global phenomenon. One year ago, Distimo wrote about the rise of Asia in the app market, and our research revealed that China was the second largest app market in terms of downloads. Other East Asian countries, like Japan and South Korea, were also booming in terms of apps downloads. 6 Posts That Build Engagement on Facebook. Aaron Lee is the social media manager at Binkd Promotion, a comprehensive platform for social media marketing through digital promotions and contests.
He also writes social media tips on the Binkd Blog. Follow him at @AskAaronLee. When Mark Zuckerberg first built Facebook, the purpose of it was to keep people connected with their friends. That was its first purpose. And it worked well. As Facebook grew, its purpose grew to accommodate businesses. Hence the addition of Facebook pages for brands. That's not true, and it's not true because not all posts are created equal. 1.
We have all heard “A picture is worth a thousand words.” When it comes to brands, a familiar image is also key. Social Fresh fully utilizes this to their advantage, as their pictures often come with shortened links. 2. Fill-in-the-blank posts are great at sparking engagement. Fancy Feast — a gourmet cat food brand — regularly creates these posts. 3. Photo captions bring the best of the two items above. 4. Inc. 5.