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Do you love Instagram Stories? You may be wondering how you can use this feature to benefit your blog more. If you’re not sure what an Instagram Story is, they’re a picture, a collection of pictures or video which live on Instagram for 24 hours before they disappear (although you can save them). Stories sit at the top of your …
In order to establish authority and trust on social media it’s very important to write a professional sounding social media bio for your profiles. When someone finds your account and is deciding whether or not to start following you, they’re going to read your bio to see what you’re all about. It will take them less than two-tenths of a second to …
Make a click to tweet image to help your organic marketing?!… Organic marketing might be the stuff of dreams for us bloggers. We should be doing all we can to make it really easy for our readers to share our posts far and wide. Yes, we all have social sharing buttons, but how can we grab the attention of our …
How Instagram Stories work There is no doubt that having a live ‘real’ connection with your audience is vital to the success of your blog. People want to have relationships with authentic people and so this live connection is becoming increasingly important. I’ve spoken more about the value of Instagram Stories in a previous post – How to use Instagram stories …
Social media is an incredibly powerful marketing tool that can help you to reach a potentially unlimited number of people with the very minimum investment in terms of time, money and effort. But while social media might be incredibly powerful, it’s still only going to be as good as the strategy you have in place and if you haven’t …
If you want to grow your social media accounts, then you should be actively looking for new ways to get extra followers. The more followers you get, the larger the number of people that each of your new posts will be automatically broadcast to. This is ultimately one of the primary objectives of social media and it’s what will give …
As a busy blogger I am always looking for ways to save time, speed up the tasks I have to complete and automate tasks when possible. For a number of years now I have used SocialOomph* for Twitter scheduling. Having tried *most* of the other schedulers out there I found SocialOomph* to be untouchable on certain aspects and it saves …
In three years +, blogging has given me so much I’m grateful for. Things that I never expected when I wrote my first post. I’ve written about how blogging is like therapy for me, I’ve been asked to review some wonderful products, have captured big and small moments in Ava’s life, been invited to great events in different countries, but also most …
About a week ago I had a Twitter milestone, I passed 25k followers. Twitter has always been my biggest referrer of traffic and it’s definitely the network that I found the easiest to grow. Twitter was the first social media account I set up when I started my blog, so it has been going for around four years now. Twitter can …
Facebook’s a tough nut to crack. It seems that Mr Zuckerberg want us to pay to play and consequently it can be hard to build up any momentum. It’s certainly a platform that I feel has been harder and slower for me to build up than others. I recently past 6k page likes, compared to Twitter’s 19k followers in the same …
When you start blogging you have no idea what lies ahead. If you are anything like me, you start it on a whim, probably with little or no knowledge; then suddenly this big wide blog world opens up and it can be a little overwhelming. Maybe you’re a blogger who has been round the block a bit, but things have …
This week the lovely Lizzie who blogs over at Firstooth asked me how I interact on social media. Which platforms I use for chatting, promotion and which for fun. I explain all in this week’s #BlogFixFriday. If you have any topics or questions you would like me to cover in #BlogFixFriday then please let me know in the comments and I …
Welcome back to #BlogFixFriday! This week I am talking about Instagram and how to grow your followers. I have grown my followers from 2.3k to 7.6k in around 20 weeks or so. I tell you exactly how I have done it. Excuse the gurning face, YouTube won’t let me upload customised thumbnails! Nightmare! I hope you found that useful! If …
A couple of weeks there was a bit of an uproar among Instagram users, when the Facebook owned social network announced a change in their current algorithm. As from yesterday Instagram are showing images in your feed depending on your interests and relationships to the accounts posting in your feed. Gone* is the chronological feed we have come to love from Instagram and …
A couple of weeks ago I burned the midnight oil to take part in a live webinar by Nathan Chan, founder of Foundr Magazine, hosted by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger (my blogging hero). For any of you who haven’t heard of Foundr magazine, it is a digital mag which Nathan started in 2013 while working full time in another job. Since …
I have blogged before about my new found love for Instagram. I want to share with you some things you can do today if you feel you need to up your Instagram game. I used to treat Instagram as another platform like Facebook, I would post any pictures of our days, occasionally an inspiring quote and I didn’t really ‘get’ …
I think there is a misconception among some bloggers that using hashtags is not cool and can seem spammy. If you think this, then you’re wrong. If you have a massive following, then your fans will see your images in your feed and you will get likes from these fans. However, if you’re looking to build your likes and followers …
If you want to be a successful blogger, then you need a social media strategy. There’s no point in writing away and posting like fury, if no-one knows you’re there. With so many platforms it can so be overwhelming to learn how to use them at all. Let alone learning how to use them effectively. In the first 18 months …
