Marketing Infographics on Facebook, Twitter, Social Media Strategy & More
Infographics are, hands-down, the most popular tools I offer here at SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com. People love getting actionable tactics, organized and well-laid out for them. It’s like having a marketing checklist right before your eyes. Here you can find our most popular infographics we make available to the public. Quick Navigation Social Media Strategy ChartUltimate Guide to Hashtags […]
Continue readingMy Success Story #1: Margaret Travis of Eazy Peazy Quilts
Updated Jan 2013. I’m featuring SocialMediaOnlineClasses.com student success stories, and we’re starting off with Margaret Travis of Eazy Peazy quilts. Margaret is part of the 3 Billion dollar quilt industry, and she designs accessories – handbags, pincushions, eyeglass cases, and specialty items for those in wheelchairs and walkers. Margaret began here as a student in […]
Continue readingMay Small Business Social Media Success Stories
In the final installment of success stories celebrating National Small Business month, I’m featuring a round-up of SMOC graduates and their stories: Carolyn Littell, a real estate agent in the north Georgia mountains (identifies herself as a “maverick”) was the first in her agency to offer her own website. Carolyn was considering taking an HTML […]
Continue readingPinterest Case Study: Solopreneur Gets Over 68,000 Followers
For your case study, you’ll meet Kate Bryan, of The Small Things Blog. She’s a North Carolina hairstylist who found tremendous success with Pinterest, including: Over 68,000 followers on Pinterest A whopping 9 MILLION views to her hair tutorials on YouTube Over 20,000 blog subscribers Would you like those numbers? What could they do for […]
Continue readingTwitter Marketing #TweetSheet: Make Every Tweet Count
Twitter seems to have a bigger learning curve and intimidation factor for people than other platforms, so this TweetSheet will be helpful in figuring out the language, etiquette, and how to get results in just 140 characters in a blindly-fast social network. Whether you’re a Twitter newbie or veteran, you can use this TweetSheet for […]
Continue readingSocialMediaOnlineClasses Student Success Stories
We’re so proud of our students and instructors who are in the headlines lately. They’re doing big things and using social media to promote their latest projects. Take a look: Our own YouTube101 instructor, Vanessa Wilson, was featured on ABC’s 20/20 as one of the enormously successful Generation YouTube entrepreneurs profiting from the video platform. […]
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INFOGRAPHIC & Video: 64 Techniques for Innovative Facebook Marketing Campaigns
This is our 7th year of publishing our classic infographic, updating it to include the most up-to-date tactics that work on Facebook NOW. As your Facebook newsfeed gets more and more crowded, you need to evolve your marketing to be smarter. Give your fans — and Facebook — content that gets the highest reach possible. Currently, that’s video: specifically, […]
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Checklist for Writing Great Twitter Posts [INFOGRAPHIC]
Want to stand out on Twitter? Need to learn how to write a great tweet? Easy. People have been doing it for over one hundred years: Headlines. Look no farther than newspaper editors and fiction authors: they’ve mastered the art of the tease — writing short, detailed copy leaving readers hungry for more.A compelling headline includes several characteristics:1. SHORTTwitter’s […]
Continue reading10-Minute Twitter Strategies for Small Business Profits
Twitter is the one social network my students and clients are most hesitant to join. It’s only for celebrities like Alyssa Milano and Charlie Sheen, they say. Or like my summer intern Matt, they feel like they need a Twitter-to-English dictionary to decipher people’s tweets. Stated plainly, Twitter is not for wimps. It takes persistence […]
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Social Media for Professional vs. Personal Use: There’s A Difference
[UPDATE] Amanda Jensen, author of this blog post, landed her first professional position at a Fortune 100 company. Scroll down to the end of the article to find out where. Confessions of a millennial intern who thought she was social media savvy. What she learned was that using social for business was completely different!”Social media? Yeah […]
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