B2B Social Media Marketing – The Future Is Now

I believe one of the most prolific opportunities in B2B marketing exists right now in social media.  For B2B marketing, you can no longer think of social media as the place where you share photos of cats, or tweet about brushing your teeth, and share a video on Facebook of your dog sleeping.  Although these are all great posts on a personal level, this is not where the untapped opportunity resides in B2B social media marketing. The future I see, and that I'm experiencing today, is one where social media opens the door to connections in hyper concentrated silos, and where social media is creating the biggest opportunity in history for brands to step up and become the thought leaders in their own unique space. For example, if you are a manager or consultant working in the risk management space, it's likely that you'll be attracted to content being shared by major risk management brands.  And if the major brands are sharing in-depth, knowledge based content [...]

By | February 19th, 2016|Categories: Social Media|0 Comments
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How To Get Facebook Fans More Active On Your Facebook Fan Page

Are you the owner of a Facebook Fan Page, and you've been struggling to get activity and interaction from your fan base?  Have you been looking for an easy strategy that can breath more life into your Facebook Fan page? These are legitimate questions and concerns for any Facebook Fan Page owner.  After all, one of the best ways to increase your brand's authority and exposure in social media is to have an alive and active fan base. If your fans are dormant on Facebook, then the Facebook ranking algorithm isn't going to look very highly upon your fan page updates.  And without higher rankings for your fan page updates, fewer people will see your Facebook page updates in their news stream. How to generate more activity from your Facebook Fan Page fans I wanted to write this post to share with you one technique that has resulted in a huge increase in fan engagement on both our own [...]

By | June 3rd, 2012|Categories: Blog, Facebook Fan Page, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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Stunning New Research! Why Your Business Needs To Be Active On Facebook

Is your business easily found on Facebook? Have you, or your business (product, service, brand) been looking for a good excuse to start using Facebook for your business? If so, then I think you'll find the information below VERY interesting and compelling. Facebook is exploding in popularity Facebook has recently surpassed the 800 million member mark, and its growth doesn't seem ready to slow any time soon.  Along with the explosive member growth on Facebook comes the unimaginable number that reveals just how long each user, on average, spends on Facebook once they login. According to a recent study by Nielson, total user time on site reached 53.5 billion minutes in the month of May 2011.   Guess who (or what) the next closest site was in total user time on site?  Yahoo at 17.2 billion minutes, with Google coming in third with 12.5 billion minutes total time spent on site in May 2011. If you are doing the [...]

By | May 28th, 2012|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Facebook Camera App, Not Yet Available For Business Facebook Pages

As you probably know by now, Facebook released a new photo sharing app called "Facebook Camera for iPhone".  The new Facebook camera app is pretty slick, I have to admit.  It takes of the same features you'll find with Instagram, like the ability to crop and alter the image based on a wide range of themes. But what's clearly missing from the lineup of features with the Facebook Camera app is the ability to post images as a Facebook page admin.  This is a feature that, in my opinion, should have been in place since the day one release. I know what you're thinking though... you are like, "man, can't anyone be happy with something that's released and not complain about it?"  I agree, too much complaining out there.  But from the perspective of Facebook's user base, and considering how many fan page admins exist out there, having the Facebook Camera app work with pages would have been nice. [...]

By | May 27th, 2012|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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How To Add Facebook Recommendations Bar To WordPress

The Facebook recommendations bar is a great way to integrate the Facebook graph into your Wordpress blog.  Having the recommendations bar operating on your Wordpress site can help engage your readers, increase your pageviews due to more articles being read per visitor, and also opens the door to get people to send links to your blog into their news stream on Facebook which can dramatically increase your traffic and exposure. Adding Facebook Recommendation Bar to your Wordpress Site I was able to add the Facebook recommendation bar to my site at TabletCrunch.com pretty easily by taking the following code right before the </head> tag in the header.php: <div data-read-time="5" num_recommendations="4"></div> Once I added that code and updated my header.php, I now see the new Facebook Recommendation bar appearing in the lower right hand corner of all my articles.  Here's a screenshot (or view this article and look to the lower right hand corner, after about 5 seconds the recommendation [...]

By | May 23rd, 2012|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , , |2 Comments
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The Magic Of #25 & #30 With Your Facebook Fan Page

I'll admit it, Bipper Media's Facebook page is still pretty new - just like BipperMedia.com. Even though the site's been up for about 6 months now, it's really only been the last two months where I've working with clients on content marketing.  And I guess it's because I'm starting over with Facebook page that I'm realizing there are some key thresholds as a page admin that are very important in the life of your Facebook Fan Page. The magic of 25 Facebook Fan Page fans Take the #25 for instance:  once you've hit 25 fans, you are then able to create your own customer username / URL for your Facebook fan page. This is pretty important because you can then start branding your Facebook page to your business - for example, Facebook.com/BipperMedia. Being able to brand your Facebook page with a custom URL allows you to do things like update your business cards, letter head, and other printed material [...]

By | May 18th, 2012|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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A Keyboard Shortcut For LinkedIn You Don’t Want To Miss

The other day I was on LinkedIn writing a reply message to someone, and when I was ready to send the message I did something that was instinctive in nature, but I discovered that it actually worked. And I was amazed, stunned, and even speechless for a brief moment. No, I didn't discover gravity or anything substantial like that, unfortunately.  But what I did discover is a keyboard shortcut that allowed me to send my message from LinkedIn email, or LinkedIn messaging. The keyboard shortcut to send messages in LinkedIn is "Tab + Enter".  So you'd hit the tab key and the enter key at the same time, and this will send your message from your LinkedIn email system. This is a tried and true keyboard shortcut that I use religiously in Gmail.  Every time I write a message in Gmail, I'm sending it with "Tab + Enter".  And this particular day in LinkedIn, I was typing fast and [...]

By | April 27th, 2012|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment
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5 Reasons To Build A LinkedIn Company Page For Your Business

Not sure if you knew this or not, but LinkedIn has recently launched Company Pages.  This allows you to create a listing for your business that is integrated directly into the fiber of LinkedIn, and benefits from the social networking exposure that LinkedIn is best known for. This is a new feature, to be sure.  But it's actually pretty easy to set up your new LinkedIn Business Page.  Since I haven't yet written a  "How To Setup Your LinkedIn Business Page" yet, I'm going to defer to a great article on Mashable. Top 5 Reasons To Build A Company Page on LinkedIn' It's important, if you have a business of any size, to build a company page on LinkedIn.  No, not just because it's the latest and greatest social networking platform to take up your time, but because your company page will deliver benefits long after you initially publish it. 1)  Build Your Google Places Page Authority The first [...]

By | March 8th, 2012|Categories: Blog, LinkedIn Company Pages, Social Media|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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How To Turn Your Blog Into A Social Online Magazine Using Pinterest Boards

So I started using Pinterest a few weeks ago to share articles I write at Tablet Crunch, my blog that's all about tablet computers.  And to honest, I only started trying Pinterest when I saw that the Twitter Facebook Social Share plugin was updated and allowed you to add a Pinterest sharing button. I never even considered Pinterest, or thought of Pinterest as a platform to actually share my content. But let me tell you, it's becoming one of the best decisions I've made with my blog! Turn your blog into an online magazine with Pinterest After about a week or so of sending my content from Tablet Crunch to Pinterest, I started to notice something pretty cool happening - my analytics was showing Pinterest as a growing platform for referral traffic. What??? Pinterest is actually sending traffic to my blog??? Absolutely. But what I discovered was that not only was Pinterest sending an increasing volume of traffic to [...]

By | March 4th, 2012|Categories: Blog, Pinterest, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , , |4 Comments
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8 Key Features On The New Facebook Fan Page Timeline For Business

I'm sure you've all heard by now that Facebook has just opened up the ability for Facebook Fan Page owners to convert their branded pages over to the new timeline layout.  It's a feature that's been around for a while now with regular Facebook profiles, but the ability for Facebook Fan Pages, or business pages, is new. If you own, or are an admin of a Facebook Fan Page, then you've probably seen the message at the top of your page asking you if you'd like to convert over to the new layout.  Some Facebook business page owners have, and others are still holding out.  But ultimately, holding out is futile because Facebook will make the switch over for you automatically on March 30th. Key features to the new Facebook Fan Page for business and brands - there's 8 of them you need to know: 1)  New profile pic The new profile pic has been resized and relocated.  The [...]

By | March 3rd, 2012|Categories: Blog, Facebook Fan Page, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , |4 Comments
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How To Have A Town Hall Meeting On Twitter

Twitter has grown into one of the most dominant social media forces in the world.  Although it's mostly used for one way broadcast messaging, the ease of access and unrestricted environment allows for valuable information to flow and reach those who are most interested in what's being shared. Twitter is also a great platform to host discussions, or otherwise isolate a particular stream of content.  This is done through the use of hashtags.  For example, a hashtag could be #wtc.  This would isolate all tweets centered around the discussion about the World Trade Center, and other people could get involved by simply sending their own tweet with the hashtag #twc in the message. This leads me to the idea of holding a town hall meeting for a local city using a predesignated hashtag.  For example, I live here in Athens, Georgia.  And let's say Athens wanted to host a town hall meeting via Twitter.  We would simply need to [...]

By | February 25th, 2012|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , , , |2 Comments
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The #1 Secret To Explosive Facebook Fan Page Growth

Alright, what I'm about to share with you here is something that people would pay a lot of money for through one on one consulting. What I'm going to give you is, without a doubt, the #1 most effective strategy to experiencing explosive growth on your Facebook Fan Page. But wait a minute Bobby... who in the world cares about Facebook Fan Pages?  I mean, what can they do for my business anyway? First of all, Facebook now has over 800 million users worldwide and is still growing at a ridiculous rate. Second, Facebook users are averaging 7 hours per month on the site.  This means, once Facebook users get on the site, they are spending A LOT of time browsing around to see what their friends are up to. Just to put this number in perspective for you - the next closest site to Facebook regarding "time on site" is Yahoo which averages 2 hours and 28 minutes [...]

By | November 2nd, 2011|Categories: Blog, Social Media|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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SEO For Cities and Towns

If you live in a small city like say Athens, Georgia or Binghamton, NY, then what's the best way to optimize your web presence? This is something that a lot of small and local business owners think about when it comes to capturing search traffic from places like Google.  There's no doubt that the majority of people are on Google searching and researching local products and services - the question that local business owners is a legitimate one indeed. From our perspective, the best way for local business to connect with new customers is through the use of Google Places. Google Places allows your business to achieve top search results - even beyond the natural (or organic) search result pages - and connect instantly to new customers who are literally ready to come to your location of make a call to your place of business. It's that "instant connection" element that allows Google Places to empower a local or [...]

By | October 27th, 2011|Categories: Blog, Business, Social Media|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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