The ULTIMATE Instagram Guide

Instagram recently turned 10. It’s hard to believe this platform has only been around for 10 years. It is such a big part of so many lives, and yet still so many find it confusing and still ignore this powerful marketing platform. There are so many new features that we thought it was time to put out the Ultimate Instagram Guide for 2021.

Online Business Transformation
How to use Twitter for Business – The Ultimate Guide 2018. Tips on how to turbocharge your Twitter account with tips and get that little blue bird working for you at last!

Instagram Captions: Mastering a Massive Engagement-Driver
While many people have their Instagram filter choices down to a science, fewer have delved into the details of crafting the perfect caption. Given that Instagram is a photo-sharing app, it makes sense that text takes the backseat. But with Instagram’s rapid growth and introduction of new features focused specifically on captions, there’s no reason not to take this extra step to bring your Instagram game to the next level.

21 Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make in Instagram Marketing
Since I run the MadeFreshly Instagram account, I’m active everyday checking out the feeds of small businesses, handmade brands, and indie-preneur’s trying to grow their businesses.

10 secrets that will make your life as a Social Media Manager much easier
There’s this common misconception that managing social media on a professional level is as easy and breezy as uploading an image on Facebook with a simple caption to go with it. But, you and I both know that there’s so much more to it.

Social Media Active Users by Network
One of the most common questions from both businesses and social media marketers is “how many?” How many users. How many people. How many opportunities – for each of the social networks.

How to Handle Negative Social Media Feedback
Social media has revolutionized the way small businesses interact with their customers. Big or small, consumers have unprecedented access to the companies they love, and the ones they love to hate.

Using Social Media for Business
Social media is now a crucial part of any successful businesses marketing plan. If you aren’t already using this powerful and cost effective marketing tool to its full potential, maybe these facts will give you a push.

How the Top 100 Brands Use Instagram
Since launching two years ago, Instagram has captured the imagination of consumers and inspired brands to embrace visual dialogue in new and creative ways.

10 Questions to Ask When Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan
Creating a detailed, goal-oriented social media strategy is just as important as having a rock solid business plan.

5 Ways to Conquer Instagram for your Small Business
Over 130 million people enjoy the popular free app Instagram, and chances are some of them are your current and future clients. Instagram is an easy-to-navigate visual social platform, where users capture, customize and share photos and videos.

25 Brain Lubricants to Generate Content Ideas
Feeling stuck? The content’s not coming. It happens. I’m often asked where do you find ideas? I’m not sure I have the answers, but the question got me thinking.

Resources for Taking the Lead with Your Tech
Books, organizations, and multimedia resources covering everything from posting to social media to major trends in our gadget use.

Customers Don’t Want Ads, They Want a Conversation
Marketing is rapidly transforming into a dialogue between buyers and sellers or collaborative marketing. Crowdtap CEO Brandon Evans on the five trends driving the shift.

Why Connecting is the Fast Track to Success on Social Media
Social media has turned the focus of businesses to connecting: be it with clients, customers, potential employees, partners or jobs.

It’s Time for Mobile Marketing…Yesterday
More and more people are accessing the internet through their mobile devices. In fact, Microsoft Tag estimates that mobile access to the internet will overtake desktop access by 2014.

101 Examples of Social Business ROI
101 examples of social business return on investment, roughly 60% revenue generation and 40% cost reduction.

How to Contact Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Other Social Networks
Links to the contact information for Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, and Reddit.

How to leverage Twitter’s Vine app for B2B content marketing
Adopting another social tool can help showcase your business, humanize your brand and increase your awareness. Experimenting with Vine can only be a beneficial addition to any company’s marketing mix.

The Ultimate List of the Best Social Media Tools
An amazing set of social media tools, audio/video tools, and internet marketing tools at your disposal when working on your social media project.

Why Ignoring Social Media Complaints is a Huge Mistake
It amazes me that even in today’s social media savvy business environment there are still big companies that fail to engage with their customers, particularly customers that are frustrated and unhappy. In fact, a variety of research shows that ignoring those customers is the worst possible strategy.

Twitter Beats Facebook for Social Sharing (And, Yes, Google+ is a Ghost Town) [STUDY]
Back in February, independent data suggested that users spent just 3.3 minutes on Google+ in January, compared to 7.5 hours for Facebook. Now, a new study has revealed just how ineffective Google+ is as a social sharing platform, certainly compared to Twitter.

The 4 Bs of B2B Social Media
It’s all about business for any company engaging in social media. Sometimes we forget that these platforms are a means to an end. That end is revenue.

Gary Vaynerchuk Explains Why Small Business Owners Need to Stop Debating Social Media and Use It
The arguments people are having about social media today are the same ones they had about those now-ubiquitous developments just 10 to 15 years ago, Vaynerchuk said.

Why Online Influencer Outreach is Overrated and How to Fix It
Once drafted into the cause and compensated in some way, online influencers will spread the word in social media, increasing sales for the brand. But these programs often prove ineffective at driving behavior beyond social chatter.

Why Social Media is Dead
Having had several recent engaging conversations with smart people who I respect, I’ve picked up a hint of exhaustion around usage of the word “social”.

5 Food Brands Building Social Buzz on a Budget
You don’t need a big budget to hire someone with existing social media clout.

Why You Should Consider Desktop Social Media Dashboards
Blog post that highlights some of the usefulness that social media dashboards provide.

Social Media Influence
How to measure your social media influence.

How HSUS Uses Social Media to Derail Ranchers
A recent report by Truffle Media News showcases a presentation made by Carie Lewis, HSUS director of emerging media. Whether you’re a supporter of HSUS or not, Lewis offers a great view into how HSUS is strategic in its use of social media.

Ag Social Media “Ain’t Nothing New”
Ag producers are taking to social media like digital pigs in cyber clover, and during the past two years, the number of farmers using cell phones, blogs, and Twitter accounts has risen exponentially.

Expand the Customer Experience with Social Media
Social media allows you to extend the customer experience beyond just marketing to people before they purchase. By connecting with people BEFORE they are your customers, you can learn more about them and their buying habits.

Social Media ROI – Content and Listening
I want to warn you the content in this post will really help you a lot with your social media marketing efforts.

StumbleUpon Sends More Traffic to US Websites than Facebook
Web discovery engine StumbleUpon is now the biggest traffic driver among social media websites in the US, according to global web analytics service StatCounter.

Leadership on Social Media Sites
What does it mean to have leadership on social media sites? While it might seem a bit abnormal to talk about leadership as it relates to facebook, twitter, linkedin and other social media sites, the reality is that if you pay attention you will notice certain people who emerge as leaders and demonstrate leadership qualities.

Agriculture and Social Networks?
Whether we like it or not, online networks are here to stay-watch a Gen X or Yer and you’ll quickly see why.

Social Media Strategy is a Must for Science Advocates
The widespread adoption of social media tools to communicate and share information has significantly changed the science-based research landscape.

100 Ways to Measure Social Media
If there’s anyone out there left who says you can’t measure social media, here are a hundred answers.

Twitter Crushing Facebook’s Click-Through Rate: Report
What is the most effective way for marketers to spread their message online? Facebook? Twitter? Company blogs? Email?

Tweeting from the Tractor – 7 Secrets to Successful Social Media Farming
Farming may very well be the second-oldest profession. This will not come as a surprise, but I’ve never farmed personally. And while farming has been around so long it’s literally bibical, social media shares several core elements.

Social Media Use Increases 82% Worldwide: Nielsen Report Confirms Growing Power of Bloggerwave’s Business Strategy
Bloggerwave Inc., a global leader in commercial blogging, today declared that The Nielsen Company’s recently released report of an 82% increase in social media use has huge implications for Bloggerwave, its shareholders and clients, and Internet users worldwide.

Social Technographics: Conversationalists get onto the ladder
Two and a half years ago Social Technographics was introduced as a way to analyze your market’s social technology behavior.

Why Engage in Facebook, YouTube, Twitter?
Leadership in agricultural advocacy through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Linkedin and other tools is becoming increasingly critical! Watch professional agricultural speaker give you some quick video cliffnotes on how agriculture can benefit.

The Business of Social Media: B2B and B2C Engagement by the Numbers
It is how we engage at each step of this cycle that determines our place and stature within the inevitable path of attention, analysis, and action. Once we learn how and where to engage, we can then focus our efforts on earning affinity and advocacy.

Are You Building Brand Instead of Reputation?
Are you building a brand that’s based on reputation and that will stand the test of time? Or are you just making your company Twitter famous? Do you know?

Marketing in social media not off-putting to users
More research has added weight to the assertion that social network users are receptive to brand marketing messages in their various social environments and are happy to recommend products or services themselves.