Social Media News

The Week in Social Media News 6/27/2014 Important to Marketers

The week in social media news curated by your friends at Fandom Marketing. Instagram introduces new tools. Twitter is testing retweet copy limits. New study reveals teens do still love Facebook after all. Sizing up the social media habits of high school grads. Read on for the full story. Introducing New Creative Tools on Instagram…

June 27, 2014
Facebook For Business

Optimize Facebook Ads To Reach Niche Targets

So many marketers throw countless amounts of cash into advertising on Facebook without truly understanding the goal of their ad, leaving them with less-than-stellar results. The key to Facebook ad optimization is to continually check in on your campaign and make minor adjustments to ensure you’re getting the reach you want from start to finish.…

June 24, 2014
Social Media News

The Week in Social Media News 06/20/2014, Stories Important to Marketers

The week in social media news curated by your friends at Fandom Marketing. LinkedIn’s new profile design, Instagram takes advertising global, Twitter now lets you post GIFs and learn how. LinkedIn’s New Profile Design Takes a Hint From Facebook and Twitter June 4, 2014 LinkedIn is taking some design inspiration from Facebook and Twitter. The…

June 22, 2014
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Expert Series

How Journalism and Social Media Intersect with Natalie Andrews of WSJ

If there is one person who understands how to successfully mix good journalism and social media, its Natalie Andrews. Natalie is the former social media news director at KSL in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is currently a social media editor for The Wall Street Journal D.C. Bureau. She started at KSL in 2012 in…

June 18, 2014
Social Media For Events

Drive Event Attendance With Social Media

Social media has become an essential and invaluable tool for corporate events. If you ask me, it’s been a complete game changer to the way we look at events today. Social media for events can be used to cover just about every stage of the planning process in a very engaging, and for the most…

June 10, 2014
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Blogging For Business

Traffic Boosting WordPress Social Media Plugins

Today I want to share the top three premium WordPress social media plugins I’ve found to help add some oomph to your website. All of these plugins are awesome and provide a host of benefits to help increase traffic to your website, improve social sharing across multiple platforms, entice people to read your content, support…

June 3, 2014
Social Media News

The Week in Social Media News 5/29/2014 – Keeping Marketers Current

The week in social media news curated by your friends at Fandom Marketing. Whisper targets adults, Facebook’s privacy updates, Maya Angelou’s Twitter leaves behind her best poem, what Scott Monty’s departure means to Ford, and new social media stats you don’t want to miss. Whisper Redesigns App to Reach Older Audience May 19, 2014 Until…

June 1, 2014
Social Marketing Strategy

Should My Brand Be On Google Plus?

Even before Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s social division that runs Google+, announced he was leaving the company back in April this question still hung in the minds of many brands and marketers, “Should I be on Google+?” Many jumped on the bandwagon in 2011 and were successful, others not so much. The uncertainty of whether…

May 26, 2014