Score New Customers Using Social Media

Social media is a big help for any business. It opens new doors, connects you with your target market, and makes your brand known. But is social media a puzzle to you?  This article lists some top strategies, from making your business profile look good to using data analytics and …

Maximize Your Business Potential with a Social Media Marketing Strategy

Creating a social media marketing strategy for your business means maximizing business potential. If you’re using social media platforms without a strategy, you’re missing a big opportunity for growth.  Why You Need a Strategy A good social media strategy brings several benefits to your business. Customer Growth and Retention Social …

Why Content Marketing Is the Future of Advertising

Televisions, billboards, and the internet bombard people with advertisements and marketing ploys. This development has led to over 65 million people using ad-blockers to reduce interruptions in their interests. Those who aren’t as tech-savvy may feel stuck with constant information about services and items they don’t care about. Now, businesses …

More Scammers Are Using Social Media To Target Victims

An increasing number of scammers are using social media to target victims and relying on social engineering tricks to convince people to part with their personal information or money.  The problem has grown serious enough that the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) has issued a formal warning to consumers. According to …

High Profile Instagram Accounts Being Held For Ransom By Hackers

Hackers have recently hit upon a new money-making scheme.  Some groups have started breaking into Instagram accounts belonging to people with high numbers of followers. They are then holding those accounts hostage until the owner agrees to pay the ransom.  In some cases, the hackers are charging as much as …

Links In Stories Now Available For All Instagram Users

If you’re not an Instagram user you may not have heard of ‘Stories.’ They are vertical photos or videos with a duration of no more than fifteen seconds per clip. You can post multiple 15 second clips in a row as well. The unique part is that they vanish after …

Facebook And Instagram Chats And Messages Get Cross Compatibility

If you use both Facebook and Instagram, either personally or in the conduct of your business, then a recent Facebook announcement regarding interoperability will make you smile. The company has been working for years toward the goal of greater interoperability among all of its core services and this is a …

Messaging Gets Upgrade For Instagram Users

Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire is chasing growth. It’s not hard to understand why. Facebook is the world’s largest social media platform, with more than 2.4 billion users worldwide. The bigger you get, the harder it is to grow. That is exactly why Zuckerberg zeroed in on the three fastest …

Instagram Adds AI To Warn You About Offensive Comments

Instagram has made a recent change you should be aware of. Any time you make a comment, you may get a popup warning that your comment may be “potentially offensive”. That is, if the service’s AI-powered tools conclude that the warning is appropriate based on an analysis of other comments …