Why is Important to Turn your Employees Into your Social Media Advocates?

Social Media plays a big role in Marketing today.
Business and companies are putting their efforts into reaching out people to build in order to increase their audience. As we know, these companies are busy getting their brand out there. Therefore many times they forget about the big asset they have, their employees.
Social Media has been misunderstood for many businesses that believe Social Media has been designed to serve a brand. On the contrary, Social Media is a bridge to communicate people not a brand. That’s why is important to turn your employees into your Social Media advocates. Nobody is better than company employees to get the brand out there. We can take as an example A
Dell where their employees use their social media accounts to updates information about the company.

“58% of certified employees engage in Social Media post every week on behalf of DELL”.

“Employees share 6 times more DELL updates on their Social Media outlets than on company accounts”Jay Baer said.
Individual posts made on personal accounts have more impact on people than post made on company account.
According to Nielsen “ 92 percent of consumers around the world say they trust earned media, such as recommendations from friends and family, above all other forms of advertising”. Vs. “ 47% of people trust advertisement from companies”
We can see, that your employees are big asset for your Social Media efforts. Your employees have families and friends and these families and friends have families and friends too and all of them have social media outlets. That is a word of mouth in the Internet that carry trust and confidence.

According to the survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project “ 71% of internet users adults in USA are on Facebook while 18% of Internet users adults in USA are on twitter”
“Average Facebook user has 338 friends and average twitter user has 208 followers”
Companies can’t waste the opportunity to turn their employees into brand ambassadors. Now you wonder how I can make my employees feel confident about sharing company information on their personal accounts.
Well, first it is important to create a Social Media Guideline that includes points like:

    1. You are responsible for what post,/li>
    2. You have to state that you work for the company
    3. Identify on your Social Media Account by your name and position on the company
    4. Respect the audience
    5. Respect copyright and logo of the company.
    6. And other similar things that are common sense.

Having a guideline and providing training is a good starting point to engage your employees to participate on Social Media as your brand ambassador. Hire a coach to motivate your employees so that they involved and participate actively on Social Media talking about the brand. You can also give away some small things as awards. In addition, you can create a contest inside the company to decide who is the employee that publishes the most information about the company on her or his personal Social Media accounts. Organize events for employees like a picnic day at the park and tell them to publish pictures of the event on their Instagram accounts. It will be fun, and this will create awareness of your brand. Use metrics to see results and share with everybody the information. Don’t keep it just for the manager. Make your employees feel as an important part of the company because they are.
According Edelman, 2013. “41% of people believe employees are trustworthy than a company’s CEO or PR department”.
This shows us that employees posting will engage people and earn trust for the brand they are talking about.

I know you are thinking, well it sounds great, but I have a small company and I have a few employees. Use the same pattern for your company. Start with your employees by making them feel happy to work for your brand then they will become passionate about it, and will be natural for them to talk great things about the brand. Let me know how things are going for you in this new project!
“You can’t be the best place to buy if you are not the best place to work”

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Web Page Optimization- How to perform it?

Web Page Optimization and its importance on SEO
Web Page Optimization is the process of optimizing the web page of a website. It helps in getting pages indexed on Search Engines.
Be aware of the following when you are optimizing Web Page because this things play vital rule for On Page Optimization.

the website content has to be optimized by using:

  1. Title Tags
  2. Meta Descriptions
  3. Meta Keyword
  4. URLs
  5. Optimizing Images
  6. Optimizing Videos
  7. Optimizing News

Web Page Optimizations Steps.
Title Tags
These tags are the elements that define what your page is about. Title Tags contain your main keyword. Furthermore, it will be used for Search Engines to show in SERP. Title Tags talks about your page by using few words. It is also display as a top of the browser, or name of the tap. Title tags are commonly used for social media shares to provide information about the page.

Meta Description
Is the description of the Title Tag. It is shown in the SERPs. Meta Tags give a better idea of the content of the page. Use your keyword in your Meta Description to improve SEO. Meta descriptions have maximum 160 characters. If you write more characters than 160 it will be cut and don’t make sense to people in SERPs. This step is a must for Web Page Optimization.

Meta Keywords,/span>

Is similar to Meta Description. Today, it is not used to optimize content. On the other hand the “Bad Practices” like overstuffing keywords can clearly hurt your ranking. That is called “Black Hat SEO”

URLs-
Optimize your web pages URLs for better ranking. An URL rich in keywords related to the content will definitely improve the Content Optimization. It will also help the Search Engine to find better your content. This is very helpful for Web Page Optimization.

Optimizing Images-
Visuals are very attractive for consumers. Many people don’t want to read a long blog, but they can get a huge referral through a image/picture. A good picture talks more than one thousand words. As a consequence, the use of images is a must in a website. The images have to be optimized by using Alt Tags.
As the image above shows it is important to use Alt Tags that are related with the content. The Alt Tag provides not only what about it is the image. It also provides size.
If you don’t use Alt Tags, Search Engines will never find the image because images are difficult to be read. Images are the favorites of consumers; don’t lose the opportunity of ranking your website through your optimized images.

Optimize Videos-
Today; It is easy to reach the audience by using videos.

First, create a video channel; it can be done in YouTube, Vimeo etc. Then embed video in channel and optimized filling with a good title, description, and keywords related to your page content. Check it out this interesting article about Video Optimization for SEO.

Optimizing News-

Last but not least you can optimize news. Submit your blog or press release to Google News. They will review your content and decided if has the requirements. Well written and optimize blogs have a great impact on SEO. Likewise, Pay Press released can increase your visibility in the majors search engines in a significant way.

“Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first.”

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Fake Followers on Twitter and Gosh Followers on Instagram!

Fake Followers in Social Media can hurt you
Fake and Ghost followers can spam your real followers, reduce your engagement and also you can lose your accounts. Many of us have fake followers in Twitter and Instagram, maybe you are following some fake and you don’t know it yet.
I will explain in details how to get rid of the fakes from your Social Media, and I will update you about few tools that will help you with this project.

Now we count with several tools to identify fake followers from our social media. These are the most useful for me: Fakers App, Fakefollowers, and IGExorcist.

Faker App was developed to identify fake twitter accounts. Using Fakeres App you can find the fake accounts are invading your twitter account. This tool also offers you the opportunity to measure the fake followers of your competition. You have to click on Fakers App and authorize the app to access your twitter account. The results are fast and in few minutes you can see your report.
Visit the app for more info about services they offer.

Fake Followers is a free tool that you can find at SocialBakers. Fake Followers will take 100 of your followers and will compare them with a list of criteria.

When an account has 90 days without any activity or has sent lees than four tweets, it will fall in an inactive category.
This app is easy to use. Just write your twitter id or somebody else’s twitter id and get the report

In the example above we can see that the user @sanchezec has 4% suspicious or empty followers, 5% inactive and 91% good.

The report also shows you some of the empty account identity. Now, that you have identified the fake ones, you can block them from your twitter account.

IGExorcist allows you to check for fake and ghost accounts that follow you in Instagram. This works by checking
your actual followers and accounts you used to follow. It will take into consideration activity the last 10 months.

This is easy and fun to use since I did this with my account. In order to see your report, just go to IGExorcist website. Then you can be redirected to your Instagram, and click Request Rebuild Button, and you will get your report.

Remember IGExorcist takes into account 300 past days of no activity. Perhaps someone just started following you and has had any interaction yet. This account will be seen as inactive because the app doesn’t know when someone started to follow you.

Finally, before you click the delete button make sure you double check. You know there are a lot of real people that only have accounts to check other accounts status, get updates or their favorite brands. These accounts are no fake. They may be are inactive but still are real and it can be useful to keep these followers. Who know maybe one day one of these silence account holders will buy something from you!
Please let me know your thoughts. I am interested to know them.
“Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever”.

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Facebook Content that People will Like and Share

Facebook is an amazing platform.

Facebook provides marketers with demographics to show things like interest, communities, groups, hobbies, sports, income, etc. It also provides analytics and insights.
To write a blog with content that is desirable to share it is important to take in consideration the following:

1) In order to know what to write about would be like knowing what your audience on Facebook is craving for. Then, you can ask them in an easy way. Let’s say you sell cloths and accessories for women. Which you can ask something like:

Dear Followers,

  • What colors are trendy?
  • What accessories are trendy for Summer 2015?
  • What Shoes and handbags are in fashion for 2015?
  • Accessories for Summer 2014
  • What hats’ styles are hot for this winter?

When you give options to people, they will let you know what they want to know more about. Then you will have important feedback from your audience. Now, you are ready to write relevant content that your followers will share.
2) Another hint is to check Facebook insights and analytics to see what are the postings that have had more engagement in “likes” and “shares”.

3) Check your competitors content shared on Facebook. Look at the amount of shares and likes since this will give you information about what is the public in Facebook craving.

4) Create an album for your pictures in Facebook. You can post these pictures in the news feed and wait to see the reaction that gives your the audience. Today, visuals like pictures and videos are favorites of the audience. The picture’s content will give you another important hint to talk about in your blogs.
It is also helpful to have the pictures in your album on Facebook so that you can grab the pictures any time you need for your blogs.

I am sure you will succeed with these tips and your engagements will grow, through “likes” and “shares”.
Please let me know if you have any question. I will be happy to help you.
“Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected”.

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How to Use Twitter?

How To Use Twitter To Get More From Your Pictures?

Twitter-Amazing Tool to Promote your Business.
Would you like to reach everybody with your images in Twitter?

Do you want to know the way to optimized your for Twitter New Feeds without clicking any link? Twitter’s in-stream preview images are the best way to get more views.
I will show you how to prepare your pictures to get attention for your audience.

1) Prepare your Pictures

Twitter’s in preview shows your pictures in news feeds user. The pictures are displayed without clicking any link. You know in Social Media you need to provide the information right there. There are a few amounts of people that click links. Try Twitter in-stream for faster engagement.
Let say you want to show to your public your new office and you add the picture, but twitter in-stream only shows a picture that is 440 pixels wide and 220 pixels tall. Then, you will have to resize your images to this size. If you don’t do it, your image will shrink on the top and bottom. You don’t know what part of the image will be missed. As a consequence what will the people see? The picture or image makes any sense.
For example, you took the pic of your new office and added a banner on the top that said, “ Welcome to my new office”. If your pictures are bigger than 440 pixels wide and 220 pixels tall twitter in –stream will cut the banner and your images won’t say anything.
Do your homework and resize your image for better communication with your audience. You don’t want them to miss your message.

2) Tweet four images at the same time.

Don’t tweet only one picture. Now, with the new feature you can tweet until four images.When you post more than one image, you can actually tell a story in twitter.
Lets say you have a bakery business and you want to show the four steps of making a wedding cake. You can upload four pictures and let people know what is the process.I guarantee you that your followers are more likely to share this kind of posting.When people share your postings on twitter, your pictures are reaching a bigger audience.
You can also use twitter app to upload pictures. This app has an editor that will allow you to rotate, crop and add different shades and filters to your pictures. It is something similar to Instagram effects.
When you are using your phone, you can also use a third party tool such as: Pic Stitch to make collages and show more. This practice will work really well for twitter and Instagram postings.

3) Tag people in your images in order to increase your audience’s reach.

When your tag people in your pictures, you make them participate in your activities. You show them affection and attention. They feel significant and they are more likely to share your pictures. If you are posting an image for an event, or an invitation, it is great idea to tag people in your picture. Now you wonder how I will do that without wasting the 140 characters I have in my tweets. Well, now you don’t need to use @ mention to tag people in your posting when you use an image. After, you upload an image it will show you an option that says: who’s in this photo? Then you can tag up to 10 people in every single picture post.

4) Linking Instagram and Twitter in Stream Pictures

If you are using Instagram app with twitter to share the same images and get more followers, let me tell you that Twitter will only shows a link to the photo, but it doesn’t show it on Twitter in stream.

Instagram doesn’t show you the pictures that you shared from Instagram to twitter. If a user goes to your photos and videos, the images that you previous shared from Instagram wont be there.
I will show you a way around to change that. You can create an IFTTT recipe that will facilitate your new Instagram photos that will show as tweets in the photo format.

Many people don’t know how to get more from twitter. Here I am showing How to by not only sharing images and telling stories with several images. It also shows how to customize your postings. You should create a template that you will use in more of your images to create brand recognition. Of course that take little time to do, but it will pay off. Imagine your collage with your logo in the top or bottom corner shared on twitter. It will be a great way to reach new followers.Let me know if you have any question about this subject, I will be happy to help you. Good luck!

“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek”.

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