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Founded by Mashable on June 30th, 2010, Social Media Day recognizes the significant role social media plays within the lives of people worldwide. There’s a good chance that you have looked at your phone at some point today, eager to check out the latest social media updates from your favorite profiles.
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Diversifying Your Social Media Posts
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Social media has become increasingly saturated with posts from many profiles featuring similar types of content. For your brand to stand out, you should always be looking to keep your social media posts relevant, engaging, and diversified.
Facebook Confirms It’s Having Issues Today
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Facebook has confirmed on their Twitter account using the hashtag #facebookdown that many users (including us!) “are having trouble uploading or sending images, videos and other files on our apps”. For may of us, along with having trouble adding a post, Facebook is loading very slowly and most of the images are missing. Here is the official tweet from Facebook:
Website Management Quick Tip #1: Use a “Blog First” Social Media Strategy
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Small business site owners should always be looking for ways to improve their website’s performance – both in the search engines and in terms of how current and prospective customers use their site. To help in that very worthwhile endeavor, Electric Bricks will be publishing a series of “Quick Tip” articles aimed at offering real-world advice and strategies that are both effective and realistic for any busy small business owner. This is the first in that series.
Grow Your Business with Social Media Marketing
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If you are not using social media for your business, you could be missing out. Big time!
Social media is one of the most cost-effective marketing tools that can be used to improve your brand awareness. By applying a good social media strategy, it can help you significantly increase your brand recognition and help you grow a wider audience for your business.
LIVE from the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium
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The (purposely short) article you are about to read was published as a demonstration during the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium.
At this very moment (or on Wednesday, January 13th, 2016, for those of you who aren’t reading this at the exact moment it was published) I am speaking at the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium held at the Nassau Country Club on Long Island. This event is being hosted by Meaghan Janedis, owner of Legacy Sport and partner at Glam Slam Gear.
Electric Bricks Presenting at the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium
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Happy New Year! We are excited to announce that Keith Paul, owner of Electric Bricks, will be doing a presentation at the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium on Wednesday, January 13th at the Nassau Country Club. The event, hosted by Meaghan Janedis, owner at Legacy Sport and partner at Glam Slam Gear, will focus on using the web and social media to help grow or start a new business. Also presenting that evening will be Elisa DiStefano, reporter at News 12 Long Island.
Gimenez Guitars – A New Project. A New Endeavor.
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This has been an especially busy year for Electric Bricks. Many new clients and many new projects for existing clients. But there’s one project that I haven’t mentioned yet. It’s one that’s been in the works for… well… years. A few years back a long-time friend of mine, Dan Gimenez, developed a new body style for an electric guitar. I won’t go into all the details about what makes it so special (yet!) but the two of us decided that the music world needed a fresh perspective on a traditional instrument so we joined forces and launched Gimenez Guitars LLC.
9 Photo Editing Tools for Blog & Website Owners
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There are a few social media and web marketing blogs that I follow pretty regularly. Social Media Examiner is one of them. They consistently produce relevant, easily digestible articles to help you get a better handle on your social media efforts. Their recent article, “6 Simple Photo Tools for Creating Social Media Visuals“, offered up several easy-to-use Photoshop alternatives that could not only be used for creating graphics for social content, as the article suggests, but for blog articles and web pages, as well. In the article they quickly outline the strengths of each tool and show an example of what can be created with it. Read the article to get the list (most of them are free!) and see if any of them could be beneficial to you.
Follow the Principles of Journalism for Great Content Marketing [Infographic]
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The folks at AboutUs.com published a great infographic last month on content marketing. They took the age-old journalistic approach of asking the questions Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How. This is a fun, easy-to-understand look at ways you can improve your own content marketing strategy. Be sure to read their blog post on the subject: Content Marketing: What Is It & Why Should I Do It?