Holly and Jan – creative social media

Are you getting the best, bespoke help with your social media?

There are a couple of phrases which strike a chill into our hearts. One is ‘I can get my teenaged offspring to show me how to Tweet’ and another, similar, is, ‘Our neighbour’s always on Facebook, she can help me set up my Business Page’. Why are we so horrified? Let me explain: you see, [...]

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Do you know who can see your Tweets?

Next up in our occasional series of Twitter tips – do you know who can actually see your Tweets? We keep coming across tweets that aren’t replies that start with a username. If you do this, the audience for your tweet is limited to followers that follow BOTH you AND also that user profile, ie your whole follower [...]

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Twitter etiquette – it’s important!

We talk about Twitter etiquette a lot here at Holly and Jan creative social media. There’s a reason for that, it’s important! As a business, if you overheard someone saying something good about your business or somebody recommended you to someone else, we suspect you’d thank them, right? Well it’s the same on Twitter. If you’re [...]

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Social media isn’t fleeting – be careful what you say!

Is your business social media activity just too personal? Are you thinking strategically about your business communications and brand image when you tweet, post to Facebook etc? Social media can seem fleeting but in actual fact your blog posts, tweets, business Facebook posts etc etc are out there in cyberspace for anyone to get their [...]

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Facebook Pages – are you in the dark?

Do you know if other Facebook Pages have liked your own Page? It’s odds on that other Facebook Pages will be liking your own business Facebook Page but we’ve been alarmed at how many businesses aren’t aware or paying attention to this. Facebook makes it easy to see which personal profiles have liked your Page [...]

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Keeping your content current

Is there anybody there? Your website is the public face of your business – yet so many are simply CVs for your business, and have little or no current content. This means that it is very difficult to use social media such as Twitter and Facebook, which can be deployed as easy ways to attract [...]

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Can people find your social media links?

Are your Twitter and Facebook Page links hidden on your website halfway down or even at the bottom of a page, or perhaps secreted away on your contacts page? In one easy move you can improve beyond measure the possibility of visitors clicking through to and Following you/Liking your page. Get those links to the [...]

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Get rid of those Twitter eggs!

Are you still an egg? It’s time you came out of your shell! Twitter helpfully provides an egg avatar (profile picture) when you open a new account. We strongly recommend immediately replacing it with a photograph – it can be of you, or your logo – but please don’t just leave the egg. Like many [...]

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