How to manage your online reputation

There are two parts to managing your online reputation. One part is regularly checking what others are saying about you (and your competitors). The other is checking yourself, and watching what YOU are saying about you. We’ve probably all seen it. The professional business person who acts like an fool on Facebook. You know them ...

Real examples of the right and wrong way to do social media

It appears that some big businesses are yet to understand the right way to handle social media interactions. Last week we were presented with two examples, one who got it spectacularly right, and one who got it so wrong that a competitor jumped in and took control. Let’s take a look at the one who got it ...

How to use the Linkedin endorsement system

I’ve had a few questions about this, so I thought it would be easiest to answer in a blog post, rather than individual emails. If you use Linked In, you will have noticed that they are now asking you to endorse your connections. It’s a fairly simple and self-explanatory feature, but I thought it would ...

Simplifying the Social

  Many of you are on several social networks – Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube – and you can waste a lot of time trawling around them, reading and adding updates. How do you simplify this? There are a few tools I recommend: Hootsuite – a social media dashboard. You can view your Facebook, ...

Habits – good versus bad

Do you have bad marketing habits? Most small business owners do. After all, there is so much else to do in your business. Marketing often gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list. Why is that such a bad habit? Because without marketing, you haven’t got a business. Let me repeat that - without marketing ...