Posts by Suzanne Hoenig
How to Sell on Instagram for SMBs: 2016 Social Media Series
As promised, we’re back we’re going to explore the wonderful world of selling on Instagram. Sales in the Land of Instagram First, let’s define terms. I think words matter. We can all go further, together, when we take a moment to find a common starting point when we’re talking about sales or social selling — or…
Read MorePosting to Instagram for Small Biz Marketers: 2016 Social Media Series
As part of our ongoing series of social media for today’s one-man-band marketers and those who love them, we’ve been looking at Instagram, both why and how to use it. Last week, we covered some of the benefits of marketing with Instagram. We’ll continue that today. As often happens in life, we will uncover some of…
Read MoreInstagram Pros and Cons for Small Business Marketers: 2016 Social Media Series
Last week, we looked at Instagram in the abstract — as something Margaret Atwood may have written at the turn of the century — and then, with a high-level geopolitical analysis — because I fancy the work that Stratfor and the like do for our society. Now let’s get down to brass tacks, por fin, okay? As I’ve said in…
Read More2016 Social Media Series: Why Instagram? Because Facebook.
And now, the thrilling conclusion to our mini-series: The Visual Social Platforms: Which One Should Busy Small Biz Folk Be On Now. All You Need to Know Is in the Title — Because Facebook Imagine seeing that title on the worn spine of a paperback in a used bookstore before the turn of the century, if…
Read MoreWhich Visual Social Media Should Small Business Use, and Why?
Last week, we took a brief foray into the history of the digital social media so that we could make better informed, supportable decisions on how to allocate our social media and content marketing dollars and efforts. This week, we’ll dive a bit deeper into the “visual platforms” of Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram. I will…
Read More2016 Social Media Series: Everybody Just Calm Down
Whereas Facebook and LinkedIn each merited their own series of posts, we will now turn our attention to Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram. For our purposes as small business owners, local and online merchants, one-man-bands, and other bootstrappers, let’s lump these three together as the “visual platforms,” i.e. the newer, sexier social media. But, let’s put air…
Read MoreLearning about LinkedIn Ads: 2016 Social Media Series
Hello and welcome back to the 2016 social media series for relative beginners to business social media. Today we turn our attention to LinkedIn Ads. Small biz, local biz, franchisees, every flavor of private consultant from estate planners to wedding planners, massage therapists to art therapists. “Social media is not for everybody” in the same…
Read MoreYour LinkedIn Company Page: 2016 Social Media Series
This week, we continue our exploration of LinkedIn as a social media and content marketing platform for small businesses, contractors, nonprofits, private practices, Main Street and online storefronts, and all the little people who don’t staff an entire floor of HQ with marketing analysts. But we turn our attention to the LinkedIn Company Page now. We’re the…
Read MoreLinkedIn Pulse: 2016 Social Media Series
This week, as promised, we’re going to delve into LinkedIn for Small Businesses, Nonprofits, Private Practitioners, and all the Main Street Mom and Pops. Let’s start with Pulse. Pulse is new in the world and newer on LinkedIn. Aside from being “the world’s first personalized business news digest,” or whatever, it’s a lead gen engine…
Read MoreTips for LinkedIn: 2016 Social Media Series
TL; DR Recap & links to what we’ve covered so far, namely, Facebook. Why we won’t be covering Twitter. For most “heartland” small businesses, non-profits, and private consultants, LinkedIn can be a valuable social media channel. You’ll need a personal profile before you can set up a business page, post to Pulse, or run ads. Quick…
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