STATEMENT Less than half of the consumers who used social media to research travel stuck with their original plans… SHORT MOMENT OF REFLECTION How many of your guests DO NOT use social media??? At UntangleMyWeb.com we love infographics. This week we came across a great one from Four Pillars Hotels which assesses the social media influence in […]
Like it or not (no pun intended), the layout of your Page is going to change once Timeline for pages is enabled on March 30th. Before that happens, take this time preview the Timeline of your Page, but don’t enable it just yet. Read through our 10 ideas to get your business ready for Facebook […]
This post concludes our series of 3 blog posts to give you the tools and knowledge to market your tourism business online. The initial post focused on understanding how to work with keywords and search engines to attract visitors to your website, the second looked at techniques to entice your visitors to turn into buyers. […]
We all know the line from the 1987 hit movie Wall Street – Greed is Good! Well it’s since turned out that monetary greed isn’t so good, and not so long ago just like Gordon Gecko a swarm of executives found themselves in some very hot water (and in some cases; jail). As a by-product […]
Over the last few weeks I have been getting stuck into a higher than average amount of content creation and social media management, surprisingly it has all been quite smooth and panic free… not because I’m an amazing wordsmith and have genius snaps every day but because I use a tool that I have briefly […]
Last week at the f8 summit Facebook announced a collection of updates to their social media network. There were 4 large announcements along with the unannounced new version of the Facebook feed. As these new changes are going to effect your social media world we wanted to share them with you so you can prepare. […]
Why do I need to optimise my Facebook page for Google? Facebook has a great impact on Google search results and Facebook pages are often ranked highly in the top 10 which is a great chance for your business to gain additional visibility and traffic. It’s a strange thought isn’t it, SEO optimising your Social […]
From time to time most Facebook users will take a moment to wonder why a certain friend shows up on their news feed all of the time, or why it appears that so-and-so has fallen off the face of the earth. Well back in April Facebook revealed their secret tool and they have been refining […]
It is amazing what is available out there that most people don’t notice. If you have a business page, you can go into the edit page section and under resources (on the left) find a great little guide that Facebook has created covering the basics of Facebook business pages. Not so much a step by […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post on the importance of a custom Facebook page for your business. After this post I had quite a number of different readers on Live Chat asking about how they can make one and which of the different customisation services I can recommend. At first I was […]
With the number of people on Facebook growing rapidly every day it is inevitable that more and more businesses are creating fan pages. With such an influx of businesses all competing for the attention of your fans and customers it is important that you stand out from the crowd. I know what you’re thinking, “But […]
The secret to keeping your Facebook fans, YouTube viewers, Twitter followers, Linkedin partners, or even Blog friends happy is summed up in two words: CUSTOMER SERVICE. It really doesn’t get much simpler than that. What works to keep your customers happy offline, works just the same online. Customer service will keep you in business for […]
To quote from Bill Gates’ 1996 essay, “content is king” which considering the 5 exabytes (that’s 5 Billion Gigabytes) of data now created every two days needs to be updated to “quality content is king”. When it comes to making sure your website is ranked well among natural search results for the profitable keywords that […]
It’s all well and good to decide you are going to set up a Facebook page for your business, get a heap of ‘likers’ and tell them about ongoing offers and deals that will keep them coming back for more and make you a sales superstar. However what the majority of people don’t think about […]
You can tweet, retweet, follow and DM. While it may sound like a game of Simon Says or a scene from Looney Tunes, Twitter is actually a serious business strategy and definitely not a game. Want to know how and why? Follow on...
Facebook is second only to Google as the most popular website on the Internet. It has over 300,000,000 members and its numbers are rapidly expanding by the day. In 2009 alone, the 55+ year old users of Facebook grew by 922.7%! It is here to stay in a big way. We all know what it is and have a vague idea of how much it impacts our business but what can we do about it?
Social Media, you have heard about it, you might have dabbled in it but do you know how it can help your business and why? More importantly, there are 1700+ social media sites so how do you choose which ones will benefit your business vs. waste your time?
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