Automatically Filter Your Instagram Comments For Spam & Profanity Wouldn’t it be great to be able to filter your Instagram comments for spam and profanity? Now you can! Spam and trolls have been around since the beginning of the World Wide Web. If there’s a place to leave a comment then someone at some time […]
Continue readingWinning at Instagram Contests Lately, I’ve been playing around with Instagram contests for one of my clients. And it’s been working out well for them. After a little experimentation, we landed on the type that got the best results: comment to enter the contest and tag friends for more entries. For these contests, we’ve also been […]
Continue readingPrince tributes are everywhere right now. But rather than do that, I thought I’d share my earliest memories of Prince. The first time I experienced Prince was in 5th Grade. For show and tell, someone brought in Prince’s self-titled album. Oh boy did we giggle over that one! How scandalous his naked chest was! Fast […]
Continue readingDon’t settle for unsavory posts to your Facebook business page. You can control visitor posts to your Facebook page, and I’ll show you how! As we know, people are shameless when it comes to spam and scams. We’ve seen some pretty blatant attempts to get the attention of our Facebook audience. As a matter of […]
Continue readingWhat the Facebook Algorithm Can Teach Us About the Instagram Algorithm It was only a matter of time, especially since Facebook bought Instagram. Reports have come out that there will be an Instagram algorithm that determines which posts make it to people’s timelines. Newer business owners and Facebook users may not remember this, but back […]
Continue readingOh man, we are so freaking excited around here today! Why? Because Instagram has been rolling out multiple account management to users and IT FINALLY CAME TO US! Up until now, Instagram has not made it easy for people to manage multiple accounts. Many people have a personal account and a business account. And you […]
Continue readingMany politicians in the U.S. rely on sending political email to raise money. But do you know where your political donation is going? Did you know that you might be paying off failed presidential campaign debts for a candidate you didn’t even support without knowing it? I don’t spend much time listening to the radio but […]
Continue readingHooray, a bank holiday! Loads of people are off of work, and brands start pumping out the social media posts, sales and offers to commemorate the day. But is that appropriate in all cases? No, it is not. And we, in turn, find ourselves with a load of inappropriate social media posts in our timelines […]
Continue readingHave you ever felt like you’ve been doing battle on a particular subject forever? That’s how I feel about copyright and content marketing. Way back in the early 2000s, I managed website content and email marketing for a large media company. Part of my responsibilities included doing those things for a nationally syndicated radio talk show […]
Continue readingTo be honest, when I first came up with the idea for this post on free mobile apps to help manage your small business, I figured there would be a dozen or so apps that I’d share. But as I started digging in I realized this list was going to be out of control! Do […]
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