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5 reasons why Spotify could claim the music social network crown
Back in August Apple launched Ping, its attempt at cornering the music social network market. Every other music service had to be quaking in their collective boots. They worried, how can we possibly compete with iTunes’ 150 million users not
Twitter for business: how NOT to use hash tags
Today Take That announced their 2011 summer tour. It sold out in seconds, cue the band trending on Twitter with the #TakeThat tag. Now, if you understand the power of the hash tag it’s tempting to piggy back all that
How to optimise your new business website homepage
So maybe your site’s in need of a pick-me-up, or maybe you’ve just been reading up on ways to better achieve your site’s goals. You may have a web manager looking after this for you or perhaps an agency who
Social media for business: 5 social media wins
1. Blog It’s so easy to get wrapped up in Facebook and Twitter that you might forget to make your own website more social and actually start creating content that populates your social networks with rich content. Get Blogging! It’s
Twitter for business tips: how to use the hash tag for your business
Before we go on to talk about how to use them, let’s start with what a hashtag is. They appear with a word or phrase in your feeds like this #marketing #howdoyoudo #socialmedia. In fact Twitter was invented on their
Social media for business: 5 free weapons for your social media arsenal
So, there we are, at HowDoYouDo! Towers, asking ourselves the immortal question: “If our towers crumbled, which 5 social media tools would we leap over Rapunzel to save?” And then we realised we don’t need to choose, because all five
7 steps for business: How to claim your business’ place on Facebook Places
There’s something of a gold rush out there at the moment. Much like the vanity URL boom of a couple of year’s ago, Facebook Places is the latest ‘must have’ real estate on the biggest social network in the world.
Is your business ready for social media: A checklist
Before you start tweeting, updating, checking in, consider whether you’d throw a bucket full of cash at an ad campaign without first knowing what your goals are, what the measurements metrics look like and what your ROI must be. You
Social media ROI: know what you want to measure, write a plan, think bigger
An engaged customer will recommend more often, buy more frequently and more readily than a customer who is not. Armed with this knowledge it’s hard to see how any company can ignore the opportunities that social media brings. But you’re
Top tips for small business: 6 simple ways to get great links to your site
SEO’s not easy. We all know that. But it’s not too tricky for some local businesses to begin to perform well on Google if you have great content and try these simple tactics (don’t confuse ‘simply’ with ‘easy’, by the