Social media advice and tips are constantly being shared online. Some are obvious traffic-bait, while other articles and posts can be really useful.
Here’s what I have been reading lately. Enjoy!
Measuring success on Instagram – Aaron Lee at Post Planner gives quick and easy ways to evaluate Instagram activity. The first few tips are very basic, but scroll down because the post gets more interesting. Check out 10 Simple Ways to Measure Your Instagram Marketing Success.
Time is Money – Your Grandpa loved to say that. Well, Grandpa was right. Now that Facebook has such a large audience, it is trying to evaluate ways to make people spend more time on the Facebook site or mobile app. Are the days of counting clicks gone and a new era of measuring time beginning? Read Wired Magazine‘s Forget the Click? Online, Time May Be More Meaningful.
Five Hot Social Media Tools – This round-up of tools had a few that were new to me. I definitely am going to try the image search one. Read 5 HOT Social Media Tools To Elevate Your Social Presence on Medium.
What Headlines Work on Social Networks and Blogs? A scientific look at headline selection and what makes people click. Read Fast Company‘s A Scientific Guide to Writing Popular – And Shareable – Headlines for Facebook, Twitter and Your Blog.
More Change is Coming at Twitter – There were top management changes at Twitter recently and the product is changing, too. Most exciting is a new ability which will be rolled out, allowing users to follow breaking news without following particular people. See this LinkedIn blog post from Amanda Mitchell Twitter’s Project Lightning: Five Things You Need to Know.