Canva | Best Web Marketer https://bestwebmarketer.com Local Marketing That Works! Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:47:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 15 Awesome Social Media Tips for Beginners https://bestwebmarketer.com/15-awesome-social-media-tips-for-beginners/ Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:47:59 +0000 https://bestwebmarketer.com/blog/?p=1775
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If you are new to social media marketing, it can be a bit intimidating. Instead of allowing yourself to become overwhelmed, you should take note of the 15 social media tips here and use them to your advantage.

15 beneficial social media tips for beginners

1. Use images in your posts – This is an excellent way to keep people interested in what you have to offer. You can use Canva to create cool and awesome images. If you want free stock images for your blog, you can download stock images from Joe The Goat Farmer for free!

2. Post regularly – Logging in and posting every once in a while is just not going to cut it.

3. Engage your visitors – Spend some time to reply to all of the comments you receive from others. This can help you connect with your target audience, and get them further down the road to knowing, liking and trusting you.

4. Don't oversell – (Notice I didn't say “Don't sell”.) Pushing too hard to sell your products and services is a huge turn-off in social media.

5. Be careful when using hashtags – While you want to use them to increase user engagement, using too many can be harmful.

6. Stay on point – Always keep things relevant. Going too far off topic will reduce user interest.

7. Avoid confrontation – Don't respond negatively to bad feedback. Respond and stay professional, and keep your head above the fray.

8. Brevity is key – Try not to post overly long messages. People will get bored by the time they reach the end.

9. Be active in comments – Always allow users to comment and show up to engage there. Disabling them signals that you don't care what users have to say.

10. Stay consistent – Use scheduling tools to post when you can't. Tools like Hootsuite, Buffer and others make this easy.

11. Post videos – People love them and it makes your content more shareable.

12. Focus your efforts – Pick a few social media platforms to focus on and do those well, rather than spreading yourself too thin trying to hit everyone. Consider the majors like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

13. Mix it up – Post varied types of content so as to keep things interesting. Post, videos, memes, product reviews, testimonials and more.

14. Be generous – Offer exclusive deals to your audience and encourage them to share with friends. This is one the best uses of social media.

15. Have fun – While you want to stay professional, no one likes a stick in the mud.

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]]> 4 Marketing Tools Designed To Save You Loads Of Time https://bestwebmarketer.com/4-marketing-tools-save-loads-time/ Thu, 19 Mar 2015 14:29:41 +0000 https://bestwebmarketer.com/blog/?p=1064 See these 4 Tools Designed to Save you Loads of Time

Most of us really enjoy tools, especially when they save you loads of time and money. That's the best and highest use of these powerful tools, to give us the knowledge we need to make changes that will make real difference in our businesses.

Perhaps it's time to invest in a couple of tools to help you increase your site's performance and rankings, help handle social media and more.

Perhaps your concern is understanding what your site needs in order to rank better, or what your competition is up to. Or it could be it's social media, and how to keep up with that monster. No matter what it is, there's probably a tool to help. Below we have 4 very cool marketing tools that will help with these tasks, and get you further down the road to increased revenues.

4 social media tools to improve productivity in your business

Canva – Not quite the Photoshop expert you should be and don't have the time or resources to learn it? Don't worry, there's a free solution you can employ called Canva. Canva enables you to create awesome graphics using a simple interface anyone can use. No learning curve, and like I said, it's free!

SproutSocial – If you've ever seen this site, you know what a analytics wonderland it is, and how much you can use the intelligence it offers. Not just an analytics tool, you can also use SproutSocial to post and engage with your audience right from the platform. Very cool tool suite.

Moz – Monitor your site's progress using this comprehensive and easy to use suite of analytics tools, showing you keywords, rankings, competition and much more. Moz has long been a wealth of important information and intelligence regarding online marketing, and this shows no signs of changing.

Mention – Wish to know what people are saying when it comes to you and your brand? You can track keywords, brand mentions and more from nearly any device, and also discover the sentiment of the mention, so as to save you time and reputation.

The purpose of tools like these in not only to provide you with information that would otherwise be very difficult to gather, but also to provide more time back in your day for other marketing activities. Make sure to take full advantage of this!

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