Many entrepreneurs and small business owners don’t realize the huge commitment writing a blog can be until they start one. You finally establish your domain name and hosting. You’ve got a business to run and you’ve got ideas for your blog. Overwhelm takes over! A blogger needs to be productive and efficient with creating their content. What’s the blog secret? Tools! Lots of magical tools that can help any blogger become a better blogger. Let’s get to them!
Posts in "Social Media" Category
Top 10 Podcasts for Business & Marketing You Should Listen To
Did you know 48 Million people have engaged in listening to podcasts? Forty-eight million. That’s more than double the highest-rated television program, which is NFL Sunday Night Football. That’s a crazy massive amount of listeners. Podcasts can be unbelievably helpful, fun, and thought-provoking. Business and marketing podcasts have really taken off and entrepreneurs are clamoring for them. However, how can you go through hundreds of podcasts for business? We’ve gone through several business podcasts and narrowed the list down to ten. It was not easy. We’re happy to bring you the top ten you should listen to.
5 Mistakes You Are Making on Instagram
Instagram drives the highest engagement among the top social networks. Therefore, smaller efforts here will help you reach more people.
Several businesses are working hard to build a presence on this network. But while doing this they are making some mistakes. Therefore, today I am going to write about the common mistakes businesses make on Instagram and how you can avoid them…
How to Promote Service-Based Businesses on Social Media
Selling a service can be difficult! When you don’t have a tangible product to showcase like a product-based business, it can be hard to show off and talk about how valuable a service is to your customers. Service-based businesses have to be a bit more creative to plan out a social media marketing strategy to promote their business. Sometimes we all need some encouragement to get those creative sparks going. In this post, we’re going to show you how to promote service-based businesses on social media.
Updates on Facebook Cover and Instagram Story Images (Sizes and Templates)
With all the changes in cover sizes and dimensions for various social media platform features, it’s a bit hard to keep up. Right?! Just a few months ago, there was an uproar on Facebook cover images. All of a sudden Facebook group covers were cut off and people were wondering what happened to their images. Social media managers were scrambling for the correct size and pulling their hair out wondering why Facebook didn’t even announce the new change. This happens all the time and Stencil has to stay on top of the changes. We’re happy to bring you some updates on Facebook cover and Instagram Story images plus some examples that can inspire you.
Social Media Images That Inspire Your Audience (An Analytical View)
Creating social media images and sending them out into the world hoping they inspire your audience can be… hit or miss. You never know what they’ll like until you create, test, and measure. It’s a process that takes time, but you’ll want to take full advantage of what you find because it’s such a satisfying feeling to know when you’ve finally hit a chord and resonated with someone in your audience. How would you know though? Is it all the likes, retweets, and comments? It’s actually a bit more to it than that. We’re going behind-the-scenes and digging into what makes social media images truly inspirational. Let’s check it out!
15 Amazing Tips from the Best Visual Marketing Experts
When there’s a new skill to learn you go to the best of the best to educate yourself and learn all that you can. It’s no different when you want to learn about the latest social media trends and visual marketing tips online.
When you want to design social media graphics and post on social media you want to be sure you’re doing what the experts would do. We’ve handpicked the best of the best visual marketing experts that gave us their top three tips to help you with your social media marketing. Let’s get started!
How Freelance Writers Can Use Stencil To Wow Their Clients
What if I told you that images can improve your value, your results and make your more irresistible to clients?
Here’s the truth:
The right image, in the right place, can skyrocket your article and take it viral. And the wrong ones can hold it back and be sure it never gets read.
There’s also a big burden on your clients to find the right images, with the right credits, to make the article pop.
And these two problems present the perfect opportunity for you:
If you’re able to find and deliver images that will improve the performance of the article, and save them time and effort, you’ll be able to wow them with value and add another layer to your business that makes you a writer worth keeping.
Over the last four years I’ve used Stencil to save my clients time and money, whilst improving the performance of my articles. And in this article I’d like to share with you four simple ways you can do the same…
Enhance Blog Images for Social Media Posts (A Quick Guide)
Ever encounter a link on social media with an incredible headline, not clickbait, but something that genuinely intrigues you but the image is not that great or… there is no image at all (GASP!). I know those links kill me. What are they thinking?! Are you doing that… sharing your blog posts without an image? I hope not. Creating content for a blog can be time-consuming, however, the purpose of the blog post is to have someone read it. The reality of a person seeing a link without an image on social media and clicking it is slim to none, even with a killer headline. That’s why we’re bringing you this quick guide on how to enhance blog images for social media posts so you can take every advantage to promote your blog content. Let’s get started!
Unique Ways to Create Social Media Posts with Stencil’s Resizable Images
Creating images can be challenging, especially finding new and unique ways to create social media posts. What can you do that hasn’t already been done? It may seem like you may be mimicking what others have done or have seen the same old types of posts. We’d like to show you a variety of different types of posts that you can try to keep customers curious and thirsty for more using Stencil’s resizeable images. Let’s do this!