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Every time someone visits your website, there is the opportunity for them to become a customer, an influencer, a brand advocate, and a natural promotional tool. Are you providing the visitors to your website with these opportunities?

One way to accomplish this is to offer visitors the chance to register using a social media sign-up. No doubt you will have seen many of the larger sites offering Facebook and Twitter sign-ups, but it is also an option which can be extremely fruitful for small to medium enterprises. In fact, many small businesses have grown rapidly because they have made themselves more accessible to larger numbers via social media sign-ups.

Let’s look at the advantages of this form of customer registration. Continue reading

Fake Rubber Stamp

Recently there has been more news coverage about companies who have been found to have ‘fake’ followers on their social media accounts. It seems that despite the dangers of being discovered and tarnished as cheats, brands still believe that high numbers of followers, even if they are fake, are better than just a few real connections.

Don’t believe it! Paying for fake followers can seriously harm the health of your brand. And more importantly, the Google bots will spot it. Fake likes on Facebook, Twitter and other ways to fake it, do not generate natural traffic. And since the arrival of Google Penguin, it is natural traffic that the bots are attracted to.

Fakes will not help build a trusted relationship with your customers either. Although the site of many thousands of followers on a page may attract more followers initially, once they realise there is no real activity going on, and that all these ‘people’ come from the same geographic location, they will be much less impressed. In fact, a recent survey indicated that most customers severed ties completely with brands they found to be cheating or behaving in a dishonest way online. Continue reading

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Since the advent of social media in the early noughties, a variety of urban myths have grown. We have noticed that these myths have almost become internet folklore, they can be the cause of much confusion and debate, and they continue to discourage businesses from using social media to promote themselves.

Here are a few social media myths we can bust for you, once and for all. We hope they will help you improve your own social media activity, and encourage you to use social media platforms to their full potential. The more activity you encourage via social media, the better your search engine rankings will be.

Here are the myths, can you relate to any of them? Continue reading

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