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Forum: Social Media 3rd October 2016, 10:44 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 97
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Have you tried employee/customer advocacy?

That's why I am curious to know if anyone tried and has some results to share. Employee Advocacy is a form of digital social media marketing.
Forum: Social Media 28th September 2016, 01:12 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 97
Posted By samiegardners
Have you tried employee/customer advocacy?

Employee advocacy is increasing social organic reach by utilizing employee and peripheral networks. Though this may happen in an unorganized way, if you use a tool to track and make it easy for...
Forum: Social Media 23rd September 2016, 12:39 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 296
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How to get engagement?

When I did A/B testing to drive engagement, I found the following results.

The post that had significantly more engagement had,

1) Image that quickly explained the value as opposed to an...
Forum: Social Media 13th May 2016, 04:02 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 319
Posted By samiegardners
Re: 5 Tips on Building Twitter Followings

Retweeting and liking right content will also fetch you many followers. When I applied this technique for a week consistently - my viewers grew significantly.

Samie @ Advo.Ninja...
Forum: Social Media 13th May 2016, 03:56 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 674
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Increase My Social Engagement

All good tips .

Another option is to ask hand picked people on your network to share your content consistently. Rotate those people once in a quarter or so.

You can make it easy for them to...
Forum: Social Media 16th November 2015, 06:26 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 566
Posted By samiegardners
social reach calculator

We all want to increase our fan base, page likes and followers on multiple social networks for our businesses. There are several strategies and tactics for this. I recently reviewed how much it would...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 9th October 2015, 10:20 AM
Replies: 60
Views: 2,066
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Short vs Long Content. Which one is best?

Testing is very expensive if you are starting now. Because, you will lose a lot of time. So, the following dual strategy is working for me.

My strategy, which is working for me is short content. ...
Forum: Social Media 8th October 2015, 07:14 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 694
Posted By samiegardners
Re: What's your social media budget?

How much of your time is spent on social media marketing, though?
Forum: Social Media 4th October 2015, 09:22 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 645
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Going to open a Facebook Page

Organic shares really work. Ask your network to share your content everytime you post. When someone in our network posts, it will have the highest personal touch. Especially for a business like...
Forum: Social Media 4th October 2015, 09:17 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 678
Posted By samiegardners
Re: New to LinkedIn, any tips?

If you are creating your LinkedIn page for your company for the first time, here are a few questions I had when I created my first page.

1. Why do I want to create a LinkedIn page?

Having a...
Forum: Social Media 24th September 2015, 11:07 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 694
Posted By samiegardners
What's your social media budget?

I have heard people saying their social media budget is about ~10% of thier total marketing budget. But if you include social media marketing person's time. It may go well over 20%.

What is your...
Forum: Social Media 22nd September 2015, 04:28 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,517
Posted By samiegardners
Re: what is the diffrence between organic likes and Paid Likes?

Orgnaic:

1) It's FREE
2) Content becomes very engaging because someone in your networks liked
3) high potential for viral opportunity

Sponsored/Paid:

1) Paid (should win bidding wars)...
Forum: Social Media 22nd September 2015, 04:19 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 1,906
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Social media management tools

I use Advo.Ninja (http://advo.ninja). It has a free version for up to 5 advocates. That was a good start for me before I upgraded.

I can,
1) add posts and send notifications to my advocates,...
Forum: Social Media 22nd September 2015, 03:56 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 769
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How do you use Social Media for business?

1. An hour
2. Three accounts for my business
4. To provide quality content to my audience and increase credibility
5. Increased drastically
Forum: Social Media 21st September 2015, 09:16 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 17,602
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Can I create a page without personal account in Facebook

Yes, you need an account to create the page on Facebook. But, you do not require to have a business email unlike LinkedIn.
On LinkedIn you need to have company email address for creating a page for...
Forum: Social Media 12th September 2015, 03:33 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 839
Posted By samiegardners
Re: What makes the headline successful?

If you are already popular, and you want to cater to an existing audience, then
- have a short and catchy titles. Because, they already know you.

If you are still working on building audience...
Forum: Social Media 12th September 2015, 03:19 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 683
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How Social Media Marketing Really Works

I completely agree with this infographic'ish diagram.

I see two types of socializers. Influencers and Advocates. Both need to be approached for a successful social media marketing.

1)...
Forum: Social Media 12th September 2015, 02:53 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 907
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Your Best Social Media Tools

Advo.Ninja (http://advo.ninja) for
- scheduling posts
- advocay marketing
- increasing social reach
- great analytics to track every social activity on all your social networks.
Forum: Social Media 12th September 2015, 02:47 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 675
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Facebook Marketing

These following are very basic but absolutely crucial for getting genuine followers/audience.

1) Posting everyday at least once.
- You can post the same article again after a few weeks to...
Forum: Social Media 9th September 2015, 09:37 PM
Replies: 44
Views: 3,796
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Best Social Media Automation?

I use Advo.Ninja (http://advo.ninja). This has mass scheduling in the FREE version and also has advocate marketing embedded in it. That is significantly increasing my genuine traffic. I schedule my...
Forum: Social Media 2nd September 2015, 04:55 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 390
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Question For The Social Media Managers.

There is a tool that can automatically generate suggested posts. Basically, a daily summary of suggested links based on preferred keywords. I post them on our social media accounts.

I get about...
Forum: Social Media 24th August 2015, 04:15 PM
Replies: 58
Views: 7,971
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Which Auto Posting Tool Is Better?

I am a one person marketing team. I use Advo.Ninja (http://advo.ninja) . I need only 30min or less for the entire week to post, get exponentially more clicks and also analyze social reach. This helps...
Forum: Social Media 21st August 2015, 02:20 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,668
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How to increase likes in facebook?

A few more things to add to the list.

For Facebook page,

1) make sure you have the page profile completed, with right pictures and background pictures. Don't make it too long which takes away...
Forum: Social Media 20th August 2015, 02:35 PM
Replies: 24
Views: 1,559
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How to attract people on social media?

For Facebook page,

1) make sure you have the page profile completed, with right pictures and background pictures.

2) Invite people by using,
a) Suggest Page to Email Contacts
b)...
Forum: Social Media 17th August 2015, 04:55 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,065
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Social Media Management

I started using this new product in town, I cannot post links here. Please contact me for more info.

It seemed to do a lot of what HootSuite or Buffer does which is posting to social media and...
Forum: Social Media 15th August 2015, 05:28 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 902
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Best time to tweet

I have had good luck with after business hours in US. 6pm-8pm PST is still fine to reach all US timezones effectively.

Keep in mind, post the same content 3 different times a day on Twitter. That...
Forum: Social Media 15th August 2015, 05:23 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 1,976
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Need help with Facebook Marketing

Step 1: Run a campaign asking some jewellry questions. (keep in mind, some easy ones, so that more people will participate and make it to the shortlist)

Step 2: Announce those that answered all...
Forum: Social Media 15th August 2015, 05:12 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 889
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Content Marketing In Facebook

The best way to get more eyeballs on your content is by asking more people to share and like. That has very high viral opportunity and is FREE!

Let's say you ask 20 people to share. You can...
Forum: Social Media 15th August 2015, 05:02 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 806
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Where to advertise Facebook or Google

I prefer to do A/B testing on any 2 choices of ads - in this case, similar ads on both will prove which one gets you more ROI for your business. Then, spend more time/money on that ad platform...
Forum: Social Media 15th August 2015, 04:42 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 1,361
Posted By samiegardners
Re: Facebook, Your Honest Opinion

IMHO,

1) Facebook oraganic shares and likes are the best. If you can get several people to share and like you content, that will help with most views. It has personal touch, free and has a great...
Forum: Social Media 15th August 2015, 04:17 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 476
Posted By samiegardners
Re: I Used Fiverr to get Youtube Video made

I have not worked with videos but I have gotten articles written for me. You can contact the author.

For example, my author and I went back and forth on drafts of the article before I accepted....
Forum: Social Media 31st July 2015, 01:56 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,043
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How to track Viral traffic

If you are looking for FB, LI or Twitter view tracking, you can use Advo.Ninja (http://advo.ninja). This will actually show how many views your article received and from which social media.
Forum: Social Media 31st July 2015, 01:50 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,319
Posted By samiegardners
Re: How to increase more genuine like of my business page

Page likes are good to build fan base to interact and engage them. However, I see some limitations..

1) Your content would be mostly serving current customers only, this will not reach new...
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