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March 24, 2016March 29, 2016

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Welcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources that deal with social media and marketing subjects.

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Visual content is where online marketing and social media is headed. An article by Sprout Social compares the viability of two giant, visual content apps – Instagram vs. Snapchat: Who Rules the Visual Content World? Check out all the interesting statistics about these two companies.

Since the innovation of Twitter, hashtags have pretty much been a free-for-all. Throw a pound sign in front of it and use it. Now corporations are beginning to trademark their own hashtags. MarketWatch covers the phenomenon in Here’s One More Way the Corporate World is Trying to Infiltrate Social Media.

Have you been doing social media the same way for a while now? Does everything you do work? Do you have some Social Media Marketing Habits You Should Break NOW? The Top Rank Marketing Blog has developed a list of seven habits you need to break right away.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.

February 11, 2016March 3, 2016

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

Welcome to my Thursday feature. Here’s where I link three useful and interesting articles from excellent information sources that deal with social media and marketing subjects. As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

Snapchat is a social media platform that is really making headlines right now as it moves up the ladder of popularity. There are some strong opinions about this app and it has also garnered quite a bit of attention. Check out this infographic from Social Media Today that breaks down How Are People Really Using Snapchat?

Are you the owner of multiple Instagram accounts? Often been annoyed at the need to log out of one account in order to access another? Instagram has people talking this week when it made an announcement that it plans to make in-app account switching a feature soon. Find out more about this new development in Kim Garst’s blog post – Finally Instagram Makes It Easy to Manage Multiple Accounts.

It’s difficult to do anything marketing related without running into the beast that is social media. There is so much data out there about the value of social media. Maybe you still have doubts about its ROI and have yet to test the waters? The Timmermann Group put together this thoughtful piece on The Financial Value of Social Media.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.

February 4, 2016March 3, 2016

Top Three Thursday: Social Media News You Can Use

As you know, changes are always happening in the world of social media. We have a lot to keep up with!

If social media is designed to facilitate an online conversation, it makes sense that content should be geared towards that intention. Copyblogger wants to teach us how to engage readers with a conversational writing style in their new article How to Write Conversationally: 7 Tips to Engage and Delight Your Audience.

People are talking about Twitter this week. While there are a lot of rumors going around, nothing seems to be legitimately confirmed. That isn’t keeping Twitter’s stock from fluctuating, though. Here is a CNN Money report focusing on how Twitter surges on yet another takeover rumor.

Snapchat is really moving up in the social media world, especially with younger users. Now they have a quiet partnership with Stats.com and are getting more involved in the sports industries. Tech Crunch lays out some of this strategy in Snapchat Challenges Twitter and Facebook for Sports Talk.

See you next week with another edition of Top Three Thursday: Social News You Can Use.

Melody Jones is your social media aspirin. She helps take the pain out of social media for you! Check out her services and see which one can reduce your social media pain the most.