Tag: Twitter

  Greetings from the winter wonderland of Sag Harbor, NY. I’m using this opportunity to stay inside and pull together most useful social media tips that came across my screen in February, just for you!   Social media is fast-moving and rapidly evolving and if you don’t keep up, your marketing will suffer. It’s part of my [...]

  Everyone deserves a break once in a while, right? But what happens when you want to take a break from Social Media but your marketing can’t? You automate!   By automating I don’t mean “set-it and forget-it.” What I do mean is taking advantage of some of the wildly useful and easy tools that [...]

    That’s not me talking. I do do Twitter. I love Twitter. But if I had a quarter for every time I’ve heard an entrepreneur say “I don’t do Twitter” I would be, well, richer!   I’ve been using Twitter for a long time. And when I first started, it did take me a [...]

In a surprise move a new Twitter design for all profile pages was just launched. It features a header image similar to Facebook’s Timeline cover photo. We highly recommend updating your profile to this new design for 3 reasons: To make sure all of your online profiles are consistent with your branding. To ensure that [...]

Social Media marketing has a new darling: Images! It’s not that brands haven’t been using all kinds of photos and artwork all along, but suddenly the power of images to create engagement is really being embraced. With Pinterest bcoming the third largest social network practically overnight, and brands on Facebook seeing success with all kinds [...]

  Every week I speak to business people who are facing the same dilemma. They keep hearing that they should be using Social Media* for Business, but they have no idea WHAT that really means. Facebook? Twitter? YouTube? Blogging? And even if they did know HOW, they don’t know WHEN they’d have the time for it. And [...]

It’s very exciting that Be Visible Associates’ client Dr. Michael Sinkin was featured in print and web in the New York Daily News yesterday. The article is about how small businesses are seeing success by using Social Media marketing. Dr. Sinkin has increased his practice by using Facebook, Twitter and Blogging. Don’t think a sole [...]

I have a client whose Twitter account I manage. For this account, I need to pretend that I’m a man. That has led to two interesting issues: for one thing, I’ve discovered that guys tweet differently than women, and for another thing, it turns out that I make a very charming guy! At the start, [...]

When the now-infamous LonelyGirl15 began sharing her video diaries to the world, she became an unlikely YouTube star—until it was      discovered that the seemingly-average girl-next-door was actually an actress hoping to get noticed by site’s millions of users. LonelyGirl15 has since disappeared off the pop culture radar but more and more budding young artists are [...]

How brands and businesses use Social Media has everything to do with how the decision makers use Social Media themselves. People in business who have grown up using Facebook, for example, understand that the Social Media is not just a useful tool, but it’s the way people define themselves in front of their peers. And [...]