Latest Blog Posts From: Social Media Virtual Assistant at Large

New Facebook Timeline Rolls Out for Personal Profiles
As promised, Facebook has made changes to the personal profile once again. Your personal profile account is now a “Timeline.” The Timeline was announced back in August. As the new Timeline rolls out, users will be prompted to change over to the Timeline. One nice feature about this change is that users will be given a 7 day review period to wor...
Published 2 months ago

Wine Tasting + Twitter= Great Fun
So much of what we hear is that Twitter is great for business networking, engagement, visibility and making connections with others in your industry. And this is true. However, Twitter can also be a tool for having fun socially (imagine that, using a social network socially?) I’ve participated in and moderated several Twitter chats in the course ...
Published 9 months ago

Twitter Upgrades Advanced Search- Finally
The news out today on the Twitter blog is that Twitter has finally upgraded their Advanced Search feature and moved it from search.twitter.com to the be housed within Twitter’s main search feature.  When you do a search on Twitter now, then it will bring up the link for Advanced Search. They have also now added a tab that makes suggestions for p...
Published 10 months ago

Social Media Round Up
Just a couple of quick notes about some posts you might want to check out. The first is an interview that I did over on Business Darlings about my thoughts on the current state of social media.  I answer questions about How to measure success in social media Where I see social media going What brands I think are doing an incredible job with s...
Published 10 months ago

Assessing Your Social Media Needs
As a small business owner or solo entrepreneur you are faced with the on-going challenge of how to market your business. Very few small businesses have unlimited budgets available so any funds spent on marketing really need to be effective in landing additional sales or leads or ultimately have some value to the overall growth of the business. Righ...
Published 11 months ago

Tools for Social Media Measurement
This post is just a quick overview of some free tools out there to help measure some of your social media efforts. 1) Facebook Insights will provide some good in-depth information for a fan page. You can download these date into Excel or you can snapshot the graphs they offer. (keep in mind though that FB data aren’t always that accurate but c...
Published 1 year ago

How To Set Up a Twitter Account
As a Social Media Virtual Assistant, I’ve set up many, many Twitter accounts. Some for myself (I think I have 5 of them…) and many for my clients. So, it’s really second nature to me and most of the time, I don’t think twice about how to do it. However, for many small business owners and entrepreneurs who many just be jumping into using Twi...
Published 1 year ago

Facebook Announces Deals for Local Business
Facebook announced this week the launch of Facebook Deals for local business which ties in directly with their Facebook Places feature. Sounds remarkably similar to Foursquare but Facebook has a much, much larger user base. Will this blow Foursquare and other geo-location services out of the game? This is yet another feature that local businesses n...
Published 1 year ago

Hootsuite As Your Social Media Dashboard
There are several different options available to help you manage multiple social media accounts at once. Among the most popular are Tweetdeck, Seesmic and Hootsuite. Depending on your needs and desire for access, then you might consider  each one of these for different reasons. All of them have a web version and apps for iPhone. Tweetdeck and Sees...
Published 1 year ago

Social Media Doesn’t Run on Auto Pilot (and Neither Do I)
Any small business or entrepreneur anywhere near an Internet connection these days, will have heard about the importance of using social media as a marketing tool. Many will not know the ins and outs of how to go about getting started or keeping up with their social media efforts. What’s more is that small business owners and entrepreneurs are VE...
Published 2 years ago