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5 Ways to Increase Web Traffic via Facebook

5 Ways to Increase Web Traffic via Facebook

Facebook provides great opportunities to increase traffic to your website! Here are 5 useful tips: Make your images BIG! You'll be sure to get more likes, shares, and click-throughs on if you post pictures, linked to your website, on your page that are large and...

How to Gain More Twitter Followers in 2016

How to Gain More Twitter Followers in 2016

Here are 7 helpful strategies that will be sure to increase your amount of followers on Twitter. Jazz Up Your Profile- Make your profile and bio section interesting! These play the most important role in bringing in more followers. It is also beneficial to use a real...

 
  
5 Tips to Improve Your e- letter!

5 Tips to Improve Your e- letter!

Email newsletters are an easy, cost-effective way to market your audience. Here are a few best practice tips to make sure your e-newsletters are meeting your audience’s expectations. Subject line, subject line, subject line – Your subject line can determine whether...

Are you LinkedIn…or left behind?

Are you LinkedIn…or left behind?

LinkedIn is a social media platform that is favored by professionals, but many people aren’t utilizing LinkedIn to it’s full potential. Here are a few pointers to help you get started, via Pamela Vaughan at Hubspot…

Canva: Design Made Easy!

Canva: Design Made Easy!

If you are looking for an easy, affordable way to create your own designs, you really need to check out Canva.com. It’s online and free to use, with plenty of free elements, images and fonts with a library of images to purchase starting at just $1! This will give you...


  
Get Tweeting!

Get Tweeting!

Now that you’re convinced you need to use Twitter, we’ve put together a few quick pointers on how to get rolling…

Twitter – Should We Be Doing That?

Twitter – Should We Be Doing That?

Maybe so! Here are the facts:

Twitter has about 1 billion users world-wide, about 241 million tweets per day and in the U.S., about 48 million users are projected in 2014. Older users tend to engage in more ads and Twitter is projected to grow a more mature audience over the next few years, projecting by 2018 the 25 – 34 year old age group will match the teen users (12 -17 years old).


  
Going Viral: You’re doing it wrong…

Going Viral: You’re doing it wrong…

A good example of going viral gone wrong is Donald Sterling, owner of the L.A. Clippers and now more infamously known for the audio clip that was revealed by the gossip website TMZ. In a matter of hours, this information went viral #inabadway

FB Newswire: The Next News Source

FB Newswire: The Next News Source

On Thursday, Facebook and Storyful announced the launch of FB Newswire, a news aggregate source for journalists and newsrooms. It uses newsworthy social content that is publicly shared on Facebook by individuals and organizations. Facebook’s goal is to make it easier for media organizations and journalists to get verified, up-to-date information, videos and photos and use it to engage and drive their markets.

Another Happy Customer!

Another Happy Customer!

We received this email from a satisfied out-of-state client today! We’re lucky to work with lots of bright professionals who are great at what they do but just need some technical help along the way. Claire is a great example of this, you can find her at Lessons4Now and here on Facebook. She was on a budget and had a list of things she wanted accomplished. This can sometimes be overwhelming but we were willing to work with her in phases to get her needs met. This is what she had to say about working with us…


  
Time Travelers Interacting via Social Media? Potentially? Well…no.

Time Travelers Interacting via Social Media? Potentially? Well…no.

Somewhere between Back to the Future pt. 2 and 3, a wild hypothesis was born. If time travelers from the future lived here today, had they slipped up on social media—and posted about something that hadn’t yet happened?

At least, that was the question at the heart of Michigan Technological University’s latest research.

Happy Birthday Bit Social!

Happy Birthday Bit Social!

Heading into our 4th year at Bit Social, we would like to first of all thank every one of our clients that we have collected along the way. Your loyalty and willingness to share your business with us has been invaluable!

NASF 2014: 30 years!

NASF 2014: 30 years!

As a major sponsor, Bit Social Media is very excited to have been working alongside the NASF committee over the past year on the 2014 festival, celebrating 30 years next month!!

The North American Snow Festival is a long established community tradition and we are hoping to not only increase attendance and participation, but spread the word to those who have never been to NASF and make this year a success!


  
[INFOGRAPHIC]: When is the best time to tweet?

[INFOGRAPHIC]: When is the best time to tweet?

At Bit Social Media, we send a lot of tweets. But there’s a specific time range where you can maximize the exposure you get from these tweets—all depending on which industry, business-type, and content you’re dealing with. We found the following Twitter/tweeting infographic online, and feel it explains the most salient points regarding when you should be sending your Tweets.

Cadillac’s Craft Beer Fest 2013 – Home Brew Competition

Cadillac’s Craft Beer Fest 2013 – Home Brew Competition

We're happy to be organizing the Home brewer's competition at this year's Cadillac Craft Beer Fest! We hope you will share this link with your friends and those who may be interested in entering the competition! CLICK HERE FOR RULES AND REGISTRATION!! Bit Social's own...

Changes to Facebook’s Edge Rank Algorithm

Changes to Facebook’s Edge Rank Algorithm

Via [Mashable] According to Lars Backstrom, engineering manager for Facebook, the average user has about 1,500 stories filtered through their News Feed on a daily basis. However, only 20% of them ever make the cut to be seen on your News Feed. So how does Facebook...

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