Having few attendees at your business’ event can make you feel like a child whose friends didn’t show up to their birthday party. It sucks. You may have created a Facebook event and asked people to invite their friends, but frankly, that might not be enough. Depending on the nature of your business and […]
Newsflash: you don’t have to be a seasoned designer with 5+ years of Photoshop experience to create wicked graphics for social media. We encourage everyone to check out this Canva review before they start designing anything. Canva is a free, cloud-based service that can help get you well on your way to making branded social media […]
Keeping up with social media can be daunting—even straight-up nerve-racking—if you aren’t used to it. In this article, I’m going to assume that you already know how to use the basic Hootsuite features, including scheduling and streams. As an FYI, the following features are only available via Hootsuite’s Enterprise accounts. 3 Hootsuite Features To Make […]
Welcome to Week #4 of RM101! This week I’ll be sharing my thoughts on how to scale a business with an influencer marketing strategy. I’ve grown and sold multiple Instagram accounts, accumulating 400k+ followers (between three accounts) in the process. Today I’m going to explain what to look for (and avoid) in an influencer, as […]
Story Time This week at Honeypot we had an inquiry from a lady who wanted to boost her business with Instagram. She was 60 years old and had been spending the last few months tediously studying the platform. This was admirable! However, I don’t think it was the best use of her time. Instagram is […]
Why it’s Important for Businesses Reposting customer’s photos on your social media is not only a great way to strengthen the connection you have with your customers, but it also helps validate your brand with social proof. One brand that does this extensively is MuscleTech. Since they repost the best of their fans content, their […]
Update: With the passing of Margaret Thatcher, one organization caused “#nowthatcherisdead” to trend on Twitter. The problem? The Twitterverse read it as “Now that Cher is dead” instead of “Now Thatcher is dead”. Queue the “If only we could turn back time. I believe in love after love. RIP Cher #nowthatcherisdead” tweets. Read over your […]
Stop wasting your marketing dollars! Follow these advertising tips directly from Facebook to take your advertising game into the big leagues. Facebook works with more demographic data than you can shake a $300 billion-dollar stick at, so take these lessons to heart. 1. Separate Instagram and Facebook Campaigns You can run campaigns on both […]
While Instagram has captured the social hearts of millions of mobile users around the world, many are quickly realizing that this application holds a great amount of opportunity for brands. It’s due to this potential that companies have begun using Instagram for promotional purposes, allowing them to gauge the success or failure of their Insta-content. Integrating Instagram […]
Now that we’ve answered the question: “What is a meme?” , the different styles of memes which are popular and available for use – it’s time to get strategic about our online marketing and how memes can be a powerful tool in your tactical arsenal. Like all of your online content – use of a meme […]
Quite often we’ll run into businesses who have a slew of Facebook business pages that have come and gone over the years. Here are a few reasons this may have happened: The social strategy was not well thought out and the individual managing the page has let it go stale. The page administrator is no […]
Many marketers and businesses approach social media marketing with a skewed perspective and notions, mainly the “Go Viral or Go Home!” attitude. This often leads to a rapid burn out your efforts may not see the immediate response anticipated or hoped for going into a program. However, if you don’t go viral, how can you […]
What began as an invite-only image based website, attracting stay-at-home moms, Pinterest has quickly grown to be a dominant force for business in it’s short three years of existence. No longer just for personal use, Pinterest has become quite the effective tool for businesses looking to both magnify their brand and convert visitors into consumer – […]
Last week we wrote about examples of successful social media campaigns. Social and integrated campaigns are a big part of life at Honeypot Marketing. This case study will walk you through a Facebook campaign which leveraged co-branding, meshed the promotion into physical locations and circled it all back to engaging real customers on a local level. […]
Like most social media, community and inbound marketing teams, we’re constantly on the move. This means it’s important for us to have mobile access to all of our most important tools. The list of social applications for the modern marketer is nearly endless. We decided to highlight our 10 most used applications, in no particular order, […]
