James Social Media Tips

1. Post Open and Closed Questions to Spur Responses. Asking questions is the most efficient method of engaging someone, be it your blog reader or Facebook follower. Questions trigger the natural human reflex called instinctive elaboration. This reflex forces people to pause and start looking for or formulate an answer. Getting always-moving Facebook lurkers to stop for a second is half of the deal. Now, it’s up to your question to engage them. Because every audience is unique to the page it’s attached to, there’s no single recipe for a good engaging question to ask on your Facebook page. That said, keep the following guidelines in mind while you brainstorm, play, and experiment to find the right formula to engage your community. A good question typically has some of these qualities: Open — It promotes an open-ended discussion. Timely — It revolves around a current trend or a hot topic. Easy — It doesn’t require too much thinking and invites an impulsive or emotiona

Among the social networks where you could build a presence for your business today, Facebook is king. With over a billion active users, Facebook can help you reach an audience you might want to target, anywhere in the world. While the social network has some of the most sophisticated ad targeting tools in existence, today’s post will be focused not on creating Facebook ads, but on free, quick, and easy ways to grow your page’s likes. Strategy #1: Add Facebook-Like Call to Actions to your Blog. Do you have a business blog? Most businesses do, even if it’s just a place for you to report news or, periodically post an article. No matter what, I bet it has more traffic than your Facebook Page. A great strategy to turn your blog readers into Facebook Fans is to add a popup or opt-in bar. A best practice here is to frame Liking your Facebook Page around the value to your readers. Consider value propositions like “To get our next article before anyone else, Like our Facebook P

If you are on Instagram, then there is an element to fame that you like. It, however, could be because it is one of the easiest platforms to use to market products. Instagram mainly works using pictures. It does not really rely on text to sell rather it is about what people see. Other than pictures, Instagram also supports videos. The videos gather views just like the pictures do. How video views work might, however, be slightly different from how pictures work. 1. Always Pre-edit Videos on a Computer. Android Smartphones and iPhones can capture high-resolution videos, but video editing apps still lack the features that video editing software provides. Pre-editing videos on a computer with popular software will enable you to produce videos that have 1:1 aspect ratios, or to stunning visual effects that will increase engagement. Furthermore, the videos edited on a computer will look more professional, because you can use it to add intros or create smooth transitions bet