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Social media strategies, tips, tricks and tutorials to help smart, successful small businesses manage their own social media marketing.

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The Social Coast Episode 2: Amazing Algorithms

How Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn use Algorithms Our topic is Amazing Algorithms! Do you truly … Read more

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Finding Leads on Twitter: The Lover’s Edition

Figuring out what to do for Valentine’s Day in Halifax is as easy as a quick search on Twitter. By limiting my search to the Halifax area, I found these great ideas.

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The Social Coast Episode 1: Video Strategies for Small Business

Our topic is video strategies for small business. Whether you’re a local flower shop, a life coach, or a tattoo artist, there is a video strategy to meet your marketing goals. Watch the replay above and get the links below. If you do venture out into the world of pre-recorded or live video, we would love to see what you’re doing!

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Top 3 Social Media Goals for Small Business

It’s the beginning of a new year and we’re all reading lots about all the new things we should be doing to market our businesses. Articles abound about social media goals and how to set them. There are three things I think every small business should focus on this year.

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Finding Leads with Twitter Advanced Search: Hali-day Edition

So many small businesses in Halifax think their clients are not on Twitter. They’re automating their Twitter presence because it’s the easy way to get content on there. But easy on Twitter doesn’t work. Automation won’t help you find the client conversations you should be part of. Here are just a few conversations I found in the last two weeks, by doing very simple searches, that local businesses could be part of.

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Why You Can’t Use Facebook as Your Home Base

Facebook Pages get suspended and go missing on a scary frequent basis. If it can happen to one of the biggest social media brands out there, it can happen to you.

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Finding Leads on Twitter: Hali-ween Edition

It’s been a while since I blogged about finding leads on Twitter here in Halifax. I wonder if anyone is actually using this idea to find leads in their industry? I would love to know if monitoring keywords on Twitter is turning into business for you. For now, have a peek at some of the recent tweets local businesses could have jumped on. According to Twitter, every one of these happened “near me”, so that means 25 mile radius of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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How to Create Blog Graphics with Canva

Remember that article I wrote about how I hated graphic design? Well, I’ve changed my tune a bit in just a couple of weeks. Canva at Work has revolutionized my blogging life and I want to show you how!

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5 Things to Know About Yoast SEO for Beginners

There are a multitude of SEO plugins you can install for your WordPress website/blog, and Yoast SEO is probably the most popular. It is the one I use on this website, as well as many client websites. Essentially it helps you put all the SEO data in all the right places so Google will find you more often. (Tweet This.) Using a simple green, yellow, red light system, it tells you how good your SEO is. You are aiming for all green lights, of course!

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6 Steps to Schedule Instagram Posts with Hootsuite

Hootsuite rocked the social media world recently when their latest integration was announced: Instagram. There had been ways to add some Instagram functionality to your Hootsuite dashboard previously, but for me they only worked sporadically, and the main feature we all wanted was missing. Hootsuite listened. Now we have a simple way to schedule Instagram posts through Hootsuite.

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