Boost Your Business with Twitter Ads: Key Considerations for Small Biz Owners Boost Your Business with Twitter Ads: Key Considerations for Small Biz Owners The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 0 1320 Article rating: 3.0 X (formerly Twitter) advertising can be effective for small businesses in driving engagement and boosting sales, but it can also feel intimidating. Here is a quick overview for your consideration: Read more
Should Meta Instant Experience, Formerly Facebook Canvas, Be Your Ad Choice? Should Meta Instant Experience, Formerly Facebook Canvas, Be Your Ad Choice? The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, July 2, 2024 0 1078 Article rating: 3.0 Facebook announced Canvas, hailed as the evolution of mobile advertising, in February of 2016. But this is 2024, and Facebook Canvas is now Meta Instant Experience, so let’s take another look. Read more
Wondering If These Social Media Tools Are Still Free for Small Business? Wondering If These Social Media Tools Are Still Free for Small Business? The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, June 4, 2024 1 999 Article rating: 4.0 When a small business budget can’t stretch any further, the small biz owner looks for free tools to help with social media marketing. Here’s an update to some tools I reviewed in 2016. Read more
It's Easy to View and Act on Your Marketing Data with Today's Visualization Tools It's Easy to View and Act on Your Marketing Data with Today's Visualization Tools Kate Gingold / Tuesday, May 7, 2024 0 1297 Article rating: 4.0 Website, social media, pay-per-click ads – you have a lot going on when marketing your business, so you need an easy way to keep track of it all. Like a dashboard tool! Read more
How Much Do You Remember about the History of Facebook's Reactions? How Much Do You Remember about the History of Facebook's Reactions? The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, April 9, 2024 0 1533 Article rating: 5.0 Very young officemates may think Facebook always had a choice of reactions, but it was wasn't that long ago that “Like” reigned supreme. Take a stroll down Facebook’s Memory Lane with me: Read more
Try Clever Instagram Contests to Get More Eyes on Your Business Brand Try Clever Instagram Contests to Get More Eyes on Your Business Brand The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, March 12, 2024 0 881 Article rating: 3.0 Instagram contests increase engagement and get people talking about your business, but a contest needs careful planning to be successful. Here’s what you should know to get started: Read more
If Your Website Is Annoying Mobile Users, It's Long Past Time to Fix That If Your Website Is Annoying Mobile Users, It's Long Past Time to Fix That The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, January 16, 2024 1 977 Article rating: 3.0 Everyone and their mother have mobile phones in their pockets, but judging by the number of bad mobile websites, it's hard to believe. Is yours one of the annoying ones? Read more
Look How Far Social Media Marketing Has Come in 8 Years! Look How Far Social Media Marketing Has Come in 8 Years! The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, December 19, 2023 0 910 Article rating: 3.0 Eight years ago, I wrote about what social media marketing trends were being predicted for 2016 and thought it might be interesting to see how much has – or hasn’t – changed since. Read more
If Pinterest Is Wildly Successful for Some Businesses, Could It Be for Yours? If Pinterest Is Wildly Successful for Some Businesses, Could It Be for Yours? The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, November 21, 2023 0 895 Article rating: 3.0 Read more
Facebook Updated Its Algorithm Again, so Make the Most of It Facebook Updated Its Algorithm Again, so Make the Most of It The Sprocket Team / Tuesday, October 24, 2023 0 1932 Article rating: 4.0 Did Facebook just update its algorithm? Maybe. Probably. And more changes will come. That’s why a Facebook page should be optimized just like a website. Is yours? Read more