In looking back over nearly six years of articles, it’s about time for a revamp for some of my most popular posts. For those of you who want to ‘make it’ on all the top social media sites. It would be nice to have a cheat sheet handy of the standard photo sizes for these sites, wouldn’t it? Well in that case, you’re welcome! No need to start a riot with all the applause; really, it was my pleasure. Here are the updated 2018 Social Media platform image sizes!

It was only a few months ago that we showed you how to clean up ugly link previews when sharing community events and news. If you’ve tried these techniques lately, you know they don’t work any longer. Here’s why – and what you can do about it.

The number of your Facebook Likes is not nearly as important as who the people that Like you are. Once you have a goal for your Facebook business page, you’ll need to nurture the audience who will help you fulfill that goal.

We strongly encourage you to measure your social media results to learn how to improve your marketing. And measuring your competitors’ results can teach you even more! With Facebook’s “Pages to Watch,” you can do just that.

Both you and your followers will be busy over the holidays. But while YOU may not have time to post, THEY will still be looking at their social media. Here are some tips on how to schedule posts now for folks to read later.

For the New Year this past year, Facebook had a “Year in Review” feature that allowed users to create short films out of the top moments they’d shared throughout the year. This feature was a huge success and wildly popular among Facebook users. As a way to encourage people to share more videos, Facebook introduced a new slideshow feature that takes your photos and videos on Facebook and turns them into a short movie. These short clips can be customized with different themes and with music. The idea was created to help Facebook take a step towards turning the social network into a video-first destination. The result actually has some great potential and benefits to social media marketers. 

While we can all agree that social media marketing is important to every business, the return on investment for individual industries varies and the “investment” itself ranges from free to thousands of dollars a month. So how does the smaller business owner figure it all out?

Everyone knows social media can be powerful. No one really has the time to update their platforms. And it’s anyone’s guess how to do social media successfully. If that sums up the situation at your organization, then read on for a quick master class.

This month we’re celebrating a few things here.  Here at Sprocket Websites we’re celebrating our 6 year anniversary! We’re also celebrating a great first half of 2016.  To end the first half of 2016, we’d like to take a look back at our most popular articles so far this year.  These are the articles that viewers have read and interacted with the most in the last 6 months.  We love seeing the topics that interest you, so we can give you more of what you’re interested in.  Happy Anniversary!

Social Media Today posted an article about Facebook's Trending section and how it may not be a true representation. Should it be? Must it be?