Every week as SmallBizLady, I conduct interviews with experts on my Twitter talk show #SmallBizChat. The show takes place every Wednesday on Twitter from 8-9 pm ET. This is excerpted from my recent interview with Warren Carlyle @modelwarren. Warren Carlyle is a Community Building Strategist helping businesses build highly engaged communities online. He is founder/CEO of […]
7 Ways IGTV Can Be Valuable for Your Small Business
Guest Article Since it’s launch in 2010, Instagram has become a global community of one billion! Recently, the photo sharing app announced their new feature IGTV, which allows users to post and watch videos that are up to one-hour long. While there’s a stand-alone IGTV app, you can also watch it from within the Instagram […]
8 Tips for Selling Products on Instagram
Your website is no longer your only channel for selling products. Social media sites — particularly Instagram — have turned into very cool sales tools, if you know how to leverage them. Here are seven tips to maximize your selling ability on Instagram. Tip 1: Leverage the Hashtag Hashtags are huge on Instagram, so […]
10 Ways to Grow Your Small Business With Instagram
If you’ve been successful at setting up an Instagram account for your small business and using it to find new followers – and customers — you might be looking for additional strategies to ramp up your efforts on this visual social media platform. And since engagement on Instagram is 15 times higher than it is on Facebook, it’s […]