Entries by Mark Toney

Hashtags and Filters: Cultivating a Corporate Instagram Presence

It’s no surprise to anyone that Instagram has become one of the most effective strategies for growing and marketing your business. Cultivating a social media presence is one of the best ways to engage your audience and triple your sales. So, how exactly do you go about creating a successful corporate Instagram presence? Here, we’ve outlined some […]

Why We Engage on Facebook

Do you start and end every single day by scrolling through your Facebook newsfeed and seeing what your friends are up to? If your answer is YES – It turns out you are not alone––statistically, most people probably do the same thing. Almost half of Facebook users “like” content posted by their friends at least […]

Just How Dominant is Facebook? The Numbers Speak For Themselves

When people think of Facebook as a company, they mostly think of it synonymously with Facebook, the social network. However, Facebook Inc. is much more than that, as this chart nicely illustrates. With WhatsApp, Instagram, and the namesake Facebook and Messenger, the company owns four of the world’s largest social media / messaging services. Facebook […]

$10 Billion Dollars Lost – Bad Online Data

  A friend recently returned from vacation, and we were discussing the good times she had. Since we are both in the digital space – the talk eventually led in that direction and how digital impacted her vacation. One of her comments: “I couldn’t help but remember how much inaccurate online data I came across while […]

Social Media Coaching and Training

Here is something that is going to help your career….guaranteed!  We all know the realities of today mean that journalists of all types must embrace social media. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social platforms continue to dramatically change news gathering and sharing. Journalists today are required to have a strong Social Media presence to promote […]

The Generational Divide in Todays News Consumption

Some people like to stay on top of the news cycle throughout the day by checking Twitter, Facebook, and their favorite news websites. Others prefer to be served to select the day’s important happenings by the evening news on TV. Whether you prefer one or the other may come down to your age and what […]

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Social Media Fears Be Gone

In today’s B2B competitive world, there is a daily hand-to-hand battle almost to gain market share. Growing your business today and grabbing a larger share of the market has turned into nothing short of guerilla warfare. Companies need to use every tool available to reach sales goals and objectives. To achieve these goals, companies have […]

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The Six Most Important Social Media Engagement Metrics

Social Media Engagement is measured in many different ways. In the end, the goal of Social Engagement Metrics is to show strengths and weaknesses within your social marketing campaigns. How well your social media efforts perform in these six areas of engagement will determine if you are generating the right ROI from your businesses social […]

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Marketers Not Jumping on the Snapchat Bandwagon Yet

A little more than three months after its blockbuster IPO, it has gotten relatively quiet around Snapchat. Even after reporting less than stellar first-quarter earnings last month, the company’s stock price never dropped below the IPO price of $17. There remains a bit of skepticism regarding its long-term outlook, though, and not everyone is convinced […]

What Are The Most Important Social Metrics For Twitter?

I hear the debate all the time when looking at social metrics. Of course, I’m referring to the Twitter debate. Is Twitter still a good social platform for business? Should we consider Twitter to be a marketing tool, or is it just for people who have a lot of time on their hands and have a need […]

Is Your Brand Misbehaving on Social Media?

The rise of social media has presented brands with a new, more direct way of communicating with their customers. Instead of planning ad campaigns months in advance, brands can now react to trending topics in real-time, weigh in on current events and just be in touch with the world. Unfortunately, social media advertising done poorly […]

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Everything You Should Know About Bounce Rate

Bounce Rate is one of the most misunderstood metrics in web analytics.  Let’s demystify it for you. A bounce is a single-page session on your website. OK, here is the very technical explanation: In web analytics, a bounce is calculated specifically as a session that triggers only a single request to the Analytics server, such as […]

Social Media Spending- ROI Impact Disconnect

  Social media spending is expected to climb to a 20.9 percent share of marketing budgets in the next five years. This share was only 5.6 percent in 2009. What is striking, however, is that only 3.4 percent of marketing leaders report that social media contributes very highly to firm performance; 40 percent report a […]