Share ANYBODY’S picture on your Facebook Page

Posted on August 18, 2011 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

Check this out!

As a business, have you ever seen a picture of a personal friend eating at your restaurant or wearing your brand of clothes and wanted to share that with people on your business Facebook Page? These new settings allow you to click share “On Your Page.” Kinda creepy.

Here’s a video explaining what we’re talking about:

From a local business prospective, this is really great. It can help your business in Wichita or Colorado Springs really use Facebook more effectively to market to others. Ethically, however, make sure you have the person’s permission. Maybe you leave a note on that picture asking if you can share it. I’d always ask first.

Of course, if you have any problems, ask us. Shoot us a message on our Facebook Page here or visit our Contact us page.

Free Lesson Friday- Facebook Wall Feed- You know there’s two, right?

Posted on January 21, 2011 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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Your Facebook Wall Feed is actually two different Walls. The default is this Wall called “Top News” and it doesn’t show everything Facebook has to offer you today! GASP! You could be missing more information about your friends and family! Did you see that cute cat picture your Aunt Margaret posted?!? No? Check out the other “Recent News” Tab.

Or- Watch the video- I walk you through it.

If you have any other questions about Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or online marketing in general, ask on out Facebook Page and we’ll screencast our answer so you can learn!

Have an awesome weekend!

Help send our CEO to Explore and Engage 2011

Posted on January 7, 2011 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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As a social marketing company in Wichita, it’s important to constantly learn what the larger, national brands are up to and see how to incorporate their success (and avoid their failures) into small businesses. On January 19th, Brian Solis, author of “Engage or die!” and Jason Falls runs popular blog Social Media Explorer. Two great minds to learn from, no doubt.

So here’s the deal, we would love your help sending Ryan E Cole, our Chief Engagement Officer to the conference so he can freshen up a bit, learn from these two brainiacs as well as the other folks in the room. In return, he will share the knowledge that specifically applies to smaller businesses right here in Wichita with a series of blog posts and action-steps for clients.

Here’s the steps to help.

1. Head over to Start-Thinking’s Facebook Page and look for Ryan’s video. (Click Here)

2. Click “like” below his and HIS ONLY . The one with the most “likes” wins.

Thank you so much!

6 Social Hopes for Wichita in 2011

Posted on January 3, 2011 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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With 2011 finally in full-swing, I wanted to add my hopes for social media around the Wichita area. Notice I said hopes. These aren’t predictions. These are just 6 simple things that I hope happen in the next year.

1. Location-based social networks will draw me in

Many people are using popular location-based social networks like FourSquare, Gowalla and even Facebook Places, but in terms of businesses utilizing these as business opportunities, I feel Wichita could benefit. I WANT a restaurant to target me and use my location to market to me. I WANT to know what your special is on a night I’d like to take my wife and I out to eat. I personally WANT businesses to use this. It shows that you are thinking about your customer and you WANT me there. Not wanting me to stumble in.

2. I’ll know why to “like” you or follow you

I’ve seen so many more businesses create a Facebook Page or join Twitter (of course, I’m a little sensitive to this market) and then start to yell “FOLLOW ME,” “LIKE ME,” “LOOK AT ME!.” I’ve even see some companies using traditional streams to market their social channels, which I applaud. I believe many forget to answer “WHY.” Why should I follow you? Why should I join you Facebook Page? Why? Why? Why?

I hope that 2011 bring on the year of answering WHY!

3. My friends will tweet

I have friends on Twitter who have joined up and have yet to tweet. Bummer. I actually want to know what they are up to. What things they are interested in. I want to know where they are. I want to see all of their Christmas Pictures.

I see more and more and more businesses joining Twitter. It’s a great channel to spread short-burst communication with people if use effectively. Along with the “Why” question, I want to know what they are going to offer me. I know that sounds selfish, but it doesn’t have to be a free soda every time.

4. We’ll see businesses work harder to create creative content

Cool. You joined social networks and have an email newsletter. What are you going to say? Again, why am I here. Adding a social media component is like adding an entire multimedia department. Creativity wins and in a world of short attention spans, it vital. It’s important to record your CEO’s latest message, but I also want to see real creativity flourish. I’m looking for Flash Mobs, creative YouTube videos, fun Facebook Promotions, engaging tweet or best yet an email that entices me to buy. I hope that many Wichita businesses jump on the creativity train and show me some awesome stuff!

5. I hope to learn from other successful LOCAL social media campaigns

What Skittles and Old Spice do in the social world with millions of followers is sweet, but what about the local business with 2,000 followers on Facebook? What about making actual money with this stuff. More and more of our clients are having success with social media because we built an awesome foundation with them. We’ve engaged their audiences and we’ve had a lot of fun! I want to see more of these successes that allow us to be successful here. Successful now. Successful in Wichita Kansas.

6. Businesses focus on their true strengths

Being all things to all people is overrated. Thankfully small is the new big. JuggleMedia doesn’t want to be a website company. We can do it, but that takes us away from social media. I want to see more businesses saying no because its not their specialty.

The same holds true in social media within a company.  Sometimes Twitter is best, sometimes Facebook. Sometimes YouTube. I want to see more businesses using each technology effectively specifically for their business. No two social campaigns are the same, so I hope to see less and less copying and more and more creativity.

I hope each and every one of you can also use these technologies to better connect to your customers and activate them more frequently to purchase more often, making it a prosperous new year for you!

All the best in 2011!

JuggleMedia helps build YuleFinder.com to spread Christmas Cheer

Posted on December 10, 2010 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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YuleFinder.com

JuggleMedia teamed up with One-Up Interactive, Thrive Solutions and Vale to create YuleFinder.com.

We build the site with the premise in mind that it’s the only site to “Find the Twinkle” around Wichita. While we have grand ideas for this site, this year it was an opportunity for all of our companies to concept, create, design, code, tweak, perfect and post in as little as seven days.

So what? Why is that important? Three things. First, in the world of web and coding, that’s fast. You can’t see how complex yulefinder.com is, but I assure you it’s a very difficult piece to create in that amount of time. An awesome testate to One-Up Interactive and their skills.

Second, there’s a hole bunch of news about local businesses collaborating on projects. Here is an honest-to-God collaborating project to prove to the local business community it can be done and done fast, efficiently and it works well! Oh, by the way, it’s not the first time these companies have collaborated and it sure won’t be the last.

Finally, there’s the ability for our companies to give back. What we can use our collective awesomeness to connect people to causes and generate more buzz around them. Thus, why you see Lights on St. Paul and Lights on the Lake on the homepage. Feel free to donate. Using social media channels around Wichita, we now have the ability to spread this message quickly, inexpensively and drive traffic to the site. I’d tell you how many page views our site has had, but you wouldn’t believe it. We couldn’t either.

So try out YuleFinder.com. Tell us what you think. We’d love your feedback to make the site better for you. We have an on-going list of perfect “wants” in the site and would love for you to add to it. Zip us an email to hohoho@yulefinder.com and we’ll incorporate your idea!

Merry Christmas and God Bless!

3 Free Tools to Monitor your Brand

Posted on November 1, 2010 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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Last week, we were thrilled to have the Wichita Business Journal as us some simple questions about monitoring your brand online and in the social space. They were following up on a Weber Shandwick Report that 34% of Global Chief Communications Officers say that their brand has been under some sort of attack in the social space over the past 12-month period.

Here are hundreds of tools that you and your business can use to monitor your brand online ranging from free to super-expensive. Here are three simple-to-use, and FREE tools that we at JuggleMedia enact for each of our clients to monitor their brands.

socialmention.com

What it does: Monitors all traffic online like blogs, micro-blogs, networks, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, video, audio and questions. Essentially socialmention.com looks at Facebook Posts, Twitter, Blog and even the comments on those blogs.

Why it rocks: Want to be alerted when somebody says anything about your business? Want a daily email of everything said about you online? Done. Socialmention.com allow you to set-up an alert to notify you whenever something is said online.

What is costs? FREE! YES!

Google Alerts

What it does: Google Alerts allows you to really focus on all web traffic mentioning your brand. From the things your wholesalers may be saying about your products to their customers to the things left in comments, Google Alerts covers the non-social aspects of your brand really well.

Why it rocks: Google Alerts is one of those tools that you’ll start to get in your inbox and sometimes want to ignore. Think of it was one of those things that you need to check to make sure everything online is perfect. You can opt to have an alert when it happens or once per day. I recommend the once-per-day option. Always a good bet.

Cost: Free

TwitterFall

What it does: TwitterFall allows you to monitor the traffic said within a certain geographic area, either about your business, your brand, yourself or any specific keyword you need it to monitor.

Why it rocks: Twitterfall is a great tool because it allows you to look at your Twitter lists, upload a new search, add your location and even exclude specific words you don’t want.

Cost: Free. Which is good, but each time you revisit the site, you have to re-do your search criteria. Kind of a bummer, but a good tool.

All of these things can be implemented for free and for your business right here in Wichita, Kansas. If you need anymore help, please feel free to call us at 316.747.9266. We’d be more than happy to help you figure out all your social media right here. Right now!

We’re heading to #140conf and you should too!

Posted on October 22, 2010 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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More People Join Social Networks if Brand Asks

Posted on October 18, 2010 in JuggleMedia Wichita, Social Media in Wichita Kansas by JuggleMedia

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In a recent article, eMarker.com found that more people become fans of a Facebook Page if a brand asks more than a friend’s recommendation.

“Most commonly, that outreach comes from the brand itself. Three-quarters of Facebook users worldwide who had “liked” a brand told DDB Worldwide and Opinionway Research in September 2010 that they had been spurred to do so by an invitation or advertising from the brand they followed.” (eMaketer.com)

So what does this mean for you and your business here in Wichita Kansas trying to reach more customers via social media?

Simply put, encouraging people to join the page in other manners than “Suggest to Friends” on a Facebook Page are crucial to increasing brand outreach. In a post by Mari Smith, she noted this tactic should be used sparingly, if at all. She goes on to list some of her top suggestions here. The research above shows that only 59% of people join pages by this form.

So how do you get people to connect? Easy. Take it off-line. When you started your website, you had to promote it. Facebook is just like another website, it’s just that we can now see how many people get to your information and actually stick around to enjoy it time and time again.

At JuggleMedia, one of the first steps we encourage you to do is to contact your current customers. Think of this as a way to get everybody together on one site and communicate effectively with them. (We’ll help you with that step too!)

Have a good one!