Saturday saw our first Social Media Workshop take place in Aberystwyth, over 20 businesses turned out early to come and learn more about helping their business online. After a swift coffee at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre the Social Media Workshop took to the cinema, we covered Twitter and Facebook and how to use both for your business. Covering content, images, video, analytics as well as monitoring competitors. We went into depth but also helped out businesses who were yet to

That question gets asked 10 times a week, via email, text message or facebook message to the Red Squirrel page. There isn’t anything wrong with asking and we get straight back to people to ask for more info, but don’t be surprised when a few hundred pounds is quoted. We have worked with a number of businesses with design work, from branding, logo design, logo creation, websites etc etc. Some projects are large and take weeks, others take days and have a quick turnaround, with

Instant Articles are here, they’ve been around for 12 months now but only a select few publishers were given access. You may have seen the small lightning bolt in the top right corner of some news items on Facebook, these open a Facebook hosted article, instantly. They look great, they are 10 times faster to load than going to a website link and they tell the story with images as well as video; so let’s all have them for our business page! Hold on, not quite so fast! Facebook

Follow these steps to produce explainer videos for your video marketing campaign that will drive traffic to your website. Are how to videos part of your social marketing? Looking to find out how you can improve them? Explainer videos help your customers and promote your product or service. Why use Explainer Videos in your Marketing? Video is one of the most powerful forms of social media content. If youre not sharing video, but your competitor is, then they have the persuasio

Do you want to know how to use Twitter Video to your advantage? Video is a great way to tell a story and grow your twitter following. Twitter video is pretty straightforward. You either record a new video from your smartphone or if you have an iPhone, upload a video you’ve already taken. Open the Twitter app, start a new tweet and touch the picture icon. Next, touch the camera icon and switch your camera to video.You have 30 seconds to capture your video. Finally come up with

What’s the next big thing? 1. Social shopping Buy things straight from your newsfeed? Sounds interesting hey. Up until now we rely on our tweets to direct users to our website with the hope of purchasing, how much easier would it be if they could buy then and there. This is already taking form on Pinterest, Instagram and Facebook. Facebook has been testing a Buy button so you can purchase without ever leaving the social platform. One of the biggest challenges with s