Social Media Calender Template Excel 2014 | Editorial Planner for Social Media

Social Media Calender Template Excel 2014 | Editorial Planner for Social Media

Looking for a social media content calendar template to download for Excel? I first offered on last year, but it was, admittedly, a little basic - certainly usable, but perhaps not as robust as many businesses require. So now, here's my new and improved social media editorial calender template for Excel. Check it out after the break...

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How Ben & Jerry's Uses Images to Delight on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google+

How Ben & Jerry's Uses Images to Delight on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google+

Ben and Jerry's has millions of passionate followers on social media, and it keeps them engaged by tailoring specific content to the networks that it posts on - Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Google+.

The ice-cream maker's use of different images for each site ensures that it hits the right spot, wherever its audience is.

Let's take a look at how Ben and Jerry's capitalised on Valentine's Day...

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How to Repost Instagram Photos and Videos | Regram Photos and Video

How to Repost Instagram Photos and Videos | Regram Photos and Video

Have you ever seen people re-posting photos and videos on Instagram and wondered how they did it? 

For brands, educating and encouraging your fans to repost your Instagram photos and videos can be a very powerful method to use as a requirement for entering a contest, or simply as an option for passionate customers to share your great content with their friends. At the time of writing, there is no official way to repost content on Instagram, but there are several pretty good workarounds, so let's take a look...

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How K-Mart Used Snapchat Marketing to Target its Teen Audience

How K-Mart Used Snapchat Marketing to Target its Teen Audience

Since joining Snapchat, K-Mart's Stylesip  (the branded destination that represents Kmart's junior brands) has used its activity on the app to cleverly target and engage with its teenage audience. In the latest example of effective Snapchat strategy, it used a series of five separate images - sent a few hours apart - to tease the reveal of the celebrity who had been chosen to represent its BONGO clothes line. It then encouraged fans to guess who the person was. Let's take a closer look...

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