Reading Time: 3 minutesI recently came across an article on Entrepreneur.com listing five ways to attract visitors to your website. As I was reading each item on the list I kept thinking that I had read these ideas before. Well, it turns out that I had. Previous ThirdSide blog posts have touched on each of the concepts presented […]
Social Media
F8: Doing Business with Facebook
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis past week, Facebook held its annual F8 Developers Conference in San Jose, California. While social media is generally seen as a way to interact with friends and family, this year’s F8 focused heavily on helping businesses better engage their audiences through better connectivity. Some emerging tools reminded me of things other platforms are doing […]
Facebook Improves Their Small Business Pages
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re a small business with a Facebook page, you may have noticed a change to the layout of that page. Facebook began experimenting with a new design in June and has been rolling it out a little bit at a time over the past few weeks. Some accounts see the new design and some […]
RIP Instagram Logo
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday Instagram came out with an update of its logo and branding, and not surprisingly, people either love it or hate it. Personally, I think it’s far less interesting, and strays too far away from the “hipster” vibe they started with in favor of following the bigger trend of simplified design concepts. It’s trying to […]
The Never-Ending Cocktail Party
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve spent a lot of time this week getting some of my clients up to speed regarding social media—how to use it, how not to use it, what you’re supposed to get out of it, etc. Years ago, the prevailing (if naive) opinion was that if you just built a great website, people would find […]
