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Social Media News & Growth Hacks

1 – Facebook: Facebook’s Instant Articles now support video ads

From a user’s perspective, Facebook Instant Articles are a no-brainer. Just tap the relevant link in your News Feed and the piece is visible immediately. Brilliant. For publishers, however, the feature is a little more complicated. There’s a trade-off between performance and control which not all news rooms are comfortable with. To tempt them across, Facebook is introducing video ads to Instant Articles.

2 – Pinterest: Pinterest debuts step-by-step How-to Pins from 25+ brands to help keep users around longer

Pinterest unveiled a new kind of dynamic Rich Pin called a How-to Pin, which provides step-by-step instructions for cooking, crafting, grooming and other activities shown off in the Pin. The “How-to” can be seen, followed and shared without ever leaving Pinterest.

Try it yourself with how-to Pins on Social Media

3 – LinkedIn: How I Increased My LinkedIn Profile Views By 1950% In A Month

By using a simple psychology hack and a little effort, I am getting profile views from people in my target market.

If you want to dramatically increase your profile views do the following:

  • Spend 30 mins per/day looking at profiles of people in your target market.
  • Spend 10-15mins mins per/day Updating your status 3 – 5 times.
  • Spend 10-15mins mins per/day posting, commenting and sharing content in groups.

How I Increased My LinkedIn Profile Views By 1950% In A Month on Social Media

4 – HOW TO REPURPOSE YOUR BLOG POST INTO A BEAUTIFUL EBOOK

An ebook can be a valuable asset to your blog for a handful of reasons:

  • It makes your content seem more legitimate.
  • You offer readers something tangible to take away from the post.
  • You create an opportunity to add readers’ emails to your email list.
  • You have another kind of content that you can share with different networks.

Social Media Productivity Tip

This article specifically addresses students. However, it holds very true as a productivity tip for anyone attending a meeting or taking notes during a business call, etc.

Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away

As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. Typing your notes is faster — which comes in handy when there’s a lot of information to take down. But it turns out there are still advantages to doing things the old-fashioned way.

Attention Students: Put Your Laptops Away (hard to do with Social Media)___

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