social media behavior

By taylor on Oct 25, 2012 in Blog, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

I don’t write about social media much anymore. I’m happy to leave it to other people, but occasionally I still come across an experiment or idea and this is one of those times. On Facebook and Google + I’ve observed that people that include pictures with their status updates seem to get more responses and interaction than updates which are pure...

By taylor on Feb 9, 2012 in Blog, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

I read an article recently where a young professional opted to cut out social media from his life for 90 days. He did it because he wanted to see what it would be like. It’s an interesting commentary on our culture and I think he makes some great points about how much time social media eats up, as well as how interactions change as a result of using social...

By taylor on Feb 7, 2012 in Blog, Habits, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

One of the distractions I deal with everyday is Facebook. Until recently, I kept Facebook on my browser at all times, until one day I decided to count how many times I checked Facebook. I found out that I checked it about 20 times. I didn’t even do much on there, but I quickly realized it was a distraction that was keeping me from working on my business....

By taylor on Jan 24, 2012 in Blog, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

The other day I did something radical. I decided to turn off all email notifications from Facebook. That probably doesn’t sound very radical, but I realized that every time I received an email from Facebook, I’d end up going onto Facebook and in the process waste a bit of time to answer a comment or check whatever else it was that brought me to Facebook....

By taylor on Jan 19, 2012 in Blog, business, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

I read a blog entry today about transparency in Marketing. The author asked why people thought businesses didn’t become more transparent in their marketing. In thinking about it, I think the main reason boils down to fear. Fear of what? Fear of loss of income. Businesses live and die by the bottom line and one of the main fears is that by being transparent...

By taylor on Jan 18, 2012 in Blog, social influence, Social Media, social media behavior | 0 comments

  The other day I attended a talk where the presenter claimed that all of us needed to be on social media and all of us has had to have a certain number of people following us to be relevant. With Facebook it was 1000 fans, LinkedIn 250 connections, Twitter 500 people, etc. To be honest my Facebook page only 280 fans at the time of this writing. I exceed the...