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What is LinkedIn Algorithm and How to Beat it?

What is LinkedIn Algorithm and How to Beat it?

When it comes to social media, what do we mean by an algorithm? Well, in the social media sphere, an algorithm refers to the way posts are sorted in your feed. In fact, every platform prioritizes some posts in a certain way to make sure they get more social signals, including more likes, comments, views, shares, etc.

Each social media has its own logic in delivering contents to users. You need to know about these algorithms if you are using social media for marketing purposes. The information will help your brand or business get noticed and receive better engagement. Whether you like it or not, your reach is controlled by these algorithms, and you should know how to beat them to generate more leads and boost sales.

To beat LinkedIn algorithm, post often at irregular intervals

LinkedIn has its own algorithm, just like any other social media platform. On LinkedIn, your content is more likely to emerge on top of the users’ feeds if it has received better engagement over recent days or weeks and it suits your connections’ tastes regardless of when it was published. This social network has the strategy to keep our homepage relevant and user-friendly.

How to beat the LinkedIn algorithm

1.Post often but at irregular intervals

It’s hard to figure out the perfect publishing frequency for your LinkedIn page. However, it is advised not to post too infrequently to make your audience forget about. On the other hand, overcrowding the feeds of your connections with your contents may frustrate them and make them hide your posts. You need to have a wise constant presence by posting at least twice and no more than six times within a week.

Another point that I should mention here is that you should not make yourself look like a bot by always posting at the same time. Try to do it at irregular intervals.

2.Post high-quality contents

LinkedIn has bots which check the credibility of your contents by marking them as “clear”, “low-quality”, or “spam”. You always want your content to fall into the ‘clear’ category. However, if it is labeled as “low-quality”, you still have the chance of moving on to the next stages in the future.

Your content is considered spam when users report it because it is inappropriate, offensive, or irrelevant. If your content passes the spam filter stage, the bots will show it to a small audience to gauge their reaction. Once it receives a lot of likes and comments, it will appear and stay on top of the users’ feeds. If the reaction is not impressive enough, the content will fall into the bottom, and you have to rework it.

To better evaluate your performance of content marketing, use Content Marketing Score or CMS provided by LinkedIn. CMS measures the effectiveness of your paid or organic contents as below.


How Content Marketing Score (CMS) is measured on LinkedIn (https://bn.co)

CMS also tell you how you can increase your reach and engagement rate and so improve your score. You can filter your score by region, seniority, company size, job function, and industry.

It is said that different actions made by your connections have different weights in the LinkedIn algorithm. A share has more points than a comment and a comment more than a like. Improve the score of your content and get better engagement by thinking more before writing. Afterward, LinkedIn bots will send your content to more people if it is performing well enough and will keep showing it up, no matter how many days have passed from its publishing time.

3. Build your Audience Strategically

Your connections largely influence the quality of your LinkedIn profile, whether you run a personal account or a public one. So, make sure to build powerful relationships with them and not getting them to hide your contents or flag them as spams.


Quality connections can strengthen your LinkedIn profile

If you have a company page, encourage your employees to announce they are working there in their profile. What is more, increase your visibility by hosting or participating in LinkedIn Groups, joining conversations, and exchanging recommendations. Sharing others’ posts can also be to your advantage in attracting more connections.

Wrap it up

Social media algorithms are an ever-evolving trend, and you have no choice but to adapt yourself to them in your social media marketing journey. Beat them by getting in front of the story, targeting your audience strategically, optimizing your contents, and increasing engagement. And always keep yourself up-to-date and adjust your strategy when the next changes in the LinkedIn algorithm occur.

The matter of good social Media Bio

Among the complicated topics all over the world wide web discussing social media bio’s and how to write a powerful bio may sound fun for you, but the point is almost 90 percent of users don’t know how they should write their bio and even how Important their bio is? There are other groups of people that are confused about the content of their bio. So, this article will put your mind at ease and help you to find your own style.

Why your social media bio is important?

Imagine you’re dating someone, what is the first thing that will catch your attention? Yes, you are right; that person’s appearance is the first thing that will draw your attention. It is almost half a way you want to know that person. Your social media bio is precisely like a person’s appearance. It will show your audience everything they should know in the first sight. And the way you write your bio will decide to keep them or make them run away…

So whatever your business is, you have to hook your audience. Attract them and make them stay on your side. Just an excellent Social media bio can give you these options.

Most effective factors to build up your Bio

Name and questions

You may consider name is a straightforward step that has no values to stick on, but it’s better to change your mind and believe that the name you choose is significant because it’s the easiest way that your audience can find you in all social media platforms.  Choose a unique, simple username that is related to your niche. You can ask them some attractive questions to give them the feeling that it is the page that will help them to reach their aims. Some items that if your audience asks themselves the answers will be YES… but pay attention that your audience doesn’t want to see advertising quotes which are trying to trick them. You may never know a person who is asking questions in his bio section. So it can be an excellent reason to use this method because people like to see unique things.

Profile image

The importance of a profile image is not something that you can deny. First people care about your profile picture then decide to be your fan or not. Try to choose a high-quality image for your profile or if you have a special logo for your business, set that as your profile picture. Other factors are important such as size and pixels. But these factors are different in various social media platforms. For example, when you want to choose a Facebook profile image, it’s better to select the square image rather than the rectangle one, because in this case, you don’t have to crop your picture. For having a suitable Facebook profile image, you should follow the steps below.

•    square

•    Cover Photo – 851 x 315 pixels

•    Profile Photo – 160 x 160 pixels

Keywords and links

Why are keywords important? Keywords are those words that are related to your business and help people find you better. The important thing is how and where you should use them. Search still is the way that people choose to find something, and as search engines included social media bios in their search query. You should be strict about choosing your keyword. Share your website or other social media platforms in your bio, as everyone knows. You may have a problem sharing multiple links or hyperlinks in some platforms. To solve these kinds of problems you can use ilink and bitly

Skills and abilities

There is one question that you should always ask why people should follow you and stay on your side? Here is the answer; your ability and power are the most important factors that will attract them. So a wise person mentions all the skills to make his audience sure that they are in the right place. You can also put some of your interests and rules in your bio, introducing yourself will help them to stay closer to you and feel friendly.

Emojis and Hashtags

After selecting your content, it’s time to choose unique and relative hashtags for your business. Hashtags are useful as keywords are and help people find you better and more accessible. Pay attention that you are human with a lot of lovely emotions, so do not type your content like a robot. Use emojis to express your feelings and make your audience have some fun when they are checking your bio. You can use emojis instead of some words between your sentences such as computer engineer ➡ 💻 engineer


This picture shows one of interesting Instagram’s bios

Here are some good social media bio that will help you to understand these tips better.

Ariana Grande


This picture Is about Ariana Grande’s Instagram bio

Cristiano Ronaldo


This picture shows Ronaldo’s Facebook profile

Katy Perry


This picture shows Katy’s Twitter profile

Ed Sheeran


This picture shows Ed’s YouTube profile

Final thought

 You can choose whatever you want for your social media bio, related to your business or personality. Because your profile bio is a personal thing. But it is better to follow a good formula to seem more professional and trustworthy. So follow the above steps to find your own loyal audience as soon as possible.

5 Ways to Increase Facebook Engagement for your Brand

If you are thinking about how to market your business on social media, Facebook is one of the first platforms you should consider since it enables you to have access to a large audience and get your business noticed. It’s not a platform made for personal social networking only; nowadays, many businesses have set up their Facebook profiles to satisfy their marketing objectives and fulfill customer needs more easily and effectively.

Once you’ve made your Facebook business profile for which there are several elements that improve your presence, you need to engage prospects with your contents to convert more of them into customers.

Below tips will help you get the most out of your marketing on Facebook by boosting your page engagement:

1. Optimize content

Avoid using incomprehensible words and expressions that may drive your viewers away. You get more people to read your content if you use clear and simple language even for deep and technical topics. This way, you will cover a broader range of would-be customers for your posts.

Moreover, variate your post types by including quizzes, statistics, infographics, user-generated contents or videos and make a reasonable balance between promotional and non-promotional posts. Make sure there is value is whatever you are sharing. Does it entertain your audience? Is it inspiring? Does it inform or educate them? Think about it and write from your audience’s perspective.

Another point that I should mention here is that it’s wise to use 3 to 5 hashtags per post, not more. Hashtags will make your post easily discoverable and let people know what it is about; however, it’s not common to stuff your content with hashtags.

2. Answer comments and questions

Show your respect or gratitude by responding to comments. MAC cosmetics is a famous brand for makeup products which is active on Facebook. If you visit their Facebook page, you will notice that it actively replies to its followers’ comments and questions and even sometimes clearly explains the reasons they can’t afford to help such as in below comment.


See how MAC Cosmetics brand replies to comments

As shown in the above photo, a fan from Sri Lanka is asking if they can send her favorite product to their location and MAC thanks her first, expresses regret they can’t ship it there and then shows her the possible solution. I think this cosmetics brand is fully aware that caring for the audience and giving them truthful answers are key elements in growing their customer base worldwide.

There are many more examples of how brands are successfully considering this strategy in their social media marketing to increase their Facebook engagement rate and so their visibility. People always value the attention they get and start to give positive feedback on social networks and as a result, more social proof is produced to gain credibility for your brand. So don’t miss the chance!

3. Use Facebook Insights

Track the performance of your Facebook business presence by consistently checking and evaluating the analytics data provided by this powerful tool: Facebook Insights.

Note that on Facebook there are differences between a profile, a page, and a group. A profile is a personal page in which you showcase your interests, information, photos or videos to your friends and family mainly. A page is dedicated to a brand and business and in which you are free to advertise your activity. This page can only be created by someone who has a personal profile and this point holds true for groups, too. In groups, people can share their opinions and have say freely. Facebook Insights is only available for a page or in other words, for businesses or brands.


This image was taken from http://digitalresources.nz/article/U78aKOj

Facebook Insights analyzes your page based on page likes, post reach, engagement, etc, in the “overview” tab. On the “posts” tab, you can discover when your fans are online and the best time of day to post on Facebook, as well as which days of the week, are perfect for sharing contents. This is crucially valuable if you want your brand to be visible to as many prospects as possible and rise to popularity efficiently.

What is more, you can see the data for each post separately and so find out which types of posts are more appealing to your audience and produce more of them in the future. If there are available data for 100 of your followers or more, Facebook Insights also categorizes them based on gender, location or age. That’s interesting!

With respect to the above piece of information about Facebook Insights, you can see that this tool tremendously helps you analyze all social media metrics and is essential for your Facebook marketing plan.

4. Use Facebook ads or sponsored posts

If you think you are not getting the desired results from your organic activity on Facebook, try using Facebook ads. It’s cheap and will expose your business to exactly your target audience based on the information you give such as location, gender, age, interests, etc. It’s important that you use a brand new catchy image, video or slideshow for your ad that matches your brand’s identity and write your messages in it clearly. What’s interesting is that you can choose where you want your ad to be shown. It can be on feeds or stories of Facebook, Instagram, or Messenger of your target audience or other placements as determined by the Facebook business.

You can also promote a post by boosting it so that it will reach out to more people or drive them to take action by putting a CTA button. The reached level depends on the amount you pay and of course the targets you choose.


This image was taken from https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/

You can see all Facebook ads or sponsored posts in its ads library no matter you are logged in or not and check how pages are advertising their activities using paid promotion approaches. For instance, right now, National Geographic Travel and “Brand Hong Kong” (a program that promotes Hong Kong as “Asia’s world city”) are both having a sponsored post, as shown above, about Hong Kong’s biggest celebrations: The Tin Hau Festival. This boosted piece of content can tremendously attract a large audience to this event in the future and make their traditions be known globally.

5. Get traffic from other social media platforms

While you can use Facebook to drive traffic to your own website or blog posts, other social media platforms can also be used to direct even more people to both. Put their links wherever and whenever they fit.

One of the places you can put URLs is the link in bio on your social media channels. On Instagram you are limited to only one single link in bio and, if you meet certain conditions, on stories but you are not even allowed to use clickable links in captions. iLink helps convert all your desired links into one, no matter how many, and place it on bio to send followers to a multi-link page. This link can also be used in other social networks such as Twitter, Tumblr, and Pinterest and even on Facebook itself.

Final thoughts

Reach a quality Facebook presence by infusing the above-mentioned tactics into your social media marketing strategy. There is also no harm in diving into how successful brands and businesses are working on Facebook to engage more effectively with their audience and make their posts reach out more to their targets. We would be happy to know about other helpful ways so feel free to share them below with us.

Facebook’s Two New Algorithm Update

Recently Facebook has released two new algorithm update, which claimed is the reason to increase the engagement. There are two new algorithms which give you the option to see the posts of your close friends who you are most engaged with.

“We’ve (recently) begun surveying people on Facebook to ask them to list the friends they are closest to. We look at the patterns that emerge from these results, some of which include being tagged in the same photos, continuously reacting and commenting on the same posts and checking-in at the same places. We then use these patterns to inform our algorithm.”


As Facebook mentioned

It takes more than a year to fix and publish these changes and updates. Let’s see if the updates are useful or not?

The new algorithm will show more posts from your closest friends

People mostly care about those whom they know or love rather than the ones they don’t. So social media platforms try to focus on people’s need and interests. Facebook, as one of the most reliable platforms all over the world, wants to stay in the top. Facebook is mostly one big public platform, and it wants to make it more personal and closed-off platform, but how?

The critical question is How they set their algorithms to reach their goals. Facebook started to focus on the user’s interactions with others. They decided to check a process which name is Ranking. The ranking will determine which posts show up in your news feed based on what we recognize that you will be most interested in.

The number of likes, comments, and shares are the signs to show how much that post matters to you. Then post that you interact the most will generally get higher ranking scores, there is one other thing that matters what type of audience you’re interacting with.

  1. People to people
  2. people to pages

They try to understand your potential audiences, people are your users, followers, and friends, but pages contain businesses and organizations…

It’s better to know people to people is more valuable than people to pages. Because interacting with people who are close to you is more meaningful. Facebook’s engineers will also count on the exchanges that take more time and attention. Such as typing a long reply for someone’s post. These changes are the things that Mark Zuckerberg mentioned a year ago to prepare his users and make them understand that they are doing their best to satisfy them.

“As we roll this out, you’ll see less public content like posts from businesses, brands, and media. And the public content you see more will be held to the same standard — it should encourage meaningful interactions between people.”

Facebook is now concerned about the friendship well-being of the users.

Reducing clickbait and junk links on Facebook

It is almost the same as what Facebook did to get rid of clickbait and quizzes in the past. These kinds of posts may be attractive for users and thought they are useful for their activity, but finally, they find out that they are less engaging and satisfying.

It Is different for pages and accounts:

In accounts, the algorithm works based on engagement and help them boost these posts, but the problem is that the qualifier will recognize the system that remembers the account as content that users found it not engaging, despite those first clicks.

But in pages, it is totally different. It underlines the matter of ignoring clickbait and emphasizing on publishing related, worthy content, with a title that matches what your related links offer.

As Facebook published this update recently is not about reducing the page’s reach, but it will have some side effects that make a balance between all the pages. Pages that continuously share clickbait will see the impact of that in their result, which will show as News Feed distribution reduction.

This changes will definitely be a right encouragement for other pages to continue their activities because there will be more space and less junks for their updates.  

Reducing the spams and sharing junk URLs will help you to reach to a high number of followers and audience cause, there will be much more space for other content in comparison with the old version.

But don’t mess up with this new update, If you think the pages who don’t share these posts will gain what they wanted to and get the high number of reach you are all wrong. It’s not deniable that there will be some powerful influences, but you cannot see your utopia, especially now that Facebook will give more space to your friend’s posts.

Wrap it up

After Facebook’s effort to release the updates, it may have the value to re-assess your viewpoint. As every professional business act to attract its audience’s attention, Facebook with its powerful team, had terms of research to discover people’s need and find a way to fix the weaknesses, and prepare a good platform which gives more Information about the people who you love and delete the junk links and spams to give you a safe place to interact with others.

The Psychology behind Social Media Interactions

Social networks can provide an excellent opportunity for people to interact socially, improve their interpersonal relationships, and even conduct business. The psychology behind all sorts of interactions on social platforms varies depending on the individual or the business.

For many, this is what happens in an ordinary day: After a long boring day at work, you arrive home, take off your shoes, change your clothes and start to look for something to feed your soul with. What seems more available and easy-to-use than social media? You can live in it for hours on end with seeing something that catches your eyes every minute. It’s sometimes impossible to resist the temptation to dive into more of them and sharing the catchy contents with your loved ones.

Or else, you feel you have bottled up your emotions for too long and want to open up to your friend about the challenges you are facing in your life. Social media appears to be the most convenient way to talk endlessly with your friends no matter where you are or what time of the day it is.

But are these the only psychological motivations behind interacting on social media platforms? Or is it a much broader topic to expand on? Let’s see.

Why do people interact on social media?

There are many different ways of thinking about human behavior on social media. Psychologists utilize a variety of perspectives when studying how people think, feel, and behave in online environments. Find below some reasons why individuals from all walks of life choose to communicate on social media:

  • Brainstorming

Many people use social networking environments to better come up with new ideas and perspectives either to satisfy their personal needs or to come up with a better strategy for their contents or business marketing. In the majority of social websites or applications, it is possible to build or join communities to openly have your say and getting practical feedbacks.

In this digital age, if you own a business, many of your would-be customers are seeking for social proof before deciding on buying your product or using your service. You can easily share online reviews to ensure your customers that your company is trustworthy and popular among other users.

  • Emotional Involvement

Isn’t it relieving for you to know that others are feeling the same emotions that you are experiencing in your life? Well, social media helps you build emotional connections with others no matter what the time is or where you are living. Many people are there for you to respond compassionately. For instance, when someone is suffering from terminal cancer or lost a loved one or is going through huge challenges in life, people will express concern and sometimes give some useful advice on social media.

It is more comfortable for some people to get their feelings out in the virtual environments compared to the real world. In fact, some choose social media as a tool to pour their heart out and translate their thoughts into the written word to get a better perspective or revise their memory of traumatic life experiences.

  • Peer pressure

Peer pressure is much more common among teens than other age groups. It can adversely affect the lives of kids who feel pressurized to be active on social media just to go with the stream and not to fall behind. Most of these kids suffer from lack of self-confidence and cannot handle it when their friends make fun of them or treat them with contempt.

Although more seen in teenagers, peer pressure also goes viral more or less among adults. You can feel pressurized by your friends, relatives, colleagues, or the people of the same social class as you to engage in social media activities. It has undoubtedly happened to you when all the people around you are talking on a piece of content they recently saw on social media and got surprised when they hear you know nothing about it. How do you feel in these situations? Are you the one who loses confidence and feel uncomfortable? Or do you consider it a trivial matter that’s unworthy of serious consideration? What I am trying to emphasize here is that people react differently in these situations.

  • Bragging

Nowadays, social media is flooded with full details of every event of people’s lives. It seems that they enjoy a perfect life or are in ideal relationships. What is the main reason for such behaviors in the virtual world?

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” Robert Hand

 Studies have revealed below motivations behind showing off on social media:

  • To fill the emptiness, you feel inside
  • To attract more followers
  • To satisfy your need for perfection
  • To satisfy your need of love and acceptance

I personally find these braggarts annoying. They are choosing the wrong way to fulfill their desires or needs. We should learn not to let this perfectionism fool us and make us end up being depressed or having low self-esteem.

Conclusion

It’s not possible to escape social media these days. Communicating through a computer or a mobile phone is quite easier than communicating face to face. Concerning the reasons elaborated above, some of which are intertwined, consider using social media interactions wisely to reap the many benefits it provides for every one of us.

8 Unwritten Twitter Rules you May not Be Following

Every social media has its own rules and regulations, and Twitter is no exception. You need to adhere to these rules if social media is a part of your business strategy. Otherwise, you may be driving followers away, and all that’s left is the wondering.

There are some unwritten Twitter rules that come into existence as a result of the way its users share contents or interact with each other in it. Below overview will shed light on some of these rules to help you share and connect more confidently on Twitter.

  • Keep your followers-followings list realistic

When users come into your profile, they notice the number of your followers and followings. Note that it’s not natural if you have a followers count the same as your followings. People might think that you are either a robot or obsessive about keeping them the same. If you ever decide to buy followers then make sure to buy real Twitter followers.

What is more, it’s not OK if the number of your twitter followings is more than fifth as many as your followers, especially if you are a business. Users may suppose you are desperate to get others to follow you, and you won’t look professional to them.

  • Don’t be overfamiliar

Although on Twitter, you are free Tweeting at celebrities, friends of friends, or any verified persona, it doesn’t mean they should respond to you every single time. Sometimes they don’t even bother reading or seeing your Tweet let alone replying.

Do not fool yourself into having a close friendship that doesn’t exist. Be cautious when you want to send a message to someone and think more about the contents and the tone of your texts.

  • Be respectful

You can never rule out social care and reciprocity. Be approachable when users want to reach out to you. Respond to their DMs, especially queries if you are a brand. Moreover, it’s not moral to respond publicly if they sent you a private message.

Another thing that shows a lack of respect is when you unfollow someone right after they followed you back. It’s just a mean and unfair way for gaining followers and will not work for you in the long run.

The last point in terms of showing respect is about your real-life friends or colleagues. Do not give them the cold shoulder and follow them back instantly.

  • Avoid snitch-tagging

Snitch-tagging may not seem a well-known word to you. I can explain it to you in simple terms, but first, you should know the meaning of subtweeting. It is making a Tweet that talks about an individual without directly mentioning them. Subtweeting can be fun, can be mean, can be annoying, can be risky. Seems ironic. Doesn’t it?

Snitch-tagging is tagging the person who is being addressed explicitly in a subtweet to notify and alert them that someone is talking behind their back. Be aware that when you blow the whistle on the subtweeter, problems might arise under certain conditions both for them and the target. And I’m sure you don’t want to be the trouble maker.

  • Don’t misuse hashtags

Hashtags help categorize your contents and be easily discoverable. While they are undoubtedly useful and can be included anywhere in a Tweet, it’s not wise to stuff your Tweets with them. Since character count matters, it’s considered good practice not to use more than two hashtags in a single Tweet.

Below you can find some tips about using hashtags:

  • Use capital letters at the beginning of each word to make your hashtags more readable. For instance, #SocialMediaMarketing or #TwitterRules.
  • Use hashtags relevant to your Tweet as well as branded or trending ones.
  • Save more valuable character space in your Tweet by avoiding to use words that are already mentioned in the text of your Tweet.
  • In addition to a web link and details about yourself, you can include one or two hashtags in your Twitter bio to attract more followers or showcase your field of activity or your niche.
  • Don’t steal others’ well-established hashtags.
  • Don’t Tweet all the time

It surely bugs people if you’re tweeting unceasingly or oversharing. Give others the chance to reflect on your Tweet and have their say. It’s also to your own advantage for you have more time to read others’ replies or messages or surf Twitter. Do not sacrifice quality for quantity.

  • Never retweet your own Tweet

Some people mistakenly think that they can encourage others to retweet their Tweets if they do it for themselves too. Do not behave like a desperate attention seeker by retweeting your own Tweet.

  • Don’t self-promote too much

Bombarding people with Tweets about your brand sounds like an awkward idea to spark your audience’s interest. Change your mindset, act more like a human, and add more non-promotional interesting Tweets to your page to attract new fans, and retain your current followers. And besides, people will engage with you more eagerly. Can you think of other unofficial rules on how to use Twitter? Feel free to share them with us.

How Often to Post on Social Media?

Social media trends are now increasing day by day. So, it is essential for businesses and people who want to stand up among this ever growing trend. Many critical aspects contribute to your success into social media including the number of post and time you should care about once you want to be an active user.

How often to post on social media?

First of all, we need some categorization about social media, then the reason why you need to know the number of posts and the exact number of your social media posts.

The most popular social media that people are struggling with to become famous are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. These are the top three, but how often you should post on social media? The difference between social media is about their algorithm. The number of posts on these social media is slightly different. The studies show while the number of posts is vital in Facebook and Twitter, the consistency matters once you post on Instagram. I would explain in the following paragraphs why you should care about the number of posts per day and the actual number of post you should use, then the best time to posts on social media.

Why should you consider the number of your posts on social media?

First of all, is your audience active time. If you want your post reaches to many people, you should post it at a peak time, when most of your viewers are engaged. It seems that the peak time to post is about 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, but according to my research on the best time to post, 3:00 and 9:00 pm is the time that most of the users are active. It makes sense, because 3:00 pm is a break time, and people have time to check their mobile phones. Another matter is that you should keep in your mind is that most of the users are mobile users. So, when you are posting, you should consider that people are going to watch it through phones. Thus, the dimension is essential too.

The second reason is about the psychological part of this story. If you post less than required times, you seem inactive, and people don’t have the chance to know you or your products more. On the other hands, if you post more than required, people recognize you as disturbing, they might mute your stories or posts. So, you should post as much as needed, not less and not more.

The Number of posts if you have big fans

Now, after understanding the reasons, it is time to talk about the frequency you need to post on your social media. Did you know that the number of posting depends on the number of your followers? Many articles mention the frequency, but not all of them explain how your friends’ circle is essential. It is different if you have a small group of friends around hundreds or a big fan like more than 10k.

If your followers are more than 10k, so you need 1-2 posts per day on your Facebook account. In the twitter account, the number of posts doesn’t matter 5-30 posts per day on twitter doesn’t affect your audiences, but what is essential is the engagements. If you post around five a day, your engaged followers would be more. 1-3 post per day on your Instagram account lead to having more actions and profile visits. You can also see this in your analytics. However, studies show that on Instagram the trend is different. The number of posts doesn’t matter, but consistency is essential. It means you should not change the posting habit suddenly. If you post ten times a day, and suddenly decrease this to one post per day, your follower may fall.

It does make sense, imagine you have a fixed number of followers. Does anyone able to engage each time you post? Most probably no, but if you have a quite enough quantity of posts, it doesn’t make your followers tired to take actions when you post.

Number of posts if you have a small group of fan

The studies show if you have followers less than 10k, post three times a week on Facebook, 1-2 times on Instagram, and up to five times on Twitter best suits you. Along with the number of times you need to post on your social media account, the time you post is also essential which I would explain in the following.

best times to post on social media

The best time to post is from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, according to our research and the best is 3:00 pm. Wednesday to Friday is the best days to post. Thursday is the best and Sunday is the worst. Also, when you are posting on Instagram, you can get help from your social media analytics. For example, if you have a personal Instagram account, switch that one to a business account. Now, you can see, the best days and hours that your audiences engage more. 

Social media posting tools

Now, you could understand the timing of your posts. Though, it sometimes becomes difficult. Hopefully, there are some tools that you can use to schedule your posts and make a plan for your posts. These remarkably help you to plan and post at the right time.

Conclusion

Your goal or your company aim is vital to plan for your posting. Do you look for followers’ engagements? Know the size of your audience; if you have less than 10 k followers, you can keep three times a week posting. If you have more than 10 k followers, 1-2 posts a day is enough. Know your media that you are using; consistency is crucial once you are using Instagram.

What is Facebook history?

Not all the story begins with the name of Facebook only! It is true that Facebook was founded in 2004 at Harvard dorm room, but still, there is a lot of stories, inspiration, efforts, and talent behind this name. if you want to know how Facebook was started, you need to back to Mark Zuckerburg’s childhood.

when was Facebook started?

From an early age, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder, and CEO of Facebook had a keen interest in computer programming. His parents were working at a dental clinic. At age 12, he could facilitate his father’s dental office with his own written program called Zucknet using Atari BASIC. A program to send and receive a message from the receptionist to doctor, with the idea of connecting these two without walking around. Young and genius, as a school student Zuckerburg started writing all other amazing codes to connect people at a different place, even to connect their family at home. Zuckerburg’s father says that Mark grew up with no specific nurturing, and it seems Zuckerburg had the freedom to develop his idea. He was popular at school for his programming skills. Once he was so young, he had some offers from Microsoft and Google to sell his program, but he refused to sell it. It seems that he had the mission to bringing the world closer together even when he was a child. But most of the story of Facebook began with Facemash, a program which could recognize the college students’ face to rank their attractiveness. However, Facemash soon were shut down because of hacking the university system into finding students’ pictures. Though, Mark Zuckerberg did not stop thinking and creating!

Facebook was founded

It was February, 4th, 2004 when Mark Zuckerberg along with three others: Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes gathered at the Harvard dorm room, and they together could establish Mark’s idea of coding “theFacebook.com” and expand it to connect college students at Harvard. As he said in his interview with CNBC, thefacebook.com was for the Harvard students only to share their information, hobbies, their favorite movies, books and most important to see who their friends are! And in general, it was about finding interesting information about people. This connection was not limited to the Harvard but soon at other universities including Yale, Colombia, and MIT. thefacebook.com extended from college and colleagues to high school and connected millions of people within a year. In 2004, an amazing part of thefacebook.com started which was giving the public a wall to write and share their thoughts. A year later, after dropping “the” from thefacebook.com in 2005, and some changes in its features such as launching Facebook photos it could reach around six million users in that year only. For the very first time, through the facebook people could find their lost friends from all around the world! And It was all other attractive features, such as mobile app launches, adding work network, Facebook API, News Feed and Mini-Feed, the marketplace, video lunches which all made around 60 million users for Facebook. However, a change on Facebook was its “Like” bottom which soon becomes very popular, and it leads reaching 500 million active users on Facebook just from 2009 to 2010, which made him the man of the year on Times magazine. Six months after launching Facebook camera in May 2012 it hit the one billion users and become the world first social media. It also could be interesting for people and maybe from the business side to know why Facebook logo color is blue. As Mark Zuckerberg told the New Yorker magazine, he is red-green colorblind and the color he can see the best is blue. He explains that the blue is the richest color for him. 

Facebook buys Instagram, WhatsApp, Atlas, and Oculus

Now the company is rich and worthy with offices in different states of America. In 2012, after three days of talk at Zuckerberg’s house to agree upon selling Instagram which mostly used for sharing pictures, the meeting was ended up at the price of $16billion. Facebook bought Instagram to show its connectivity using another powerful program. Instagram was founded by Mike Krieger and Systrom who was the first person to share a photo on Instagram. The very first picture uploaded on Instagram was the photo of a dog was sitting close to a taco stand in Mexico with the caption of “test” in 2010.  Like Facebook, attractive features such as live video, photo filtering, direct message, business profile soon made Instagram a favorite app in which people were keen to share their stories and pictures. With connecting these two, Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerburg’s dream of bringing people closer together become more real. There was more about Instagram, a popular personal or business application. Hashtag was another favorable feature on Instagram that made people able to send their voice to all over the world. Hashtag gave the power to the philanthropists, environmentalists, actors, musicians, and all other famous figures to achieve their goals. Of course, with the help of Donate option on Instagram, thousands of people all over the globe could take benefits of that. He did not stop expanding his company. A few years later, Facebook bought WhatsApp too, and other big names such as Atlas, Oculus and it made it one the most precious company in the world.

Now, Facebook worth $200 billion with 40 million active small business on it but there has been a debate on the future of this 15 years old social media, would it be a vibrant and attractive media even decades later? Or it would be replaced by other powerful social media coming soon?

What Should Social Media Marketers Understand about TikTok?

New social media platforms and apps are launched frequently, but not all get the same coverage. We have been receiving comments about the hot new app TikTok. So, in this article, I am going to share my knowledge of what TikTok is, how it’s used, and if Social Media Marketers will be struggling to use it for their customers or brands.

What is TikTok?

TikTok is the newest video-sharing app growing popularity in the United States. It’s indeed not all that new of an app; it’s only been re-branded.  TikTok used to be musically before but was taken by ByteDance, who previously had an app called TikTok. So, they joined musically and TikTok into one platform and held the name TikTok.

TikTok is the once trendy Twitter-owned app, Vine, which allows people to post funny short videos. Yet, TikTok is a bit more sturdy in that it will enable you to watch music videos, lip-sync to tunes, and edit your videos with filters, effects, and stickers. There’s also a feature called “duet” in which you can create a new video next to an existing video.

The New York Times explained TikTok as “a quirky hybrid of Snapchat, the defunct video app Vine, and the TV segment, Carpool Karaoke.”

How Popular is it?

TikTok currently has more than 700 million users worldwide. It has skyrocketed to the top of the charts in Apple’s App Store, YouTube, hitting Instagram, and Snapchat as the top free app. Celebrities like Khloe Kardashian, Jimmy Fallon,  and Nick Jonas have promoted the app, too, which has clearly increased its popularity.

How to Create High Engagement LinkedIn Posts?

Company pages on LinkedIn are so crucial for brands to be able to build relevance, credibility, and showcase services mainly if that company is a start-up.

But, how can you increase your company page engagement on LinkedIn? It looks much easier on other social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook where your brand can have its own account and directly connect with other users’ content. In this article, we are going to share our tips for how to improve your engagement on LinkedIn.

1- Try out different messaging strategies to see what works

LinkedIn is a business-focused platform, so it has a different target audience than other social networks.

To understand what works out best with your LinkedIn audience, you’ll want to try different messaging approaches. Using these:

  • Your style and tone. Is it serious, playful, educational?
  • The text length. Is it compact or long-form?
  • Your valuable media. How do visuals support the text?

It’s necessary to test—instead of making theories—because the results will amaze you.

2- Use your ad budget to reach your target audience

If you’re running with a budget, you should be more selective. Try to boost your organic posts such as product launches and campaigns often to make sure that you reach your target audience.

By generating highly targeted ads, you can increase your engagement during the campaign periods and receive greater conversions.

3- Examine your publishing volume to increase engagement

Here’s why publishing volume imports: If you post too short, you’ll get less engagement, on the other hand, if you post too much on LinkedIn, you may run the risk of spamming your readers.

You have to notice that magic posting number to increase your engagement without spamming.

4- Create high-quality content stand out from competitors

You’ll experience a significant increase in engagement and conversions when you produce our own content—this is because you focus on creating quality content that gives immediate value for your audience.

5- Extend your content mix to influence a broader audience

LinkedIn is so much more than just a marketing platform. It also lets you reach administrators, introduce your company experience, and hire top talent.

So, consider sharing:

  • leadership quotes from your own managers
  • Business news and updates
  • Job perks and postings
  • HR advices on the workplace

Follow these tips to start getting more engagement on LinkedIn. You will be on your way to producing your best content yet.

How to Use Social Media to Build your Email List?

Email marketing is one of the most successful and valuable methods of marketing; it’s practical, affordable, immediate, and estimable. One of the most critical aspects of email marketing is getting somebody to join your email list.

Maybe you’re already gathering email addresses offline with a paper sign-up sheet at your office or store. You may have also attached an online sign-up form to your blog or website.

Did you also know that using social media can help you grow your email list?

The best thing about using social media for business is that your social media pages can be public, meaning that anyone can find you and your page on the platform and become a fan.

The best thing about using social media for business is that your social media pages can be public, meaning that anyone can find you and your page on the platform and become a fan.

Here are three easy ways you can leverage the social media to build your email list:

1- Take advantage of social sharing

Resharing or reusing your valuable content on social media platforms provides your email campaigns a lasting life and extended reach to more consumers and prospects.

The users who follow you on social media, but haven’t yet subscribed to your email list, will now be able to find out about your email campaigns and subscribe right then and there. So, any shares and retweets of your email campaigns open up the opportunity of new email subscribers.

2- Run a contest or promotion

Planning contests or promotions is an excellent way to get your audience to sign up for your email list. Try hosting a campaign with a link to join your email list by giving the first 20 subscribers a 20% off or another excuse. Try running a promotion or contest every month or so and see what type of offer gives you the best results.

3-  Add social buttons to your emails

When you send out emails remember to include linking buttons to all of your social profiles.

Driving your current email contacts to share on social may look a bit backward, but because your current email subscribers already like your content, they are more likely to share it on their social network accounts. Their followers are seemingly like-minded and would find your content appealing as well, proceeding to build your following.

Once you reach these new followers on social media, you can ask them to subscribe to your emails.

Consider these things while turning your followers into email subscribers:

  • Are you making it easy for other people to subscribe to your emails on social media?
  • Are you sharing your emails on your social media account and inspiring your audience to like, comment and share?
  • Are you seeking opportunities to contribute an extra incentive to get people on social media to join your list?
  • Are you making it easy for your current audience to connect with you on socials and share your emails with their fans and followers using a single-click?

Do you have any recommendation on getting social media followers to join your mailing list? Let us know in the comments below.

Why you shouldn’t Focus on Only One Social Media Platform?

There are too many social media platforms to choose from these days, and if you are concerned about which one to use, you should only concentrate on one social media platform. It is best to put most of your efforts on one platform, although we do recommend creating accounts on other social media platforms in case you want to change strategies down the line.

The question is, how do you choose that one social media platform?

Target a platform with more potential customers

You need to make sales. So while it is essential to stay in touch with your companions, it is more critical that you choose a platform where your potential and existing customers are.

How do we find out what platform they are using?

We’re living in the digital age; Google can easily find interests, age, gender, and other demographics. Find out where your target audience logs in and start signing up.

Don’t go into unknown territories

If your target customer is immature kids, then make a list of their preferred social media platforms. If you believe you don’t know anything about the platforms in that list, but you have better control over the second one, then we recommend you get there, pronto. You can rely on others’ professional help too, but in many cases, Brands like to know what they are paying for, so don’t force yourself to go into unknown territory. Pick the platform which you have good control over.

By now you realize that the case has been made to why you should hold to one social media platform at a time to get better results. Social media can make you win if you work smartly.

What is your main platform? Tell us in the comments below.

Twitter Co-founder Ev Williams is Leaving the Company’s Board

The Co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, Ev Williams is leaving the company’s board, according to a Friday filing with the Exchange and Securities Commission.

It’s been an incredible 13 years, and I’m proud of what Twitter has accomplished during my time with the company,” Williams announced in a statement.

“I will continue rooting for the team as I focus my time on other projects.”

He took over the CEO position from founder Jack Dorsey in 2008 before ceding that position to Dick Costolo in 2010. He left the company in 2011, and Mr. Dorsey ultimately reclaimed the CEO role in 2015.

Over these few months, Mr. Williams has been drastically reducing his stake in the Twitter company. He held about 14.6 million shares of the company as of December, down from 29 million last April.

Ev Williams is currently the CEO of Medium, a tech company that enables writers to publish long-form articles. Medium recently got famous as the venue where Jeff Bezos posted his reply to claimed threats from the National Enquirer to share specific pictures of him.

Twitter’s board of executives includes Bret Taylor,  president, and product officer at Salesforce; executive chairman Omid Kordestani and Debra Lee,  president, and CEO of BET Networks. Twitter’s stock closed up 3% Friday, exchanging at nearly $32 a piece for a market cap of the north of $24 billion.

That’s it, guys. What do you think about these sudden changes in twitter? What is happening to the world of social media?

What Is the Meaning of Emojis?

Emojis are excellent for showing the feelings that you necessarily don’t desire to write. They are also good for replacing brief messages, therefore, allowing to not only enhance our typing speeds but also convey the message in a more visual way.

There are more than 1500 emojis available today, while you don’t have to remember the meaning of all those emojis, knowing the significant ones will help you communicate better. Therefore, if you ever needed to know what an emoji meant, here are all the emoji meanings that you should remember:

Happy face Emojis

  • Smiley faces

Smiling Face and Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes are the most common emojis. They only express happiness or positivity. Occasionally, they may be used following a criticism or an insult to eliminate some of the stings.

  • Other smiley faces

These smiling faces are similar to the two more unadorned smiley faces and can be used in the same way. Still, they are usually used to express higher levels of happiness. A message with one of these emoji will generally be very positive. They are rarely used with criticism or insult.

  • Smiling Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

It shows happiness similar to other smiling faces, but there’s also a part of relief. Messages using this emoji usually show joy at how a potentially adverse event worked out. For instance: if you share a message describing that you just passed a hard test, you could use this emoji.

  • Tears of joy smiley

This is used to show laughter or LOL. If someone sends you something funny, you can respond with this emoji.

  • Smiley with sunglasses

It shows coolness! Like the “deal with it” gifs.

  • Flushed Face

It reveals embarrassment for an awkward mistake or situation. It is commonly used self-deprecatingly as a reply to compliments.

  • Delicious Face

People use this to express their emotion about food. It can be used in anticipation for a tasty meal.

Flirty Face Emojis

  • Smirking Face

this emoji has strong sexual undertones. It usually follows sexual innuendos or suggestions.

  • Winking Face

it shows that the message was sent with humorous intent. Any word that follows a Winking Face should not be taken too seriously.

  • Stuck-Out Tongue Faces

These emojis are used mutually with Winking Face to show humor.

  • Relieved Face

Relieved Face is, intended to indicate relief. However, it is frequently used to show peace or calmness. It can also be used to display a certain amount of innocence.

  • Holy Face

It shows innocence or decency. It can be used sincerely or humorously. For instance, when messaging your buddies on a Friday to explain that you are staying for the night.

  • Devil Face

These can be used conversely, although because one is smiling and the other is pouting, they can also be used to show subtly different things. Both show mischievousness or naughtiness.

  • Heard shaped eyes smiley

This emoji shows love, gratitude, or adoration. It can be used towards a person, situation, or thing.

Negative Face Emojis

  • Blank Faces

These show a severe lack of emotion. They may be used to indicate that someone is unimpressed, awkward or indifferent.

  • Unamused Face

This emoji is used to show disapproval or suspicion. This emoji doesn’t show true sadness or anger, but rather a negative emotion. For instance, if you are unhappy or suspicious of someone’s excuse for why they’re late, you could send this Face.

  • Face with Cold Sweat

It shows stress or hard work. It typically refers to a particular situation. For instance, messaging your wife to explain that you have to stay late at work would justify this emoji.

  • Sad Faces

These are the two main sad face emoji. Both carry a sense of sadness, regret, remorse, disappointment, or any other negative emotion.

  • Cold sweat, sad Face

It is mainly used to show hurt or fear rather than disappointment.

  • Crying Face

Crying Face is alike Serious and Disappointed Face. It presents a stronger sense of hurt rather than overall sadness.

  • Crying out load Face

This emoji is a stronger version of Crying Face. It shows upset, pain and hurt. Unlike the other sad faces, it is often used ironically.

  • Worried Face

It shows shock, horror, hatred, and fear.

  • Tired Faces

These emojis show tiredness still they are usually used to represent world-weariness, stress and being fed up as well.

  • Sleepy Face

Sleepy Face is sometimes used to represent tiredness. Instead, it shows that the sender is unwell or sick.

  • Sleeping Face

This is used instead of Sleepy Face to show sleepiness, tiredness or similar. It is hard for a person to send a message when they’re sleeping.

  • Confused Faces

These emojis are used mutually to show confusion. Confused Face is also employed to show embarrassment or an apology. For instance, if you have to cancel plans, you might add this emoji at the end of your message.

  • Face with Look Of Triumph

This is one of the most misused emojis. It is used to show frustration or anger rather than triumph.

  • Angry Faces

They both show anger, with the red Pouting Face, is the more potent of the two. Unlike Face with Look of Triumph, they are rarely used humorously.

  • Persevering Face

It shows fatalism or stress towards a situation.

  • Shocked Faces

They show trauma, horror, and disappointment. They are usually used as a subsequent version of Pensive or Disappointed Face.

Other Face Emojis

  • The monkeys

See-No-Evil, Hear-No-Evil, and Speak-No-Evil Monkeys are used to show trauma, shock, and embarrassment. Each specific monkey is used based on the content.

  • The poop

It is nearly always used humorously. It shows how the sender feels about something.

Hand Symbol Emojis

  • Thumbs up

It shows agreement or acceptance.

  • Thumbs down

It shows dislike, rejection or disagreement.

  • Ok hand sign

It shows satisfaction, acceptance, or that everything’s ok! It can also be used to show that something is small or tiny.

  • Victory hand

It is more often used to represent a similar peace symbol. It shows relaxation, coolness, or satisfaction.

  • Raising hands

This is more generally referred to as Praise Hands, is used to show appreciation, support, or celebration.

  • Folded hands

This is usually used to show or pleading or prayer. This emoji may accompany a request for a favor.

Heart Emojis

  • Red heart

Red Heart is the classic love heart emoji. It is used to show love, passion, or any similar emotion.

  • Colored Hearts

they are all similar to Red Heart, though, the target of their affection is usually related to the color of the heart.

  • Broken Heart

Broken Heart is the ultimate definition of sadness. It can also be used ironically.

What is your favorite emoji? Which one do you use more often than the others? Tell us in the comments below.