How to Find Content for Social Media

  • Fran Stephenson
  • March 15, 2015
  • 2 min read

Finding content is a struggle for many of my clients. Even with a well-developed brand and strong marketing campaigns, many organizations have a tough time filling the spaces of their social media networks with content. Content is right under our noses if we know how to look for it. “I just don’t know what to […]

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Facebook Reaches out to SMB with “Fit”

  • Fran Stephenson
  • September 9, 2014
  • 5 min read

Small businesses are getting extra attention from Facebook these days. As the social network moves its users to a new blend of organic and paid content, Facebook users are becoming exposed to higher levels of paid advertising. Individual users are unsure about how much advertising they want to see in the network. Businesses want to […]

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Three New Ways to Use LinkedIn

  • Fran Stephenson
  • August 19, 2014
  • 3 min read

I’ve been using LinkedIn for more than 5 years and like many social networks, I have a love/hate relationship with it. When I love it, I am able to pass leads or professional information onto colleagues quickly and see what interesting blog posts are appearing around the Internet. When I hate it, I am being […]

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Don’t Steal Stuff: Give Credit Where Credit is Due

  • Fran Stephenson
  • August 14, 2014
  • 4 min read

We all learned the concept of giving proper credit in school. In research and composition, we called it “giving attribution.” The concept is not new and ethical communicators have always been very careful about using attribution. The intense competition for activity on social networks, however, is making attribution a hot topic once again. The most […]

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Dog Days of Social Media: How to Survive a Summer Slump

  • Fran Stephenson
  • July 8, 2014
  • 2 min read

Summer is in full swing and chances are, your fans and followers are not as engaged as they were a month or so ago. What’s a social media manager to do? In the midst of the dog days of summer, keep your channels humming by trying these 4 ideas. Lighten Up Change up the types […]

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Do Your Social Media Housekeeping

  • Fran Stephenson
  • June 24, 2014
  • 1 min read

The year is half over and as I approach the end of the second quarter,  I look at all the social media channels I’m managing for a variety of brands and take a moment to do some housekeeping on each one. It’s an easy step to forget. If you focus on developing content for your […]

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Cardboard Kids Reach Those Who Need It

  • Fran Stephenson
  • May 21, 2014
  • 3 min read

Last month, I participated on a citywide effort to bring greater awareness to the problem of child abuse in our community. It was called Cardboard Kids. On April 3, two-foot-high cardboard cutouts similar to a “flat Stanley” appeared all over San Antonio and the surrounding areas. 5846 of them – one to represent each confirmed […]

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Your Social Strategy OR ‘Why Am I Doing This?’

  • Fran Stephenson
  • May 5, 2014
  • 1 min read

At the SoloPR Summit in Atlanta, I had the opportunity to talk with Brent Smith and Casey Colclough about Social Strategy for their Business In the Morning Podcast. They had some interesting questions about the ROI of social media, channel selection for B2B versus B2C clients, and what to do with an abandoned Facebook page. […]

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Do Facebook Ads Work for Microbrands?

  • Fran Stephenson
  • April 22, 2014
  • 4 min read

Part 2 of the $100 Facebook Ad Experiment Last week I wrote about how Facebook is pushing Brand Pages into advertising in order to preserve their reach to fans.  And I gave an example of the first ad I tested for a client. The post I tested for my client, Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch, was […]

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The $100 Facebook Ad Experiment

  • Fran Stephenson
  • April 17, 2014
  • 3 min read

The stage has been set in the last 6 months for brand pages on Facebook to change radically. I’ve been watching this trend on behalf of my clients and it’s hard to resist the “Sky is Falling” nature of the discussion.  An Ad Age article that appeared in December uncovered what a lot of practitioners […]

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