Six Ways to do Something Different with Your Social Media

Are you fed up with reading and hearing the same advice and information about how to utilise Social Media for your business but not really being told anything new or helpful? I know I am.

This was until I read a recent blog post that really made me think and I hope it will do the same for you. The post not only offers up some great common sense and alternative tips on how and when to post or tweet but includes a thought provoking couple of sentences that take you back to the basics of what it is all about:

Getting people to talk about you to their friends is what social media is all about. Content should be designed specifically for people to share, re-post, and re-tweet.

Read the whole post on Social Mouths:
‘Six Ways to Throw Your Audience a Curveball (in a Good Way)‘

Grab Yourself a Custom Domain (if you can afford it)

I have been reading quite a lot over the past months about the forthcoming availability of custom domain suffixes and it seems that they are finally here.

What do I mean by custom suffixes you may ask? A usual suffix would be something like .co.uk or .com but, for a price (from £120,000 just to apply for the suffix), you could get your business name as your suffix instead. So in my case I would apply for .simplycious.

Have money to burn? Read more about these top level domains on BBC Technology News.

Simplycious Web Design and Development Blog

I have finally bitten the bullet and decided I need to get my blog up and running even though my website is still in development as I have many things I want to say (I have chosen this Designpile template by Site5.com as a temporary theme before I can integrate into my new site deign so don’t be surprised if it suddenly changes). Whether it be news from the web design and development industry, advice to businesses about their website, social media and online marketing or tutorials for new website designers and developers.

Obviously, this being a brand new blog, the content will initially be sparse as I was torn between writing a number of articles and tutorials before putting it live or getting it live first and then adding as I go. As you can see I decided on the latter in the hope that it will prompt me to get my backside in gear and actually get writing and posting. I do hope that you will find my articles and tutorials interesting and useful in the long run, but you will have to keep an eye on here to find out.

I suppose I ought to introduce myself. My name is Emma Davis and I am the owner of Simplycious (a trading name of Directus Ltd) based near Shrewsbury in Shropshire. I have been designing and developing websites for over 10 years now and specialise in PSD to HTML conversions, WordPress, PHP and MySQL and Javascript.