If you are feeling overwhelmed or find yourself pulling back from social media, you could be experiencing social media fatigue. Social media fatigue happens when you are simply done with social media. You have no desire to friend, tweet or follow anymore. Most of us have probably suffered from social media fatigue at one point …
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If you find yourself struggling to “do” social media because of time constraints, here are a few Facebook tips for the busy contractor. Facebook Tip #1: Schedule your posts ahead of time. Scheduling a few posts ahead of time for each day ensures that you have a consistent social media presence. To do this, start …
Now more than ever, contractors understand the real benefits of blogging about their businesses and are dedicating resources to the effort. Not only do they get SEO love from search engines, but fresh content gives them something new to share on social media that drives traffic back to their website. Once people visit their website, …
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Last Wednesday, Bridget Willard (@RigginsConst), Carol Stephen (@Carol_Stephen) and I (@TessWittler) were guests on MyFixItUpLife. We were invited to share our perspective on this question: Do remodelers need Twitter? Show hosts, Mark and Theresa, have different points of view on the usefulness of Twitter, and after some technical difficulty, we zoom out of the …
Health, finance and life are typical resolutions for our personal lives. We resolve to eat better, exercise more and spend less/save more. What about your business life? What will you resolve to do better in 2014? Let’s admit it. There are so many things in business that can’t be controlled. Prospects drag their feet in …
Once you’ve decided to “dip your toe” into social media, it can quickly become overwhelming. With so many platforms – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ (to name just a few) – it can be difficult to keep everything straight. Where do you start? How much time do you dedicate? A day? A week? How do …
One of the hardest parts about blogging regularly is coming up with ideas. It doesn’t matter if you are a contractor, a freelance copywriter or a social media director for a large corporation, sometimes the inspiration for blog ideas simply don’t flow. Earlier this morning I ran across a few blog ideas that I thought …
Contractors tell me all the time how they want to start a blog, but they simply don’t know what to write about. And these same contractors recognize the value of a blog and understand that their blog is a living thing –it isn’t something you do once and it’s done. In order for a blog …
By Tess Wittler There is a new “craze” in my life that has me jumping, spinning, clapping and hollering! It’s called Zumba and yes, I am addicted. I discovered how much fun exercising can be when I went to my first Zumba class in July, and since that time, I’ve become a huge advocate for …
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