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Simplifying Social Media With Spreadsheets – Part 2 – Bulk Scheduling
At Concise Training we love to use spreadsheets to organise our work and to aid us in carrying this work out. In this series Steve will be looking at how you can use spreadsheets, specifically Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to make your social...
Simplifying Social Media With Spreadsheets – Part 1
Here at Concise Training we love to use spreadsheets to organise work and to aid us in carrying this work out. In this series Steve will be looking at how you can use spreadsheets, specifically Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to make your social...
Google+ is three years old
In my last post I gave 4 reasons that you should be on Google+ which got a good level of response across my social networks. In particular I was contacted by Eddie O'Driscoll from DPFOC who wanted to share the Infographic (below) his company had...
Four reasons you should be using Google+
Since Google+ arrived in 2012, there has been a great deal of talk around whether businesses should use it or not. I have always liked the tool but there have been some issues, not least of which is that the Google+ audience is less engaged than...
Excel 2013 – displaying data on maps
I've been doing some Office 2013 training this month, so it seemed a good time to point out one of the clever features of Excel 2013. Do you have sales data or other data listed by geographical area? You can now quickly display this data in map...
Taming the internet
Look at the graphic below from Penny Stocks - the size of the Internet is amazing. How does this affect us running or working in our businesses in our local town? How do you tame the Internet to ensure you are concentrating your marketing effort in...
Writing a book – is it worth the effort?
It is just over two years now since I first published 'Social Media Made Simple'. I always encourage my clients to reflect on how successful their activities have been - and I thought it would be worth sharing my thoughts on the value of writing a...
Getting started with Twitter
I have been recently been asked for a beginner's guide to getting started with Twitter. 1. You can look at what anybody is saying on Twitter without having to sign up for an account. For example have a look at my profile...
Twitter Profile Changes
Have you noticed the latest changes to Twitter? As many of you know, I use and recommend HootSuite to monitor my Twitter conversations and schedule tweets, but the latest changes to Twitter are interesting and worth knowing about. If you login to...