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Concise Learners – Interview with Christine Rayner
Christine, you finished your City & Guilds ITQ Social Media Certificate in April 2013, how has your business grown since? I have two businesses: Tangram Marketing. As a marketing consultant since 1997, I was based in traditional marketing....
Concise Learners – Interview with Caroline Ward
You completed our ITQ Social Media Certificate around a year ago. How has your role changed since? In addition to my existing role in the business, I have taken on the role of managing our social media platforms – particularly Twitter which is...
Can You Bulk Schedule Tweets for Free?
We have been huge fans of Hootsuite here at Concise for a long time because it offers a good blend of functionality without breaking the bank. Perhaps the most useful feature for a business looking to manage its social media accounts is the ability...
The New LinkedIn – How do you use it?
Have you got the new version of LinkedIn yet? It seems to be rolling out on a fairly random basis. At a recent workshop I delivered, I didn’t have the new version but most of the attendees did. It is almost like LinkedIn are delaying moving some...
Concise Learners – Interview with James Stevenson
James, you finished your social media and digital marketing apprenticeship in Sept 2016. As part of your apprenticeship, you took our Diploma in Social Media for Business. You were working with Global Knowledge at the time, how has your role...
Concise Learners – Interview with Anna Marsden
You completed our ITQ Social Media Certificate at the end of 2013. I believe you and your wife had just set up Social I Media at the time. How has business changed for you since? Wow! We have changed a lot since then. We started Social I Media as a...
Facebook Lead Generation Ads – Should you use them?
Have you tried running a lead generation ad on Facebook? Lead generation ads are an alternative to running a website conversion ad which goes to a lead page for visitors to sign up for more information or to download a piece of content. The...
Home based working – Is it for you?
The New Year is often a time to think about where your life is going both personally and in your career. If you managed to get a break over the festive period, this week is often the time when you go back to work and wonder if you wouldn’t be...
Facebook Templates
Facebook are rolling out a change which means you can choose how your page will appear to your visitors based on what you are using it for. Facebook templates seem to be rolling out in a fairly random way. To find out whether your page has them,...