December 2009 Archives - Simply Zesty

20 Ways To Vastly Improve Your Facebook Experience

Facebook December 31, 2009 6 Comments @niallharbison

We have published a couple of business guides for Facebook in the past but today we wanted to focus on the personal profile side to things and share our top 20 tips for getting more out of your profile pages. The rise of Facebook has been massive over the last year and with nearly 400 Million users it is a vitally important tool for both networking and keeping in touch with your friends. We have tried to cover as many things from how to download your Facebook photos to how to connect Facebook with popular services like Gmail and Twitter. So sit back and start reading and get ready to improve your facebook profile massively with these 20 tips…

A Decade Of Social Media – Timeline

Social Media December 30, 2009 10 Comments @laurenfisher

Social media might have taken off in the last year but we have delved a little deeper and you can see the success of the services that make social media so prominent today all have their roots growing over the last decade. We created this social media time line so as we could all charter the growth of popular services such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Youtube showing when they launched and when they were either bought or hit some crucial milestones. What is clear is that none of these are overnight successes and with a few exceptions most f the big services take at least a couple of years to reach critical mass and really take off. Check out our social media timeline…

No Status Updates Or Tweets Today

December 25, 2009 4 Comments @niallharbison

It has been a really long and hard first 6 months on the blog and along with starting the business it has really tired us out and we are going to be taking it easy today laying off the social media and tucking in to the turkey! We just wanted to thank every single person who bothered to take the time to stop by and comment or email us and get involved with this blog in general…

Who’s Looking After Your Website This Christmas?

Facebook December 24, 2009 5 Comments @laurenfisher

It is Christmas tomorrow and many people often ask themselves what they should do with their website or blog. We have taken a look at some of the easiest options from scheduling adverts to benefit from the sales to creating a video to send to people who email you. There is no doubt that most people are offline at this time of year but there are also plenty of your customers trying to find deals online so you should be out there engaging with them even if the engagement is automated.

Why I write Better Blog Posts When I Am High

December 23, 2009 17 Comments @niallharbison

I often write blog posts when I am flying to places on business or holidays and I have started to notice that these are some of my best blog posts and I wanted to have a look at some of the reasons why that was? I clearly have a more focused mind while in the air as there are very few distractions and I only have a certain amount of time to get the job at hand finished which mean that I am always going to produce better content but what else contributes to the fact that I always write better blog posts when I am high?

Is Your Website Set Up To Benefit From Traffic Spikes?

Social Media 16 Comments @niallharbison

Chances are at some stage your website or blog is going to get covered by mainstream media or even featured on a social sharing site like Digg or get a ton of Retweets and although the benefits are great in the short term as the traffic comes pouring in the real benefits are what you can get out of it in the long term. We have some very specific trigger son this site for capturing readers when they come to the site and I have shown in this post how they work and how the graph looks after getting a big hit from a traffic spike. This post basically covers the basics of what to do in order to benefit from massive traffic spikes…

Who Reads Blogs? Is It Other Bloggers?

December 20, 2009 9 Comments @niallharbison

One of the most common questions I get from people who are not familiar with blogs is always “who reads blogs?”. If people are going to spend the time interacting with bloggers or even starting their own blog then they need to understand who it is who reads the blogs and most people have a pre-conceived notion that it is other bloggers who read blogs and that they are largely ignored by the general public. I wanted to dispel those myths and show you a few examples of who reads blogs and how effective they are…

Life Really Is Too Short

December 18, 2009 15 Comments @niallharbison

I had a chance last weekend to think about everything that I am trying to achieve in what I do and in those couple of moments when you fear the worst you get some incredible clarity about what it is you are trying to achieve with your life. Business is important and it is what I live for at the moment but there really are far more important things happening out there that you need to be worrying about including the health of your family and the relationships with your friends…

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