Snapchat Offers New Features
Snapchat just added some new ways to upgrade your snaps. The app introduced three new “creative tools” this week: backdrops for adding illustrated backgrounds to your photos, voice filters for altering your voice without an animated lens, and paperclip, which lets you add outbound links to your photos and videos. Backdrops are a like Snapchat’s geofilters but instead of overlaying ...
Continue ReadingPinterest for Business
Add an on image hover pin it button to your images. To drive referral traffic from Pinterest, your blog images have to make it to Pinterest. If you do not, which you should be, adding your blog posts to Pinterest, having an on image hover pin it button to the image will help your clients pin your post directly to ...
Continue ReadingSaving Instagram Posts
Now you’ll see a new bookmark icon underneath posts in your feed. Simply tap it to save a post to a new, private tab on your profile. There you can see all the posts you’ve saved — and they’re only visible to you. When you stumble upon a funny video you want to remember, a new outfit you like or ...
Continue ReadingPost Shareable Images & Graphics
A great photo and/or graphic is what grabs peoples attention in social media. This is why you should never post on any platform—website, blog, or social media—without some kind of visual. A photograph can evoke happiness, laughter, frustration—whatever fits with what you are trying to communicate on your blog.
Continue ReadingHow to Use Instagram Stories
How to post an Instagram Story From the Instagram home screen, swipe to the right—or tap the camera button in the top left-hand corner of the screen—to access the Instagram Stories camera. You’ll be presented with a camera screen that includes several options: LIVE, NORMAL, BOOMERANG, and HANDS-FREE. This screen also includes options to turn the flash on or off ...
Continue ReadingCreate Great Graphics for Instagram
If a picture can say 1000 words, then your graphics for Instagram better be on point. Instagram is a photo app and without great photos, it’s likely your account won’t be around very long. Your graphic is the thing that will stop a person and either get them to click through or keep scrolling. We want them to click through ...
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