Social Media

Team: Wanted to get you a little ‘cheat-sheet’ as it pertains to social media marketing and management. The 1st rule in social media is a no-brainer, but people, businesses, and brands ALWAYS forget…you need to be social on social media. You cannot just set it and forget it, like a garden it needs to be [Read More]

Many business and brands reach out to us and ask, “What is the best mix of content on our social media channels?” It’s a question that’s been asked a number of times before and will be continued to be asked as platforms grow, change, ebb, and flow. The truth is, there is no ‘one-size fits [Read More]

Loud Canvas Media has had a number of individuals and businesses – clients and otherwise – reach out to us regarding the Facebook changes for 2018 that were made public in January. The changes are significant to its News Feed algorithm, prioritizing person-to-person interactions among friends and family over posts from Facebook pages – seemingly [Read More]

We all know how many social media advancements we’ve seen in 2017. From Snapchat users being lured away by Facebook to Apple’s latest plans and even all the way up to the POTUS and his famous Tweets, everyone is into new ways of communicating by using the many mobile devices available today. And now, 2018 [Read More]

Funny to think that just a few weeks ago there were a number of SnapChat and social media aficionados (myself included) that deemed the platform dead. Or dying. Given it’s final days. When Instagram ‘borrowed’ the Stories concept – which then absolutely took off – it looked like SnapChat was all but snuffed out. While [Read More]

You may have noticed in the last few weeks two MAJOR changes that LinkedIn has made: 1) Posts now go public. 2) Users can natively upload video. It may have only been a matter of time, but these updates continue to make this ‘business first’ platform one that is also quite the content-sharing application. Your [Read More]

You’ve probably read a post or seen an article that stated something like this: ‘Facebook is dying’. In fact, even I doubted the tech giant at times, pointing to the fact that the younger generations are turning more to apps like SnapChat while turning their back on the app that was born when I was [Read More]

Understand the Platforms and the Individualized Strategy for Each Working with any social media platform – especially the big four of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn – you have to understand that the strategy has to be individualized for each account. We often liken social media to a pair of pants–and each platform is a [Read More]

Instagram has done nothing but grow at a tremendous pace ever since it was released in 2010. The platform allows businesses and brands to reach their audience and gain valuable attention with photography and imaging.  It’s a serious inefficiency in a business’ marketing plan for them to NOT be on Instagram. To put it as [Read More]

Don’t just post. Resolve to post and publish constantly and consistently across each of your social media platforms. Think of it this way: Your clients and customers don’t want unreliable service, so don’t give them unreliable posts, tweets, and blogs. Set a schedule and commit to providing a high quantity of high-quality content. Don’t forget [Read More]

Understand Your Audience, Then Capitalize Social media is all about content, information, and attention. Platforms like Twitter allow users to reveal what they are thinking, where they are, and other information about themselves that wouldn’t normally be easily accessible. Loud Canvas’ SMM team works to learn as much as possible about your audience, absorbing knowledge [Read More]

Live-Content: Live-streaming, as big as it has gotten, is primed to get even bigger. Regarding video, YouTube was a hit about 12 years ago and now it is more of a player in entertainment than many large networks on television. Just as radio was in many ways replaced by TV, the TV is now seemingly [Read More]

Going online is an everyday occurrence; people are spending more time on the Internet now than ever before. If the sites that you frequently visit never added new content, you would get bored, lose interest, and rarely check back with the page. When was the last time you made an update to your site? Think of [Read More]

When a business or a brand works to figure out a social media marketing plan, there is a question that regularly will come up: To auto-post or not to auto-post? That is, should you have your posts to Facebook automatically be posted on Twitter (and vice versa)? When Twitter was new to the social scene, [Read More]

It may be warm, sunny, and perfect this summer, but odds are that even if you are outdoors that you’re eyes are still glued to the smart device that has become a permanent fixture to your hand. With that in mind, here are our top four thoughts, trends, and snippets in the social media world [Read More]