If you’re thinking of getting your business on Instagram, or even just want to grab your user handle name to prevent others from using your brand name, we’re going to take you through the steps today to get an account. You need to use a mobile device and download the Instagram app from your app …
Video uploaded directly is currently getting great reach on facebook, so it’s a good idea for businesses to embrace it’s use. Here’s some tips for how to get your noticed with facebook video:
Social media can definitely assist you in making your business a success. However, there are now a large number of social media platforms out there to consider and trying to have a presence on them all might leave you spreading yourself a little too thinly to actually be effective on any of them. We advise …
Choosing the most effective social media platform for your business Read More »
On some occasions you might want a video to autoplay on your website.  In this weeks quick tip we show you how to make a YouTube video autoplay by entering a simple bit of code onto the end of your Video URL: The following is the code you need:  ?rel=0&autoplay=1
Now available in the UK are Facebook’s new call to action buttons.  Designed to bring a business’s most important objective to the forefront of its Facebook presence, call-to-action buttons link to any destination on or off Facebook that aligns with a business’s goals. Page admins can select from a group of call-to-action buttons — like …
How to add a call to action button to your Facebook page Read More »
Canva is a tool that makes design simple for everyone. Â You can create designs for a whole range of uses. Â At Purple Dog we think it’s a great tool in particular for creating social media images for posting across your platforms; particularly if you can’t afford a traditional graphic design tool like Photoshop. Social Media …
It’s no secret that YouTube is the top video site in the world, particularly given its search ranging features now it’s owned by Google. However, with Facebook recently introducing videos and call to action buttons on their native video uploads it’s no surprise that links and embeds of YouTube are attracting increasingly less engagement on …
Facebook takes on Youtube; how to improve video on your Business Page Read More »
Here’s a quick tip to help you get your online presence groomed to perfection! For our Facebook video tip, we show you how to upload a video to Facebook natively.  By natively we man uploading it directly to Facebook and not linking from another provider like YouTube or Vimeo. Naturally, Facebook will favour native videos in the newsfeed …
