Are you managing Google+ or is Google+ managing you?

Are you managing Google+ or is Google+ managing you?

That is the question 😉

Todd Lohenry asks this question in his latest blog post and immediately offers a best practice answer in form of his GTD ‘processing’ workflow.

Thank you, Todd, for your insight and support of Friends+Me

One tool that can tip the scales in your favor is Friends+Me. Friends+Me has magical unicorn-like powers that not even HootSuite or Buffer possess; specifically, Friends+Me can take things that are posted to your Google+ account or pages and autopost them on a schedule to a Facebook profile or page, LinkedIn profile, group or company page or Twitter…

Original blog post: http://business.toddlohenry.com/2013/11/12/managing-google/

Twitter spam filter started to block Bit.ly links.

Twitter spam filter started to block Bit.ly links.

Approximately 11 hours ago have Twitter API started to reject statuses with Bit.ly links as malware. We have reported this error to the Twitter team and now we’re waiting for their response.

For the time being we suggest you to temporarily switch to fplus.me link shortener or use Bit.ly with custom domain.

UPDATE: Twitter fixed it. It’s ok to use bit.ly shortener again.

Thank you for your patience.

Scheduling of reposts from Google+ to other social networks #newfeatures


Scheduling of reposts from Google+ to other social networks #newfeatures

One of the most requested features is finally here. Friends+Me allows you to schedule reposts of Google+ posts to other social networks.

You will be able to define days and times at which you want Friends+Me to repost queued Google+ posts to other social networks to keep your content always fresh.

Publishing at times, when the most of the followers is online, increases the engagement and chance of actions such as retweet/share/like/favorite.

How does it work in detail? Repost scheduling is disabled by default and can be enabled for every destination account separately with a time zone for which you will define reposting times. Reposting schedule allows to select days of the week and define unlimited number of reposting times. Premium accounts are allowed to create more than one reposting schedule, this way you can define different times for every single day of the week.

With scheduling enabled, every fetched Google+ post is saved to a queue and scheduled to the next predefined reposting time. Enabled scheduling can be selectively disabled per post, all you have to do is to include hashtag within the Google+ post.

#schedulingposts   #socialmedia #socialmediatips #socialmedialanguage #socialmediamarketing #socialmediastrategy #socialmediaupdate

Hey Peg Fitzpatrick I’ve check you latest blog post (great work btw) and Friends+Me link do not points to https://friendsplus.me site but to http://designerrobrusso.com/new-google-plus-cover-photo-design-ideas

Hey Peg Fitzpatrick I’ve check you latest blog post (great work btw) and Friends+Me link do not points to https://friendsplus.me site but to http://designerrobrusso.com/new-google-plus-cover-photo-design-ideas

A simple glitch 😉

26 Tips to Create Social Media Magic for Your Business


26 Tips to Create Social Media Magic for Your Business

Have you found your brand’s social media is hitting a wall? Social media marketing takes time, talent, and a lot of creative brain power and it’s possible to get burned out. I’m going to share some easy, actionable items that you can do to put the social media magic back into your brand.

1. Create a weekly Google+ Hangout series to highlight your brand’s services, talk about industry updates, or to connect with customers. These will live on YouTube and be sharable on your blog and throughout all your social media platforms.

2. Use your super size cover photo to make an impact. At 2120 x 1192, you have no excuse for lacking visual impact. If you are design challenged, hire someone to create something memorable for you.

3. Use Friends+Me  to connect your Google+ to other social channels. Use this for thoughtful sharing from Google+ to other social platforms.

4. Highlight your business’s accomplishments on your About page. There’s a lot of rich territory on Google+ so utilize it to boost your social SMO throughout the web.

5. Get your Google+ authorship set up. As Mark Traphagen  says, “Google wants to pump you up in search.” Connect your Google+ account and receive a boost in Google search.

I hope that these tips will spark some new ideas and get your brain fired up for creating some social media magic of your own!

Read it now: http://pegfitzpatrick.com/2013/11/11/26-tips-to-create-social-media-magic-for-your-business/ 

Pin it for later: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/23277987446324435

For part one of this series, see Rebekah Radice’s post https://plus.google.com/108493275257625053433/posts/cLB8ESa45Po

If you want to be added to my blog notification circle, please let me know in the comments below. And thank you to everyone that’s already joined! 

Photo credit: Big Stock Photos

#socialmediamarketing   #socialmediatips   #socialmediastrategy

Friends+Me is replacing Paymill card payment provider for Braintree.

Friends+Me is replacing Paymill card payment provider for Braintree.

Due to business reasons, we have decided to switch our card payment provider from Paymill to Braintree. Paymill is an excelent company with a great product and amazing support but their annual subscription support is very limited and that is something Braintree will help us out with.

How does it concern you? If you subscribed to Friends+Me using a credit card before 1 November, you will receive an email with further instructions to migrate your credit card to our new payment provider Braintree.

Thank you and we are sorry for any inconvenience this migration may cause to you.