How-to

If you’re an avid Facebook user and you’ve ever shopped on websites such as eBay, Amazon or even Halfords, you may have noticed those adverts that seem to follow you around Facebook wherever you go. It’s becoming more popular, certainly at this time of year, and is surprisingly easy to do. If you haven’t noticed […]

If you’re an avid user of Twitter, you’ll love how the microblogging site can be used to jump on the latest trend and capitalise on what is going in the world for your business. However, there are times when you’ll want to plan ahead and schedule your tweets in advance, perhaps for the weekend or […]

Having a contact form on your website has been the tried and tested means of communication for website owners for many years. It’s a perfectly simple premise; you have a form, website visitors fill it in and click send, and you receive an email. What could be easier? Well, some messages sent via websites can […]

Since it was bought by social networking giant Facebook, the photo sharing app Instagram has become integrated into a lot of people’s marketing strategies. Through Facebook, you can run Facebook Ads on Instagram, promoting your Facebook page, website or product, and you can use Instagram to keep people abreast of what’s happening in your business. […]

A few years ago, I was asked to find out the identity of someone who had created a fake Facebook profile. The fake profile was pretending to be someone else and was sending offensive messages to that person’s friends. Nobody knew who had created it, or why, and it was posting some very hurtful comments. […]

We set up the Online Learning Academy as we firmly believe in the work-life-balance concept and we hope that others will be able to take what they learn from our courses to benefit their own lives. We believe it’s important to follow your dreams, wherever they may take you, and that you shouldn’t be restricted […]

Regular users of photo sharing app Instagram will already know how you go about connecting it to Facebook and Twitter so you can post your photos and share them out to the two largest social networking websites. For those who don’t know, we’ll show you how in just a moment. However, regular Instagram users may […]

LinkedIn is a great platform for finding and making contacts, and keeping in touch with what people are doing, where they’re working and how long they’ve been there. It does have a few limitations though – particularly its messaging system. Wouldn’t it be better if you could make more use of the contacts you’ve made […]

If you run a Twitter account and a Facebook Page for your business, it’s only natural that you’d want to connect the two so that posts from one go to the other, and vice versa. However, when you look for instructions on connecting your Twitter account to your Facebook Page, you’ll find lots of information […]

Whether or not you use it, Twitter is an excellent tool for promoting your business. You can seek out new clients and customers, keep up-to-date with what your competitors are doing, keep in touch with your existing clients and customers, and promote your services. One of the newer features of Twitter is the ability to […]

Tomorrow, November 26th in Ellesmere Port, we’ll be running one of our classroom courses on LinkedIn. The course follows the same path as our online course, and will help attendees get a better understanding of LinkedIn and how to use it to make a success of their business. The course will offer step-by-step instructions and […]