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Social Media is rapidly developing to be the number one online marketing tool. We’re all aware of the current social media communities like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The beauty of social media is it’s interactive and engaging. The younger generation took to the Social Media communities by storm, and it’s increasingly growing up the generation ladder! The phenomenon is digging its claws into schools, creating endless opportunities for your school to be recognized. Get national or international coverage by keeping up-to-date with your market, technology and trends.
Social media is the online home of technology, interaction and entertainment. It’s here and it’s here to stay. So, don’t leave your school a generation behind, make your school interactive, engaging and stand out from the others.
Despite what you may think when you hear the words social and media, they offer much more than making friends and sending messages to everyone all over the world. If you want to interact and engage with your audience, increase school exposure, SEO and traffic to your site you can do it all through the channels of social media.
Twitter – A simple, instant and interactive way to communicate upcoming events or enlightening newsfeeds from your school. Effectively a blog, your school can send ‘tweets’ of up to 140 characters. Twitter offers opportunities to engage and interact with your audience, making you stand out from the rest.
Facebook – is a social network site for individuals, groups or businesses to create personal profiles, share opinions and to participate in contests and events. Facebook puts your school out into the cyber world to build awareness and attract interest from far and wide. Facebook is great for exposing and increasing your school brand through ad platforms and for engaging people who have an interest in your school.
Flickr – is a brilliant image and video hosting website where members can share and comment on all sorts of media. If you want to increase your schools ranking on Google, Flickr is heavily indexed in search engines, passing links and page ranks. What’s more, Flickr can help rank images higher in Google images ensuring further coverage for your school. Why not post images and videos of your school for potential parents to view!
LinkedIn – a social network site designed especially for business professionals. LinkedIn is perfect for personal branding and emphasising your schools strengths and achievements. This site is almost guaranteed to rank your school on the first page of search results in terms of school name or individual staff names.
YouTube – seeks to entertain and inform through engaging your audience by sharing user uploaded videos. Imagine…your school could upload testimonials, tours of your facilities or weekly news bulletins from the Head teacher. Branding and linking your videos back to your website, is a tried and tested way for your school to gain exposure. Furthermore, you would be on one of the most powerful, high traffic branding sites on the web.
Digg – is a social news site allowing users to discover and share content. Digg offers high opportunities for promoting objective press and blog coverage of your school. In terms of SEO your page will still be indexed quickly whether your blogs are more or less popular than others. So, why not ‘digg’ deep into the world of web to engage with pupils and parents!
Say goodbye to traditional marketing methods and say hello to the future…
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Social Media…so what’s all the fuss about?
By David VestyDo you engage with your audience?
Social Media is rapidly developing to be the number one online marketing tool. We’re all aware of the current social media communities like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The beauty of social media is it’s interactive and engaging. The younger generation took to the Social Media communities by storm, and it’s increasingly growing up the generation ladder! The phenomenon is digging its claws into schools, creating endless opportunities for your school to be recognized. Get national or international coverage by keeping up-to-date with your market, technology and trends.
Social media is the online home of technology, interaction and entertainment. It’s here and it’s here to stay. So, don’t leave your school a generation behind, make your school interactive, engaging and stand out from the others.
Do you engage with your audience?
Social Media is rapidly developing to be the number one online marketing tool. We’re all aware of the current social media communities like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The beauty of social media is it’s interactive and engaging. The younger generation took to the Social Media communities by storm, and it’s increasingly growing up the generation ladder! The phenomenon is digging its claws into schools, creating endless opportunities for your school to be recognized. Get national or international coverage by keeping up-to-date with your market, technology and trends.
Social media is the online home of technology, interaction and entertainment. It’s here and it’s here to stay. So, don’t leave your school a generation behind, make your school interactive, engaging and stand out from the others.
So, why should schools use social media?
Despite what you may think when you hear the words social and media, they offer much more than making friends and sending messages to everyone all over the world. If you want to interact and engage with your audience, increase school exposure, SEO and traffic to your site you can do it all through the channels of social media.
Twitter – A simple, instant and interactive way to communicate upcoming events or enlightening newsfeeds from your school. Effectively a blog, your school can send ‘tweets’ of up to 140 characters. Twitter offers opportunities to engage and interact with your audience, making you stand out from the rest.
Facebook – is a social network site for individuals, groups or businesses to create personal profiles, share opinions and to participate in contests and events. Facebook puts your school out into the cyber world to build awareness and attract interest from far and wide. Facebook is great for exposing and increasing your school brand through ad platforms and for engaging people who have an interest in your school.
Flickr – is a brilliant image and video hosting website where members can share and comment on all sorts of media. If you want to increase your schools ranking on Google, Flickr is heavily indexed in search engines, passing links and page ranks. What’s more, Flickr can help rank images higher in Google images ensuring further coverage for your school. Why not post images and videos of your school for potential parents to view!
LinkedIn – a social network site designed especially for business professionals. LinkedIn is perfect for personal branding and emphasising your schools strengths and achievements. This site is almost guaranteed to rank your school on the first page of search results in terms of school name or individual staff names.
YouTube – seeks to entertain and inform through engaging your audience by sharing user uploaded videos. Imagine…your school could upload testimonials, tours of your facilities or weekly news bulletins from the Head teacher. Branding and linking your videos back to your website, is a tried and tested way for your school to gain exposure. Furthermore, you would be on one of the most powerful, high traffic branding sites on the web.
Digg – is a social news site allowing users to discover and share content. Digg offers high opportunities for promoting objective press and blog coverage of your school. In terms of SEO your page will still be indexed quickly whether your blogs are more or less popular than others. So, why not ‘digg’ deep into the world of web to engage with pupils and parents!
Say goodbye to traditional marketing methods and say hello to the future…
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