With just 6 photos you can add interest to your Facebook profile page and grab some attention! Download this free Quick Start Guide and we’ll show you how to do it.

Facebook Leaderboard

You may not overtake SpongeBob SquarePants on the Facebook leaderboard, he was no.20 at the time of writing this, but your profile page could look a little more quirky, demure, sporty, creative, or simply just more ‘you’!

Get Splicing

With a few good quality photos and a little bit of creative compiling and image splicing, you can soon make your profile page photos stand out from those of your fb friends.

Don’t worry if you don’t know a ‘splice’ from a slice of bread, you’ll find a couple of free tools you can use directly in Facebook, they’re listed in the Quick Start Guide.

Or for a professional finish get in touch and our expert Graphic Designer will do it for you at a modest fee.

Take note of the display ‘pot hole’ mentioned in the Quick Start Guide, it may not be detrimental to you depending on the choice of your photos, but as long as you know it’s there!

Have fun

For Absolute Beginners Only : Click the download button to get your free copy of this Quick Start Guide to opening your Twitter Account on the new Twitter Website. [4/11]

We covered how to open a new twitter account in a previous video. Twitter has made several changes since then and have actually reduced the number of steps required to open your account. The Social Media Twitter Beginners Guide reflects those changes and is a simple step by step guide for absolute beginners.

If you’re not at all confident about completing forms and opening accounts online, this guide is for you… and it’s free!

Social Tweeting

Virtually everyone is tweeting something or other! Once you get past the “what I’m eating for breakfast” tweets, you can come across some really interesting people, offers and conversations to follow.

For social tweeting you can follow celebrities, local businesses, your mates and your favourite TV programme discussions. You can find best buy offers, coupons, hints, tips, meet ups and treats galore to give your social life a boost from the virtual world into your real world.

Learn More About Twitter for Business

“When you combine messages that are quick to write, easy to read, public, controlled by the recipient and exchangeable anywhere, you’ve got a powerful, real-time way to communicate. And real-time communication is turning out to be ground-breaking for users and businesses alike.”

• Open Your Twitter Account
• Connect with us @WebsitesChester on Twitter
• Read Twitter For Business here.

We’ll be covering more twitter tips and tutorials in future social media articles.

It’s very tempting to just tweet about ‘you’ when you get started using twitter as a social media platform for your small business. But twitter is not all about you, you, you… it’s all about what your readers, followers or clients would like to read about.

In this video, we show you how to post your first tweet, bearing in mind that you may want to find something interesting to tweet about, even though you don’t have any followers yet. Although “this is my first tweet on twitter” wouldn’t be frowned upon to get you started.

Best Practice Twitter Tips

“Instead of approaching Twitter as a place to broadcast information about your company, think of it as a place to build relationships.” Here’s more best practice tips from Twitter to get your social media messages off to a good start.

If you’ve not opened a twitter account yet, check out our previous Social Media Twitter Video.

Twitter was originally an experimental project started in 2006/7 which was based on the concept of short messages, similar to SMS text messages, for updated, latest or breaking news.

It’s come a long way since those early days and it is now well recognised as a perfect social media vehicle, for individuals and businesses alike, as a way to build relationships and communicate with others locally and worldwide.

Twitter Points

• Twitter lets you write and read short messages of up to 140 characters inclusive of punctuation and spaces.
• You can choose who to ‘follow’ and control who follows you.
• Your messages will be made public, except private messages known as a DM or direct message, sent to others.

If you are new to social media and Twitter, then the following video will take you through the simple steps for creating your own small business or personal account.

Learn more from Twitter

“When you combine messages that are quick to write, easy to read, public, controlled by the recipient and exchangeable anywhere, you’ve got a powerful, real-time way to communicate. And real-time communication is turning out to be ground-breaking for users and businesses alike.”

• Open Your Twitter Account
• Connect with us @WebsitesChester on Twitter
• Read the Twitter 101 Guide here.

We’ll be covering more twitter tips and tutorials in future social media articles.