Ever think it must be fate?

Good afternoon, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.

Today is the start of Chinese New Year, and it is the year of the rabbit!  An exciting year for Social Rabbit I think, this is the year when it will all really kick off.  This is a bouncing, we can do it post :)

Hot rabbit

Do you ever see things in the media or on websites or social networks and it gives you that LIFT to say YES, I CAN DO IT! To me this is what the year of the Rabbit is all about.  Knowing it is the year of the Rabbit I could just ignore it, but I’m not.  I am going to embrace it, call it fate, call it chance, call it luck – does it matter if it gives my business a lift and a strong feeling that we can do it?

Everyone has those days when things go wrong, or those weeks when nothing seems to happen, no orders, no sales, no calls etc.  I think that when opportunity comes along (even if it is kinda unusual) you should grab it with both hands and keep going!

To everyone who’s week is not going as well as they’d like, remember that even if it seems like the world is conspiring against you, that’s not true and you can change it and turn it around, just look for the opportunities….

As the year of the Rabbit continues, the only place for Social Rabbit to go is up – do you want to come along for the ride?

Step Online. Step Up

Good morning, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.

Today I am one very very excited Rabbit!  Why?  Because today the online training product I have been working on with Blue Chilli Technology goes live!  Today I will tell you all about it :)

Steps is our new brand, our first product is Steps for Facebook which is an online Facebook pages training software that leads you through everything you need to know to build, maintain, grow and promote your business on Facebook.  If you are trying to use Facebook to grow your business, but don’t know where to start, then Steps has the answer.

The Steps program takes you through ‘step by step’ every stage of using Facebook for business.  If you have tried learning Facebook from a video, book or an ebook but still been confused then Steps is the answer, it is simple and easy to use, plus you can go back at any time and change what you’ve done.

Steps guides you through creating a page, adding tabs, posting on your page, running competitions, understanding your page insights, running Facebook ads, using Facebook places, promoting your Facebook page and more.  It is kept up to date as Facebook changes, so you will always have the right information.

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How To See what’s Working on Your Blog

Good Morning, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.

Today I’m having a look at what is happening on my blog, and showing how you can use the stats to help you decide what to do with your posting plan.  My lovely regular Rabbit readers probably know that I have a posting plan, so each day I have a different topic that I post on.  This has been working  really well for the last few months, however I am finding that increasingly I am getting shorter and shorter of time to blog, which is a shame as I love writing, but I get caught up in running Social Rabbit and doing activities which directly bring in the cash!

I use wordpress.org for my blog, and for the stats I use the standard statistics (these are the same on wordpress.com), so I am hoping that this will be similar to what you are using to blog.  Below are the views by day for the last month on my blog.

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Making your business stand out in social media

Good Morning, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media

SINGAPORE - AUGUST 14: Performers entertain the crowd during the opening of the 2010 Youth Olympics at the Float@Marina Bay on August 14, 2010 in Singapore, Singapore. (Photo by Mark Dadswell/Getty Images)

I often get asked what do I do to make my Facebook Page/LinkedIn profile/YouTube channel etc standout and be interesting.  It all comes back to marketing, remember social media is not a strange species from outer space, but just another way to reach your audience.

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Blogging – How To Start

Good morning, Social Rabbit here with your guide to the world of social media.

How to start blogging, is a hot topic, although there are over 200 million blogs out there most people give up blogging after 3 months, while others don’t even start because “I have nothing to say” – this is the excuse I hear most.  I am not by any means an expert blogger, I have been blogging for about 1.5 years, on and off.  I know this doesn’t sound promising, but I now know why it was off – it was because I hadn’t found my niche…. [Read more...]