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20+ Ways to Use Apple Watch for Social Media to Get More Done!

Do you spend a lot of time pulling out your iPhone to check your social media channels?

Maybe you’re managing social media for clients or constantly checking your own channels for new updates.

We’re all guilty of that.

The bottomline is that social media can be time-consuming and interrupt our focus if we let it.

This can lead to a loss in productivity and if you’re a business owner, lost revenue.

What if you could improve the time you spend on social media each day?

For example, spend 60 minutes a day instead of getting lost for hours in your newsfeed?

In this article I’ll show you some ways you can use Apple Watch for social media.

This way you can begin to improve your productivity and accomplish more in your business.

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Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can use Apple Watch for social media.

This way you can stay on-top of conversations, capitalize on new content ideas, and get more done on your social media channels!

20+ Ways to Use Apple Watch for Social Media

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85+ Time-Saving Social Media Keyboard Shortcuts – Infographic

Are you looking to become more efficient with your social media management?

This way you can spend less time managing your channels and more time creating content to grow your business.

One of the fastest ways is to learn social media keyboard shortcuts.

What are keyboard shortcuts?

For those of you not familiar with keyboard shortcuts, they’re a faster way to access features within a program without the need to access a menu.

Instead, you can press a combination of keys to perform the same function.

My favorite keyboard shortcut is Command + Shift + 4 to take a screenshot.

This particular shortcut has saved me lots of time when creating blog posts or writing articles because I can quickly take a screenshot using just my keyboard.

Why are social media shortcuts important?

Today, we aren’t just using keyboard shortcuts on the computer.

We’re also spending more of our time on social networks.

Because we don’t have a lot of time to waste, we need to be aware of the many social media shortcuts that are available.

This way we can work faster because of the demands on our time.

This article is going to take a look at social media keyboard shortcuts for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Plus and Tumblr.

Social media keyboard shortcuts

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How to access the “top secret” Hyperlapse labs menu

By now you’ve seen a lot of examples of businesses and brands using Hyperlapse by Instagram to create timelapse and stop-motion videos.

You can view them here  and here.

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to experiment and use Hyperlapse yourself.

Did you know there is also a secret Hyperlapse labs menu!

In this article, I’m going to show you how to access a “top secret” Hyperlapse labs menu filled with a lot of powerful settings.

What is in Hyperlapse labs?

Hyperlapse labs includes a lot of very useful settings.

Here are some of them.

Hyperlapse labs menu
Learn how to access the Hyperlapse labs secret menu where you can change the video resolution.
  • Change the resolution from 720p to 1080p
  • Alter the frame rate
  • Set background saving
  • Run calibaration
  • Use Hyperlapse EXTREME to increase the speed from 12X to 24X and 42X
  • And more…

To access Hyperlapse labs, follow these instructions.

How to access Hyperlapse labs

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10+ Hyperlapse examples to boost your Instagram marketing efforts!

Have you ever wanted to know how to create time lapse videos?

Previously you needed a lot of expensive equipment in order to create your own.

Recently, Instagram launched a free tool called Hyperlapse that eliminates the need to spend a lot of money on equipment and allows you to create time lapse videos using their app and your iPhone.

A lot of brands have started experimenting with the Hyperlapse app to come up with exciting content to engage with their audience on Instagram.

In this article I’ll share with you some Hyperlapse examples that you can use in your own Instagram marketing efforts!

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Let’s take a look at some examples of how brands are using Hyperlapse.

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5 Hashtag tracking tools to help track and measure social media performance

How many of you are use hashtag tracking tools to help you identify and plan out your social media campaigns?

Recently, I was giving a presentation on how to leverage hashtags and spent a lot of time answering questions from people wanting to know if there were social media tools to help identify which hashtags they needed to include.

In this article, I am going to cover five hashtag tracking tools you can use to find the right hashtags to use with your social media campaigns.

What are hashtags?

For those of you new to hashtags, hashtags are a way to group conversations together.

For example, I conveniently use the hashtag #AskCK to make it easier for users on Twitter to ask me questions.

This also makes it easier for me to track the conversation by simply clicking on the hashtag.

Hashtags are also very useful when you want to insert your information into other larger conversations.

An example of this is using the hashtag #BizTips when sharing updates that are business related or using #Socialmedia when sharing content that is social media related.

Benefits of using hashtags

As I mentioned, by including hashtags in your discussions, it makes it easier for people to follow the discussion that is taking place.

For example, many events create their own hashtag so that attendees can see who is saying what at an event.

If they did not include hashtags, it would be difficult to follow all of the conversations taking place.

The same holds true when trying to measure how effective your social media campaigns were.

Imagine having to go through thousands of conversations. By including a hashtag, you can quickly filter the conversations to only show conversations using a specific hashtag.

This way you can quickly see the conversations and measure your performance.

5 Hashtag tracking tools

Now that you are aware of what hashtags are, how do you identify which hashtags you should be using in your social media campaigns?

Fortunately, there are a number of hashtag tracking tools you can use to help identify, analyze, and measure the effectiveness of a social media campaign.

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Choosing the top Instagram hashtags

On Instagram, do you know what the top Instagram hashtags are?

Do you know how to find out which Instagram hashtags are most popular?

Today you are going to learn how to identify the top Instagram hashtags and how when used, can help increase your visibility for your brand.

Should you include Instagram hashtags?

One of the biggest debates is if you should use hashtags or not.

It depends on the social network you are on.

Facebook hashtags haven’t quite caught on.

On Twitter, using hashtags helps increase engagement 2X; however, if you include more than two, your engagement drops.

With Instagram, when you use 11 or more hashtags, you tend to have higher interactions.

So for now, on Instagram use as many hashtags as you like.

It helps increase interactions and allow your posts to be discovered in search.

But what are the top Instagram hashtags and how do you figure out which ones to use?

Let’s take a look at the current Top 50 Instagram hashtags and how you can identify if a hashtag is popular for Instagram of not.

Top Instagram hashtags

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3 Ways to make your Instagram community explode using Facebook

Do you wish your business could grow its presence on Instagram?

It takes a lot of time and energy to create a successful Instagram strategy for your business.

To be successful on using Instagram for business, it requires developing a following and continuously creating and sharing new and exciting photos and videos with your audience to get them excited about products and services.

As your content gets shared, more people will see it and engage with it and help grow your network.

While this process will help you grow your Instagram following, you could be missing out on adding more followers when you don’t integrate Instagram with Facebook.

Here are three ways you can integrate Instagram with Facebook to help to get more exposure for your photos and videos and grow your presence on Instagram.

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How to display Instagram photos on your Facebook Page using Shortstack

According to Digital Trends, Instagram grew its users by 23% in 2013 compared to a 3% decrease in Facebook user growth.

With Instagram’s significant growth, you can take advantage of this to grow your Instagram account.

To do this, you can create a Facebook landing page tab to display your Instagram content on your Facebook Page.

Why create a Facebook landing page tab to display Instagram photos?

By having a Facebook landing page tab to display your Instagram photos, this gives you an opportunity to leverage your Facebook fans and to share your Instagram photos and videos with them.

This can also be a valuable opportunity to:

  • Grow your Instagram followers
  • Promote hashtags

Example of Instagram photos on a Facebook Page

Here is an example of the Facebook landing page tab you are going to create using Shortstack.

Instagram on a Facebook landing page tab

 

Displaying Instagram content on your Facebook Page using Shortstack

To display your Instagram photos and videos on your Facebook Page with the help of Shortstack, watch this video tutorial.

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5 Tips to create a successful Instagram strategy

Does your business have a presence on Instagram? Do you have an Instagram strategy in-place to help you use the popular photo-sharing tool?  While it is one thing to be on Instagram and to occasionally share photos, if you are a business, Instagram is definitely a place you want to consider creating a presence. This is because Instagram brand engagement has grown 350 percent year over year (tweet this | source). So how do you go about leveraging Instagram and its 150 million users? It starts by having an Instagram strategy.

Why you need an Instagram strategy

Anyone can get started on Instagram in just a few minutes. With the abundance of mobile devices available, business owners can begin taking photos and sharing them with the popular social network as well. While that works to get you started, if you truly want to tap-in to the growing user base, it helps to have a strategy in-place. This way when you are going about your day, you can be thinking about the different types of content you need to curate for the different social networks that you have a presence on. In doing this, you can plan ahead and begin thinking about the bigger picture for your social media marketing strategy and how to make Instagram a part of it. To help you out, we have put together five Instagram strategy tips to help you learn what types of content you want to be creating to help your business develop a dominant presence on the growing social media platform.

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Instagram everywhere! How to upload photos and videos to Instagram from a computer

Have you ever needed to upload photos and videos to Instagram from a computer? 

While Instagram is primarily a mobile site, they do allow you to access an Instagram feed where you can view, like, comment, and embed an Instagram photo in a blog or website.

But what if you want to upload photos to Instagram from your computer?

Right now, Instagram does not offer this feature.

Instead, you can use a third-party tool to upload photos and videos to Instagram from a computer.

What types of media can you upload to Instagram?

You can upload photos and videos to Instagram and even use Instagram Direct to share private content.

To upload your photos and videos to Instagram, follow the instructions below.

How to upload photos and videos to Instagram from a computer

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