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How to add subtitles to your Facebook videos

This week’s Wednesday Workshop video shares instructions for adding subtitles to your videos. The file needed for adding captions is the same, regardless of video host – but they’re especially effective on Facebook, since the audio is muted by default on all auto-play videos.

Check out the video for detailed instructions on creating your subtitle file – if you’ve got any questions, leave them below and we’ll answer them as quickly as possible!
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Stop Advertising to Millennials (and here’s why)

 

Well, okay, maybe not stop altogether. But here’s the deal, your advertising campaigns aimed at the younger generation might not be working. Why? The simple answer is that millennials are not responsive to the same kinds of advertising methods that worked on previous generations. Now, if you’re already tired of reading this post, here’s the main point: Stop trying to advertise to millennials and just interact with them.

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Don’t forget the marketing part of content marketing!

In this week’s video, we talk about content marketing. Most dealers have blogs now, but they’re forgetting the marketing part of their content marketing. They’re not posting the right kind of content, and they’re not sharing links on social media.

We share tips on the right kind of blog posts to write, and lots of helpful information about the social sharing side of blog posts. We explain why Open Graph tags are vital, and where and how to share links to your posts on social media.

As always, if you’ve got questions or comments, leave them down below and we’ll get back to you ASAP!

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Facebook’s New Like Button [VIDEO]

Facebook rolled out a global update this morning to the ubiquitous Like button. After years of hearing complaints that there was no “dislike” button, Facebook has added several new Reactions to the like button.

This week’s video explains how to access the new reactions on both desktop and mobile, along with showing what each one looks like. Check out the video for all the details…

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Birds Don’t Chirp At Night, Except When They Do

If you’ve ever experienced birds chirping, singing, calling or screeching at night, you were probably annoyed by it. Today, businesses including your dealership must be aware of birds chirping into the early hours of the morning. The “birds” are the consumers of our modern, or some would say, post-modern era and they don’t always sing during business hours.

Twitter and Facebook offer us the opportunity to say whatever we want, whenever we want and that presents challenges for most dealers. Contrast the Twitter, Facebook and Instagram realm with how difficult it was to praise or shame a business in 1995. BIG difference. If you’re a little young to remember life at that time, it’s important to know that less that 5% of Americans were using the internet before 1995. Unlike today, where 87% of adults in the USA are on the internet and the percentage grows to almost 100% among those living in households earning $75,000 or more. BOOM!

You have a voice that can be amplified online more than any other time in human history, but… so does every single person that visits your website, sees your advertising efforts, calls your dealership, buys a car from you, services their car with you and so on…

What’s your social media strategy look like right now? Are you one of the many dealerships that have scaled back believing that the effort yields nothing in return? Many dealers started running the social media race primarily focused on capitalizing on a new way to sell cars. Unfortunately, none of us knew exactly how to approach the sales side of social media and totally missed the communication importance offered by social media. Yes, you can and should be selling some cars through social media, but you are unlikely to sell any if you aren’t watching, listening, engaging and answering when the birds start chirping.

One way to be sure you hear the birds is by using social media tools like Mention.  Mention is specifically a listening tool that allows you to hear what’s being said about your business on the web. They recently released an infographic based on Twitter data they’ve assembled and crunched. Along with the data, they gathered opinions on the information from a handful of social media experts. I highly recommend checking it out.

Here are some takeaways:

  • 271 million people are active on Twitter every month
  • Some of them are talking to you, some of them are talking about you
  • Almost 31% of tweets containing a company name do NOT include their twitter handle
  • 60% of company mentions on Twitter are posted when you’re NOT in the office

If you’re looking for a simple way to make sure you never miss a thing. Check out Mention here and download their mobile app to make sure you always hear the birds chirping.

Until next time, may you find yourself and your business more attractive, attentive and aware.

#birdschirpatnight

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