I’ve worked as the social media marketing manager for a number of national retailers in the UK and Digital Marketing Manager for national and international retailers that used social media marketing in their marketing efforts. I’ve also written a social media marketing book and worked with a number of clients, managing their social media marketing, so it may be surprising to see that I’ve written a blog post entitled ‘Why your business shouldn’t be using social media marketing.’

Before I got into more detail, this

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Conversation is King is a simple guide to generating more comments and conversations around your content and ideas. Find out how to get more comments on your Facebook posts, how to get people responding to your Tweets, how to keep people talking to

With Facebook’s post boosting feature, it’s easier to get your posts out to more people for a small fee, however, if your content isn’t the sort of content that really drives engagement, you’ll struggle to increase the amount of comments you receive, even if you promote it to thousands.

Before thinking about promoting your posts, it’s important to think about the sort of posts you are posting. Some pieces of content seem to be better for generating discussion and ongoing engagement than others, and believe