Facebook Stories Sweetens Birthdays with a New Feature. 🎀 🎂 🎁 People have always come to Facebook to connect with friends and celebrate meaningful moments, like birthdays. Facebook has launched birthday stories globally — a way for friends, family and everyone in your community to add digital birthday cards, photos or videos to a story celebrating your big day. The result is a happy birthday message that’s visual, memorable, interactive and fun — it’s like getting a personalize d birthday card from everyone you care about, no matter where they are in the world. 🎂 🍭 🍰 Five hundred million people use Facebook Stories every day. This community has shown us just how creative and thoughtful birthday wishes can be — whether with a series of funny photos or a video reminiscing about past birthdays spent together. Sharing these personal photos, videos and memories can make a birthday even more special. 🎊 🎊 🎊 Just tap on the birthday notification, shoot or upload a photo or ...

Focus your efforts on one network at a time. Social media networks are like a new toy & everyone wants one of them. We want to be everywhere because we're sure that this network will be just right for us. However, the fact is we're all strapped for time & resources when starting a business. So if you want to focus on all of the social networks, then you're setting yourself up for a long road ahead & a mediocre result. 🔊🔊🔊🔊 We w ere on all of the standard platforms & also some lesser-known networks like Anchor, Tumblr, LinkedIn. We found was that we were getting dismal results across the board. Plus, it was taking full days to post content to each platform. It wasn't sustainable & wouldn't be for any small to medium business. It does seem counterintuitive, but focusing all your efforts on the two platforms which give you the best engagement for your brand. Making content unique to each platform is essential, as they all...