Monthly Archives

May 2016

Twitter is Giving you more Characters….

Well they are but there is still the 140 character limit. You maybe asking how can you get more characters? They are not counting some of the things you put in your Tweet. Which is a great move for Twitter. What did they announce? This is the official announcement from Twitter: Replies: When replying to […]

Pinterest allows Affiliate Links

When Pinterest first launched, they allowed people to put affiliate links. If you aren’t familiar, Affiliate links are ones that give the poster a percentage of any sales generated. At first there was controversy over who actually would get the credit. Would it be the pinner or Pinterest. They cleared that up and allowed them. […]

Post Like a Rockstar

Tonight I was flipping through my Instagram and kept seeing these odd pictures. They were being posted by the band Maroon5. They were all parts of pictures and it was one right after another. At first I was like, is this a mistake? What in the world are they doing? I clicked on their profile […]

Instagram to get Analytics

One of the biggest gripes of brand about Instagram is about to change. To get analytics you had to do it by hand or get a third party service. The first was very time consuming. Trust me I know I have done some manual tabulation of Instagram. The later can be very expensive. It can […]

We are on Apple News

I’m very happy to say that Marketing Elements is on Apple News now! The process was very simple and easy to get the blog on. However the plug in to help publish in Apple format is a bit more complex. I installed the plugin called “Publish to Apple News” and some things went wonky. I […]

New Look for Instagram

When you update Instagram you may notice some changes. The first thing you notice is there is a new logo. The camera icon we have come to love over the last 6 years is gone. They have a brand new logo. But that’s not all that has changed with the app! First, I am not […]