How to run a social media audit
Scheenagh Harrington2022-01-07T09:01:31+00:00From a certain point of view, social media looks easy peasy: chuck out the odd quote from someone famous here for Facebook, throw together a quick Instagram video on [...]
Facebook’s Campaign Ideas Generator offers out-of-this-world marketing inspo
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-30T08:04:13+00:00Facebook, ever on the lookout for ways to help entrepreneurs of all sizes get a leg up, has come up with a nifty solution for anyone whose marketing tank [...]
Ouch: Linkedin bans more than 80 automation tools in platform clampdown
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-09T07:51:33+00:00We live in an amazing age of artificial intelligence and digital wizardry that has made life easier than our ancestors could have ever imagined. It seems as if there’s [...]
Facebook unveils new tools for the future as Apple takes a bite out of data privacy
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-09T07:49:27+00:00If social media was a soap, we think it would be Dallas: impossibly wealthy warring clans constantly trying to get the upper hand on each other (though maybe without [...]
Back of the net: why Euro 2020 and social media are a marketing marriage made in heaven
Scheenagh Harrington2021-07-02T17:46:18+00:00Tomorrow night, eight o’clock. Stadio Olimpico, Italy. Euro 2020. If you’re not among the millions who will be an inch away from their TV screens, smartphones clutched in their [...]
Business platform LinkedIn shares its best tips through new magazine
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-06-29T20:06:23+00:00LinkedIn has long been the business social media platform of choice. And with business networking and growth at the forefront of the platform’s mind, they’ve got something a little exciting [...]
Instagram Reels ads gets an international launch
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-18T10:03:47+00:00The world of social media never stands still, not for one second. It's part of the reason we love it, but the speed of change can take some business [...]
The social media hater’s guide to marketing on social media
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-06-17T10:00:08+00:00Many of us have a love-hate relationship with social media. Many more of us have a favourite platform, and one which we really don’t get on with. But for [...]
Linkedin’s new features promise to make business owners’ lives a little bit easier
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-11T10:03:38+00:00We know many business owners wear several hats, from HR to PR and back again and there are some days that really ought to be four times as long, [...]
Emma Goode appointed by Facebook as an Official Trainer for #SheMeansBusiness campaign
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-11T12:10:14+00:00Audrey Hepburn once said: "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others". We at 24 fingers [...]
Instagram adds Reels Insights feature as it chases rival TikTok
Scheenagh Harrington2021-06-04T07:08:33+00:00Blur vs Oasis. Microsoft vs Apple. Coke vs Pepsi. They are among some of the greatest rivalries the world has ever known. Now you can add Instagram Reels Insights [...]
5 Ways To Improve Your Social Media Videos
Louis Websdale2021-06-04T07:47:03+00:00Video content is a brilliant way to gain both extra followers and improve your social media reach, while getting your message and business out there. However, not all videos [...]
Transform21: Emma Goode among the customer experience speakers at June event
Scheenagh Harrington2021-05-27T13:02:30+00:00We love the thrill and buzz of social media here at 24 fingers towers, everyone knows that. But the biggest buzz? Watching a small business owner go from barely [...]
24 fingers crossed, you’ll soon be able to post to Instagram from your desktop
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-05-21T14:07:12+00:00Instagram has always had a mobile-first approach. Which is great, if you’re out and about and using the app as it was originally intended, to post insta(nt) photos of what [...]
Emma Goode named an adviser for Enterprise Nation business.connected programme in partnership with Vodafone
Scheenagh Harrington2021-05-21T14:14:39+00:00If there's one thing you have to be good at in business, it's making connections: whether it's communicating with customers or chatting to supplier partners, relationships are the grease that [...]
Instagram Remix: Insta gives its Reels a new twist
Scheenagh Harrington2021-04-09T06:43:57+00:00Just when you think you've got to grips with the latest video-sharing technology on the web, they go all Etch-a-Sketch on us and give everything a good shake, this [...]
Do Instagram Engagement Pods Work?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-03-22T21:33:55+00:00Let’s face it, we’ve all had times when we’ve popped a post up on Instagram, and…well…nothing. Or at least, not a lot. Sometimes, posting on [...]
24 Tips to Grow your Instagram Followers
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-03-16T21:36:47+00:00If you’re on any of the social media platforms, you’ve probably asked yourself countless times, how do you go about growing your followers? And when [...]
Cocktails and Cumberbatch: Saffron Hogg joins 24 fingers as Engagement Assistant
Scheenagh Harrington2021-03-05T17:00:02+00:00Like millions of people, lockdown has stopped Saffron Hogg from doing the two things she loves best: expending energy and speaking to people. 24 fingers to the rescue 🦸♀Bubbly, Birmingham-based [...]
How often should you post on social media in 2021?
Nicola Hatch LIghterness2021-02-12T11:52:08+00:00Let’s face it: over the past year, we’ve all had a lot more time on our hands to be scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. And while social media has been fantastic [...]
24 fingers to support the King’s Lynn BID programme: Refocus, Recover & Grow
Scheenagh Harrington2021-02-09T09:19:54+00:00If 2020 taught us anything, it was that the small and medium business owners are a resilient, quick-thinking bunch. When Covid smacked a massive hole [...]
Alex Tuck joins 24 fingers
Emma Goode2021-02-08T18:54:54+00:00Trying to show that crossed arms aren’t always a defensive gesture Say hello to our new resident master of voice at 24 fingers, branded content writer Alex Tuck, who tells [...]
Remember Bebo? After 16 years, it’s back
Scheenagh Harrington2021-02-05T14:04:24+00:00There are some things that, no matter how hard you knock them down, they just keep coming back, again and again and again. Social media [...]
Instagram unveils its Professional Dashboard for businesses
Scheenagh Harrington2021-01-29T11:49:50+00:00For millions of businesses across the country, 2020 was pretty much one to forget, and this year isn’t panning out quite as many had hoped. [...]
24 fingers joins the South Essex College supported internship programme
Scheenagh Harrington2021-01-19T15:02:10+00:00We’ve said a million times that social media gets our blood pumping unlike anything else, but we’re also massive believers in the idea of ‘tribe’ [...]
Introducing Clubhouse: a voice-only platform set to make a social media splash
Scheenagh Harrington2021-01-15T08:29:25+00:00We all love a good chinwag here at 24 fingers towers. We’ll natter about anything, though it’s mostly shoes and social media. Chatting about what [...]
Our top social media trends of 2021
Scheenagh Harrington2021-01-13T15:49:15+00:00Last year was… how can we put it politely? Ah yes, a hot mess, what with all the disruption, stress and grief caused by the [...]
What the Dickens! Our festive look back at social media in 2020
Scheenagh Harrington2020-12-17T16:12:55+00:00“Thank God it’s Kerrrissssmaaaas” sang Freddie Mercury, and ho-ho-so say all of us! Yes, we can barely see our keyboards for the tinsel and we’re [...]
How to use Instagram Live for your business
Scheenagh Harrington2020-12-04T13:22:41+00:00There was a time, not so long ago, when watching live telly was a national pastime, from Saturday morning kids’ shows to special episodes of [...]
Emma Goode among the industry leaders taking part in the Freelancer Club’s Festive Freelance Fair
Scheenagh Harrington2020-12-04T13:50:20+00:00It’s finally December, and after a 2020 that has put us all through the wringer, many people are decking their halls with boughs of holly [...]