The first thing I do in the morning is pick up my phone and scroll through Facebook to stalk err... see what I missed while I was sleeping—which is normally not much except for a bunch of selfies.  As a business owner, I'm sure you do the same (wink, wink). Just kidding. If you're over the age of 35, I'll bet you see Facebook as a complete and utter waste of time—something to be avoided unless you're stuck at a red light or it's your turn to take the kids to tee ball practice.

Times are changing—word of mouth is not the only way to get noticed for your work today. If you’re a professional in the home service industry, displaying your work online can create discussion between the consumer and design professional—you!

Houzz.com claims to have the largest database of design ideas on the Web today—is your work on it? With over one billion users on the Internet, it’s important for your work to be displayed online.

So everyone’s been telling you how important it is for your company to be investing in social media and you signed up—Facebook, Twitter, Google+, blogging, you name it! But are you really using your social media to its full extent? Do you have a defined, clearly articulated social media marketing strategy in place that you are implementing and tracking?

We’ve all heard the saying “a picture is worth a thousand words." Well, it's true. Whether the photo in question is in the old family scrapbook or posted to Facebook and Twitter. Think about your own behavior on social media websites. Which updates really capture your attention? If you're like most people, it's the pictures. Users interact with image-based content more than any other type of content on social media sites, which leads me to the topic of this post - Instagram.

It’s election day in America. Millions of Americans will cast their vote today for either President Barack Obama or former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. The election is sure to be a nail-biter, and we may have to wait until the early morning hours to see who’s victorious. During the final days of the campaign, thousands of volunteers from both sides went door-to-door in an  effort to get out the vote.

When I was considering trying out stand-up comedy, I found myself getting the same advice from all of my stand-up experienced friends: no Facebook jokes. Why? Everyone’s kind of tired of hearing about it, although they definitely aren’t tired of using it. If I was actually a good writer, I’d put stats here about just how many people use the social network. Maybe if I spent less of my day eating Starbursts and trying to untangle my headphones, I’d have more time to throw impressive statistics at you.

Whether your company intends on investing in social media marketing or not (it should), there are 4 critically important reasons you should reserve your social media profiles today. While I could easily write an entire blog post about why your company MUST be on social media, I know there are a lot of companies out there who still just don’t buy into the movement (it's really more of a seismic shift).

Facebook is the largest social network in the world with more than 500 million active users. In this blog post, we'll give you 7 secrets of Facebook advertising success! Each Facebook user has entered highly personal information into their profiles about themselves: their gender, age, interests and much much…much more. All of this information allows advertisers and marketers to target specific audiences, custom-tailor their messages, and increase their conversion rates and ROI.