Our Birthday Gift: 9 Clouds Academy
9 Clouds is Four Years Old! Four year ago, my brother John and I asked a crazy question: Can we help businesses thrive in South Dakota and other rural areas by teaching them how to use digital...
View Article[Book] Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide
[Here's the short version. We published a book called Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide. It's our best work and you should download it for free as a PDF or buy it as a Kindle, paperback or...
View ArticleWho Should Use Facebook? – Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide Excerpt 1
Are you looking for a way to start living the life you were meant to live? Do you need a way to interact with potential customers online? Keep reading! If you are a frequent reader of our blog, you are...
View ArticleHow to Use Facebook Business Pages – Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide...
Facebook is not just for silly groups and catching up with old friends. Many of your potential customers are on Facebook and it is important to reach them in a medium that is popular and viewed on a...
View ArticleWhat to Post, When to Post, and How to Engage Facebook Fans – Navigating...
In this third excerpt from our book Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide, we want to emphasize the “social” in social networking on Facebook. This means that you don’t just ask people to buy your...
View ArticleWhich Methods Work? A Glance into Facebook Insights – Navigating Social...
In the past three excerpts from our book Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide, we have shared who should use Facebook, how Facebook business pages operate, and how to best engage Facebook fans. Now...
View ArticleWelcome Katie Munk to 9 Clouds
We are excited to welcome Katie Munk to the 9 Clouds team! Katie has joined our team as a Digital Marketing Strategist. Raised on a farm near Austin, Minn., Katie graduated from Minnesota State...
View ArticleHow to Optimize Your Facebook Page for Graph Search – Navigating Social...
In the past four excerpts from our book Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide, we have shared: who should use Facebook how Facebook business pages operate how to best engage Facebook fans and we have...
View ArticleTargeting Your Specific Audience with Facebook Ads – Navigating Social Media:...
In the past five excerpts from our book Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide, 1. You’ve determined if Facebook is right for you. Check. 2. You’ve learned how Facebook business pages operate. Check....
View ArticleWho Should Use Twitter? – Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide Excerpt 7
In our first 6 blog posts from our book Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide, we taught you all about the importance of Facebook. Now we move into the world of 140 characters: Twitter. This real-time...
View ArticleGetting Started with Twitter Lingo – Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide...
Tweet? Follow? Mention? Hashtag? In our first seven blog posts from our book Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide, we taught you all about the importance of Facebook, we told you what Twitter is, and...
View ArticleSetting Up Your Twitter Profile – Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide...
Now that you’ve learned the basic language of Twitter, it’s time to create your profile and get tweeting! Of course, first you should go to Twitter.com. If you have a smart phone, you can download the...
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