Warning! Do Not Trust Screenshots of Tweets

One of the things we strive to do at SteamFeed is tell the truth about marketing, social media, technology, and business. And when we see a new social media tool come out that could potentially damage the reputation of people, we want to educate people about it: we’re trying to make the internet a better [...]

Dream Big And Get Rid Of Limits

Do you ever have epic daydreams where you think of yourself in a successful situation, and suddenly get chills? I do that, every day. I think of my future self giving epic inspirational speeches to graduates, or sometimes think about myself on stage at an outdoor concert, with everyone singing to the lyrics of MY [...]

A Call for Writers: Business and Management

Here at SteamFeed, we’re trying to build the best online resource for small businesses, community managers, business managers, and agencies. All of our content comes from real professionals, using their day-to-day experience to provide valuable, actionable content for you to read. And it seems like you like it. Since we’ve launched SteamFeed in September, our [...]

How to Improve Local Search Marketing with Google Places

Google claims that 97% of consumers search for local businesses online, and it makes sense. Long gone are the days of yellow pages. And where do people go when they’re searching for local businesses? Usually Google. And what about people that search on mobile for the nearest coffee shop? Usually Google for Mobile. What is [...]

SteamFeed: A New Year, A New Look!

For those of you that are new to the site, welcome! For those of you who visit the site on a regular basis, you probably noticed that we did a re-branding and major web layout change to our site yesterday! *I want to thank DJ for taking the lead on this re-launch! He did an [...]

90 Percent of our Traffic Is Not From Google, And I Like It!

TrafficYou heard me! I’m glad that most of our traffic doesn’t come from Google. And here’s why. Since all of your company information, request for demos, call to actions, and downloadables are on your website and blog, building traffic is very important! The almighty Google has a lot of power. They can decide to make major changes with their search-ranking algorithm, at any time. One day, you could have decent rankings on the first page, and the next, Google could magically blacklist you because of algorithm change, losing a major part of your traffic.

SteamFeed Will Resume on Monday

To our dearest community, Due to recent tragic events, we only find it fitting to take time, and reflect. SteamFeed will postpone all scheduled blog posts until Monday. Like Jennifer Kane mentioned in her post yesterday, we don’t always know how to react, or know what to say during such tragedies. Sometimes it’s just better [...]

3 Sure-fire Ways to Get the Job Interviews You Really Want

I just came off a 6-month job hunt in October, when I got employed by InNetwork Inc. as an Influencer Relationship Manager. After a lot of researching, networking, and sending out tons of job applications over the summer, I finally landed my dream job. It wasn’t an easy task, but the hard work definitely paid off.

It was also a great learning experience in the process. Some tactics brought in more interviews than others did though. I’ll share with you some of the tactics that worked best for me.

Twitter Tools That Help With Efficiency

If you’re as busy as I am, you don’t have time to spend all day finding content, and managing your Twitter account. Steven Hughes wrote a great post a few weeks ago about how to manage Twitter efficiently, and spoke about Twitter tools. I’ll expand more on that topic in this post. There are plenty of Twitter tools out there that make it a lot easier for you to do your daily Twitter work. Here are some of my favourite Twitter tools for content and account management that I could not live without: