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Profile: Kate Rose

I am a co-founder and Director at Rose McGrory Social Media, a specialist social media agency based between East Anglia and the Midlands.

We provide tailored training, campaign development and execution, and consultancy support to a wide range of business clients including the Leisure, Professional Services, Arts & Events Marketing, Environmental, and Not-for-profit sectors.

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How to Use Twitter for a Business

How to Use Twitter for a Business

Why use Twitter for business? The UK user base for Twitter is growing every day. Every time you see one of the huge Saturday night TV shows (X Factor, The... read more

Promotions on Facebook – How Not to Get Your Page Deleted and Lose Your Fans!

Promotions on Facebook – How Not to Get Your Page Deleted and Lose Your Fans!

When Facebook Promotions go bad Running promotions on Facebook is one of the key strategies many businesses use to attract new Likers to their pages, and to increase the amount... read more

5 Reasons Social Media Isn’t Working For You – And How to Fix Them

5 Reasons Social Media Isn’t Working For You – And How to Fix Them

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Disappointment. Not a word anyone usually wants to hear in a business meeting, but music to our ears. The theme of this last week’s work with some new clients has... read more

Pinterest Success for Service Companies: An Experiment

Pinterest Success for Service Companies: An Experiment

A couple of weeks back, we wrote about Pinterest and how to decide if it’s right for your business. One of the issues we mentioned was that Pinterest is a... read more

Pinterest – Will it Work for my Business?

Pinterest – Will it Work for my Business?

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Pinterest is the latest site to take the social media world by storm. It’s been around for a while, but really saw a huge increase in takeup towards the end... read more

7 Reasons to Embrace Social Media

7 Reasons to Embrace Social Media

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“You can hate social media, but you can’t ignore it” We do love a good infographic at Rose McGrory Towers, and this is a cracker. 7 unarguable reasons why businesses... read more

Employers Asking for Facebook Passwords? Madness

Employers Asking for Facebook Passwords? Madness

Trends & News

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So, there are reports from the US of employers requesting job applicants’ social networking passwords as part of their vetting process. This is one of those stories which really makes... read more

What Proportion of UK Facebook Accounts Belong to Under 18s? The Answer Might Surprise You!

What Proportion of UK Facebook Accounts Belong to Under 18s? The Answer Might Surprise You!

A couple of weeks ago, we hosted some seminars for Voluntary and Community sector groups on behalf of Cheshire Action. Many of the attendees were from groups not always known... read more

#Kony2012: The Latest Viral Phenomenon

#Kony2012: The Latest Viral Phenomenon

As we often say to our social media trainees, the “V” word is probably the most overused in digital marketing today – it’s a great aim to have, but only... read more

Facebook Timeline for Business Pages – What The Changes Mean

Facebook Timeline for Business Pages – What The Changes Mean

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The new Facebook Timeline page format So we all thought it was coming, but a week ago at Facebook’s fmc2012 event, they introduced Timeline format pages for Businesses. Having had... read more

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Who’s Using Twitter, Where and What For? Latest 2012 Stats [Infographic]

Who’s Using Twitter, Where and What For? Latest 2012 Stats [Infographic]

Great new infographic from Infographic labs – with some nice info about what makes people ReTweet. Interesting that incentives come only slightly above retweet requests – so if in doubt,... read more

LinkedIn – How to Find the Conversations Your Business Must be Involved In

LinkedIn – How to Find the Conversations Your Business Must be Involved In

This week, we’ve been attending Social Media Week London – a fantastic biannual week of free events and seminars on all things social media and online marketing related. One of... read more

Facebook Timeline Privacy Settings – The Check You STILL Need To Make

Facebook Timeline Privacy Settings – The Check You STILL Need To Make

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NOTE: as of today (31st January 2012), the below is only of concern if you’ve upgraded your personal Facebook profile to the new “Timeline” format. If you haven’t (or Facebook... read more

Web 2.0 One, Google (and Sky) Nil

Web 2.0 One, Google (and Sky) Nil

Marketing

Service fail, web win. Earlier this week, I needed to cancel our Sky subscription. I’d heard on the grapevine to expect Sky not to make it easy for me, and... read more

How to Get the Most From Social Media Training

How to Get the Most From Social Media Training

The UK social media training market The phrase “social media training” covers a huge range of requirements and abilities. If you’re looking to accelerate your use of social media for... read more