In anticipation of International Women’s Day 2019, I (Rebecca Hopwood) wanted to sit down with the SoProChief – Janet Bebb! Janet enjoyed a life growing up as part of a big family, got married and had kids, built a house and built a career. From banking, to training (lots in between) and now business owner […]Continue Reading

Facebook’s World You may or may not already know that Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp, making them a Social Media powerhouse by getting Social Media Connected. They even tried to buy Snapchat a few years ago, but their $3bn offer was deemed too low! Social Media Connected Mark Zuckerberg’s original idea for Facebook was to […]Continue Reading

Mmmm, well are you? Have you been seeing more ads in your Messenger feed lately, I know I have? Do I open them? Sometimes, and apparently more so than campaigns sent to my email address. And I’m seeing less of those since the whole GDPR opt-in thing last year! Speaking of which, how does this […]Continue Reading

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, you’ll remember that I delved into the ‘exciting’ world Facebook Analytics a couple of months ago. The series will continue to cover the other platforms (if you’re still interested), but today it’s the turn of LinkedIn. Love it or hate it, LinkedIn is a great tool for […]Continue Reading

One of the most useful tools for one Facebook Page to communicate with another Facebook Page has disappeared! The Pages Feed…. It used to be that, if you had access to the settings etc on a Facebook Page on a web browser you could ‘like’ other pages and then view these pages in a News […]Continue Reading

It’s 2019, but this still happens far too much! What is Facebook spam? It might be that you know someone that is a serial Facebook status updater, but that’s up to them, and you can choose who your friends are…BUT, have you ever seen someone posting or sharing a competition that sounds too good to […]Continue Reading

We’ve got a whole new load of Open Workshops lined up for you to book onto across 2019! Download the full programme of dates here: SocialProgressLtd-SocialMediaWorkshopProgramme-2019 From learning the basics of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for your business, to creating inspiring visual and written content, to advanced training on Facebook and Instagram Advertising, we’ve got […]Continue Reading

For those of you who have gotten to know us since October last year you may not really know about SoPro Esther who’s actually been part of the Social Progress Team since 2015. She’s back after almost a year on Maternity Leave! Well, she’s actually been back over month now – how time flies! She […]Continue Reading

In this blog series, our resident girl geek Mel, will be delving into the ‘exciting’ world of data and analytics. You may think this isn’t relevant to your business or ‘yawn’ as many people do, but a few minutes now and then can make a huge difference and it doesn’t need to be drawn out […]Continue Reading