How to Adapt to the New Instagram Grid Size Using Canva

Category: Blog, Social Media
Posted by Lily | March 5, 2025 | Tags: Social Media, blog, instagram, organic social media

You’ve probably noticed on Instagram that the traditional profile grid has shifted from square images to portrait images. It doesn’t matter why or how you use Instagram – this change affected all Instagram profiles.

6 Ways Social Media Can Benefit Your Business in 2022

Category: Social Media
Posted by Danielle | February 1, 2022

Why is Social Media still important in 2022? To say that there have been a few changes this decade would be an understatement. With virtual solutions like Zoom and online communities, people were forced to connect online when in-person connections were not possible. This absolutely had an impact on social media. How we interact with...

Top 5 trends for marketing to your audience on Linkedin in 2020

Category: Social Media, Marketing
Posted by Danielle | August 11, 2020

At first glance, LinkedIn can feel like just another social network that happens to be geared towards professionals. However, once you start to really unravel all of LinkedIn capabilities, you’ll really be astounded at what it can do for your business. Using LinkedIn professionally to make connections and expand your professional network is great, but…

Top 6 Mistakes Marketing Managers Make With Social Media

Category: Social Media
Posted by Danielle | April 24, 2020

We audit and review a lot of social media accounts in our line of work. And while we’re not always perfect with our own (ahem, you do know the story about the cobblers kids’ shoes, right? ) we do have some valuable insight to pass along and help other marketing managers not make the same…

How Marketing Managers can Increase Leads with Social Media

Category: Social Media, Marketing
Posted by Danielle | April 21, 2020

Social media can be a beast to manage but in this day and age, impossible to ignore. Whether you are B2B or B2C business, it’s important to leverage your social media channels to increase your leads. Here are ten ways you can help convert more social followers and interactions into leads: Use social media as…

Social Media Marketing Trends in 2020 for Small Businesses

Category: Social Media
Posted by Odd Dog Media | February 27, 2020

Businesses have come to realize that they simply can’t afford to ignore the tremendous reach of social media or the targeting that it offers. As a result, virtually all marketing campaigns these days include some component of social media marketing. However, one of the challenges of this is that social media is always changing, and…

The Ultimate Guide on How to Use Facebook for Small Businesses

Category: Social Media
Posted by Odd Dog Media | February 25, 2020

Facebook - that powerful social media platform that has eluded business owners for years. It can either be a huge marketing and customer service asset, or a huge waste of time. How can you be sure that you are making the best use of Facebook for your business? That’s what we’re here to help you...

How to use Instagram for Local Businesses in 2019

Category: Advice, Social Media, Guides
Posted by Danielle | May 28, 2019

Instagram has upped its game in a big way over these past few years. We wrote a post back in 2016 called How to Use Instagram for Local Businesses, which needs so much updating in 2019, we decided to write another one! What we’ll be covering: Social Media has changed and grown over the years….

Managing Facebook Pages for a Multi-Location Business

Category: Social Media, Local SEO
Posted by | February 15, 2017 | Tags: Social Media, facebook, brand pages, facebook locations, facebook pages, multi-location, multiple locations facebook

If your business has more than one location, should you have separate Facebook pages for each location? YES! If you’re a multi-location business owner, here are some reasons why you want separate Facebook pages for each of your business locations: Great for Local SEO Facebook is a social networking website, but it is also a source…

How to Use Instagram for Local Businesses

Category: Advice, Social Media, Marketing, Community Building
Posted by | March 22, 2016 | Tags: Social Media, local business, instagram

We’ve updated this post to add more of the features that Instagram has released over the years! If you run a local business, be sure to check out our updated post How to Use Instagram for Local Businesses in 2019 I know, I know, ANOTHER social media platform to monitor? Yikes! When will it end?!…

Social Media Image Sizes – Cheat Sheet

Category: Blog, Social Media
Posted by Adam Broetje | September 13, 2013 | Tags: facebook, Google, linkedin, google plus, image sizes, twitter

We get the question all the time of what size an image should be for a particular purpose on a particular social network. The folks over at LunaMetrics have made a very cool infographic to use as a Social Media Image Cheat Sheet that details the major networks and what the image sizes are. As…

The New Marketing Ecosystem

Category: Blog, Web Design, SEO, Social Media, Advice
Posted by Adam Broetje | January 9, 2012 | Tags: SEO, marketing, Architecture Websites, Good Content Content, Odd Dog Media

Keeping up with the ecosystem The web of today is not the same as it was only a few years ago. Unfortunately, many website designers haven’t yet got the message. While Promotional Marketing is a tactic extraordinaire which gets the people talking about your company. Creating a website and placing it on the internet is…