Posts Tagged snapchat

Chances are if you love a man with a beard, you went crazy over last weekend’s Snapchat story titled “Beards and Mustaches” that took place in Manhattan, NYC and followed the 2015 National Beard and Moustache Championships. The story took place on Sunday, November 8 and began

On November 7, 2015 Snapchat featured a story that followed the annual BlizzCon that took place within the Anaheim Convention Center, one of the largest of its kind put on throughout the nation. Titled “BlizzCon 2015”, the Snapchat story began with an opening statement, “Come to BlizzCon,

I was posed an interesting question this week regarding Snapchat and using it for personal injury attorneys. I often tend to answer some questions in blog format. In repsonse, I put together this article: Can small businesses use Snapchat? In short, no, I do not see a

Snapchat is exploding in popularity and is used by the younger generation, aka, people with little to spend. And, advertisements on social media are often both hated by users and a massive failure for advertisers. So, how does Snapchat monetize? Today it was announced that Snapchat will

On September 26, 2015 Snapchat had a story up called “The Pope is Here”. Pope Francis was the 4th Pope to visit the USA. He visited from September 22 – 27, 2015 and was in Washington, New York and Philadelphia.  This particular Snapchat story featured the Geofilter

Over the last couple of weeks I have added multiple stories on Snapchat to this blog, which typically encompasses SEO and web content and doing business on the web. A couple of people reached out and asked me if they should be marketing their business on Snapchat.

This week it was announced that the massively popular app Snapchat will be “blocked” at Wake County Public Schools. This isn’t unique to Raleigh; Snapchat has been banned from school’s WiFi all over the country. Can schools even block apps to begin with? I’d find it extremely

To make a scary face on Snapchat, follow these steps: Update Snapchat to the recent version released September 15, 2015. With your front facing camera, tap your face. This will bring up the list of available selfie filters. Select the “scary face” filter (aka the zombie filter)

If you follow this blog you’ve noticed by now I have recently been covering Snapchat quite a bit. I had hoped my infatuation would be short lived but it is pretty cool and just keeps on getting better. I do take comfort knowing that there are 100

People all over the planet are sitting around with the Snapchat app open, refreshing it, dying to see some entertaining content. Do you want to provide it? That is what I find most intriguing about Snapchat- the engagement level. If you have 1,000 followers and snap something,

Less than 24 hours after our post mentioning Snapchat competing with television, news was released that Snapchat will be getting music videos. This is Snapchat’s next step into entertainment. When I was younger we had a TV channel that played music videos. Hmm, what was the name

Last week I had a brief affair with Snapchat. It is mostly over. Here’s what I learned. The experiment I allowed my Snaps to be public. I creatively gained 200 followers. I started snapping. I put up silly drawings and funny pictures of things that I saw,

The primary purpose of social media is to bring us together. I’ve recently seen a perfect example of social media being used for this purpose in the creation of Snapchat’s Campus MyStory that popped up at my school. It allows people from the surrounding area to submit

Anything can be used the wrong way; the only thing that it takes for a crime to take place is desire and opportunity. Many Snapchat users feel as if they are anonymous or that only a few people will see their snaps. Making a mistake just to

Adding friends on Snapchat is a snap. But, if your existing friends aren’t posting new things for you to see, how do you connect with new Snapchat users to follow? There are millions and millions of people uploading new pictures and video every day. How do you