Janet Fouts- Social media strategist, best-selling author, speaker, corporate trainer, CEO of Tatu Digital Media, advocate for mindful social business.
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What I do
Social Strategy/Management
Our popular social media strategy and management services enable you to make the best use of the right social networks for you. Learn more
Corporate Training
Whether you need your team brought up to speed on your chosen social platforms, company-wide social media compliance training or a keynote speaker for your event, Janet makes social marketing approachable.Learn more
My Books
Janet’s authored six books on social media marketing, all with the intention of making social media easy to understand and implement for your business. Check them out! Browse books
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What’s new on the Blog
Graduates- Think about Your Brand
As Universities release students into the "real world" many are underprepared for today's job market. Most students have a social media presence of some sort, but thinking about a professional brand hasn't been high on their priority list. It's not too late, but it's time to take a considered and mindful approach to what your brand represents in the world. Most importantly, [...]
How to add Live-stream contributors to your Facebook page
In their continuing effort to grow video use, and especially live-stream on Facebook pages, the platform just added a way for you to have live-streaming guest posters on your page! That's pretty cool if you want to grow your audience significantly through videos from like-minded people or pages. To get started, you'll need to give the person access and you'll need to friend [...]
Working mindfully - Inside Shift with Emma J Bell, @thetrueyoubook
I was a guest on the Inside Shift Podcast with the amazing Emma Bell this week, and our discussion brought out some of the elements in my life which moved me to deepen my mindfulness practice and write Mindful Social Marketing. The frenzied nature of today's digital marketing business, living in fast-paced Silicon Valley, depression, obsessed with being online every minute [...]
Average Time On Social Media, Are You Using It Wisely? #Infographic
Can you imagine you could spend 5 years of your lifetime on social media? Yes, it’s likely you can. According to the infographic below we spend more time on social media than we do eating (Maybe that’s a good thing). Of course this is consumer focused, but it still takes into account the time we spend marketing and “working” too. After all, we are all consumers. Taki [...]
Digging deeper into Facebook ad analysis
Facebook's ad platform is constantly changing. Sometimes for the better, sometimes not so much. One feature added recently is giving us a lot of insight into the campaigns we run for our clients, and it's called "Delivery Insights". This dashboard can help you see what ads are performing well, if they are under or over-delivered to your market or if ads are overlapping, which m [...]
On time management and your investment in social media
Social media marketing is time-consuming, and most definitely not free - especially in the early phase when you are researching and doing all of the groundwork. Setting up your accounts, finding or creating content, and learning the ropes will be a lot of work, and it’s setting the stage for your success. As you get accustomed to your networks, you’ll find you spend le [...]
On Social Intelligence, Leadership, and the need to start young #EQ #EI
I've been listening to Daniel Goleman's book "Working with Emotional Intelligence" and it is packed with insights into how emotional intelligence affects our ability to lead, whether a team or CEO. As Goleman says in this video, we all *think* we have exceptional emotional intelligence, but we can be brought quickly down to earth by simply asking our teenager! Fortunately for a [...]
Facebook searches for authenticity, will your business page pass muster?
You may have heard about some new updates to Facebook’s algorithms, the ones that look at the content on pages and profiles and decide what is relevant, what is shown to your fans and what is not. According to their update post: “With this update, we’re adding new universal signals to determine whether a post might be authentic. To do this, we categorized Pages to id [...]