3 Steps To Social Media Success
To help you navigate your way through the Social Media Jungle, we have drawn up our top 3 tips for success. Whether you are looking to communicate with your customers, other businesses or just to promote a chosen message, Social Media channels offer one the ideal way of getting important content out to the world.
However, despite the easy to use and free nature of modern-day Social Media, it can be all too easy to get a little lost. With our 3 tips below, we think that we can help to guide you in the right direction.
Step No. 1 – Understanding Your Options
With so many Social Media channels available, all with their own individual strengths, it’s important to see which ones may prove to be beneficial for you.
Below is a little cheat sheet for some of the strengths of the common Social Media channels.
This is ideal for:
- Providing to the point updates
- Communicating with customers
- Using hashtags to tap into relevant streams
This is ideal for:
- Showing the visual side of your business
- Reaching a wide audience
- Targeting a younger generation
This is ideal for:
- Engaging with customers
- Driving traffic to your website
Please note: The paid social advertising options can be perfect if you have a particular demographic that you would like to target.
Step No. 2 – Do Your Homework
The vast majority of Social Media updates take place in public. Therefore there is absolutely nothing stop you taking a look at what your competitors are doing to see if you can take any inspiration.
Take a look around to find the following information about your competitors Social Media habits:
- Which channels are they using (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest)
- Do they engage with customers &/or other business?
- How frequently do they send out updates
Top Tip – Patience is a virtue! You may be raring to go but a little bit of homework can go a long way.
Step No. 3 – Don’t Be Shy
Now that you’re ready to go, go for it! Sitting back and waiting for things to happen is very unlikely to work!
Get your message out there. Contact potential customers to see if you can help them. What’s the worst that can happen??
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How To Recall An Sent E-Mail Through Gmail
For a variety of reasons, many people have sent an e-mail that they wished they hadn’t. Whilst Gmail doesn’t offer the traditional “recall” function like Outlook, they instead offer a function that enables you to “unsend” a message within a certain amount of time.
Certain email programs offer an option to recall or retract an email, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the recipient won’t still receive it. Gmail’s Undo Send feature works differently in that it actually waits to send your email, giving you a certain amount of time to change your mind and prevent it from being sent. But you have to be quick, as Gmail gives you only a specific number of seconds to halt your email.
Here’s how to enable the “unsend” feature in Gmail and use it to your advantage.
Recall an email with Undo Send
If you decide you don’t want to send an email, you have a short time after to cancel it. Right after you send a message, you can retract it:
- In the bottom left, you’ll see “Message sent” and the option to “Undo” or “View message”.
- Click Undo.
Choose an amount of time to recall a message
- On your computer, go to Gmail.
- In the top right, click Settings
Settings. - Next to “Undo Send,” select a Send cancellation period of 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds.
Settings.Accessing Your E-Mails Whilst Offline
Another excellent and very useful feature offered by Gmail is the ability to access your emails even when you are not connected to the internet. To find out how, please check out the video below:
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How To Recall An Sent E-Mail Through Outlook
Message recall is only available after you click Send and is available only if both you and the recipient have an Office 365 or Microsoft Exchange email account in the same organisation.
To recall and replace a message
- In the folder pane on the left of the Outlook window, choose the Sent Items folder.
- Open the message that you want to recall. You must double-click to open the message. Selecting the message so it appears in the reading pane won’t allow you to recall the message.
- From the Message tab, select Actions > Recall This Message.
Notes:
- If you don’t see the Recall This Message command, you probably don’t have an Exchange account or the feature isn’t available within your organization.
- You cannot recall a message that’s protected by Azure Information Protection.
- Click Delete unread copies of this message or Delete unread copies and replace with a new message, and then click OK.
- If you’re sending a replacement message, compose the message, and then click Send.
To check on the recall
The success or failure of a message recall depends on the recipients’ settings in Outlook. In the following table, five scenarios are presented:
| Action | Result |
| You send a message to someone. You recall the original message and replace it with a new one.
On the recipient’s computer, under Tracking, the Automatically process requests and responses to meeting requests and polls check box is selected. Note: To view this setting, File > Options > Mail. Scroll to the Tracking section. |
Both the original message and the recall message are received in the recipient’s Inbox.
Assuming the original message hasn’t been read, the original message is deleted and the recipient is informed that you, the sender, deleted the message from his or her mailbox. Note: If the original message is marked as read (viewing in the Reading Pane isn’t reading in this scenario) when the recall message is processed, the recipient is informed that you, the sender, want to delete the message. However, the message remains in the recipient’s Outlook folder. |
| You send a message to someone. You recall the original message and replace it with a new one.
On the recipient’s computer, under Tracking, the Automatically process requests and responses to meeting requests and polls check box isn’t selected. Note: To view this setting, File > Options > Mail. Scroll to the Tracking section. |
Both the original message and the recall message are received in the recipient’s Inbox.
On the recipient’s computer, one of the following results occurs:
Note: If the original message is marked as read (viewing in the Reading Pane isn’t reading in this scenario) when the recall message is processed, the recipient is informed that you, the sender, want to delete the message. However, the message remains in the recipient’s Outlook folder. |
| You send a message to someone. You recall the original message and replace it with a new one.
On the recipient’s computer, either by rule or by action of the recipient, the original message is moved out of the Inbox to another folder and the recall message remains in the Inbox (or it is moved to another folder also). |
If the recall message and the original message exist in separate folders, the recipient receives a message that states a recall attempt failed. This occurs regardless of the Outlook configurations and the read status of the message.
The original message and the new message are both available to the recipient. |
| You send a message to someone. You recall the original message and replace it with a new one.
On the recipient’s computer, either by rule or by action of the recipient, both messages are moved to the same folder. This results in behavior similar to what occurs when Outlook isn’t configured to automatically process messages. |
On the recipient’s computer, one of the following results occurs:
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| You send a message to a public folder. You recall the original message and replace it with a new one. | One of the following results occurs:
If a user who has any other public folder rights opens the recall message, the recall fails, and the user receives a message that states the recall failed. Both the old and new messages remain in the public folder.
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