How To Set Up A Flickr Account For Business?
If you love the visual side of Social Media, Flickr could be just what you have been looking for. With images playing an increasingly important role in helping to showcase products and services, Flickr offers an excellent platform to get the most from your images.
If you would like Footprint Web Design to create a Flickr account for you today, give us a call on Tel. No. 01883 372 488.
If you would like to attempt this by yourself, the guide below should hopefully prove to be helpful.
Please Note – In order to do this, you will have to set up a Yahoo account if you do not already have one.
How to sign up for a Flickr account
Sign up for Flickr, where you can keep your entire library of pictures and share them with friends, family, or the world. All you need is a Yahoo account to join.
Create and use a new Yahoo ID
If you don’t have a Yahoo ID, don’t worry. It’s easy to create one. You can create a new Yahoo account with an existing non-Yahoo email address.
- Go to Flickr.
- Click Sign Up.
- Enter your name.
- Either enter your current email address or click I’d rather create a new Yahoo email address.
- Fill out your personal info.
- Click Continue.
- Verify your phone number or email address.
- Click Let’s get started.
Use a Yahoo ID you already have
Important – Don’t use a Yahoo ID that’s already used on another Flickr account or it’ll break that Flickr account and you’ll need to contact us to get it fixed.
- Go to Flickr.
- Click Sign Up.
- Next to “Already have an account,” click Sign in.
- Enter your Yahoo ID and password.
- Enter your preferred Flickr name and username.
- Click Next.
Set up and manage a Flickr account for business use
Set up and manage a Flickr account for business use
Important – Using Flickr for selling purposes is not allowed.
Sign up for Flickr to promote your business with photos of company culture, events, and office fun.
While multiple employees may manage it, the individual who registered and set up the account is its true owner. Per Flickr Terms, we can only assist the account owner, even if they leave the company.
So that no one loses access, be mindful of the account’s info:
- Login info – username and password
- Verification details – postal code, birthdate, contact email address and mobile number
Some Extra Tips
- Do share interesting and original photos and videos
Upload fresh, authentic material rather than product shots or staged, over-produced content that would be more at home in your product catalogue or latest advertising campaign.Photos that show off your organisation’s culture and personality will help you build loyalty for your brand and tell your story. For example, sharing behind-the-scenes photos of your products being made or of customers engaging with your organisation will show what you stand for and more importantly that you’re interesting and human. It’s not rocket science; the more unique, interesting content you share, the more interest you’ll receive in return.Please remember, Flickr is for photo-sharing—so use your account to share photos, not to sell things. - Do create a transparent and authentic identity
Being open and trustworthy encourages people to interact with you. Here’s how to start on the right path:- Add a buddy icon and fill out details on your profile so people know who you are and can find you on Flickr.
- Set up a personalised URL to help identify you.
- Add meaningful titles and descriptions (but no price information or sales-y verbiage) to your content.
Here are some examples of organisations using Flickr in neat ways:
- A bike shop owner shares photos of happy customers in his store.
- A clothes manufacturer shares behind-the-scenes action from their factory.
- A tech company shares a video of their community volunteer event.
- A government space organisation shares photos of recent satellite captures.
- An NGO shares their photos of disaster relief efforts.
Check out the video below for some further insight into some of the recently released features:
Contact Us
If you would like any further information regarding Flickr and how it can be perfect to help support your business, Footprint Web Design have been at the forefront of web design and Social Media development for nearly 20 years. If you are looking for a website that truly represents your business, or advice on how to make your site stand out, then contact us today on 01883 372 488, or via email at info@footprint.co.uk.
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The Top 3 Reasons Social Media Must Not Be Ignored
Would you like to spread the word about your business? Don’t worry, if you are yet to jump onto the Social Media bandwagon, the good news is that it is never too late to get started with an effective strategy designed to promote your business.
No. 1 – It Offers FREE Advertising
The beauty of nearly all social media platforms is that they are free to set up and use. Whilst you can opt for paid options in the future should you wish (such as Facebook post boosts), all of the major Social Media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn offer their standards services for free.
Twitter for example is completely free to use and offers possibly the fastest and most user-friendly method of contacting your customers and building up a large number of followers.22
If you have not already created a Social Media presence for your business, there is every chance that you are already lagging behind your competition.
No. 2 – Social Media Offers The Ideal Conduit For Web Traffic
Social Media can be used to drive web traffic to your website.
By targeting the ‘right people’ via your Social Media channels and offering well thought out content, you can drive an audience to your website by encouraging them to visit your website to find out more information.
No. 3 – Social Media Offers The Easiest Possible Way of Sharing Your Content
The figures* below highlight just how significant the reach of Social Media is and there is absolutely no sign of this slowing down at all.
- The internet has over 4.2 billion users
- There are over 3.03 billion active social media users
- On average, people have 5.54 social media accounts
- The average daily time spent on social is 116 minutes a day
- 91% of retail brands use 2 or more social media channels
- 81% of all small and medium businesses use some kind of social platform
- Internet users have an average of 7.6 social media accounts
- That works out at a new social media user every 15 seconds.
- Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp handle 60 billion messages a day
*Source – https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/amazing-social-media-statistics-and-facts/
Our friends over at Avasam explore this subject in greater depth in their article ’59 social media statistics you need to know in 2020′, click here to check it out.
Further Information
If you’d like to speak to us regarding how we can help you to use social media to grow your company, give us a call on 01883 372488 or contact us via Facebook and we’ll be happy to talk you through your options.
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Is Your Website Ready For Mobile First Indexing?
If your website has been designed by Footprint, the good news is that it will be. However, if the necessary steps have not been taken to optimise your website for use via mobile devices, you may notice a significant change in the visibility of your website via mobile searches.
Mobile optimisation of your website was already important for the following reasons:
- The balance has tipped with more people using mobile devices to search the internet
- Mobile phone optimisation is crucial for targeting local areas
- Your website will become more user-friendly if it is mobile optimised
With Google’s recent announcement, this has become even more important.
Mobile-First Indexing Has Happened!
Google announced that “after a year and a half of careful experimentation and testing, we’ve started migrating sites that follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing.
To recap, our crawling, indexing, and ranking systems have typically used the desktop version of a page’s content, which may cause issues for mobile searchers when that version is vastly different from the mobile version. Mobile-first indexing means that we’ll use the mobile version of the page for indexing and ranking, to better help our – primarily mobile – users find what they’re looking for.
We continue to have one single index that we use for serving search results. We do not have a “mobile-first index” that’s separate from our main index. Historically, the desktop version was indexed, but increasingly, we will be using the mobile versions of content.”
Basically, this means that if your website does not display to optimum levels via mobile and smart devices, you are very unlikely to rank as highly via search results as you do via desktop results. With more people now using mobile devices for their online browsing, this is something that you want to avoid at all costs.
Google is quoted with the following:
“Starting on April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to get relevant, high-quality search results that are optimised for their devices.”
For more on this please visit the following link – http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html
What Does Mobile Optimised Actually Mean?
The mobile optimisation of a website means that your standard ‘desktop’ website will be converted into a specific user-friendly format. These can easily
be read on any smart mobile device.
This conversion will ensure that all of the hard work is done for the user, ensuring they get the best possible experience when visiting your website.
The need for ‘zooming’ in order to read the content will be eliminated and the navigation will become far easier, therefore minimising the risk of hitting the wrong link.
How Can We Help?
The need to design websites which display to their optimum abilities has never been greater. This is an aspect of web design in which we possess great experience.
To achieve the best possible results, creating a responsive web design will ensure that your website is optimised for display on all platforms. These designs ensure that as well as your normal ‘desktop’ version, in addition, you will receive a ‘mobile’ version. This is where the term ‘responsive’ comes in.
Due to the way in which the designs are created the browser will be able to identify the type of device being used to view the website and will display the correct version accordingly.
Further Information
If you’d like to speak to us regarding how we can help you to use web design to grow your company, give us a call on 01883 372488 or contact us via Facebook and we’ll be happy to talk you through your options.
