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Ideal photo sizes for different social media sites

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Managing Real Estate Broker with Brad MacKenzie

How much time do you spend trying to guess and resize and reformat and reload pictures that you want to post on your social media profiles and websites?  How painful is that?  Here's a guide that eliminates the guesswork and the repetitive resizings.  Just right click on it and save it to your computer.

If you are like me, you want to have posts that look attractive and fresh and simple.  Learning the ropes is a work in progress, using tools that grow and change all the time.  Guides like this help me clear the way for people to engage with my post.  

It's a Malcolm Gladwell "Blink" thing.  People need to make quick decisions.  Good service, to me, starts with helping people make quick decisions to engage with us.  

I found a social media manager's website that has a post called the Ultimate Guide to Picture Sizes for a variety of social media sites.  Her name is Lori Thomas and she is also a home stager.  On her website, I found several interesting articles that you might want to read.

The big payoff is that she had reposted the Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet from LunaMetrics.com.  Here, finally, is a revised and fairly complete set of specifications for all the major social media sites. The authors promise to keep it up to date.

This is really useful, don't you think?  There are so many different optimal sizes for so many different spots on so many different pages.  At least now we have a handy reference that cuts down on the time consuming trial-and-error process. Anything that saves me time, and reduces my frustration and stress is a very good thing!

Here's the guide.  Download it here or bookmark the LunaMetrics site.

 

The Ultimate Complete Final Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet LunaMetrics

Brought to you by the LunaMetrics blog.

 

John G. Johnston
John G. Johnston & Associates, LLC - Westcliffe, CO
An Exclusive Buyer's Agent ~ Westcliffe, CO

Brad  Obviously, you can teach me some tricks with YouTube.  I think I will use my iPhone 4S...so I am limited to what it is capable of doing.  Thanks for volunteering to mentor me!  Should be an easy contest! 

Mar 02, 2013 12:22 AM
Brad MacKenzie
Brad MacKenzie - Duxbury, MA
Turning Houses into Homes on the South Shore

The nice thing about YouTube is there aren't many formatting choices to make.  YouTube formats whatever you upload for you. The basic restrictions on size limit your other options before they start.  That is, your video can't be longer than 10 minutes or larger than 1 gigabyte, so other parameters just don't matter.

You start with creating a YouTube account so you have a channel that can accumulate hits for search engine relevance.  You'll want to create links pointing back to your website and your blogs.

Here's a great general starting point.  Guess what?  It's a video!  Uploading Your Videos to YouTube. 

Here's a guide for uploading from an iPhone 4. It's two years old, which is forever in internet time, but still perfectly relevant for us late-bloomers!  Make and Upload YouTube Videos with iPhone 4

The main thing is to populate all the options, just like you do on AR.  You want to make the search engines' job easy, while keeping your post clean and pretty for viewers.  Let's talk more about this if you have questions!

Mar 02, 2013 01:43 AM
John G. Johnston
John G. Johnston & Associates, LLC - Westcliffe, CO
An Exclusive Buyer's Agent ~ Westcliffe, CO

Brad  We need to add this to the contest site for bonus points!  Thanks for all you do!

Mar 02, 2013 01:53 AM