Useful tips VK. Useful tips for home
Of course, obsessive hoarding is bad, but some things can be given a chance for a second life, and they, in turn, will make yours easier for you!
Rubber bands - for door locks
Do you need to go out or go in the door, but your hands are full? Place rubber on door handles
ring, and the locking mechanism will be neutralized for the required time.
Single socks - instead of bubble wrap
Socks, like people, sometimes lose their pair, but don’t rush to get rid of them: they can successfully and without harming the environment replace bubble wrap when packing crystal glasses and small vases.
Straw - for unstable flowers
The delicate stems of tulips and other flowers don't want to stand straight and ruin your brilliant flower arrangement? Regular drinking straws will help the bouquet stay in shape.
Rubber gloves - for opening cans
With a rubber glove, even the smallest woman can open a stubborn jam jar.
Extra buttons - for stud earrings
So that you no longer have to play detective, trying to find a pair of stud earrings lost in a jewelry box, fasten them together with a button, and henceforth they will be inseparable.
Unscrew the broken light bulb from the socket using a potato
Cut the potato into two halves, take one half, carefully stick it on the broken light bulb and unscrew it.
If you need to open a bottle and don’t have a corkscrew at hand, use a self-tapping screw and pliers.
Wrap the self-tapping screw into the cork and, using pliers, pull out the self-tapping screw along with the cork.
2. Wrap the shoes in a plastic bag and put them in the freezer overnight - this will get rid of the unpleasant odor emanating from the shoes.
3. Place the toaster on its side with a plate next to it. Place a piece of whole grain bread with cheese and tomato in the toaster and in a few minutes you will have a hot sandwich.
How to properly cut cherry tomatoes.
1. Place the tomatoes in a single layer on a cutting board or flat plate.
2. Cover the tomatoes with another flat plate.
3. Carefully run a knife between two plates, holding the top one.
Glue a magnet inside the cabinet and use it to store small metal objects, such as hairpins, tweezers, hairpins, and nail files.
3. Install a rod (metal rod) in the cabinet under the sink - and hang household chemicals on it.
From a pizza box
How to hang a picture?
You probably know how difficult it is to find a place for a nail when hanging a picture. Make the job easier by applying toothpaste directly to the hook. Then you press the picture against the wall and the paste will leave a mark where you need to drive the nail.
Removing odor.
You probably know what smell remains after burnt rice. I know. If you couldn't ventilate this smell, orange peel and cloves will help. Place them in a saucepan with water and boil. In a few minutes, the whole house will be filled with a pleasant aroma. This is certainly much better than chemical air fresheners.
How to wash a shower horn
Use vinegar – Fill your shower head with vinegar and rinse with water after 15 minutes.
Vinegar is an excellent solvent and an excellent disinfectant.
How to arrange a bathroom so that it is both comfortable and hygienic
1. To store toothbrushes, you can make individual slots in the cabinet shelf.
2. Take a plastic tube, make holes in it, attach it to a wall or shelf, and use it to store, for example, a razor.
3. Take the clamp that is used to attach the scoop to the brush, glue it to the cabinet - you will get a holder for an electric toothbrush.
Where to put the nails to be driven in 
Apr 26, 2015 tigress...s
Dmitry Dementiy
The VKontakte social network site is one of the most visited in RuNet. With the help of the most popular platform among Russian-speaking users, people solve various problems: from personal communication and finding friends to building a network of business contacts and finding employees, from self-expression and entertainment to business promotion and online trading.
This guide is dedicated to promoting the VKontakte business. In it you will find a step-by-step plan: from creating a community or page to life hacks and tools for advanced users.
1. Start with planning
Determine the goal and objectives of the project’s activity on the VKontakte social network. Remember, a goal is a planned result. Tasks are steps that help achieve a goal.
Decide how you will interact with the audience, what information to offer potential and existing customers, what user problems you can solve. Ilya Rabchenok calls this the concept of community.
Be sure to record the planning results in a form convenient for you.
2. Determine the type of community you need
To promote your business on the VKontakte network, you can create a group or public page. Use a group if you plan to encourage participants to publish posts on their own and start discussions. The group is an informal discussion platform with which you can find out the mood of the audience and manage the brand’s reputation.
Choose a public page if you plan to publish official information, branded content, and manage discussions yourself. In most cases, a public page is more suitable for promoting a business.
To promote conferences, trainings, and webinars, use the “Event” community type.
3. Select the appropriate page type
Select the appropriate type and click “Create Page”.
4. Create a page description
Public pages are indexed by search engines. Therefore, publish an informative description that will help potential clients find the public site.
If necessary, select the Snapster room and set up export to Twitter.
5. Choose the best settings
In the “Partitions” settings menu, check the boxes next to the options you want. In the Comments menu, enable or disable the commenting feature and, if necessary, turn on the obscenity and keyword filter. In the “Links” block, refer to resources useful for the audience, and in the “Working with API” block, connect the API if necessary.
6. Form a group
We have an incredibly useful and detailed guide on our blog “Designing a VKontakte group”. Use it to select and implement a suitable community look and feel. After registration, you can continue promoting the group.
If at the moment you cannot devote time to the appearance of the public, return to it later. Don't forget that a visually appealing design helps the user form a positive first impression of a group or page. So don't put off working on your community design.
In the meantime, at a minimum, select and upload a suitable page avatar. Try to find or create a unique image. It must meet the following requirements:
- The avatar size is 200 by 500 pixels.
- The thumbnail size is 200 by 200 pixels.
- Jpeg format, maximum quality, baseline (standard).
- The image should attract the attention of users and encourage them to go to the page.
- The semantic content of the avatar should correspond to the theme of the page.
- The image must be of high quality.
Please note that when uploaded to the VKontakte website, the quality of images decreases. To avoid this, use this life hack from the VKontakte support team:
- Open the image in Photoshop.
- Increase the size to 2560 by 2048.
- Press the key combination Alt + Shift + Ctrl + S. In the window that opens, set the maximum quality and convert the image to sRGB format.
- Drag the image to the upload area rather than using the Upload button.
7. Tell your friends about the page
Use the Tell Friends feature to invite your followers to follow your page. Follow this recommendation when you publish several posts in a group or page.
8. Invite your friends to follow the page
Invite your friends to subscribe to the page using private messages (this tactic really works, it has been proven in practice). Also ask your followers to tell their friends about the page.
9. Specify the page URL in the contact information on your personal page
This will help attract followers who are interested in your personal profile.
10. Indicate your place of work in your personal profile
When you hover over the company name in the “Place of Work” section of your personal profile, a preview of the group or page pops up. And in the “Career” section, a clickable public avatar is displayed.
To have a link to the company group appear in the “Place of Work” section, select the “Career” section in the settings of your personal page. In the “Place of work” item, use the drop-down menu to select the desired page.
11. Post interesting and useful content
Publishing useful and interesting content is a key factor in successful business promotion on the VKontakte network. Therefore it needs to be decrypted.
You will have to compete for views and subscriptions in the face of an abundance of content. For VKontakte users to pay attention to your publications, the information must be truly valuable.
The following ideas will help you offer customers truly valuable information:
- Be sure to start with planning. Create a content plan in a form convenient for you. Plan for the long term. Our articles “SMM plan in 30 minutes” and “How to create an editorial plan for publications on social networks” will help.
- When planning content, take into account the features of VKontakte and the preferences of the audience of this network. Look for information in our article “Working with content in different social networks”.
- Even if you make and sell very solid and ultra-serious products, learn to get an emotional response from your audience. This is a condition for survival in a content environment filled with memes. Read insanely helpful articles about emotional content and intellectualizing sexual desire.
- Write specifically for the VKontakte audience. Publish unique information, not reposts of materials from the blog. To format your publication, use the article editor.
- Post videos with subtitles. They typically receive much more coverage than regular posts. We talked about how to make such a video for free in the following video:
12. Design your posts using wiki markup
This is a convenient tool with which you can beautifully arrange notes in groups and public pages. If you manage a group, to create a wiki page, just open materials in the section settings. After this, an “Edit” button will appear on the “Latest News” tab, which activates the note editor.
To create a publication on a public page, copy the following link into your browser: https://vk.com/pages?oid=-***&p=page_name. Replace the symbols *** with the public id, and instead of page_name, enter the name of the publication. On the page that opens, follow the “Fill with content” link.
The community ID can be found in the URL. If you've changed the page URL to something more user-friendly, go to the Community Posts section. Find the numbers in the link. This is the identifier.
13. Design your publications using the article editor
In 2018, VKontakte presented a full-fledged articles editor. To go to the editor, click the “T” icon on the post creation panel.
The editor is intuitive. He himself places indents between elements and aligns the content. Clicking on the “+” sign allows you to add visual content or an audio track.
14. Share stories with subscribers
16. Use the scheduled posts feature
Use the Timer feature to prepare content in advance and publish it at the chosen time. To do this, in the publication field, select the options “Attach - other - timer”. Select a publication time and click the “Add to Queue” button.
25. Post ads in communities
26. Use retargeting
Using this tool, you can show ads to users who have visited your site. Create a retargeting pixel in your advertising account. Paste it into the site page code. The system will add site visitors or individual sections to audiences.
Life hack: add a retargeting pixel to your website right now, even if you don’t yet plan to advertise your business on the VKontakte network. This does not affect resource efficiency or page loading speed. The system will add potential clients to the audience. You can show them ads in a month or a year.
27. Improve your targeting accuracy with Pepper
29. Post relevant videos
Please note that this paragraph describes a prohibited technique. A couple of years ago, with his help, my colleague and I increased the number of group members from several hundred to 5 thousand in a few weeks. You may use it at your own risk. Think about what kind of videos your target audience is interested in. For example, subscribers to cooking groups watch television shows on related topics.
Users often search for the latest episodes of their favorite TV programs on social networks. You can download pirated recordings from file sharing services or video hosting services and publish them on the VKontakte page. Audience members will find the video they are interested in, watch it and subscribe to your page. This tactic brings in several dozen subscribers on the day the video is published.
Be sure to delete the video a few hours after publication. Firstly, it will protect you from problems associated with publishing other people's content. Secondly, within a few hours your competitors will also publish a popular video, so the flow of visitors and subscribers will stop.
30. Analyze statistical data
In the “Page Statistics” section, the public administrator has access to the “Attendance”, “Reach” and “Activity” tabs. In the Traffic tab, pay attention to viewership and unique visitor data.
Monitor the age characteristics of the audience and the geography of visits. Consider the types of devices your audience prefers.
You also need data on referral sources and subscribed/unsubscribed users. Data on the number of users who joined and left the group is available in the standard statistical report (see illustration below). And you will receive a list of names of people who joined and unsubscribed using "Deserter" applications.
Screencast where we show how to use the Deserter application:
The Reach tab will help you estimate how many users are viewing your posts. The “Activity” tab will help you analyze user behavior.
If you are not satisfied with standard statistical reports, use the free service SocialStats. It provides access to advanced audience data as well as user behavior analysis. Service "Group Comparison" will help compare community audiences. And the Repost Tree app will help you identify users who share your posts.
Additional useful services for collecting statistics and solving other problems are described in our article “Review of 45 services and applications for VKontakte administrators.”
31. Monitor activity in the community using the Moderator application
32. Advertise a page on your corporate website
33. Advertise the page in your newsletter
Mention the VKontakte page in your mailing list. Also include a link to the public page in the email template.
34. Publish links to your pages and groups on social networks in the website header
The illustration shows what this looks like in practice.
35. Post a link to the page in your email signature
To change your signature in Gmail, use the Settings - Signature menu. In your Mail.ru mailbox, use the “Settings - name and signature” menu. In the Yandex mail service, use the menu “Settings - Personal data, name and signature - Add signature”.
36. Conduct surveys
Polls increase audience engagement. To create a poll, in the publish field, select the “Add - Poll” menu. Use anonymous surveys to encourage users to participate.
In 2018, VKontakte introduced Polls 2.0. Now you can add a background to surveys, limit the duration of the survey, and allow you to select multiple answers.
37. Add useful links to your page
38. Invite the audience to participate in discussions
Create several discussions whose topics interest your audience. Keep discussions going.
40. Give away prizes among subscribers
You will attract new subscribers if you give away prizes and gifts. Question price? From a cup with a logo to infinity. Use the application "Competition Manager" to effectively manage draws. Our guide “VKontakte competitions: how to get the desired results and not get banned” will help you organize and conduct a competition.
41. Offer discounts to subscribers
You won't believe what people are willing to do for discounts. And everyone will agree to subscribe to the page for the sake of a discount.
Life hack: in the “Classics of Shaving” group, sellers and manufacturers of themed products can advertise for free. To do this, just provide a discount to community members. This is one of the incentives for users to join the group.
42. Allow subscribers to upload photos, publish their photos
45. Ask your audience to share posts
You can limit yourself to a simple “repost is welcome,” justify the need to share the publication from a scientific point of view, or use other tactics.
46. Pay attention to the visual appeal of posts
Hundreds of materials appear in your subscribers’ feeds every day. For people to read your post, it must attract attention. Bright, interesting photos solve this problem. Cats, light erotica, photoshopped images - all means are good in SMM.
47. Use provocative headlines
The headline should sell the subscriber on viewing the article. So create killer headlines.
48. Advertise your page offline
Publish the page name and URL on printed products, business cards, and souvenirs.
49. Steal content ideas from competitors
61. Write an article “50 reasons to join our VKontakte group”
List all the reasons why users should join your VKontakte page. Promote it on all possible platforms.
62. Live stream
Broadcast training events, conference speeches, screencasts. Use the app or broadcast from your desktop. To do this, go to the “Videos” community section and use the corresponding function.
63. Explore the TOP 30 applications for VKontakte
Test each of the 30 apps listed here on this list. We are sure many of them will be useful to you.
64. Subscribe to the best SMM public pages
To be in the trend of events happening in the sphere and be the first to learn about new ways to promote VKontakte. You can see a list of such publics
The social network VKontakte is, without exaggeration, the largest and most popular network in the post-Soviet space. It’s not just schoolchildren and students who sit here for hours; Adults and working people also spend a lot of time on VK. And it is not always spent on mindlessly scrolling through the news feed and liking cats.
Some manage to make money by running VK communities, others are happy to draw various useful information from these same communities.
Today the site decided to suggest you several useful public pages where you can find useful information, inspiration, and even find a job suitable for a freelancer.
The first public page organized by the administration of the site Kadrof.ru is called “ Freelancers Club ».
According to the public administration, the community was created for the purpose of exchanging experiences, searching for remote work or performers, and for active communication between freelancers.
What else can you find here:
Latest news from the world of remote work;
Posts with interesting solutions;
Analysis of copywriter mistakes;
Discussion of hot and pressing topics;
Useful tips and consultations.
In general, a very useful public page for freelancers of all stripes, namely those who cannot imagine their life without the work they adore.
Next I would like to talk about publics, whose activities are aimed at finding work and performers. Essentially, these communities are mini remote labor exchanges, each with its own number of subscribers and focus. You can see advertisements for vacancies that move from public to public - it’s up to you to decide whether to respond to them.
Vacancies presented in the group are added by the community administrator himself. The group resembles a bulletin board, and customers need to be contacted using the contacts indicated in the message. It’s not entirely convenient, but it wouldn’t hurt to have such a vacancy feed at hand - what if it comes in handy?
Here everything is much more serious. This group can be called a full-fledged exchange - there is even a secure transaction thought out here! It, in essence, is a communication between the customer and the contractor with the participation of a third party, for which the group then takes 5% of the order. An employer can post a vacancy here by offering news. The freelancer can contact the customer in a comment to the post or in a DM, or at the specified contacts.
There are also more highly specialized public exchanges on VKontakte. For example, for designers -
But here, unfortunately, you can not so much find a job as admire advertisements for finding orders or selling articles. This group can be a kind of chest of copywriters/rewriters for the customer. Choose - I don’t want to.
Community Copywriter Copywriting Copywriting This is a group of people who promote websites. But here you can find a lot of interesting and useful things - tips on how to write a sales text, tips on SEO, website promotion and much more. You can bookmark the group and read it sometimes – there’s really a lot of useful material!
Well, we are all about copywriters and rewriters. VK has a lot of useful things for programmers too! The largest thematic community is Typical programmer. There are tips for beginners, solutions to interesting problems, useful tips, news, and discussions - all the most interesting and fresh things for programmers of all stripes.
Another bonus for website developers.
Nowadays, many websites are developed using the WordPress engine. If you also have to work with this CMS, then in the group of the same name WordPress you will find a lot of interesting and useful things for yourself, as well as answers to all the questions that arise when working with the engine. This group is a kind of call center for web developers.
Web Design Workshop This group contains a lot of interesting things from the Runet and beyond, which can serve as both an example and inspiration for a web designer. New ideas, innovative solutions, tools and news - all in one place.
And a few other useful things...
