Adding A Twitter Stream To Your Squarespace Business Website

Image of Instagram and Twitter stream when building Kaizoku Alliance website

As a startup business, you need to build your website and be on social media.  Most business websites built now have some sort of live feed from a social media channel added to it.  Squarespace makes adding a live stream of a social media or social media channels to your website very easy.   This article will take explain how you can add a social media stream like Twitter to your Squarespace website and the best strategy to achieve this.  There is no coding involved in setting it up.

 Begin by signing in to your Squarespace account and click on ‘Settings’

• Go to ‘Connected Accounts’ and click on it
• Click on ‘Connect Account’ to add a social media platform like Twitter or Instagram

Then go to the page that you want to add the Twitter stream to

• At the spot, open up the insert box and find the ‘Twitter’ icon
• Hint - Use ‘Space’ blocks to adjust size of the ‘Twitter’ stream
• Click on the ‘Twitter’ icon to insert it on to the page
• Click on the ‘Twitter’ account that you want to stream
• Adjust how many tweets that you want to show in the stream example six tweets
• Save the settings and the ‘Twitter’ stream should appear on your web page

If you have been posting to your Twitter account the stream will appear.  If you have been posting to your Twitter account then the stream will show nothing.  We found this out the hard way.

The best strategy before adding a live social media stream to your web page is to post to the account regularly.  If you are going to post once a day and you are going to show six tweets in the stream then we suggest you not to set up the social media stream until the tenth day.  If you are going to post one a week, then set it up on the seventh week.  Apply this strategy to your other social media channels like Instagram or Facebook that you want to stream on your business website.

This article should save you some time and help you to set up a social media stream for your business website.  We really enjoy using Squarespace to build our website.  If you are more adventurous, you can inject the HTML code using the ‘Code’ block.  Have you done it this way on your site?  Did you hate or like using the ‘Code’ block?  

5 Websites we find helpful for our startup business

Image from Foundr magazine website

When you decide to take the step and start your own business, it can be difficult to find resources or information on how to start your business.  There are so many questions that you need to ask.  How do I set-up my business?  What platform do I use to build my website?  What app or software can I use to build and scale my business? What do I do next?  What resources are out there to help me find the answers to these questions?

Here are several websites that we find helpful for our startup business.

Foundr – This magazine website is great as it provides entrepreneurs with resources to learn how to build and grow a successful business.  There are some great interviews with people such as Richard Branson, Joel Gascoigne (CEO of Buffer), Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma and Arianna Huffington to name a few.  The site also offers a great free tools guide which entrepreneurs are using that can help your startup business.  

GrowthHackers – This is a community where people can learn and share ethical online marketing techniques that drive effective, scalable and sustainable growth.  What we like most about this site is that when you enter the ‘Trending’ section you can search for articles on a topic that interests you like marketing, Instagram, SEO or analytics to name a few. 

Entrepreneur – This site is designed for entrepreneurs.  Here you will find articles that can teach an entrepreneur to how to start, run and grow a business.  There are so many topics that it is better used when you know what to looking for.

TechCrunch – This site is great in finding out about tech startups.  We use this site to find tools and to gain insights on tech trends.  With so many tech tools and apps being developed you need a site like this to keep track. 

Social Media Examiner – This site provides great tips for business and marketers on how to build social media presence.  What we like most about this site is that it provides a weekly wrap up of the changes that have occurred on social media sites.  It also provides case studies and research reports.

These are only some of the websites that we use as resources to help grow our business.  Do you use any of these websites?  Which website do you find useful in helping your business grow?