How many hours a day do you spend on your social media accounts? Do you use it a lot to market your wares, services, sites, tools or yourself? Whether you own a large online business or a small booming startup, we’re sure you are actively using social media to give your brand the right dose of exposure and get the message across to your targeted audience.

Today, we’ve compiled a great list of useful cheatsheets for people who want to benefit more from social media marketing. These 35 cheatsheets cover tips and important statistics for Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest so you can better understand marketing via social media, as well as how to design your pages beautifully for optimum exposure.

Recommended Reading: 55 Interesting Social Media Infographics

Just like our other cheatsheet posts, remember to click on the links to get a clearer view of the entire cheetsheet or infographic.

The 4C’s Of Social Media

How Much Do Small Businesses Spend On Social Media

Leverage Yourself As An Expert By Using Social Media

Path To Social Success

Email vs Social Media Marketing

SEO vs Social Media

Social Media Is Going Corporate

Choosing The Most Effect Social Media Platforms

Why Your Business Must Go Social

Social Media Marketing Benefits Infographic

The State Of Social Media Marketing 2013

Social Media Monitoring Tools

Social Media Shortcuts

Small Business Social Media Cheatsheet

Facebook Business Page Timeline Cheatsheet

How To Get More Likes On Facebook

Why and How Consumers Like and Subscribe

The Value Of Facebook

Complete Social Media Design Cheatsheet

Google+ For Business Infographic

Google+ Design Cheatsheet

Copywriting Cheat Sheet

Viral Marketing Cheatsheet

Activity Levels of Business on Social Media

Social Media vs Traditional Media

10 Strategic Twitter Mistakes

Pinterest Deconstructed

Social Commerce Psychology

What Today’s Social Landscape Can Offer Small Businesses Tomorrow

Social Spam: What It is and How to Avoid It

Social Media Brandsphere

The Conversation Prism

Social Compass

Twitterverse Infographic

Noob Guide To Online Marketing Infographic

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Editor’s note: This is a contributed post by Devora Homnick, the Art Director at KarsforKids.org, a national car donation charity that funds educational and youth programs, where she leads a team of talented designers and creative marketers. Find Devora on Twitter.  

We had a wonderful moment in the Kars4Kids design department recently when our manager said, and I quote, "So we all agree the design brief works, now how do we…" And the soundtrack played its crescendo in the background and I shed some happy tears and thought, "my work here is done."

The story leading up to this epic piece of drama is a delightful journey that goes something like this. But first, my background story. As the art director of an in-house design team, part of my job is to streamline the process for the graphic design projects that come our way from the many and varied departments of our organization.

Recommended Reading: Collecting Comprehensive Creative Brief From Your Client

The quest for the perfect design brief

It was a couple of years ago, and we as a company, especially the marketing team, were growing fast. I was set on the very specific project of creating an official process for the design projects we tackle. Until then, we operated in a very casual, informal way but it quickly became clear that some order was in order, if we were to be an efficient design team.

After much research and mad professor-ish note taking, I revealed my magnum opus: The Design Brief. For some well-oiled-machine designers, that might have been a duh moment, but for me, it was putting a name to a face, the answer to my "there must be a better way" quest.

Behold, Le Design Brief

The design brief is a who, what, when and why form for design projects that has to be filled out with all the project details and goals before we do any actual design. By customizing the information gathered on the brief, I was able to provide a valuable tool in avoiding some of the most frustrating problems our team encounters.

Never again would we get halfway through a project without knowing what exactly it is that we’re asking the target market to do. The information would be right there, on the line next to "call to action."

Instead of adding a mailing block and indicia to a brochure right at deadline as it was on the way to the printer, we would simply fill in the "method of distribution" space on the brief with "self-mail, bulk indicia" right at the beginning of the project.

And most importantly for an in-house team, my design brief has a slot for "internal goal for this project." This not only helps focus the entire project, it allows us to measure the project’s success for future action.

Getting the design brief accepted

There was only one problem with my dream solution: getting the other departments, ultimately our clients, to accept what they saw as, at best, red tape and at worst, cruel and unusual punishment.

Part of the challenge of working in-house is the familiarity. You and your "clients" are like an old married couple. They can drive you nuts and do everything you asked them not to do in the safety of knowing that you’re not going anywhere and will still work like crazy to get them a good product.

So if I wanted to change the way we worked with the other departments, I was going to really have to sell it. How did I explain why we can’t just take notes on a legal pad as the project is described in a minute or two and then work out the details as we go along?

Designing a Project Without A Design Brief Is Like…

Being a fan of metaphorical speaking, I became a veritable storyteller of a tale with many twists. The title: Designing a project without a design brief is like…

Here are the best of Designing a project without a design brief is like…

#1. Filling an order for a steak in a restaurant kitchen which reads, "I’ll have a cow piece, thanks."

#2. Playing charades. Designer: "Okay, you’re pointing to a paper, so this must be a print project… no? Wait – Web! You’re holding up three fingers, so you need it in three weeks? WHAT?! THREE HOURS?"

#3. Being a fortune teller with a crystal ball. Designer: "Ooooh, I see you have a big event coming up. You will need an advertising campaign. It will be all wrong until 4 a.m. the night before we go to print. Yes, the Great Designer never guesses, she knows."

#4. A forensic artist drawing a suspect. Designer: "From what you described, this is what you want for your brochure." Client: "No, that’s basically my competitor’s brochure. I wanted that but BETTER."

#5. Buying your wife surprise jewelry. Designer: "Last time we met, my client mentioned tri-folds. She probably wants a tri-fold. And she always signs her email in comic sans. She must like comic sans. And the design will match her signature!"

Closing argument

If your design department is not using a formal design brief, be the hero and introduce it. Just remember, a little humor goes a long way in making something new and unfamiliar acceptable. Here are a few more posts that can help you sort this out while still staying on your client’s good side:

• Collecting Comprehensive Creative Brief From Your Client
• 5 Effective Communication Tactics/Tips For Designers
• Convincing The Client – How To Win A Design Argument
• How To Become A High-Demand Designer (And Get The Good Clients)

The advice to always backup, backup, backup maybe lost on some poor souls who prefer to learn it the hard way. But even then, backups can only work if you do it regularly. Ironically, it’s not something one can fall back on during an emergency, e.g. when you deleted an important message, a vacation photo or a contact profile with no way to retrieve that information.

Well, here is a solution for you.

Mobisaver is a free Windows desktop tool to help you recover deleted data from your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It works from iOS 4 onwards and can recover among others, contacts, messages, notes, videos, etc. Let’s take a look at how it works using the iPhone as an example.

Recommended Reading: How To Properly Backup And Restore Your iPhone Data

Recover Deleted Data With MobiSaver

Click here to download MobiSaver. MobiSaver is free to use for personal usage and is activated with a key. Upon installation you will be directed to a website to obtain your activation key.

The app can recover the following forms of deleted data:

• Supporting Camera Roll (photos & videos)
• Message Attachments (photos, videos, contacts)
• Contacts
• Messages
• Call History
• Calendar
• Notes & Reminders
• Safari Bookmarks

Once the device is connected to the computer, MobiSaver will automatically start scanning your device for deleted data, either from the device itself or from previous iTunes backups. With the iTunes backup, you can pick a point of backup to recover data from.

To help you narrow down your search for the deleted info you want, the items carry the date and time of when the deletion occurred. You can use this information to reduce the amount of data you need to sift through. There is also the option to display only deleted info.

From the displayed items, just tick the item you want recovered, and the destination you want to recover it to, and click OK to confirm.

Limitations

Note that MobiSaver can only help you recover deleted data back to your computer. It cannot recover the deleted data straight back into the iPhone. To restore them back into your iPhone, you can use iTunes or programs such as CopyTrans.

We also found (during the testing period) that photo recovery was a little buggy. When we tried to recover deleted photos, it only displays the existing photos in our iPhone and not the ones that we have deleted (do let us know if this happens when you tried it as well). Aside from that, the app serves its purpose as a great tool to easily recover deleted data.