I’ve heard it time and again; in the past I’ve even said it myself. “How on earth can Twitter help you with networking and marketing? It’s only 140 characters!” I’m here to tell you, yes, it is possible to build relationships with people 140 characters at a time. And, yes you can build these relationships […]
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Twitter is the hottest new social media trend and it seems like everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Small business and marketing experts are on Twitter in droves. In spite of this, there is a small number of people who are taking the time to ask, “does it work?” Yes you can reach a large
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First thing every morning I open my email, then my web browser, then Word then TweetDeck. The same order every morning. Yes, it’s a tad anal but I don’t even have to look at the screen to switch between applications. This morning when I opened TweetDeck I found a flurry of retweets (people passing along
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I suspect I’m like a lot of baby boomers who use social media regularly. I’m comfortable with the various tools and platforms, but I still get a kick out of the entire concept. I have built business and personal relationships with a large number of people from all over the world: other parts of Canada,
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I assume that anyone who is blogging wants to build traffic – increase readers. And if you’re blogging for business, not for pleasure, there’s nothing to assume. But not all blog posts are created equal. Some get tons of traffic and some are ignored. Some ignite a ton of comments and some leave you wondering
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The hottest thing in Twitter seems to be sending automated DMs to new Twitter followers. A DM is a direct message sent via Twitter which can only be seen by the receiver and sender, not by the entire Twitterverse. How do they do this? By using a service like TweetLater to automatically follow anyone who
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One Tuesday last spring, Twitter users logged into their accounts to discover all their followers were gone. So were the people they were following. Instead of being part of one big Twitter party, everyone was alone in the virtual Twitterverse. What happened? Twitter’s server crashed and deleted everyone’s followers. For Twitter addicts this was a
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I was on LinkedIn this morning checking the LinkedIn Answers section. On person asked how to use Twitter, saying he didn’t get it. Several answers were from people who agreed that they didn’t quite know what to do with it. This made me laugh a little, because I don’t know if I could function without
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Since learning the ins and outs of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, I’ve become something of a social media evangelist. I love using social media, I’m getting amazing results and I’m not shy about telling everyone about it. And social media use is exploding. If you believe the hype, everyone is using it. I’ve learned however,
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Many small business owners are still asking “what the point of social media?” In spite of Facebook’s statistics that the fastest growing group of users is the over 25 group, a large number of people still haven’t taken the plunge. Another group has signed up to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or another group and then scratch
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