How can you use Twitter to promote your business? This video is a discussion by Wayne Peters and Brad Gosse from the SEO Guys about how to effectively use Twitter for business, even local business. Wayne is a member of my BNI group and I’m happy to share this video with you as Brad raises […]
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While getting started on Twitter is fairly easy, there are some advanced strategies that may take new users some time to figure out. One of those is the hashtag (#). Hashtags are used for following conversations on Twitter. Putting a # in front of a word or code allows everyone to see what’s being said
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About a year and half ago I wrote a post called “Should You Send an Automated DM to New Twitter Followers?” In case you haven’t read it, I was against it. Shortly after I wrote that post, the number of automated direct messages (DMs) I received declined. In fact, for several months I received almost
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Sometimes I feel like I’m living a slightly schizophrenic life. As a marketing consultant specializing in social media, I spend a large chuck of my life immersed in the online World. I’m connecting with other online experts, and using each of the tools. I’m looking at how other businesses are marketing themselves online. I’m online
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Many companies struggle with how to use Twitter effectively within their business. It’s true whether you’re talking about solopreneurs or large corpororations. The following video is an interview with Jeremy McPeek, V.P. Digital of the Phoenix Suns. He talks about how the Suns are using Twitter and he has some good advice. When talking about
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Warning: If you are an experienced Twitter user, this post shouldn’t have much new content for you. Proceed with caution. 😉 There are several ways to retweet someone’s original Tweet. First, if you are logged into your profile on Twitter.com, under the Tweet you want to spread, you can click on the retweet button. That
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One of the ways to be of value to people who follow you on Twitter is to Tweet interesting things: cool apps, new plug-ins, interesting facts, helpful blog posts. However, it takes time to always be finding interesting information. One way to ensure you have a ready supply of interesting material to pass along to
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Twitter is a wonderful way to stay connected with a wide variety of people, even people you don’t know in the real world. I first learned about Michael Jackson’s death via Twitter, all of the latest plugins for WordPress came from Twitter and I can eavesdrop on some interesting conversations. But with so many people
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A tool for managing Twitter, Facebook & other social media Monitoring your connections, updating your status and just staying on top of your social media presence can become a challenge as your numbers of connections grows, particularly when you have more than a couple of hundred connections. Even for just Twitter, if you want to
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Once you’re following more than a couple of dozen people online or are using more than two social media sites, it’s worth considering investing the time to learn one of the social media aggregators. This lets you monitor what your connections are saying, track keywords, even make comments or publish content from a single place,
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