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Top Creatives To Follow On Twitter. How to set up Twitter alerts for free using Twilert. We have all heard of Google Alerts and how you can monitor stuff on Google. Who would have thought there is a similar service for Twitter that is completely free. Free as in free beer. I am talking about Twilert. This is a tool that you can configure to monitor and search anything you want on Twitter.

I mean anything! You can monitor words, phrases, hashtags, mentions, etc. Instead of spending hours searching for stuff or sitting infront of your computer monitoring stuff in real time, you can set up Twilert, go for walk, play with the kids, or do whatever it is you enjoy doing and haven't been finding time to do.

Why use Twilert Let's assume, for example, that you are planning to write an awesome post about SEO. How to schedule your Twitter alerts The process is very simple. In less than 5 minutes you will have everything setup. The Twilert Email Report This is what a Twilert report looks like Take a break from Twitter Note: Unfortunately, Twilert is no longer free. How To Use Hashtags: The Do's and Don'ts of hashtags. If you want to master the art of using hashtags on social media you’ve come to the right place.

Hashtags are, of course, a great way to: Build your company’s brandBoost a marketing campaignKeep in touch with your audience And knowing how to use hashtags is crucial for any digital marketer in 2019. That’s why we want to walk you through the dos and don’ts of using hashtags—as well as show you how to use them for the biggest social networks. But first, let’s take a look at what a #hashtag is exactly. Bonus: Get the step-by-step social media strategy guide with pro tips on how to grow your social media presence. What is a hashtag? Before it became a household term (and even added to the Oxford English Dictionary!) That all changed in 2007 when Twitter began to use the hashtag as a method of indexing keywords to help facilitate good search results for it.

Fun fact: The first hashtag ever used in this way was #barcamp. Why use a hashtag? Increased engagement Brand building Find your audience How? 1. 2. How to use archived tweets | Intranet Future - Social media consultancy. #leadership: Popularity, Trend, Related Hashtags - Hashtagify.me. Promoting B2B events on Twitter. B2B companies frequently host events such as conferences, product demonstrations, and presentations that their customers would benefit from attending. The question is: how do you approach your customers to let them know about your events? Twitter can be a powerful tool for promoting B2B events, as this social media platform is specifically designed to help create awareness and visibility, and to enable you to engage with communities that may be interested in attending. 1.

Make a Plan As always with digital marketing, before you do anything it is essential to first devise a strategy. Think about who you want to attend your event, what the event is, where it is, and why the event is being hosted. Are you hosting the event? Look at all of your current communication channels to list the contacts that you already have – email lists, affiliates, sponsors, social communities etc. – and determine which ones would benefit from hearing about this event. 2. 3. 4. How to Choose a Good Twitter Username. 1 of 4 On Twitter, your username, or handle, is your identity. If you can, sign up for Twitter by using your name or a variation of it as your username (assuming somebody else isn't already using it).

For example, if your name is John Ira, you may want to pick a Twitter username such as @johnira or @john_ira. Twitter usernames typically appear with an at sign (@) before the name, because that's how you refer to other users on Twitter. But when you're actually choosing a username, the @ isn't part of it. Manage Twitter: 19 Extremely Useful Tips. Do you effectively manage your Twitter account or do you just tweet and, every so often, see how it’s going? Are there any improvements you could make that would make Twitter more effective for you? Here are… 19 Extremely Useful Tips to Manage Twitter Effectively 1. When you create great content on your website, make sure you include a nice image. When someone shares your content on Twitter, you want that image to be shared too. The way to enable this is to add Twitter Cards to your site. This means adding some information to your site and getting it verified with Twitter. This is what a tweet shared with Twitter Cards looks like… Is this more likely to get shared with the image in it??

This is a tweet with Twitter card information Action: Read this article on setting up Twitter Cards! 2. Your Twitter followers are not sitting around all day long waiting on your tweets! So… You need to schedule some tweets. For example… You create a blog post and want to share it out multiple times to promote it. 3. How to Use Twitter Advanced Search for Business - This week’s #SocialMediaMinute will cover how to use Twitter Advanced Search to find new connections to follow, relevant conversations to engage with and how to search for prospects. While there’s so much more to Twitter advanced search than I could possibly explain in a minute long video, once you understand how to use the tool I can guarantee you’ll begin to think of different applications and uses for Twitter advanced search for your business.

I’m ready! You ready!? Let’s do this! Ps: I have no idea why I’m so orange in the video! LOL! See Also: How to Schedule Tweets with Images Using Twitter Video Tutorial Subscribe on YouTube: Use Advanced Search to: Find connections to follow: Twitter advanced search makes it easy to find the right people to follow, in the right areas, and at the right time, in hopes of them following you back. We can do so by inserting keywords into the Words Section as well as relevant hashtags into the specific search fields. 5 Creative Uses for Twitter Polls (You've Gotta Try These!!) - Social Quant - Twitter Growth Done Right. 7 Ways Using Twitter Can Leave You In Need Of A Lawyer - Social Quant - Twitter Growth Done Right. How-to: Pin A Tweet To Your Twitter Profile Page. Twitter now allows you to pin 1 tweet at the top of your timeline. You can use this to make sure your important messages are seen or if you want a specific tweet to get more retweets.

Take a look at the pinned tweet of my profile: View your profile and select the tweet you want to pin.Click the that "dots" icon and select "Pin to your profile page". Example: Refresh your profile to see and you should see a "Pinned Tweet" label on it. That's all! Piece of cake, right? Sponsors. The Beginner's Guide to Twitter. Update: This post was updated November 2013 to reflect current statistics and tools. Do you have a parent, friend or colleague ready to ditch his or her digital training wheels and head into Twitter's open wilderness? These pointers should get them started. And even Twitter experts might benefit from a quick refresher on the platform's valuable tools.

First, the basics: What is Twitter all about? It's a platform wherein users share their thoughts, news, information and jokes in 140 characters of text or less. Twitter makes global communication cheap and measurable. On Twitter, following someone is not necessarily an admission of friendship, but nonetheless affords interaction and conversation — at least in short bursts. The first step is to understand and master the vernacular. Tweet: A 140-character message.Retweet (RT): Re-sharing or giving credit to someone else's tweet.Feed: The stream of tweets you see on your homepage. 1. Check out a few more hilarious Twitter parody accounts here: 8 Inspiring Twitter Bios + Tips. Without a great Twitter bio, it will be difficult to get targeted followers. But the challenge is you only have 160 characters to state everything about you in an interesting and meaningful manner. Keep in mind that no one significant will follow you unless they know who you are. When creating a Twitter bio, always ask these questions to yourself- Will my Twitter bio attract the kind of followers I would like to attract?

Must-haves for Twitter Bio Content: Interests- This includes your hobbies and experiences. Here, we gather 10 of the most inspiring Twitter Bio. 1. Owned by Pauline C., the Twitter account’s about me section featured her interests, areas of expertise, and relevant keywords. 2. A Twitter profile for open community of bloggers interested in leadership, Business 2 Community’s bio section effectively presented the interests, areas of expertise, as well as keywords that can easily attract followers with the same passion. 3. 4. 5.

How-to: Pin A Tweet To Your Twitter Profile Page. Twitter’s enhanced analytics dashboard. Twitter has been slowly improving their analytics features for profiles and ads and it’s been very interesting to see. It used to be we had to dig through other reporting tools to really see what is working and what isn’t and gather reporting data for clients. No more! The new analytics dashboard shares top tweets, mentions, Twitter cards and followers on a month by month basis. To find yours, go to Twitter and log in, then click analytics on the drop-down menu under your profile, or just got to analytics.twitter.com. If, like me, you manage multiple ad accounts you’ll be able to easily switch accounts and see the analytics for the ones you have access to. Click the “Tweet activity” button on an individual tweet to get specific data for that tweet.

Twitter cards One thing I see immediately from my analytics is that I’m not using Twitter cards enough. What Should I Tweet? Tips for Corporate Twitter Accounts. What Should I Tweet? Tips for Corporate Twitter Accounts It’s fair to say that Twitter is now a well established platform. With over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily it’s become one of the most visited websites on the Internet. Whilst of course many businesses have been active on Twitter for a considerable amount of time, I think it’s fair to say that many are struggling to gain traction there, and of course there are other businesses who have yet to dip their toes in the water.

So you’ve been handed the keys to corporate Twitter account, but now what? What should you tweet about? Cute cat pictures (whilst undoubtedly awesome) are not necessarily particularly well aligned with your brand and are unlikely to impress your boss. Wait, what? I’m assuming that you’ve already determined your objectives in terms of what you want to achieve with Twitter, but if you haven’t then I strongly suggest that you go and do so. Back with me? Yuck. Seriously. Twitter Strategy: 4 Tweets You Should Consider Beside Article Links.

The point of my previous post about improving your Twitter strategy was to help you curate content from your favorite blogs easier and automate the process of sharing your own material. As I see it, curated content and links to your own articles should be the ground layer of your Twitter strategy. While the previous post hopefully helped you simplify the whole process, it didn’t really give you new content ideas. And today I would like to this a step further, by sharing some of the ways to diversify your tweets. On top of those two basic types of content it might be worth coming up with other tweets to keep your audience engaged. So what you will read in the next paragraphs are five examples of tweets you should consider adopting in order to make it a little more interesting for your followers to actually follow you. Let’s get started! 1. You might say that every tweet that provides interesting and useful information answers the “did you know?”

2. And… And what about frequency? 3. The idea? 4. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business. We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer. Your mileage may vary, and that’s okay.

Further, you might have some really great ideas to add. Oh, and please feel free to reblog this wherever. 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business First Steps Build an account and immediate start using Twitter Search to listen for your name, your competitor’s names, words that relate to your space. Ideas About WHAT to Tweet Instead of answering the question, “What are you doing?” Some Sanity For You You don’t have to read every tweet. How to Get More Twitter Followers. 5 Ways Twitter Chats Can Help Your Business. Does your business use Twitter? Have you considered using Twitter chats as a marketing tool? As the use of hashtags on Twitter continues to flourish, conversations built around specific hashtags—or Twitter chats—have become commonplace.

While you may be familiar with how to use Twitter chats for personal networking, you might not know they can also be used by brands to achieve business goals. In this post, I’ll show you 5 ways your business can benefit from Twitter chats. #1: Connect With Customers and Prospects Hosting an event is a great way for a business to bring its potential and current customer base together to learn, engage and build a deeper relationship. Not all businesses can host a conference or seminar, but every business can host a Twitter chat.

The key to hosting a Twitter chat that helps your business connect with potential and current customers is to choose a topic that resonates with your customer base. HubSpot combines lead generating webinars with Twitter chats. How To Help Someone Get Started On Twitter. How to Use Twitter Lists to Follow Thousands (and Appear Superhuman) 1.2K Shares Facebook 430 Twitter 627 LinkedIn 59 inShare59 Google+ 42 Pin It Share 14 1.2K Shares × People often ask me what my favorite feature on Twitter is. My response is always the same: Lists! When they ask me why, my answer is always too long for a single conversation. That’s why I decided to write this blog post! Today I’m going to talk about 10 ways I use Lists to magnify my presence on Twitter. People are often surprised that despite following over 120,000 people on Twitter, I’m constantly engaging, replying & responding to people’s tweets.

My secret? You guessed it! 10 Brilliant Ways to Use Twitter Lists to *Always Be Engaging* Before I get into how to use Lists, I’ll show you how to create them. (info taken from Using Twitter lists — an article in the Twitter Help Center) To create a List: To add or remove people from your Lists: The Twitter Help Center also has info about: Now that you see how easy it is to build a Twitter List, these 10 tips will help you use them effectively. 1. 2. 3. 10 Reasons Why I Don't Retweet You & Your Content. How To Get 1,000 Genuine Twitter Followers In 8 Weeks | Iconic Digital. 16 Creative Ways to Use Twitter for Business. How to Participate in a Tweet Chat. 31 Twitter Tips: How To Use Twitter Tools And Twitter Best Practices For Business. How To Get Your First 500 Twitter Followers. The Pros and Cons of Using Twitter in Your Social Marketing | GroSocial.

12 Ways to Get Personal Using Twitter. Twitter tips for newcomers. 14 Twitter Mistakes to Avoid | Jeffbullas's Blog. 101 Tweet-Tastic Tools for 2013. Finding Your Following on Twitter is EZ (With THESE 66 Hashtags. 101 Tweet-Tastic Tools for 2013. Twitter Hashtags and Consulting Firms. How To Prospect With Twitter | A Social Selling Strategy. What Do I Tweet About? 30 Tweet Ideas. How to Get More Twitter Followers (The Ultimate Twitter Tips Guide) What Is A Tweet? - Social Media Launchpad.