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9 Things Businesses Shouldn't Do On Social Media - Forbes. 10 Secrets To A Successful Facebook Contest. How to promote an event using social media | Socialable. 152.5K Flares Twitter 4.1K Facebook 128 Google+ 49 StumbleUpon 147.9K Pin It Share 60 60 LinkedIn 125 inShare125 Email -- Email to a friend Buffer 57 152.5K Flares × Holding an event? Wondering how to best promote it? There is certainly one thing you that cannot afford to ignore – Social media. Social media is an amazingly powerful tool to promote your events. It can be used to increase registration, increase buzz, and ultimately increase attendance.

It enables you to reach a wide audience. However, remember social media is a channel, not a strategy. Promote your registration page on the wall on your fan page. Use location-based services such as Foursquare.Offer live micro events on your fan Page. Yahoo - Upcoming Yahoo, great for adding your event for people looking for local events and get more exposure Lanyrd - Great site that has some cool features including: see what events your friends are attending or even speaking at. Bizzabo is still in it’s launch stages. Lilach. 6 Ways to Reinvent Your Social Media Positioning. Why is the internet the ideal social media positioning medium for Marketers? The primary reasons are freedom and accessibility. It’s these same freedom and accessibility that make the internet almost impossible to conquer as well.

It’s crowded. Yet, we are all presented with the equal opportunity to make an impact with our brands, products, and personalities. “How do I survive in this new digital jungle?” 1. Wish I had a nickel for every time I hear lines like “extensive experience in…”, “the best designer in (name the city)…”, “we are professional who…”. The first way to reinvent your social media positioning is to know that one thing only you offer, that one thing that makes you unique, that one thing that gives the customer the reason to go to you instead of your competitor. 2. People get almost everything for free online, one way or another. It used to be said, “ask and you shall receive”. 3. When you talk about yourself or your brand, you are the least important thing. 4. 5. 6. 6 Easy Ways to Boost Site Traffic With Facebook. Rebecca Corliss is the leader of HubSpot’s social media team and contributor to the HubSpot Inbound Marketing Blog.

Follow Rebecca @repcor. In a recent study, Facebook was hailed as the most-used social networking site around the world, specifically as the most-frequented site in 126 of the 137 countries studied. With this in mind, marketers should consider how they can utilize their own market’s Facebook usage to support company’s goals. For B2B companies who are naturally focused on lead generation, this data suggests that an increased emphasis on Facebook as a traffic source is important. But how might B2B marketers take advantage of this opportunity, specifically when considering Facebook’s migration to the timeline layout?

Here are a few tips. 1. The new Timeline design is all about being visual, which might require a slight change in your content strategy. 2. 3. This is key, B2B people! 4. Remember the days of “tabs?” 5. Businesses can be hip, too. 6. The Anatomy of Effective Tweets. Now that you’ve decided to jump on the Twitter bandwagon to gain maximum benefits for your business, what do you do next? Getting an impressive Twitter profile and getting a high-quality targeted ‘following’ is only half the battle won. The other important half is to maintain and increase your Twitter following in order to grow your business. Nothing works better than effective tweets in order to enhance your business’ reputation on Twitter. I’ve come across many online marketers who build sophisticated tweet plans detailing when to tweet and how to decide your tweeting audience.

The Effective Tweets So, what are the rules that determine the anatomy of effective tweets? Informational + Interesting As a business, you must ensure that your tweets are a perfect mix of information and interesting content. I’m all for adding a tinge of humor in order to make your tweets fun to read. Hash Tags In my opinion, hash tags are one of the most powerful yet heavily underutilized features on Twitter. Kevin Rose: 10 Ways To Increase Your Twitter Followers. How I Got 253 Twitter ReTweets On 5 Posts. Posted by John Paul Aguiar in Twitter 4 Steps To More Twitter Traffic and Re-Tweets People are always asking me how they can get their tweets re-tweeted and how to drive traffic from twitter.

So I wanted to put this post together to give you an overview of how I get more RTs and more traffic When I first started on Twitter with my @JohnAguiar account, I had the same problem as you, I couldn’t get an RT even with some begging..lol It took me about 3 months to bring together what I needed to start driving more traffic to my blog and getting more RT’s. At first I felt I was doing all the things I needed to, writing decent content, I had a decent amount of followers, I was posting to Twitter on a good schedule and yet I was lucky if I got 5 RTs. Asking Questions I was questioning everything I was doing… Do they not like my content? Did I send out my post to many times? Was my post worth RTing?? 4 Steps To More Re-Tweets Good Content More followers Engage with your followers Write good content.

How I Built My Twitter Marketing Monster From 1 to 36,000. Posted by John Paul Aguiar in Twitter I’m sure by now you know how important it is to bring your blogging and online business to Twitter, and if you don’t then you are not interested in building your blog or business. Now before I go any further, the one thing you NEED to know from the beginning is… “You Will Lose Followers On Twitter No Matter How Nice, Polite, or Perfect You Use Twitter”! Like Guy Kawasaki says: “If your not making people mad on twitter then your not using twitter correctly” What I mean is that people on twitter are sensitive, they follow and un-follow quickly. It can be just one tweet you make that rubs them wrong, they will un-follow you. Example: Last week I made a tweet about a story about Obama visiting somewhere, and I said “the prez is slumming it..lol” Now I had the “LOL” in there so people knew I was joking, I’m a sarcastic guy Yet I had someone that lives in CANADA..lol @me and complain that I was rude and blah blah. 1 To 36,000 Really Why do I auto follow?

10 Things I Really Learned On My Twitter Journey To 100,000 Followers. Posted by John Paul Aguiar in Pop Posts, Twitter Marketing My Journey To 100,000 I remember when I first started out and I hit 1,000 followers and how excited I was. To reach 100,000 is just crazy, something that I wouldn’t have done without some great Twitter friends and followers over the last 2.5 yrs. This post is my small but “LONG way” to say Thank U! I will be covering some helpful advice, a little ranting and I will end it off with some Free stuff for you. Now make sure you eat your vegetables of learning before you jump to the end for dessert. Sound good to you?

In my first year on Twitter I added about 34,000 followers and my second year I added about 64,000 followers. What changed? Not much at all really, just some tweaking that I will share below. You see on my post on reaching 34,000 followers, the fundamental things I did then I still do today and will do in the future. Truth is, I can make anything “seem” complicated, even the simple act of tying your shoes.

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