5 Steps to Hosting Successful Twitter Chats: Your Ultimate Guide Hosting a Twitter chat is an amazing way to interact with your fans and followers, to better understand and grow your community quickly, as well as promote your brand and business. I’ve seen the networking and promotional power of the Twitter chat, so I made up my mind to dig deeper. It’s challenging to describe everything I learned in this one article, but I’ll do my best. Here’s the all-in-one guide to prepare for and host your Twitter chat. Why Twitter Chat? A Twitter chat is a public Twitter conversation around one unique hashtag. Bloggers connect using #Blogchat hashtag. Hosting a Twitter chat is an effective way to: Promote your social media presence: While Twitter chats evolve around one hashtag, it’s still public—which means millions of followers of the chat participants will see the hashtag and check what’s behind it. #1: Understand How it Works Before creating your own Twitter chat, it’s smart to follow or even participate in a few Twitter chats in your industry. #2: Form Your Plan
3 Ways to Supercharge Fan Engagement on Facebook This article was first posted on Entrepreneur.com. For most business owners, their biggest Facebook challenge is keeping fans consistently engaged. Whether you have 135 or 13,500 likes, the only way to really profit from a business page is to motivate fans to click, share and, eventually, act by buying a product or signing up for an event. Unfortunately, persistently low engagement is a catch-22. Your brand page’s EdgeRank score — Facebook’s algorithm for determining how content is featured in the News Feed — is determined largely by user interactions. But when applied consistently, these three strategies can turn the tide and increase fans’ interaction with your Facebook page: 1. The rise of the social networking site Pinterest underscores how much people love images and, more importantly, love sharing them. Here are a few techniques to try: Showcase key industry influencers. Highlight your expertise. Tell a story or share news. Ramp up lead generation. Have fun. 2. 3.
An In-Depth Look at the Science of Twitter Timing If you’ve been following KISSmetrics for the last week or two, you have probably enjoyed our in-depth look at the science of blog timing and Facebook timing. Today, we’re going to take a deeper look into the ins and outs of Twitter timing. This includes how to determine: Where your targeted audience is located.When they’re most likely to view their Twitter stream.Tools that will determine when your followers interact with you the most. Twitter Timing Infographic First off, we’re going to look at an interesting infographic that helps explain Twitter timing visually. The first thing you will see is that almost half of the U.S. population is in the Eastern time zone, and about 80% of the population is in the Eastern and Central time zones combined. Next, you will see that if you want lots of retweets from Twitter users in the U.S., 5PM EST is generally the best time to tweet. Remember, your own “tweet data” will prove what the best times and days are for your tweets. The Beauty of Twitter
Inhaltsverzeichnis Social-Media-Artikel Als Service für unsere Leser stellen wir hier das Inhaltsverzeichnis aller im Blog veröffentlichten Artikel und Beiträge zum Thema Social-Media-Marketing zur Verfügung. Dazu gehören Themen zu Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, um nur einige zu nennen. Aber auch Informationen von allgemeiner Gültigkeit, die nicht einem speziellen Netzwerk zuzuordnen sind. Bitte klicken Sie einfach nur auf den Link zum Artikel der Sie interessiert und sofort öffnet sich ein neuer TAB mit dem gewünschten Artikel und allen Informationen. Zugelassene Facebook-Foto-Formate Twylah – Tweets im Pinterest-Look Tipps zum Twittern rund um die Uhr So nutzen und optimieren Sie Twitter-Listen – auch für SEO! 7 Beispiele wie Twitter Firmen hilft 10 Gründe für die Beliebtheit von Twitter / mit Video So funktioniert Ihr Twitter-Hashtag-Marketing! Gute Idee: Denken Sie bevor Sie Tweeten! Twitter-Anregungen für Ihre Firma Fünfundzwanzig Tipps für Ihre Twitter-Strategie 5 Tipps zu ansprechenden Tweets! 9 Twitter-Tipps für Beginner
Twitter Micro-Video Marketing Strategies for Business – The TwitVid Interview In today's post, I dissect the video platform and sharing tool TwitVid right on down to it's SEO visibility; and interview TwitVid's co-founder Mo Adham, where we discuss the business opportunities today with using Twitvid and video in twitter. We also discuss the idea that going super short with your video length, or creating "mirco-videos," is an effective video marketing strategy for the twitter crowd. TwitVid – The Video Hosting And Sharing Tool For Twitter As twitter users and most marketers already know, twitter limits you to posting 140 characters of text, which is referred to as a "tweet." Enter TwitVid, a video sharing tool for twitter with the largest audience and partnership program of any other. If you want to post up a video to twitter, as well as share it with others, then the easiest and fastest way to do so today is using TwitVid. TwitVid's sharing and embedding features are particularly impressive. Micro-Video Marketing Strategies Work Best For Twitter
How Do You Deal With Twitter Mistakes? The internet is full of examples of Twitter mistakes made by even the most professional users. Some that stand out were media sources announcing the death of the still giving Gabriel Giffords in 2011, the accidental leak of Listen With Friends on Facebook, and of course many direct messages posted as tweets that revealed embarrassing information. Such as when Michael Jordan’s son propositioned a porn star, asking her for ’round two’. But it isn’t just celebrity and professional accounts that lead to tweeting faux pas. Since Twitter’s live update makes mistakes immediately viewable by your follow list, you might think there is nothing to do about it when this happens. Don’t Delete Unless You Have To.
Find 'Em On Twitter: 15 Twitter Directories Compared Searching for people or applications on Twitter? Good luck with that. Since Twitter offers little in the way of people search features (though they now have a suggestion tool), your search for interesting and dynamic people to follow and applications to use could be a giant time suck. Thankfully there are more than a few third-party resources that you can turn to for finding new people to follow, and new tools to help you do what Twitter won't let you. Applications Twitter Fan Wiki Overview: The apps section of Twitter Fan Wiki is like Wikipedia for Twitter apps, so it's for you, buy you mentality, making it the most robust in terms of applications listed, but potentially the most unreliable if entries aren't current. What you might like: There are lots and lots of applications, so you're bound to happen upon something new and cool that you didn't even know existed. What you won't get: There's a limited feature set, which means you can rate, sort, or comment on applications. Twitdom Twtbase
14 Twitter directories to find new friends | Webware Digg.com founder Kevin Rose is at it again with a Twitter directory called WeFollow . And although it's capturing much of the limelight right now, it's not the only service of its kind. In fact, there are quite a few sites that let you search for other users or see who the top users are on Twitter. While some are quite useful, you probably won't be surprised to find out that not all are created equal. The standouts TwitterCounter. TwitterHolic. WeFollow. The rest Just Tweet It. MediaOnTwitter. Social Brand Index. TrackingTwitter. TweeterTags. Twellow. Twibs. TwitterLinkUp. TwitterVision. I went to the site and was mesmerized by the tweets flashing on-screen from as close as New York (my home) all the way to Japan. Twubble. WhoShouldIFollow.