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Geo. Promotion. Images. Advertising. 62 Ways to Use Twitter for Business. Most of you know that Twitter can be used for much more than just announcing what you ate for breakfast. Many of you already know Twitter’s value in business, but you can still take it further and use it to land gigs, market your business, grow your network and gain free publicity — all in 140 characters or less.

It’s true that Twitter is what you make of it. Some people publicize their daily activities, some make it about link love, some share quotes all day long. Smart people using Twitter for business mix it up. Here are 62 ways to use Twitter more effectively in your business. Share Expertise to Build Credibility Grow Your Network Ask about other locales so you can make the most of a trip, or meet up with Twitter friends.Connect with friends from other social networks.

Marketing Do the Right (and Fun) Thing Finally, Some Tips for Absolute Beginners. 100+ Twitter Tips & Tricks You May Not Know. Every month I receive around 100,000 visitors to my websites just from Twitter alone and so can every single one of you! I know a lot of you enjoyed the tips I shared in my FREE eCourse about making money online blogging and driving traffic to your blog from Twitter so today I decided to do an updated twitter guide so you can benefit more from Twitter like myself. The great thing with Twitter is the people using it are so diverse, whatever your business is about, you can find people related to your business. Every Twitter users is looking for the ladder to boost his/her following. You might be one of them trying to increase your Twitter followers. There are a lot of wimpy "Twitter Tip Lists" out there; this is NOT one of them. The Social Media Side Order.

Six Key Benefits of Using Social Media for Small Business. Building Your Business One Tweet at a Time. “You want me to use Twitter to market my business?” I hear you asking. “How do I generate leads and promote my business by telling my friends what I had for lunch?” Yes, many people just use Twitter to share their day with their friends. Friends who may live 2,000 miles away. And some people use it to broadcast a breaking news story as it happens. Like the time a plane crash-landed in the Hudson River. “That’s certainly dramatic,” you say. You can start by buying Twitter Marketing For Dummies by Kyle Lacy. The whole point of social media — of which Twitter is part — is to find your satisfied customers and encourage them to recommend you to their friends and relatives.

And it’s so easy to do this on Twitter. Twitter Marketing Made Easy Sign up at Twitter.com. “Wait a minute!” Yes! “Just bought. What would you do? Click the Reply button.Send the person who posted the message a brief helpful response.Look at the next message you found about your company or products.Repeat steps 1 through 3. How To Build Your Own Wordpress Theme. You don’t need to be a PHP whizz to be able to put together your very own custom WordPress theme. If you’re clued up with your general web design and development skills and can easily put together a HTML/CSS based website, you’re ready to move onto WordPress theme development to give your blog its very own design.

For this walkthrough, we’ll be using a theme I recently built as an example. If you were around last week, you’ll have seen how the design was built from a concept PSD right through to a coded mockup in HTML/CSS. Now, let’s take the static code and inject some simple PHP template tags to give that dynamic functionality of a WordPress theme. Before getting stuck in, it’s useful to spend a few moments familiarising yourself with how WordPress themes work. Create a new folder and give it the name of your theme. In your style.css file, add the following code to the very top of your file.

You might also want to add some extra CSS styling to the bottom of your stylesheet. Stop Squandering Your Social Media Opportunities. Can Social Media Help Small Business Overtake Corporate America? A movement is brewing across the internet. The hard costs of marketing are plummeting. Money's role in marketing success, while still important, is now secondary to time, expertise and agility. To succeed, companies able to make quick decisions, share openly and create remarkable content fast will win, regardless of size. Perception is Reality - Can Social Media make your Business Stand Taller?

Before the internet leveled the playing field for marketers, targeted marketing and advertising were the realm of large companies with big budgets. Brand and reach were the metrics that marketers cared about. Then the internet came along. In the wild of nature, many animals use spines, fur and feathers to create the optical illusion of size and ferocity. What does this have to do with social media? That peacock brought to mind the concept of leverage and how the internet provides small businesses an amazing tool to leverage the assets they have to play with the big boys. Secrets of Social Media Buzz Marketing from CMO of Virgin America.

6 Do's and Don'ts for Your Company's Twitter Account. 7 Tips to Get More ReTweets. Three Ways To Ensure Your Social Media Efforts Create Profitable Growth. Recently, I ranted about how blogging and tweeting are often incompatible with generating qualified leads or closed sales (" To Tweet or to March 11, 2010 Recently, I ranted about how blogging and tweeting are often incompatible with generating qualified leads or closed sales (“To Tweet or to Sell”).

But if you run a business, how do you know if your tweeting and blogging are making you money? Or simply enabling the endless chattering among masses who have no need of your services or product, nor means of paying you for anything? When thinking about how social media can lead to profitable growth to write this article, I first had to convince myself it can. Frankly, I’m torn. So let me cover 3 ways social media can lead to profitable growth – and 3 ways I’m not so sure. Here are three ways social media can create profitable growth: If you can monetize your audience. Here are three ways social media can’t create profitable growth: If you can’t turn voyeurs into participants. 7 Insanely Useful Ways to Search Twitter for Marketing. The Secret To A Better Social Media Strategy: Demographics. What social network should you be using to grow your business? It depends on who your customers are. Compare your target audience with the February 18, 2010 What social network should you be using to grow your business?

It depends on who your customers are. Compare your target audience with the users of the big three social networks for businesses: Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Note: Charts created from Quantcast reports, representing users as zeroed to the Internet average (at an index of 100). Facebook Users: · 116 million unique U.S. visitors in December 2009 · follow the Internet average pretty closely in terms of affluence, education, and household size · are slightly more female · are mostly younger, aged 13-34 LinkedIn Users: · 24 million unique U.S. visitors in December 2009 · are slightly more male · mostly have at least a college education · ... and an astounding 33% have a graduate degree, as compared to the Internet average of 21% Twitter Users: · reflect an even male/female ratio.

4 Simple Ways to Integrate Analytics into Your Daily Internet Marketing Efforts. Have you ever been confused about how to use your website analytics and how to maximize the value you get from them? You're not alone, as many Internet marketers are often baffled about how to best utilize the data they glean from their analytics. Sure, you're looking at traffic and hopefully seeing those numbers go up as much as possible. Still, I wanted to point out some other very practical things you can be doing with your analytics that don't take very much effort and can greatly benefit your inbound marketing strategy . 1.

Determine how you're getting found through organic search. These analytics are incredibly helpful in terms of seeing how effective your SEO strategies have been. R site, measure and determine how your efforts are actually working. You should also add the keywords that are getting you found onto your keyword list and add some sort of relevance to them that works for you. 2. 3. 4. U link love. @adrianmott Learn how to Measure the Effectiveness of your Website. 48 Guerrilla Marketing Tips from Top PR Pros. 9 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid. Blogging a way to share your thoughts, knowledge and information like never before. We blog for many reasons which are uique to us as a person but yet share a community that is a part of us. As a new blogger that is trying to gain new readership we look for new ways to get as many eyes (readers) and fingers to the keys (comments) to drive us to continue to write.

Seasoned vets who have been blogging for upwards of 8 years still look for new avenues as technology changes. Technology is a tool that we utilize to gain new eyes and fingers but the means by which we determine how, what and why we will blog have not really changed over the years. 9 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. As a blogger who is blogging for the betterment of the business, exposure of the business or just to share thoughts we all have our reasons but all make mistakes. Photo credit: foxtongue. 4 Myths About Social Media and Business. 25% of small business owners said they plan to spend more on social networking in 2010, according to the Ad-ology Small Business Market January 14, 2010 25% of small business owners said they plan to spend more on social networking in 2010, according to the Ad-ology Small Business Marketing Forecast. Facebook ranked as the most beneficial social network for small businesses, followed by LinkedIn and Twitter, according to the November 2009 report.

The 1,100 small business owners surveyed said the biggest benefits of social networking were the abilities to generate leads, keep up with their industry, and monitor the online conversation about their business. But despite the enormous growth of business presences on social networking sites, there are still many misconceptions about how best to use social media. To help cut through the hype, here are a few social media myths dispelled. Myth #1: Small Businesses Must be on Social Media “I wouldn’t dissuade that B2B company from dipping a toe in.

Want to Make Money on Twitter? Take a Look at How Dell Does It. CES Presentation: How to Demo Twitter. 4 Simple Social Media Suggestions for Small Businesses in 2010. 2010 is upon us, bringing new opportunities to jump ahead of the competition using social media. The web is evolving rapidly and those smal January 06, 2010 2010 is upon us, bringing new opportunities to jump ahead of the competition using social media. The web is evolving rapidly and those small businesses that identify trends first will be able to stay ahead. Here are four super-simple social media suggestions to kick start your business this year. 1. Get The Local Advantage Small businesses are often local businesses. Foursquare, for instance, enables venues to provide special offers to users who "check in" to your business often. 2. 2009 was truly the death of screwing the consumer - and good riddance to it. In short: your customers are already talking about your company in public forums ... will you respond?

3. In 2010, there's no excuse for organizations that aren't - organized, that is. 4. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, Narvikk. Why Twitter Will Endure. “Anything that is useful to both dissidents in Iran and Martha Stewart has a lot going for it; Twitter has more raw capability for users than anything since e-mail,” said Clay Shirky, who wrote “Here Comes Everybody,” a book about social media.

“It will be hard to wait out Twitter because it is lightweight, endlessly useful and gets better as more people use it. Brands are using it, institutions are using it, and it is becoming a place where a lot of important conversations are being held.” 5 Trends That Will Shape Small Business in 2010 : Marketing. How to Promote Your Business on Flickr. Twitter For Business: The 7 Things That Will Surprise You Most About Twitter. 9 Top Twitter Techniques from Inc. Magazine.

Using a mobile device? Go to m.inc.com for our mobile version. Top Twitter Techniques (or 9 Good Excuses if you want to Ignore Twitter) In my view Twitter , like many marketing and social media tools, is basically a stage. How you present yourself upon it depends on what talents you have and what you're trying to accomplish. Below, I've outlined 9 methods of interacting on Twitter.

The Personality This applies both to actual celebrities, and people who are building a brand that can be clearly defined as having a "voice". The Guide The Guide is typically a person or people assigned to seek out messages posted by people who have a question related to your business, products or services. The Brand Watchdog Someone proactively seeks out mentions of their company name or product name and responds personally to each post.

I Can Email You With the Next Update Click here to get notified of new posts to "The Internet Strategist" by Email. Debunking Social Media Myths. By David Armano | 9:52 AM June 29, 2009 I recently spoke at and attended the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC. On day two, I heard something from Brian Wallace of Blackberry that echoed thoughts I’ve been preaching for a while. He said “I was selling in the idea that social media is free, until the community manager headcount came in.” This underscores a fundamental truth to social media that many organizations underestimate–being social means having real live people who actively participate in your initiatives. It’s difficult to automate and a challenge to scale, but it can also help move your business forward in ways that produce leveraged outcomes such as new/better products or services.

The economics of using social media in business require the participation of people to fuel it. It is not simply enabled by technology that maintains itself. Here are three to consider: Seeding. Feeding. Weeding. Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself. Social Media Reality Check. Twitter handle? Registered -- and tweeting who knows what. Facebook fan page? Created -- and desperately seeking fans. Now what, exactly, do these things do for my brand? Plenty of companies rush into the social-media space, if only to "be there. " We no longer ask if tactics make sense for our brand, if they're beneficial to our consumers, or if the enterprise is capable of delivering on the promise.

Now more than ever, we're seeing brands rush head-on into the social-media space, staking their claim on their Twitter, Flickr and Facebook kingdoms, excited about what can be done versus what should be done. But how do you know if you've been afflicted with techno-ecstasy? 1. 2. 3. Trust me, I'm not discouraging the appetite to keep up with new innovations. Continue to next page → To help you navigate the social-media space, here are four phases of a social strategy: 1. This should be the first and most supported phase. 2. 3. 4. Paul Gunning is CEO of Tribal DDB Worldwide. Revitalize Your Blog: 31 Days to Build a Better Blog' Workbook. 5 Ways to Share Images on Twitter. All You Need to Know to Tweet on Twitter. 10 Ways to Launch a New Blog with a ‘Bang’

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