I remember the day I decided to sign up for Twitter. Like many other people at the time, I wondered why anyone would want to publicly broadcast their lives via 140 characters. It was early 2008, Twitter was about to skyrocket in growth, and I definitely wanted to get involved. Once I joined, it didn’t …
On Monday evening, Oct. 1, the #SocialChat community on Twitter gathered for an open forum discussion of the new Facebook “Offers” post now available to business pages. Since there was no featured guest this week, all participants found themselves in the hot seat that night. Host, Alan K’necht (@aknecht), started the group off with an …
Maybe it is just me, but I find that getting a notification that someone has retweeted my content is really exciting. It could just be that I am glad that my contribution is being appreciated and has provided something to the user. But more likely, it is a slightly childish ego that makes me happy …
The Whole Brain Group has put together a handy “Tweet Chat Checklist for Businesses” in infographic style which should provide you all the basic information you need to successfully set up one of these chats. And the benefits? Hosting a Tweet Chat demonstrates thought leadership in your industry, can promote your overall marketing message, will drive traffic to your website, and even help you engage directly with your customer base.
#SocialChat is a weekly discussion of the best practices in Social Media Marketing hosted every Monday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern by Alan K’necht (@aknecht) of Digital Always Media and me (@SocialMichelleR). We started the chat in January of 2011, and since then it has become an event that many of our core participants look …
Content curation is hot nowadays, and there are quite a few content curating tools to help you organize and re-use user-generated content that is spreading across the web. One of the oldest, and still the hottest, content curation tools out there is Paper.li, of course, a great app that helps you create an online magazine …
There are Twitter users that have 25,000 followers, but they follow 24,870. Do they have true influence or does the person that has 5000 followers and follows 230 people have more influence? There are a lot of people out there are “teaching” others how to use Twitter and they brag about their Twitter followers, but …
The following infographic is by Dan Zarrella of HubSpot. This IG a lot of great recommendations if you are looking to increase your clicks on Twitter. I especially liked the suggestions on using words correctly and the use of action words. I guess I will be tweeting more on the weekends too. To find out …
Twitter: Must-have time-saving apps [video]
There’s always a huge debate going on about the value vs. authenticity of automation in Internet marketing, but some strategies are considered ok when others are considered an absolute evil. But are they really that different? A few weeks ago, I asked fans on my fanpage (mostly bloggers) about automated messages, particularly Twitter direct messages …
