The Electric Light Of Twitter-Part 2

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The Electric Light Of Twitter-Part 2

As I posted in my first installment, some trouble with Twitter, I’ll try to post problems about Twitter as soon as I receive them and where I find them so you can learn even more. Social media needs to be used if your doing any kind of Internet marketing. For now, we’ll get to the fun stuff that you may or may not already know.

When and if your looking for like minded tweeple, you might want to take a look at TweetChat.com. This is a Twitter application that is simply based on a chat room type of atmosphere. There are of course other ways to do this, but this one was kind of cool. Easy to use and of course, everyone is on the same page. It’s not about who’s talking, it’s about the conversation or hashtag.

Another one I ran across was TwitterXFactor.com. This is a really cool database of tweeple, if your on that need to know basis. They also have neat little gigs like follower badges to link websites and blogs etc. It is also easy to use and pretty much self explanatory.

Have you tried fun140.com yet? This is really cool. You can send “gifts” via Twitter through fun140. They have neat stuff like desert islands, happiness, rubber ducks, and allot more. This is allot of fun as it builds a relationship with your followers. I’ve only experienced one person who wondered why I sent them something and I felt that they didn’t care to have that kind of fun on Twitter. Allot of tweeple like this and love to have things given to them. So if you get something from one of your tweeple, be sure to return the favor as this builds your credibility and helps you monetize with social media.

Remember, keep it social, and don’t shove your upfront opportunity or product out there. Tweet to people and direct them to your blog. That should be your Internet marketing hub where you can make your conversion.

Also, watch using those “bots”. Twitter is getting bitter, and they are cracking down on spam.

Finally…HAVE FUN! Be the tweeter everyone in the nest wants to tweet with. For once, being a magpie could be a good thing.

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The Benefits of Using Twitter

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The Benefits of Using Twitter

As of April 2010, 17 million people (equal to the combined populations of the United States’s Connecticut, Oregon, Kentucky, Kansas, and Oklahoma) use Twitter, according to a market research survey by Edison Research.

Twitter is about brand recognition and engaging in conversations. This social media microblogging service brings together businesses and individuals that want to be heard and to hear – and Twitter lists, Twitter chats, hashtags, and recurring events like Follow Friday let networkers do just that in a business friendly environment.

Twitter lists are a user feature that enables every user to create lists with custom names, such as “organizing consultants” or “Retweeters” to group the people they follow on Twitter. Businesses benefit from being listed and creating lists, because they’re a flattering method to name recognition and can be followed by other users.

Twitter chats are hosted, themed events, by other Twitter users, such as author Melinda Emerson’s Small Business Chat, that are held at regular time intervals and allow Twitter users to meet experts and discuss topics of interest. Business owners can share their expertise, network, and meet valuable service providers.

Hashtags are organized ways to group Twitter posts, also known as tweets, that with the pound sign “#” enable a clickable index of all the tweets containing this kind of information. This is a great way for customers to find you and for you to find customers, and participating with hashtags in a helpful thing to do on Twitter to keep the constant flow of every Twitter user organized and accessible for those who seek certain kinds of tweets.

Follow Friday is a frequently participated in event by almost everyone on Twitter. Twitter friends are made by “follows” and every Friday, users urge their followers to follow certain people on Twitter. They are usually accompanied by reasons why, and being called out in someone’s Follow Friday means recognition by entirely new groups of people and often leads to more followers. Participating yourself also adds credibility to you as a Twitter user.

For a business owner, the benefits of Twitter are so numerous they are hardly quantifiable. However, three major benefits bear mentioning and highlighting.

First and foremost, Twitter provides a way for you to attract new clients to your business. Clients can be gained from networking on Twitter.

Second, Twitter is a great way to not only promote, but also to manage your business brand. You can influence how your target market views you by building and maintaining a Twitter presence.

Third, Twitter can lighten your marketing budgeting, lessening the amount of money you must invest to market your business and gain new clients. Twitter is a completely free service that is easy to use. Devoted marketing time to Twitter means that you’re saving money you’d otherwise be spending to reap the same benefits of brand management and new client recruitment.

Your business can definitely benefit from Twitter – why not be one of the 300,000, according to Twitter as of April 2010, that signs up daily to improve their businesses and improve their lives?

Attracting a Following on Twitter for your Business

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Attracting a Following on Twitter for your Business

Brent McLean is an Account Director at AlterSeekers, Inc.

As with any social media strategy, attracting a successful Twitter following starts with a clear, definitive plan. Spend the time to create realistic and measurable goals, then decide what kind of followers you want to attract. Study their behavior, how do they interact in Twitter? Learn to speak to your target audience in their language. How frequent are their tweets? Make sure that your Twitter strategy is flexible enough to be able to learn to interact with your followers on their terms.

Make Your Twitter Presence Known

Use your existing online and offline presence to promote and leverage your Twitter strategy. Put links to your Twitter account everywhere, not just in the virtual world, but in the physical world as well. Emails, print media, web pages, email signatures, other social media accounts, anywhere you can find a place, add a link. Make sure to completely fill the details of your profile; people are a lot more likely to follow someone if they can ‘get to know’ them.

Have Something to Say and Say it Frequently

Tweet often, and make sure to leave enough time for your Twitter followers to react. Use a conversational tone and don’t hesitate to ask questions, because that is the fastest way to start an interactive dialogue with your Twitter followers. Sharing valuable information should be at the core of your Twitter strategy. If your content is good, people will retweet (repost your tweet) to their followers. Nobody is going to retweet meaningless drivel or spam, so make sure that your tweets are entertaining, education, and above all relevant. The more compelling, entertaining, and interesting your Twitter content is, the more retweets you will enjoy.

Use Hashtags to Find Relevant Conversations

Hashtags are used to group content and aid in keyword searches on a particular Twitter topic. Search for hashtag conversations that are occurring that are relevant to your business and jump right in on the dialogue. In the Twitter dialogues you initiate, use hashtags (#keyword) for your target keywords.

Track and Measure Your Results

As with any social media strategy, be sure to measure and track your Twitter results against your goals. Applications such as Twitter Counter will track your daily follower adds, and Qwitter can track how many people ‘unfollow’ you. If you are not adding Twitter followers on a daily basis and rapidly increasing your numbers as quickly as you had expected, it is time to re-evaluate your Twitter strategy and make some adjustments.

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Social Networking For Consultants – Use Twitter Hashtags to Add Value & Accountability to Your Tweet

April Gregory    Twitter Hashtags    

Hashtags can help add value to your brand and expand your visibility quickly.

On Twitter, hashtags are fun little tools for tracking topics, conversations, communities and live events. One popular (almost old) hashtag is #followfriday.  This is where people recommend other people that you should follow.  So they’d list the twitter id of a person and include the hashtag at the end of the post. For instance, if someone was recommending me, they would tweet my user id plus #followfriday (and maybe they’d include a note saying, “follow her, she’s great”).

Personally, I don’t go looking for hashtags. They are usually already attached to a conversation that I want to add to. However, here are a few hashtag resources: 

• #hashtags.org is the first place to find most recent and hot hashtags with popularity trends.
• Twemes.com is another useful resource for discovering and tracking new hashtags. It has a hashtag cloud.
• Wthashtag.com is a user generated wiki of hashtags. If you don’t know what any hashtag means or how to use it, you can use the site search and get a well-compiled entry explaining the meaning of the hashtag

Coaches, consultants and community leaders use hashtags to connect others to their niche, topic, club or challenge.  Talk about unleashing a viral effect around a topic– it does!  If the topic is something I’m interested in, I just jump right in.

As a coach/consultant, you make it easy for your followers and club members to converse with each other and hold each other accountable. For example,Jeff Herring created a challenge called 100articles100days.  He  set up the hashtag #HAHD to make it easy for participants to hold each other accountable, encourage each other and follow the conversation.  Within two weeks, the club had drawn close to 800 members as a result of the buzz created using a simple hashtag.

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Using Twitter Hashtags For More Businesses Promotion – Part I

David Hale    Twitter Hashtags    

Using hashtags on Twitter messages, or Tweets, will greatly assist you with developing a greater online presence and Internet marketing efforts in general. You can either use existing hashtags or generate company specific ones. Once you get the hand of using them and their purpose, you will start to realize the power behind their use.

Social media in general, including Twitter, have become one of the most important groups of business marketing tools to come about in many years. Each social media platform has its own advantages, and for Twitter, it is the hashtags that has become one of the best instruments the online marketing has. No matter what type of business you are in, big or small, small business or corporate, using hashtags in your tweets can provide you with vital business information.

So, Just What is a Twitter Hashtag?

Hashtags are the bits of text (#) that are written into tweets and sent throughout the Twitter universe. Their main purpose is to help categorize and collate tweets containing the same information or subject matter. This is much like placing like information in the same folder.

The use of hashtags will keep tweets about a the same topic in one stream. This then allows you and your clients to locate tweets containing a specific hashtag and topic. The bottom line is that they allow a user to find specific data they are searching for. This saves someone from rifling through message after message in order to target the key information they are looking for.

By the way, do you want to learn more about Social Media? If so, download my brand new free white paper Social Media: A Primer Click Here. Are you searching for the secrets to building a big online subscriber list fast using social networks? If so, check out my site for more free information at http://www.drdavehaleonline.com. Dr. Dave Hale, specializes in the integration of Web 2.0 strategies into corporate marketing and HR management systems.

Author: David Hale
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How to Use Twitter Hashtags

Steve A Hawk    Twitter Hashtags    

As many of you know, I was very slow to get on the Twitter train. In fact, the train had already left the yard and was well into its journey when I needed to hijack a stage-coach, catch up to the train, and then hopped on…this was kind of like a Family Guy episode because I have absolutely no idea how I was able to find a working stagecoach and then how I knew how to drive it? But I digress…

Anyway…just yesterday I learned about using Hashtags with Twitter to make the keywords of your Tweets stand out. There are a couple of benefits to using hashtags as best I can determine:

1. To Gain More Targeted Twitter Followers: Just like you and I (now!), people want to follow and be followed by like-minded people. For network marketers, we want to be followed by others who are either already involved in network marketing or who are interested in getting involved. One of the best ways to gain followers is to follow…most people follow back. So, by following people who use network marketing related keywords in their tweets, we can be sure that we are not being followed by the person who tweets “I’m so bored…just hanging out” and can stand a chance of reaching our target audience…Someone who has a need or want for our product or business opportunity.

2. To Target Followers Who Are Interested In Your Product or Program: I think everyone will agree that it’s difficult to read all of the tweets from the people you follow from your main Twitter page. I use SocialOomph to track certain keywords that I’m interested in. I assume that there are other services that do this for you as well. If you know of others, please let me know. Anyway, the Hashtag will make that keyword stand out in the tweet and make it more easily found. When you find someone who is tweeting your keyword, that is a good person to follow…they share an interest.

To identify your keyword in Twitter using Hashtags, you simply type # before the word. For example: “I am writing a blog post right now on how to use #Hashtags with Twitter”. Hashtags is my keyword and the pound sign identifies it as such.

I know the mega-Twitter Tweeters already know about using Hashtags, but I also know that I wasn’t the only person to just learn about them! If this article can help a few use Twitter more effectively, I’m happy!

Steve Hawk is a Network Marketing Leader and Success Coach. He specializes in the lead generation of network marketing leads and empowering people who have the desire to succeed to make money online, through Personal Branding and Business Building strategies. You can learn more about Steve by visiting his personal blog at WhoIsSteveHawk.Com.

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What Are Twitter Hashtags For and How Do I Use Them?

L.a. Buroker    Twitter Hashtags    

If you’re new to Twitter, you may feel inundated by the tidbits of people’s lives streaming by (especially if you’ve found a number of folks to “follow” already). By now you’ve read lots of “Tweets” and clicked the various links people have posted, but you may be wondering what those hashtags are about. You know, the words or phrases smashed together after a # symbol.

Well here’s an explanation of the Twitter hashtags (no geek-speak used):

Essentially, they’re a way of organizing information and making it easy for people to find what they’re looking for on Twitter. It’s a bit like categorizing your recipe box #stews, #cookies, #cakes, #secretBBQsauces, etc. etc. etc. So if you see someone sticking #startrek at the end of their tweet, they’re just letting folks know their comment or link belongs in the Star Trek section of their Twitter “recipe box.”

Twitter hashtags that don’t make sense?

What if you see someone using a tag and can’t, for the life of you, figure out what it’s in reference to? You can either file it into the ‘how important can it be anyway?’ camp, or you can look it up to find out. Sites such as whatthetrend.com and tagal.us can show you what hashtags are being used (or have been used in the past) and what they mean.

Why would you want to use hashtags?

Ahh, the big question. What’s in it for you? Can’t you tweet on Twitter just fine without throwing hashtags into your already limited writing space? Sure you can. But just in case you want to try them out, here are a couple reasons:

Basically, hash tags make it easier for folks to find your tweets. There are all sorts of search sites out there that help connect Twitter users. Let’s say you’re a fantasy fiction fan who can’t get enough of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and other speculative fiction novels, and you want to meet other Twitter users with the same interest. If you’ve ever tried to search for “fantasy” online, you know you’re as likely to get fantasy football sites as you are to find sites devoted to the genre (and we won’t even get into the other “fantasies” people talk about online). Now if you head over to a Twitter search engine such as twitterfall.com or search.twitter.com and type in #fantasy, as opposed to just “fantasy,” you’ll only get tweets from folks who have tagged their posts #fantasy. I can’t promise that you won’t still find some, uhm, questionable tweets that way, but I’ve had much better luck than by simply searching fantasy (the football people usually use the #football hash tag).

Also, if you were writing about Harry Potter books and it wasn’t natural to use the word fantasy in the sentence, you could tag it with the #fantasy hashtag at the end, and people could still find your tweet by searching for fantasy.

How to use Twitter hashtags

Okay, you’re sold on them now. Or at least, you’re thinking of trying hashtags once or twice. How do you use them?

It’s pretty easy. For obvious ones, just add #yourtag somewhere in the Tweet (people often put them at the end, but there are no rules). If you’re not sure what the most popular hashtag convention is, you can check the search sites I mentioned above to see what other people Tweeting in that area are using (since space is limited, people usually go for short tags).

You can also start your own. Perhaps you’re talking about a new event, meetup, convention, etc. and part of the reason you’re tweeting is to advertise it. You can announce it into existence to inform other folks from the event, meetup, etc. what the official hashtag is going to be.

i.e. on Twitter, you might post:

Portland Science Fiction Lovers Meetup members, let’s categorize our tweets with the #PdxSFMeet hashtag.

Easy peasy! Just play around on Twitter and with the search sites, and you’ll get the hang of hashtags in no time.

If you’re a lover of things geeky and/or a science fiction and fantasy fan, follow the author on twitter or check out her fantasy short stories (nothing dirty!).

Author: L.a. Buroker
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Can you ease into social media?

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I’ve been reading with interest the reactions to companies who have stumbled in the social arena. In particular on blogs outlining Habitat UK’s hashtag spam, those commenting reeled at the idea of having an intern execute such a highly visible part of the communications strategy. And yet at the same time there is disbelief around the policies in place for US Marines, US Open competitors and on game day for the NFL.

Closer to home, Mat Rogers tweeted his way into trouble with the NRL and at the Social Media Summit in Melbourne the heavily government based audience continually expressed concern at trying to have a two way conversation when it takes forever to get copy approved.

While contemplating whether companies should hire, outsource or DIY their social media strategy, JD Rucker states “having a poorly run social media strategy is worse than not having one at all”. At the same time Nancy Williams is adamant (as I’m sure many of you are): social media without conversation isn’t social media.

When it comes to sports and politics, the consequences of a social media stumble can mean more then just crisis communications. (And of all people to stumble, sportsmen and the public service seem to be the very best at it and I doubt your clear/strict/enforced social media policy is going to change that much.) This is based on rules and regulations set in stone long before the rise of blogs and Twitter.

So while those involved push for changes to allow a more open channel of communication, will we (the public, fans, advocates, constituents, lookers-on, social media mavens) allow them to approach the medium with baby steps? If they won’t let us comment, will we share their content? If they won’t publish our feedback, will we give them our opinion? If they can’t answer our questions, will we seek out (and trust) their advocates instead?

Does It Make “Sense” To Make Change?

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Every year the New Oxford American Dictionary selects its word of the year. To qualify the word must be current and have potential for longevity. The word for 2009 was “unfriend” – to remove someone as a friend on a social network site. Unfriend beat other tech-heavy words like “hashtag” – the symbol (#) used on Twitter posts to make them easier to find; “netbook” – a small portable laptop; and “sexting” – sending sexually explicit texts or photos by mobile phone. If this digital trend in selecting word of the year continues, it may leave people who aren’t digital-savvy speechless. Then there were the new business buzzwords inspired by the 2009 recession. Although carmakers didn’t make cars Americans wanted to buy, carmakers didn’t fail. They entered “pre-packaged bankruptcies”. Banks didn’t make bad loans. Instead, they discovered they had “toxic assets”. Banks, of course, were considered “too big to fail” – and didn’t have to because of TARP. Tarp used to be short for tarpaulin, a canvass covered with a waterproof compound. Now it stands for “Troubled Asset Relief Program”. It’s the government program that gave financial institutions “bailouts” instead of handouts. Obviously, there was more than one “Cash For Clunkers” program. Obviously, bacon isn’t just for breakfast anymore. Thanks to Chef Blumenthal of the Michelin-starred Fat Duck restaurant outside London, bacon is for dessert too. In 2004 Blumenthal’s bacon-and-egg ice cream made news all over the food world. In 2006 two contestants on television’s Top Chef program made bacon ice cream, introducing Americans to bacon desserts. Now there are bacon brownies, bacon bread pudding, bacon truffles, bacon jellybeans and more. In spite of skeptics, pairing sweets with bacon is logical. Sweet/salty flavors are popular in kettle corn, chocolate-covered pretzels and Snickers bars. With bacon desserts, pigging out is explainable. Those who enjoy pigging out on pizza should know that Domino’s is changing its pizza recipe. As of December 29, 2009 the crust will be garlickier, the tomato sauce spiced differently and the cheese upgraded. It seems when the research firm Brand Keys rated Domino’s for taste, it tied for last with Chuck E. Cheese, with Papa John ranking first. However, Domino’s ranked first for best pizza chain overall, tied with Pizza Hut for top ranking in location and service and was a close second to Pizza Hut in value. In launching its new pizza, Domino’s plans a “tasteful” campaign.

Modern Ways On How To Spend Less In Ads: Business Tips For Realtors

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New trends in business could help us raise more income and lessen the burdens of overspending, most especially when it comes to advertisement. Traditional ways and obsolete methods of advertisement have no place in the current trends of business ads.

Recently, here are some tips that a practitioner or for a realtor to deal with an effective advertisement in this modernization. Social media have evolved in these recent times which have big roles in gaining something worthwhile in business and from all walks of life.

Marketing strategies came out this year where real estate pros could possibly learn on how to save more and spend less in advertisement. Yes I mean putting less money in traditional way of advertisement and emphasizing more on new social media forms and sites.

You can be more creative and as good as in Pepsi’s Super Bowl marketing strategy where they have been using a different kind of method of advertisement.

Experts might say that you can learn to advertise your brand using some popular social media wherein you can be viewed at all times in Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn and start promoting your business brands quickly.

Plus, your creativity can be put altogether, for instance like Super Bowl ads, where you can come up an idea of holding some contest, seek opinions and sponsors, fundraising, and even making a hashtags in Twitter uniquely and starting the conversation right away.

Another thing to do is to make wiser decisions on how to choose the right media platform wherein you get involved and making quality contents posted how many times per day and you’ll see how it will work smoothly and effectively in the long run. In fact, that’s what we usually do in our real estate business or company wherein we make an account for each social networking site and do the latest trend of marketing our brands.

Realtors should also consider some of this latest way of advertising in order to gain popularity and increasing marketing sales.

With these several ideas to ponder, I’m sure realtors will make their real estate business up in the competitive real estate market.