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Creating the Perfect Social Media Marketing Plan – How Your Business Can Do It

Tamara — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:20:21 +0000

Thanks to the surging popularity of websites like Twitter and Facebook, companies have started devoting bigger and bigger chunks of their budgets to social media marketing. But, just like any other promotional strategy, you need a solid plan if you want to be successful.

So, how do you create a social media marketing plan that helps boost your web traffic and your sales?

1. Figure out who you’re targeting

Most people spend time on some sort of social media site, but those sites can differ from group to group. For example, if you’re targeting college kids, you’re much more likely to find them on Facebook than LinkedIn. But if you’re targeting older professionals, LinkedIn or Twitter might be more useful for your efforts.

Whether you focus on one site or a variety of sites, you need to find the right sites to appeal to your target audience. Otherwise, your message won’t get seen by the right people.

2. See what the competition is doing

As popular as social media is, many companies haven’t gotten to it yet. Beating the competition to a particular platform automatically makes you the leader of the pack. If, for example, you discover that Twitter is a great site for reaching your target audience – and none of your competitors are Tweeting yet – go full-speed ahead so that you can be the first ones on the site. That way, everyone else has to play catch up.

3. Be prepared to wait

Social media doesn’t necessarily work overnight. Sure, you can see some fast successes here and there, but a solid social media marketing strategy is one that’s catered to the long haul. After all, it can take time to develop your personality and show people the “real you”, instead of just offering more corporate speak.

However, in the meantime, focus on creating compelling content – whether it’s links, pictures, videos, or status updates. On the social media sites, interesting stuff can go viral in the blink of an eye. Even one viral video can give you a major boost in traffic!

4. Keep tabs on your progress – and be prepared to make tweaks

Social media strategies aren’t always perfect right off the bat. But by keeping tabs on your progress, you can make changes to that your strategy becomes perfect.

By using Google Analytics or a similar program, you can see exactly where your traffic is coming from. If, for example, you’re getting a lot of clicks from the videos you’re posting on Facebook – but getting very few clicks from the pictures you’re posting on Facebook – focus more of your efforts on videos. After all, it’s in your best interest to give your target audience exactly what it wants!

Kirsty LaVier is editor for Shopping Cart Reviews, the leading site dedicated to helping you find the Best Shopping Cart Software.

How to Generate Avalanche of Leads with Facebook

Tamara — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:20:04 +0000

Facebook is an excellent channel to generate massive leads to your offer. With its great social power, you can set a good strategy to make more leads from Facebook. It is very useful if you want to increase subscribers in your mailing list or if you are promoting a CPA offer. Here are some tips to generate avalanche of leads with Facebook:

1. Choosing your target market

The first thing to know is your target market. But, before that, you have to know the product you are offering to them. Let us assume that the product you are offering is a free report on how to make $3000 per month online (remember that I’m giving tips to generate some leads, not sales). You want people to sign up to your mailing list and download the report. Now, what is your target market? Of course, internet marketers or work at home moms. Once you’ve found your target market, the next move is to find some active groups where those people meet.

2. Participate in active Facebook groups of your target market

Use Facebook search function to find some groups that discuss anything related to internet marketing or make money online. In those groups, you will find your target market. What you need to do is to participate to those groups and send friend requests to the group members. What you need to keep in mind is that when you send friend requests too often, you may risk your Facebook account being locked, so make sure to use your gut when you send friend request. Send the requests to as many people as possible, but don’t send it too often. In fact, you just need to spare some 30 minutes a day to send friend requests.

3. Repeat the process until you have good numbers of friends

You need to aim to have at least 500 friends in your Facebook account to start generating some leads. It will not take you much time if you are actively searching Facebook groups that correspond with your target market. Once you have at least 500 friends, you can start generating some leads. But, you have to keep adding your Facebook friends.

4. Build some credibility

You don’t want to promote any product blatantly to your Facebook friends because they may have other marketers doing that thing. What you need to do is to teach them and make them recognize you as an expert. Now, since you have many friends, you can start posting status updates by giving them some tips. Once in a while, inform them about your offer and ask them to sign up to your mailing list.

5. Building a blog

Now, the best accompany for this method is a simple blog. You can write some articles in this blog and offer your free report there. Every time you update your blog, you will tell your Facebook friends about it. Remember, they are your target market, so they have an interest in the product that you promote. You should be able to generate more leads this way.

Next, you will create a fan page and offer your free report there to generate even more leads. However, this will be for another article. If you apply the tips above, you will be able to generate avalanche of leads from Facebook.

Kelly has been writing articles for different websites online for the last 5 years and specialised in everything related to social media. She is also a contributor to HowToTradeCommodities.co.uk where you can get some useful tips when it comes to investment.

WordPress Widgets That Will Transform Your Blog

Tamara — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:20:40 +0000

WordPress is one of the best ways to edit and maintain a blog. It allows users to easily customize and manage their blog. Beginner and advanced bloggers alike love WordPress, making it perhaps the most popular blogging software. Best of all – it’s free. There are also thousands of different widgets you can add to enhance your blogging capabilities. Here are some WordPress Widgets that will transform your blog.

All in One SEO Pack

This widget will be a huge help in optimizing your WordPress blog for the search engines. It will automatically generate SEO titles and META tags, and it works seamlessly with all other plug-ins you have already downloaded. It supports Google Analytics and custom post types, it will enhance your navigational links, and it provides integration for WP e-Commerce sites. You can customize everything this widget does, or you can just sit back and let it immediately get to work transforming your blog.

Akismet

If your blog suffers from too many spam comments that it’s hard to keep up, this widget will be a lifesaver for you. Akismet will automatically check every comment that is posted to your blog for spam. You can review all the comments that are flagged as spam, and you can view more information about each comment to ensure accuracy, but this widget is incredibly good at catching and preventing spam.

Contact Form 7

Every good blog has a “Contact” page. This widget will help improve yours. It will allow you to place a contact form on your blog so your readers can directly email you by just entering their message and hitting “send”. This is a great feature to have on your blog because it will encourage people to contact you by making it incredibly easy for them to do so.

WPtouch

This widget will transform your blog for your mobile users. It will make your blog look almost like an app and change the features so when someone views it on a smartphone, it will look its absolute best. This widget is a must-have to make your blog mobile-friendly. You can easily customize the mobile look and features without altering any of your original blog code. And mobile viewers can easily choose to switch back to the original look of your blog if they prefer.

Google XML Sitemaps

Having a sitemap is an essential element if you want to impress the search engine spiders who will decide you blogs ranking. Sitemaps significantly increase your SEO, and this widget will automatically create a sitemap for you that is designed exactly how the spiders want to see it. It works with all WordPress pages and custom URLs.

Smart YouTube PRO

This widget will help you add dimension to your site by allowing you to easily embed videos from YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and more. The videos will appear right inside your blog posts where viewers can click “play” and watch without being directed away from your blog. You can also do more, like extract video thumbnails, embed playlists, autoplay videos, and add a video sidebar to your blog.

Liz Evans has been blogging for over five years, a huge fan of quality she enhances the quality of her posts using Grammarly grammar checker. Lisa is a bibliophile with a large collection of first editions including One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and other great reads.

How To Make Money With A Free Blog

Tamara — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:19:08 +0000

Introduction

Hey Folks! Blogs are not just a way to express your feelings but also a way to make money while you are online. Today blogging is multi billion dollar industry with daily new online companies joining in. According to a rough estimate about 200,000 bloggers are daily added to the World Wide Web. So blogging can be a great career for you because it can pay for your entire life.

In blogging you write and communicate with your audiences in very informal manner. Hence you can write freely what ever comes to your mind. Moreover in these days where jobs are shrinking and people are finding hard to make their living blogging can be a serious choice as a career. Especially you can earn money online without investment. Let’s see how.

Start With Blogger

Be the winner! There are many blogging platforms available today with fantastic themes. The most popular one is the WordPress and the other one is Blogger. Both of them are free to get started however WordPress does offer their services for fees. However I suggest you to neglect that and go for Blogger as it is free of cost. Moreover blogger offers various designs and layout for free. Yes I understand you can get best templates and designs if you buy a premium service from WordPress but still I recommend you to go for blogger.

Sign up there and name your blog related to the topic on which you will writing posts. If your domain or interest is about the cars then try to get the URL as WorldOfCars or CarsMania or AllAboutCars etc. Then choose a template and layouts; remember classic is the best one.

Create Daily Content

Now this is the real thing. You got to create content on daily basis. So begin with at least writing one post every day. Later on with time you can post two to three. So what you are going to write. Well! Getting ideas daily for blogging is the most important thing. So how are you going to get ideas for your each blog post? My advice would be start from the daily newspaper, and then watch news and infomercials on the television. You can get ideas what is going around the world that may inspire you to write a blog post.

Moreover the best tool for getting ideas daily is Google Alerts. You can create alerts with keywords that will inform you if anything new related to your blogs topic has been added to the internet. Each blog post must be at least 400 to 500 words. At least mention 3 to 4 main keywords in the post. Always use images and videos to demonstrate where ever it is possible. Content is King here so do not copy from somewhere and try to create your own unique content. Next is to make money.

Google Adsense Integration

Now you have started your blog for at least last 7 days it is time to make some money. Here we are using only Blogger so it offers a great way to integrate Google Adsense ads. You can directly sign up for Adsense. If you are updating your blog daily then Google will accept your blog for Adsense in just 2 days. You will be allowed to place only 3 ads on your each blog posts. After integration it will automatically show ads on your blog and if someone clicks on those ads you make dollars.

Hence have one blog post at a time on the screen then it will show all the three ads. As choosing different types of ads and their positioning are concern choose a large rectangle ad to place on the top, a vertical ad on the side and a small banner in between the blog post. Although this is not the final adjustment as you must keep experimenting. Get as much as clicks daily so that your earnings will increase. Never click ads yourself otherwise Google will terminate your account. Lastly you get paid every month on time.

Conclusion

In the end I would say blogging is a great way to earn money online without investment. Just try to bring out a writer in yourself. Daily write some great posts. For inspiration use Google Alerts. Integrate blogger with Google Adsense. Show the ads and you get paid monthly on the basis on how many clicks ads are receiving each day.

Pritam Nagrale is an affiliate marketer and a blogger. He writes about SEO Tips and Part Time Jobs in Bangalore.

The Secrets Behind Successful Creative Blogging

Tamara — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:20:51 +0000

We’d all like to have a high-traffic, widely-recognised blog that has legions of fans and showcases our creative sides. Anyone can use SEO to go after specific niches, but it takes a while for all those niche readers to add up to serious traffic. Attracting a more mainstream audience is hard work that requires a bit of ingenuity. You can increase your odds of success when it comes to creative blogging by following a few simple tips as outlined below:

Traditional SEO
While it may seem a little boring, search engine optimisation (SEO) is still an important method for generating traffic consistently. If your blog is having trouble “getting found”, try employing some of the tactics an seo company would use to attract visitors. In addition, you’ll want to narrow your focus to something that’s not too broad if you’re having trouble getting page views. You can’t be all things to all people, unfortunately, so choose a moderately specific target and focus on it.

Monitor Your Numbers
Analytics matter for every website, but it’s particularly crucial when you’re trying to build an audience. It’s something that Amazon doesn’t really have to worry about, other than using traffic source statistics to figure out how to best load-balance their servers and CDNs. Using analytics to look at bounce rates as well as where your traffic is coming from gives you a better idea of what’s resonating with readers.

Social Marketing
Love it or hate it, social media is still an important tool when it comes to growing your fan base organically. Employ hash tags and groups on Twitter to announce blog posts to readers who will be most likely to be interested in specific content. For business to business networking, Google+ is the new favourite when it comes to building relationships with other professionals in your field.

Keep it Simple
Too many bloggers focus on loading up their sites with too much visual information and gimmicky User Interface features. That takes focus away from your content, which should be the central feature of the blog. In the creative arts especially, it’s hard not to show off your considerable skills at every turn. But minimalism has its virtues, and it’s often a good idea to turn down the visual volume and let the content speak for itself.

Share Yourself with Your Audience
Here’s the thing: people like hearing about other people’s lives. For better or worse, we’re all hard-wired to care on some level about what’s going on in the lives of those around us. That’s why readers like it when the author they follow opens up once in awhile. You can share an opinion, a dream, a fear, or anything else you choose. Dry, informative blog posts have their place. But truly engaging blogs draw readers in and involve them on a personal level.

Create a Forum
You can choose to take this advice either literally or figuratively. Your blog should create a central hub of activity for like-minded individuals in your field to discuss ideas and share advice. When you create posts for your blog, they should be informative and value-rich. But even more importantly, they should ask a question of some sort. You don’t have to be controversial to start a conversation, but it certainly seems to help.

Final Words
The surest path to success in the field of creative blogging is to be, well, creative. It’s easier said than done, as you’ve no doubt discovered by now. Anyone that’s tried their hand at viral marketing can attest to how challenging it can be to create engaging marketing campaigns that catch fire. Blogs that manage to maintain consistent, dedicated repeat traffic all have one thing in common: they challenge their readers with unique, one-of-a-kind content that isn’t found elsewhere on the web.

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Formulating A Keyword Strategy For A New Blog

Tamara — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:20:15 +0000

If you’re thinking of launching a new blog in 2012 then as you’ll no doubt be aware there’s a fair bit of competition out there! Whatever the topic you’re planning on blogging about you can be sure that there is someone already out there doing the same thing, who has already written a load of the posts that are still in your head. But fear not, there is always room for another stand out blog in any niche for a blogger who is willing to go the extra mile and produce genuinely compelling content.

For most bloggers the writing is actually the easy bit – its getting the traffic which causes the most headaches (and indeed heartache!). One of the best ways to get regular traffic to your blog is through a solid SEO strategy – by tailoring your content to the keywords which people are searching for on Google you can pull traffic direct to your site and hopefully convert those searchers into regular readers. Now SEO can be complex but at the most basic level its actually pretty simple – blog about what people are searching for, use the keywords they’re using and with a bit of luck, and a bit of time you should start seeing some traffic.

The problem with this system though is the competition – because more established blogs are favoured by Google over new, un-trusted sites if you are competing for keywords which your competitors are already using you’re going to struggle to outrank them. Instead you need to choose keywords which have little or no competition at first – you will get less traffic off them, but as your blog gets more established you can go after those more competitive terms. Here are some tips for finding these magic “long tail” keywords.

Google Keyword Tool

Google keyword tool is pretty much the defacto solution for researching keywords for free. Its not the best tool out there, but it is free so its good for beginners! Start by throwing some generic terms related to your subject into the tool, you can be pretty broad at this stage. The tool will throw back a list of suggested keywords which you can sort by competition (in this case from low to high). That will hopefully give you a few topics or themes you could blog about. Now head over to Google.com (or your local version) …

Google Auto Complete

Formerly Google suggest. This is a great tool for very quickly brainstorming blog post ideas and keywords. Start plugging in your keywords and Google will start showing a bunch of terms which people have been searching for similar to the term you’re searching. This often uncovers niche terms which aren’t included in the Google keyword tool yet because perhaps people have just started searching for them or because they have lower search volumes.

Create your content

With some ideas of topics and keywords in place you’ll need to now turn this list of phrases into a plan of attack. When your blog is new you’re best off writing in-depth posts which cover topics in lots of detail and include all of your keyword variations within the one post. For example the title of your post might be:

“How to make money online with SEO”

As that is the main keyword. Then within that post you would want to include a number of keyword variations like:

“How to make money online with search engines”

“How to make money online with seo marketing”

“How to make money online with search engine optimization”

Plan future content

Its always best to keep the focus of your blog narrow and niche to begin with and branch out later. This way you’ll find it easier to attract a small but loyal subscriber base – essential for getting your new blog off the ground. So don’t just write one post on a subject and then move onto something else entirely. To come back to the example we’ve used above you might want to make your next post either about “how to make money online” or about “SEO”. This way you can refer (and link) back to the earlier post and build up the amount of content your blog has on the subject. Becoming an authority on a subject is the best way to attract links from other bloggers and make your name in the niche you’re working in, and these links will help your content to rank higher.

In summary, this is obviously a high level view of how you can use keywords to drive traffic to your blog but hopefully it helps explain the types of keywords you should be going after and a strategy for targeting them in your writing.

John McElborough is a UK based SEO and link building expert who runs a Brighton SEO agency called Ioptimal.

Social Engagement Operation – The New SEO

Guest_Author — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:55:30 +0000

SEO should stand for Social Engine Optimisation or Social Engagement Operation because the SEO game has changed forever. No longer is it OK to buy links; no longer is it OK to article spin or sign up to never ending directories. As SEO get more social so it becomes more time consuming, on the other hand it can be more rewarding. If you are serious about improving traffic and search engine positioning, you really have to be human. You need to appeal to humans and communicate effectively with them. You need to respond to humans with understanding and logic.

Search engines, especially Google are getting much better at making robots recognise human activity and behaviour. If you use Chrome, Google can track your every move. It can see who you engage with, where you go, what you like and change your search results accordingly. It can also apply information about what your friends and social acquaintances like and visit, and this information too can affect your search results when you have personalised search switched on (which will be your default setting).

SEO is all about Social Engagement

Not only is Google watching you and all of your online associates, it is watching your site. It is seeing how socially active your site is and how much it engages with the outside world. How many, Google Plus shares, +1′s, Facebook Likes, Tweets, digs and stumbles your content gets will send signals to Google about how good your content is. What’s more it says something about your business to Google that is becoming increasingly important to its algorithm. It says that you are real, it establishes you as a business that is trusted, and trust is something that Google wants to measure.

Of course link building is still of paramount importance, what is changing is the types of links that have the most weight, it’s getting harder to fake these links using paid for or spammy techniques. Social media provides some serious link building opportunities.

Finding the Influencers – the Holy Grail of Social Linkbuilding

The greatest links of all, the ones that will send you traffic and establish you as an authority are those gained from building relationships with key influencers with authority sites and cultivating relationships with them.

How do you find these influencers?

You can find them on Klout, Google+ and Twitter. Search for keywords relevant to your niche or market and look for people with the most followers.

What do you do next?

Keep a record of the people you identify, find them on Twitter, LinkedIn, and their blog, Google+ etc. and follow them. I use Google docs spredsheets to save information on key influencers, this document contains all the social accounts they have publicly and thier blog if they have one. Comment on their posts with longish and meaningful responses. Retweet them often. Share their content. Massage their ego enough and soon, with any luck they will recognise your name (this is one reason why using the same icon for all social media channels is a good idea as then you will be remembered.)

Wait until you get a response and thank them for it, then write a killer article on something you know that interests them, add them as a reference in your article. Provide a killer image to go with, add a link to your product or service in the by-line, it and politely and humbly ask them if they would consider publishing it.

Written by Heather Buckley of Silicon Beach Training providing SEO workshops in Brighton, Sussex UK, as well as Social Media courses and Prince2 project management training.

WordPress History Infographic

Mike Valentine — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:58:32 +0000

WordPress History

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WordPress is open source content management software that is free to download from WordPress.org
10,935 Available Plugins

DOWNLOADS
The Akismet Spam service and plugin by Automattic has caught a total of 17,744,612,938 spam comments and averages —18,000,000/mo
There are 1,217 Free themes in the WordPress theme directory with over 19,843,780 downloads. Popular Themes include: Arras Theme, TwentyTen, LightWord, Thematic, Constructor, and Pixel
Commercial themes are available for purchase from a number providers. Recently a number of theme “frameworks” have been developed that allow “child” themes to share the some feature set.

Goto WordPress.com and sign-up for free
Pros: WP Free. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Performance. Very popular.
Cons: Some limits on plugins . Setup, Backups, and custom themes upgrades and Security are your responsibility.

• WordPress.com is a popular and free blogging service that uses the software named WordPress

WordPress NOTABLE EVENTS

2003 Matt Mullenweg and Mike Litte fork the blogging software b2 to create WordPress. The first official release was v.0.7
2004 Version v1.0 was released with v1.0.1 code named Miles Davis shortly after Ping-O-Matic released to notify search engines of new blog content
bbPress which is a forum application based heavily on WordPress is released
v1.2 Mingus released in May contained many changes and improvements chief of which were the plugin system
2005 v1.5 Strayhom included the Kubrick default theme and a new static page feature
v2.0 Duke added rich editing and image uploading
Akismet launched with the aim of stopping the growing menace of comment spam
WordPress.com launched from private beta
Matt Mullenweg and others form a company called Automatic
2006 Automattic hires former Yahoo executive Toni Schneider as CEO
Automattic raises $1.1m in funding The first WordCamp was held in San Francisco and was attended by over 300 people
2007 v2.1 Ella was released in January and included improved content management options
WordPress won a Packt Open Source CMS award
WordPress.com passes 1 million users
v2.1.2 was released to fix a major security vulnerability found in v21.1
v2.2 Getz saw the arrival of the widget system that allowed users to add information to dynamic sidebar in themes
Themes containing sponsored links (Sponsored Themes) were removed from the Official WordPress Theme Directory
02.3 Dexter featured native tagging support
Brian Gardner a WordPress theme developer forms StudioPress to create and sell commercial WordPress themes
Thad Allender forms Graph Paper Press focused on Photography and Video commercial WordPress Themes
2008 02.5 Breaker saw a brand new interface designed by Happy Cog Studios 02.8 Tyner added new CMS features like post revisions

Chris Pearson creates Thesis Theme under the DIYThemes brand
WordPress.com passes 4million users
WooThemes is formed by Adii Pienaar, Magnus Jepson and Mark Forrester to create and sell Commercial WordPress themes
Press75 was formed to sell Commercial themes created by Jason Schuller
02.7 Coltrane introduced an Automated Upgrade and Plugin install feature as well as new internal interface design
Themes not complying with the GPL license requirements were removed from the Official WordPress Theme directory
2009 02.8 Baker saw speed improvements and a redesigned widget interface
WordPress won the Packt best Open Source CMS Award
BuddyPress was released by Andy Pealing in April 2009 and added popular social network community features to a WordPress MU powered site
WordPress.com passes 9 million users
Page.ly launches a fully managed and secure hosting platform for WordPress websites
02.9 Carmen added a built-in image editor and numerous improvements
2010 The non-profit WordPress Foundation is formed by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project The foundation promotes the free access and right to modify and distribute the WordPress Source code under the GPL license
BuddyPress adds support for Single User WordPress
A nefarious plot to delay the release 01 02 is uncovered. The dangerous mastermind turns out be a kitten
v3.0 Thelonious merged WordPress MU into WordPress, added a new dynamic menu system and included a new default theme called Twentyten
Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson creator of Thesis Theme face Off on the issue of GPL compliance. Chris ultimately changes the license of his theme to “Split GPL° to comply with the letter of WordPress guidelines. Some say split GPL still violating the spirit of WordPress project
WordPress.com passes 11 million users

Try a managed load the free WordPress hosting to install at the service like Pagely your choice
Pros: Full customization. Setup, Backups, Upgrades and Security are done for you. High Performance
Cons: Medium to High Price

Data compiled by Chase Granberry of Authority Labs Search Rank Monitoring http://authoritylabs.com @authoritAabs
Design by Joshua Strebel of Sagely WordPress Hosting http://page.ly @pagely

Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Hello Dolly was the very 1st plugin available and simply printed random lyrics from the song “Hello Dolly” to the WordPress Admin screen

WordPress is an open source CMS, often used as a blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL. WordPress is the most popular CMS in use today powering nearly 8.5% of all websites on the net.

The Most Effective Ways To Market Your Website Through Twitter

Tamara — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:45:20 +0000

Most people cannot live with Twitter. Twitter has become a part of their daily life. So does online business. Twitter can be a part of your online business too. And Twitter can help you to effectively market your website to your prospects. No matter what kind of business you are running online, Twitter will give you more opportunity to see good clients in your business. Here are the most effective ways to market your website through Twitter:

1. Use professional background image
Remember that your background image counts. The more professional your background image, the more people interested to follow you. Of course, the more professional your background image, the more potential followers will perceive you as an expert. Once you’ve placed your background image, it’s just a matter of how good your tweets in the past time. If you have good tweets, more people will decide to follow you. But first, hire a designer to design good background image for your Twitter account.

2. Provide information and conversation
Remember that you will use Twitter to give your potential clients necessary updates for whatever happening in your business. But, you should never forget that Twitter is a place for conversation. So, balance your information with good conversation. You don’t need to answer all @mention that you get. You simply answer @mention that makes you want to answer. But, the main key is balance. I hope you understand this.

3. Ask people to connect with you
There are many website owners that neglect the importance of asking their visitors to connect with their Twitter account. They just place the “t” image in the sidebar of their website and expect people to follow them immediately by doing only this. Remember, you have to ask your audience to follow your Twitter as often as possible, if you really want them to follow you. Do it in your blog posts. Don’t just let that image sit in your website and think that your audience will follow you automatically.

4. Make your Twitter valuable
Make your Twitter as valuable as your website. Twitter can give you good portion of your overall website traffic. So, don’t neglect its importance. If you truly regard your Twitter account as valuable thing for your business, then you will not fill your tweets with spam or crappy content. Nothing beats value. True value will deliver the best result for your business.

Those are the most effective ways to market your website through Twitter. Add this little platform to your marketing arsenal, and you’ll never regret it. Build more followers, deliver value, and you’ll see the result without fail.

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Social Media- What’s In It For A Business?

Tamara — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:45:33 +0000

There are still so many businesses out there that aren’t paying attention to social media for many different reasons. The main excuse seems to be because they do not really understand the benefits that it would bring to the company. Whilst it is true to say that there are many businesses that would struggle to make a success out of a social campaign, it is also fair to say that these businesses are in the minority. Here is what social can bring a business.

Brand Recognition

The brand of a company is important to pretty much any business and it is because of this that you should be considering social! Although a poor social campaign will ruin a brand, if you get the right branded social campaign going then you are well on your way to becoming a respected company in the social realm.

Working with an agency that specializes in social campaigns will help you to boost brand recognition. This can be done in a number of ways, one of the most successful being a competition. Your business could come up with all of the ideas but you will find it hard to implement without someone that knows what they are doing.

The more recognizable your brand is, the more people are going to think about your business when they are buying the product or service that you offer.

It is important to realize that your competition doesn’t always have to be centred on your business; it can just be something interesting that is going to give your company a lot of attention!

Better Customer Relationships

Although your business will likely have a department where people can talk to you about their experiences with the company, it simply isn’t enough in the modern world. You need to be doing more in order to show your customers that you care. A lot of people don’t want to wait days for an email response about a product they have just received and will not want to speak to people over the phone either.

You can use social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to quickly answer any quick concerns (positive feedback too) that your customers may have. If the issue is one that will take a while to sort out then all you need to do is direct them to the appropriate places.

Influence of the Business

Although you might be able to get you’re most loyal fans to come and read your blog or do things for your business, good luck getting millions to do it. With a good social media following you can get many more people to do things you want and this can range from viewing a page on your site to telling all of their friends about an offer you have!

These are really just some of the great reasons why you should seriously consider social media for your business!

From the biggest office space to the smallest office space sunderland, nearly every business can benefit from a social media campaign.