Humanizing Business. Professionalizing People. Social Media

Creative way to automate your twitter account for success

Written on January 25, 2012 by Aaron in Case Study, Twitter For Business

Remember the unspoken rule which says that you “shouldn’t automate your Twitter account”? We’ve all read that one before, but today I’d like to prove to you that you can actually automate your Twitter account…. with a little bit of creativity.

For some reason my attention is always drawn towards how airlines are using social media. Maybe it’s because I spend countless hours searching for affordable fares and promotions to satisfy my hunger to travel. I love to check out the numerous airlines available and this might’ve indirectly led me to cover numerous articles on how airlines are using social media, as well as their failures and success.

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7 tips to humanize your brand on Facebook

Written on January 11, 2012 by Aaron in Humanizing

Facebook is a personal social network, it’s where friends and family stay in touch, connect, update each other, etc. It was never made for business (until not long ago). However many marketers and brands treat it as another advertising medium to promote their product. Ssssstoopp it..

After starting a new brand on Facebook for my business, and learning from other brands, I thought I should share some methods that I’ve found to be effective in getting people to notice your brand.

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5 Social media trends that will lead 2012.

Written on January 3, 2012 by Aaron in marketing, social media

Oh no, not another 2012 social media trends prediction post. This is different because I have time travelled back from the future to warn you about what is going to happen this year. Hopefully, telling you this won’t change the future and causing ‘ the butterfly effect’ to happen. It was scary enough to see Ashton Kutcher “almost” giving a guy a….. you know what!

So what’s big this year? Almost the same as last year, actually. However we’ll see a few areas which will be more concentrated than others.

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Failure is not doing

Written on January 1, 2012 by Aaron in Uncategorized

Its 2012 friends! Will 2012 be the end of the world? I doubt so, then again I could be wrong . Its great to start a new year fresh! I don’t have a new years revolution set but I do have goals that I want to achieve in 2012. I was able to achieve some last year and I’m making 2012 my “redemption year”. What about you?

Whatever you’ve decided or plan to achieve, I’m going to say something which may sound cliche…… just do it, better yet do it TODAY. In my honest opinion, there is no perfect time to “start” except NOW.

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33 ways to reward your customers

Written on December 1, 2011 by Aaron in Humanizing, People Marketing

Last week I wrote a post on how you can humanize your social media presence. One of the methods that I recommended was rewarding your customers. Sophia.C commented and shared her thoughts that rewarding customers is tough because small businesses have a limited budget.

True, you shouldn’t blow your budget. Little things means a lot in my honest opinion, its the small things that makes a big difference. Some ideas won’t cost you a lot, if they do, you could always do them on a smaller scale.

Here is a list that I have complied with the help of some of my friends from Google+, Facebook and Twitter.

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8 ways to humanize your business on social media

Written on November 20, 2011 by Aaron in Humanizing

I had a conversation with one of my friends on twitter. We were discussing about the importance of humanizing a brand on the social web, sadly not many businesses are taking the opportunity to do it. Some of them treats it as another advertising medium to promote and sell their ~~bad~~ product.

Yesterday, I wrote a couple of methods that brands can use to humanize their brand on Facebook, so I decided to take them and convert it into a picture. (my photoshop skills needs tons of improvement).

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How to create your own creative QR Code

Written on November 16, 2011 by Aaron in how-to, Tools

For those who doesn’t know what a QR code is, here is a quick introduction, a QR or “quick responds” code is an encoded information in a coded form readable with the help of a QR-readers. Its like a barcode of a product, and the counter scanner scans the barcode to get the price, while in this case the encoded information.

QR codes are everywhere these days, you’ll see it while window shopping, reading the newspapers in the morning, on a bottle, contest (scan to win), and t-shirts. Its everywhere! Some question whether QR codes are even useful. That is a debate that I would love to talk about in the future post, however this post is more about designing your QR code, making it different or standout.

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Buffer and Facebook: Great marriage in a making?

Written on November 9, 2011 by Aaron in Tools

I now pronounce you Facebook and Buffer. Yeap! If you don’t know yet, Buffer has just announced their latest integration with Facebook right after their Android release. You can be sure that the iphone, linkedin and google+ integration will be out soon.

I remember when the first time @LeoWid contacted me through email and commented on this blog, he shared with me what he planned to achieve with buffer and shared a photo of it too. (YES Leo, i saved it and yes i remembered it)

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The Five Smartest Kinds Of Twitter Users Which Ones Are You Most Like?

Written on November 2, 2011 by Aaron in Twitter

The following is a guest post by Dave Larson aka @tweetsmarter on twitter. Dave is someone who i have my utmost respect for on twitter. For the past 4 years, Dave has answered and helped thousands of Twitter users worldwide. Enjoy!

There are a lot of smart ways to use Twitter. And there are a lot of fun kinds of people to follow—comedians, family, friends, and so forth. But which kind of users make best advantage of all the social networking site like Twitter has to offer? While it’s hard to break the wide diversity of users into narrow categories, there are a few common types that are worth knowing and learning from. However, most of the people you will meet will be a combination of several of these types:

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My Honest and Unbiased Review of Sprout Social

Written on October 31, 2011 by Aaron in Tools

Disclaimer: I wasn’t paid to review this, I review this on my own free will and nobody put a gun at my puppy head asking me for a review. (oh don’t get any ideas)

If you notice at the side bar, there is an image from Sprout Social, that is because I know some people from Sprout Social and they are amazing people, they were kind enough to give a chance to play around with the tool.

So… Ask me what I think of Sprout social

I like it…

Ask me again what I think of it.

I reaaally like it

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