Social media and marketing tips for the little guys
Many beginner bloggers are under the impression that it takes years to build real connections with your audience.
This is simply not true. There are bloggers who were able to drive thousands of readers to their blogs within only three months.
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I had so much going on recently I had to temporary abandon this little blog to prioritise on work that needed more focus. I’ll admit that I have not been spending much time here but things are about to change!
I recently wrote a post on for Ian Cleary on the tools I used to grow an amazing community of 400,000 followers. If you hadn’t read it yet I recommend you head over to his blog to check it out.
When I first started using Twitter, I had literally zero connections out the usual group of friends I hung out with in Uni. Back then I was searching for a way to grow my readers on a coffee blog I created and it was then that I stumbled upon an article on twitter. I read about its potential and I thought I could use it to connect with people. I was sold.
On the 20th of March 2009, I registered my account and tweeted the following.
On the same day, I started following people in my industry, and on my third tweet someone responded to me, proving the potential of what Twitter could become.
Do you remember the first tweet you sent? Today’s post will help you find out what was your first tweet.
The good news is. You don’t really need a tool for that at all. It can all be done inside Twitter. Here is how you do it.
1. Go to Settings
2. Scroll down and click request your archives. Your archives will then be sent to your email.
3. Check the email you used to register your account on twitter.
4. Click download
5. Unzip the file you’ve download.
6. Once you’ve unzip, you’ll notice several folders. Simply open the file called “index.html”
7. You’re done. Here is what it would look like.
Now simply go back to the very first time you tweeted and relive the memory. Using this, I found that I was still connecting with some of my very first friends on twitter.
Why did you tweet that? Did it remind you of why did you started using Twitter?
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.
Below is a guest post contributed by Patricia Garza
Monitoring twitter followers can be tough. With the amount of importance and emphasis of online marketing through social media, it’s time to actually start getting smart about it. While I do believe it’s better to have tweeted and lost followers than to have never tweeted at all, I also believe it’s time to stop viewing our social media with such a romantic disposition.
Cold hard fact: Your Twitter followers do not care about your feelings. That is, unless you feelings are a crucial hinge of your tweets (say, if you’re a professional artist or poet). Even then, they care only if your feelings are somehow hindering or enhancing your work and your tweets.
I’m saying all of this to throw you out of the mindset that you are using Twitter to make friends. You are using Twitter to network, gain readers, and keep readers. So whenever someone stops following you on Twitter, there’s no need to get bummed out. However, you should have every incentive to sweat a little. Or at least enough to get you to research and evaluate your usage of social media. Fortunately, there are many tools at your disposal to do this.
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I have a daily routine to log into Quora every day and answer questions regarding Twitter as part of my daily learning session. There was a question which stood out yesterday; someone posted a question on Twitter asking
“How can I make Twitter useful?”
“I’ve been on Twitter about a year, and I really don’t understand its benefits at all. I really struggle to find anyone interesting to follow, and while I do tweet what I believe to be humorous/interesting content, I can’t see how anyone beyond my existing friend base, or spammers, would find my account.
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Have you noticed your pictures on Facebook now come with a black background and toned-down, faded colors around the screen? Well say hello to the theater mode. One of my pals @alexfei told me that he didn’t like the new methods of browsing Facebook photos, while we were discussing about facebook new theater mode. So I have decided to find ways to return the old way of browsing Facebook photos and avoid the new theater mode which many don’t find useful… sorry MARK!
When you press the F5 button on your keyboard or click the refresh/reload button on your browser during the theater mode, it will bring you back to the old style of browsing photos.
Got this tip from @rocksstar10 who learned from @rm1l. So credits to them
On your URL for the photo, simply remove ‘&theater’ and click enter! You’ll be back to the old way of browsing your photos.
A facebook photo url will give you a URL like such
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150415804030304&set=a.10150274409680304.488832.817910303&theater
Here is a screen shot of it.
Simply remove it and you’re back to the old method of browsing photos.
You could also open photos on a new tab by right click on your mouse and click open in new tab. Gets you away from all the hassle. (tip by @banafsaji)
A friend who I met on twitter @glitterglitzer, commented on my facebook wall saying
“all this is cool but can I get rid of it permanently?”
My respond: I am pretty sure one company will come up with a firrefox/google plugin to get rid with it. 
Yeap! I found a plugin that could do that. Its currently for google chrome.
All you need to do is download the revert photo viewer plugin and install it on your google chrome.
Done! Quick and simple wasn’t it?
photo credits: nymag.com
This is a guest post by Dino Dogan, Founder of Dogan Dogs and 2WheelTips . Dino posted a guest post on this blog before on How Do I Start Blogging in 10 Steps or Less? In this guest post, Dino is going to teach us how to automate people using Twitterfeed. You can follow Dino on twitter: @dino_dogan
Manually tweeting new posts by my favorite bloggers has seriously started cutting into my “me” time.
For the last few months I’ve been trying to figure out a way to auto-tweet newest blog posts published by my friends and favorite bloggers. As a rule, these are people who constantly and consistently produce good content sans sales pitch.
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I posted a couple of videos before for the twitter for business series. This is a great video on how businesses should use twitter in their business. As you know twitter is a perfect fit for individuals, consumers and businesses. Anyone can use twitter. I’ve gave 10 reasons why businesses should use twitter before and this is a step by step guide. This video guides you from creating account to how to find what people are talking about the brand to replying customers. Although this is a short video, it’s filled with great information. Follow these tips to start seeing real value
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