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. … [Read more...] about Creative way to automate your twitter account for success
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5 Social media trends that will lead 2012.
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. … [Read more...] about 5 Social media trends that will lead 2012.
The Five Smartest Kinds Of Twitter Users Which Ones Are You Most Like?
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: … [Read more...] about The Five Smartest Kinds Of Twitter Users Which Ones Are You Most Like?
6 Unofficial Ways to Increase Your Klout Score
Oh no... not another klout blog post!! YES! another one. Several months ago, I had my internship in Singapore and I didn’t really have much time to tweet, so I expected my klout score to decrease. It fell from 80+ to 72 within a month. (Little tweets and engagement in a month) So I thought it would be fun to try out how I could get the score back up again, therefore I tried several methods from simply tweeting and sharing tweets to trying the other types of tweets. The results? Here are 6 UNOFFICIAL WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR KLOUT SCORE. … [Read more...] about 6 Unofficial Ways to Increase Your Klout Score
Five reasons to and five reasons not to hire an intern for your social media
There are ongoing debates about hiring an intern to handle your social media presence or to handle your companies social media account. Some may say that they should hire an intern because they know Facebook, and because of that they will make them a great social media manager as they are the experts. However, that is not true, although most of these teenagers really do know how use to Facebook of course, they use it for personal reasons such as relaying their movements to their friends, connecting, posting news updates, and stalking other peoples' friends . (Don't pretend you don't do this!). I imagine very few interns use Facebook for business usage. Interns don’t use Facebook for business; they use it to look at chicks in bikini pictures - @garyvee Hiring an intern or getting them … [Read more...] about Five reasons to and five reasons not to hire an intern for your social media
Is social media like marriage?
While browsing Youtube videos, I stumbled across a video by @Garyvee which caught my attention. Before I share the video with you, here are some of the key points which I found out from the video. In the video, Gary talked about how businesses today handle social media and one of the things Gary noticed was that businesses are like brides, they spend more time and effort planning the wedding than they do once they are married. He also mentioned that businesses today don’t think lifetime value can be achieved from social media. Here is the video: … [Read more...] about Is social media like marriage?
