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?
My Honest and Unbiased Review of Sprout Social
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 … [Read more...] about My Honest and Unbiased Review of Sprout Social
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?
How To Run A Successful Social Media Competition
The following blog post is a guest post by @KieraPedley. Kiera is the CCO (Chief Caring Officer) at Binkd home of the Binkd Promotion Platform. Not to mention a great friend! Enjoy! Running a social media contest or competition can generate you some quick fans, and build your email list up, and drive quality, qualified, interested traffic to your site. Without a good strategy in place, your hard-earned effort might well be going to waste. Here are 5 strategies to turn your contest into a valuable, long term, marketing machine. Begin With A Social Media Plan Competitions should only represent one part of your social media marketing plan. If you don't already have a strategy in place, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. … [Read more...] about How To Run A Successful Social Media Competition