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Superman vs. Bing Visual Search
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
The other day, I had an image in my mind of a strange object and I wanted to find a picture of it online. The only problem was I didn’t have a clue what it was called. The image in my head was of a scene in “Superman II” when General Zod’s henchman Non is in the Oval Office and he’s staring intently at something. It’s five metal balls tied to strings in a row and the ones on either end keep hitting the four still balls, causing the ball on the other end to bounce away and come back again.
Maybe you already know what I’m talking about.
I turned to one of my coworkers here at eHarbor, Inc. and asked her to help me. She could picture it, as well, but she couldn’t put her finger on the name. I tried searching for “metal ball attached to strings hitting each other” on Google, but I didn’t find what I was looking for. Luckily, my resourceful coworker found it on Amazon.com, I believe. I could now put a name to an image – Newton’s cradle!
This story illustrates my need for a visual search engine and not simply a text-based one. Luckily, Microsoft and Google are both heading in that direction. I read about their efforts in a CNN article entitled, “Microsoft, Google expand search-engine tools.”
None of the Bing Visual Search galleries look like they would help me find Newton’s cradle because they mostly include people, entertainment and electronics. But it’s new, so I’m willing to cut Microsoft some slack. I’m sure they will get better as they get a feel for what people are (literally) looking for.
Microsoft is still trying hard to break Google’s domination of the search-engine market. The CNN article cited a comScore study showing that, in June, about 65 percent of online searches were done through Google, while just 8.4 percent were done through Bing.
I’ve talked about the race between Microsoft and Google to develop a stronghold over a variety of online and software industries before. You can read about it in my blog entry, “Google-Microsoft face-off good for ecommerce.” Their rivalry is bringing great innovations like these visual search engines. I’ll hopefully talk more about Google’s Fast Flip in a forthcoming blog entry. For now, I’ll say adieu.
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Great Blogging Resources – How to Find Information and Ideas
November 19, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
When you are thinking about your blog entry, you may be faced with writer’s block. This is common for most writers – even bloggers. Don’t panic. The good news is that writer’s block always passes. There are a number of great blogging resources that will help you come up with ideas or find information to write your blog entries.
In some cases, it is a good idea to make a list of future blog entries. You should keep a pad of paper and a pen handy at all times. Pay attention to the world around you. When you are surfing the net, be on the lookout for topics that you can blog about. When you are standing in line at the grocery store, again, be on the lookout for blog topics. Make sure you jot these ideas down, or they may be lost forever.
Determine how often you will blog. If you will blog once a week that is 52 blog entries that you will need to write. If you will blog daily, that comes to 365. Try to write that number of topics for future blog entries on your list. That way, when you are stumped, you can refer to your list to find something to write about.
Another common practice for getting ideas for blog entries is to visit other blogs that are related to yours in some way. You aren’t there to copy information, but your blog entry can be based on one of theirs, as long as you provide a Trackback to the other person’s blog entry. This is what makes the blogging community so great! All of the information works together and is connected – allowing us to pass information around at the speed of light! You can also visit websites that are related to your overall blog topic to get ideas.
Of course news websites, such as http://www.cnn.com , http://www.headlinenews.com , http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ , and other such sites are great resources for information and ideas for your blog entries as well. Many bloggers incorporate the daily events of the world into their blogs, and there is no better source than a news website for this information.
Other sites such as Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com may also give you ideas for your blog entries. Even doing a search on the most popular keywords that have been searched for recently can give you ideas that you can write about.
Once you’ve chosen your topic for your entry, you may need to do some research to find specific facts. There are numerous resources for all kinds of information available for free online. Typically, you can go to any search engine and simply type in a keyword or keyword phrase and find what you are looking for. If you need specific statistics on a given topic, type in the topic followed by the word statistics, and you will find what you are looking for.
Just try to make sure that the information you are writing in your blog is accurate. If you are unsure, simply say that you are unsure. If you are using estimates, make sure that it is clear that it is just an estimate. If you are stating your opinion, make sure that people will understand that this is your opinion, as opposed to actual facts. Nobody wants to be flamed, and we all hate it when we are wrong and somebody points it out! Avoid this by checking your facts, and distinguishing between fact and opinion!
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Twitter to Stardom
November 10, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Twitter to stardom
by Skeeter Hansen and Your Pal Al Ferretti
Twitter may be your ticket to Internet Stardom It’s funny because we know many of you have heard of those so called “once in a lifetime opportunities”.
Unless you have been living under a rock, you see those opportunities everywhere.
Truthfully, and if we were betting men (and sometimes we are), we would say that Twitter is a once in a lifetime opportunity for virtually anybody. Here’s 7 reasons to ignite your light to internet stardom
1. Twitter is growing at an amazing rate and its been said that twitter users, are on twitter for longer periods of time, compared to users on other social media networks.
2. Twitter easily integrates with blogs and/or websites.
3. The amount of available twitter clients, tools and apps (more and more are being released every single day) allow for almost unheard of customization and flexibility.
4. You can spread the news about your brand, product or service at the speed of lightning. (even faster than traditional media like CNN, ESPN, etc) That’s why they use Twitter.
5. There’s no limit on how to use Twitter (be it personally and/or professionally) with even more ways being created all the time. Some top brand companies use twitter for special offers, customer service and more.
6. Twitter’s climate is the perfect breeding ground from the high profile celebrity to joe the plumber and every business marketing owner in between.
7. Twitter is now the default for spreading news and information and it is a preferred way by many to connect with people all across planet earth. Our future with communication has officially changed for the good.
This is your official (no hype) “Once in a Lifetime Opportunity” to Stardom
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The most effective ways for journalists to use Twitter
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Without a doubt, organizations are trying out Twitter as part of their engagement into the social media scene. Having developed from an incomprehensible Web segment into a must-have for business identities in no time, Twitter has a social element that allows both individuals and organizations to connect and exchange information.
Twitter is also a powerful tool for journalists because it encompasses all the benefits of social networking including instant delivery, branding opportunities, and advanced marketing prospects. According to CNN, during the attacks in Mumbai in 2008, approximately 80 “tweets” were being sent via sms every five seconds, providing instant update before the TV broadcasting and eyewitness information about the attacks. During President Obama’s inauguration, Twitter quadrupled its usual traffic per second and increased the number of tweets in a typical minute by four times.
As of March 2008, Twitter is estimated to total 1.5 million users with nearly 4 million Twitters following each other and exchanging 3 millions messages per day. No surprises then that news organizations use Twitter to connect with their audience, employ their sources and build their personal brands. From the organizational perspective, Twitter is an emerging media outlet with enhanced marketing segments where organizations may develop new brands and extend their product base.
So what can Twitter do for a good journalist?
First of all, it is a matter of personal branding. By establishing a personal account that is approachable and open to communication, a journalist can develop social relationships and promote his work. As the number of Twitter users increases, so does the potential exposure to audience.
By gaining exposure, the journalist gets also feedback on his work. Feedback is very valuable because it sets the right direction and offers an alternative perspective on how the account should be like and what postings it should include so as to attract the readers.
Similar to comments and feedback is the chance to hire people who can be freelancers for the account and take care of the design, programming or even marketing. In that way, the journalist will spend time only in writing, while the account will be attractive and functional.
Twitter can be used for finding prospect audience among people who share common interests. By performing a Twitter Search with specific keywords, a journalist can come up with users who can then be followers of his account or he can follow theirs.
Business Management is another important feature of Twitter. It can be used as a company intranet connecting employees when they work on group projects. This facilitates time management as the group is tuned and keeps a detailed record of what they do daily.
Twitter drives direct traffic to an account by tweeting a posting through the contact list. Therefore, if a journalist has a big list of followers, he can ask them to tweet his posting and this will spread quicker and further as other Twitter users pick it up.
Well established news organizations such as CNN and New York Times are using Twitter promptly and proficiently, while Reuters is using Twitter to watch how trends move and finds it works. Indeed, the news industry has jumped in and engaged in Twitter with a hybrid approach.
In return, Twitter provides journalists with enhanced news applications that grant the audience with breaking news. Providing live coverage and real-time commentary expands discussions as long as other Twitter users continue spreading the message. Through the application programming interface (API), journalists can automatically type keywords of interest on their cell phone and post it on Twitter’s interface. With API, news organizations can monitor what is being posted with key words of interest as well as collect information on Twitter members and follow patterns. To get the full benefit of API, journalists use the TwitterFeed for breaking news, blogs, alerts, and political postings.
Serving the need of any journalist to continually come up with new and interesting topics, Twitter offers the opportunity to search, read and select among thousands of articles and newspapers to get ideas for stories. Inspirational ideas need to be shared for generating new ideas. Twitter is a valuable assistant in a journalist’s effort to keep on producing insightful articles that can make a difference.
On the other hand, Twitter faces also a small challenge that relates to its extremely low barriers of entry. Anyone can join and anyone can use its features without any control. Adapting this in the broader context of social media, experienced editors consider it is not a problem because social media can actually solve journalism’s trust and credibility problem. In the future, social networking tools will assist traditional media outlets to track a person’s location. In fact, this will facilitate social networking even more considering that, today many users are reluctant to open accounts on social websites in the fear of being harassed by other members. In the B2B context, news organizations will be able to track down journalists that do not respect their profession and report biased or offending work. As a result, not only journalism will be more credible, but the increase in social media users will result in increased profitability for the news industry.
In effect, Twitter is a relationship building tool. Journalists can extract benefits from users who relate to their profession as long as they network dynamically and effectively.
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Being a strong advocate of simplicity in life, I love my family, my partner and all the people that have stood by me with or without knowing. And I hope that someday, human nature will cease to be greedy and demanding realizing that the more we have the more we want and the more we satisfy our needs the more needs we create. And this is so needless after all.
Why Twitter is a Must for Online Business?
November 4, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Oh Twitter how I love thee! Although you might not hear those exact words said very often online, you know it’s true when you login to your Twitter account or visit someone’s blog. With the emergence of WordPress plug-ins like “TwitThis” and the various twitter badges found on numerous blogs throughout the Internet, it is obvious people adore Twitter. Just what is it that makes this social networking site so lovable? Let’s find out.
The question posed by Twitter, “What are you doing?” has become almost as popular as AOL’s “You’ve got mail.” So much so that it has even caught the eye of offline news mediums such as USA Today, CNN, and ABC. This helps to make the application popular all on its own. Those who think Twitter is just a place for computer or Internet geeks can rest assured it’s nothing of the sort.
For many, Twitter is a way to interact with like-minded individuals. Whether one is a stay at home mom who craves adult conversation, an at home worker who misses the water cooler chit-chat from past jobs, or the business owner who wants to reach more of their target market, this form of social media fills a need. It makes it easier for people to connect with others in a way they might not have previously been able to.
The fact Twitter is easily accessible and even simpler to navigate makes it a favorite as well. Anyone can create a twitter account of their own with nothing more than a user name and a password. Once that’s done, it’s easy to customize your profile and begin following other tweeps, as those who use Twitter affectionately call one another. To follow what another person is doing, just visit their page and click the follow button. You’ve now been added as a follower and when you login to your account you will see their messages on your screen.
Want to use Twitter even when you’re not at home or don’t have access to your computer? No problem. Inside your account you can choose whether to have messages sent via cell phone or instant messenger programs as well. Just browse to your settings and choose the devices tab and in a few steps you’re good to go. This feature makes it possible to tweet on the go. This is perfect for those who travel frequently or while out and about come across something interesting or amusing that they’d like to share with their followers.
Twitter’s arrival has also lead to the creation of different platforms and applications to make it appealing to just about everyone. Popular applications include, Twitter Fox, Twhirl, TweetDeck, and TweetMyBlog. Twitter Fox and Twhirl give users who are prefer the instant messaging look and feel a way to use Twitter in somewhat the same manner. Twitter Fox is an extension for the Firefox browser and Twhirl is a desktop application.
TweetMyBlog is a way to automatically post updates from a user’s blog to Twitter. In order to use it all one needs is a Twitter account and an RSS feed from their blog. It will automatically posts a tweet using your account when your blog is updated.
Tweet Deck is another desktop application that allows for more organization of updates. Instead of posting all a users tweets one right after another, it allows the user to organize tweets into separate columns within the application. For those who have customers and friends on Twitter this is a great feature.
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Tips to Massive Free Traffic
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Is there any better type of traffic to bring to your website than FREE targeted traffic?
Of course not, free traffic is what everyone is looking for. If you’ve ventured into pay per click advertising, I’m sure you’ve seen how quickly your money can evaporate. Free targeted traffic is the proverbial “Holy Grail” of internet marketing.
The hottest trend in driving traffic to your website is using the various “social networking” sites. Social Marketing (or Web 2.0) is built on the concept of people sharing their favorite sites with their friends and acquaintances. The hard part is figuring out how to use that platform to promote your website or products.
Social Marketing is often associated with the big names like Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook, as well as countless smaller ones. These sites should not be easily dismissed, with traffic to these sites dwarfing the traffic seen at supposed big authority sites like ESPN, Amazon, or CNN.
The problem for marketers is how to harness the traffic from these sites and drive it back to their own. Social Networking sites don’t like to cater to marketers and work to keep spam off of their sites. It’s really important to adhere to this policy so that you aren’t banned from the site.
Be honest with your postings. Don’t mislead people, and try to give them information which will help them out. The more information you provide to them (or help them out), the more they will be willing to help you out. Provide links with further detail, and make sure to answer any questions that people post to your profile.
Humor is also a great tool to use when using social network sites. Poke a little fun at yourself or give people an insight into who you really are and what passions you have. The more you share of your own personality, the more likely you are to start attracting a parade of friends and building your network of contacts. The bigger your network, the more visitors you’ll be able to drive to your website.
If you’re looking for the secrets to funneling large amounts of Social Traffic back to your site, you should take a look at Social Traffic Explosion. It’s a collection of 8 how to videos that walks you through the steps of building your unique profile at the biggest social networking sites and using them to drive large amounts of free targeted traffic back to your website.
It comes with an 8 week 100% unconditional money back guarantee. If you’re not happy with it for any reason or it doesn’t meet your expectations, simply return it and you will be refunded with no questions asked. How simple is that?
If you’re looking for ways to go under the radar of the major social networking sites and generate massive amounts of free traffic, check out Social Traffic Explosion. Thanks for taking a look, Jim McMenamin.
Must Have Twitter Marketing Tools
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Must Have Twitter Marketing Tools
The recent explosion of social media has created new opportunities for internet marketers. The one everyone is talking about is called Twitter. If you have never been on Twitter, or at least heard of Twitter you must have been living in a cave. The main stream media has been all over it lately. CNN for example has a huge presence on Twitter, with over 1.96 million followers as of the time of this article. Followers, by the way, are people that are interested in what you have to say and have decided to follow your tweets or updates. These tweets can be about anything you choose to write about, from what you are doing now to what you are going to do tomorrow. The can be about any and everything you want to say. You get a 140 characters to express yourself to the world. The quality of these tweets will have a direct impact on the rate at which you obtain and maintain followers. The more informative or entertaining the tweet, the more interesting it will be to your followers and the more likely it becomes that they will retweet the update. Retweet is when one or more of your followers think enough of your update to pass it along to their followers. You can compare retweeting to back-linking. It’s a great way to get your name out to the rest of the Twitter world and increase your followers.
Now to the important part for IM people. Twitter has become one of best places to market on the net. Consider your followers like you would your email list. The larger the follower/email list the more opportunity you are going to have. It’s that simple. I’d like to tell you it’s more complicated. But, it’s not. It’s simple math. Market to more targeted people and get better results. There the secrets out. I feel better already.
Let’s get to the nuts and bolts of building your follower base. The best way to gain targeted followers on twitter is to follow people interested in the niche you are marketing to. For example, if you’re marketing to NASCAR products, you would follow people interested in NASCAR. Simple, right. The problem comes in when they don’t follow you back. The rule is, about 30-50% of the people you follow will follow you back. So if you follow 1000 people, you can reasonably expect 300-500 people to follow you back. What about the people that don’t follow you back? You have to get rid of them by unfollowing them. Then go and follow more people. The basic rinse and repeat, that is fundamental in internet marketing. Two problems arise, first, this is very time consuming and second, twitter considers it spamming when you follow then unfollow and follow again the same people. They are very likely to suspend your account for this. Unless you have a miracle memory, you’ll never remember all the people that you have followed and unfollowed. This where having the right tool makes all the difference. You can automate the entire process with a tool called Hummingbird. It will allow you to follow targeted prospects with a couple clicks of your mouse and unfollow anyone that doesn’t follow you back. It will save you an enormous amount of time. It will handle multiple accounts, so you can market to several niche markets. The program also protects you, in that, it will not follow anyone you have unfollowed in the past. This will help prevent account suspensions. I personally use this program, after extensive research, I might add, and have found it to be the best program of it’s kind on the market. They are currently running a special offer. Use the discount code “RECESSION” and save $30.00. This program is worth many times what they charge. Review it here:Review
Another great time saver is called Tweetlater. This program is a life saver. It comes in two versions, a free and pro version, I strongly recommend the pro version. First let me tell you what both versions will do. First it will automatically send every new follow you get a welcome direct message. In this message you can welcome the new follower and tell them a little about what you do. A nice way to say, market to them. For example if you have ten accounts and average 400 new followers a day, that’s 4000 ads you send out everyday without lifting a finger. That’s a fabulous way to make passive income.
Time savers are money savers. Another way this programs saves you time is that it will automatically unfollow anyone that unfollows you. Both versions will handle multiple accounts and let you schedule future tweets. You can sit down on a Monday and schedule all your tweets for the week. That’s a huge time saver.
The Pro version also allows you to:
* Schedule @replies and DMs
* Schedule recurring tweets — Without them being repetitive!
* Bulk upload & schedule tweets — Save time!
* Run your own Twitter bots — Fully automate accounts!
* Ping.fm integration — Feed Facebook & MySpace!
* Manage DMs of all your Twitter accounts — Integrated console!
* Automatically weed out SPAM — Boost your productivity!
* And much more
The pro version is the way for the serious IM pros to go. I use it and it makes my life much easier. I strongly recommend the Pro version.
You can review both versions here: Review
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I look forward to your comments. Until then, Good Marketing
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How to Use Twitter – 4 Steps on How To Use Twitter To Drive Traffic To Your Site
November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Today, Twitter is continuing to grow and getting increased service in the wide media. Everyone you can think of is tweeting or have least heard of it once or twice. Huge corporations are turning to twitter experts to position their company along the broad media. And yes people are making money through twitter and getting a large amount of their traffic from twitter.
Use the right approach on Twitter and you can bring that traffic to your site.
Here’s are my 4 steps on how to use twitter to bring traffic to your site and increase your online exposure
Pick A Controversial Article Idea
When Twitter first launched, it attracted a heavy tech-oriented population similar to Digg. These folks are usually the first adopters in any new technology, so it’s hardly surprising they gravitated toward Twitter. If you wanted to get their attention, you needed to create content that was both controversial and technical.
Times change quickly. Twitter has hit the mainstream with coverage on CNN, Time, and other popular media properties. That means anything you write that is controversial can potentially hit a sweet spot and attract traffic. Think about content that will polarize your market.
Use the Tweet This Wordpress – Plugin
I recommend that you use a Wordpress blog. Not only does the architecture perfectly complement effective search engine optimization strategies, but some of the plugins will make your Twitter marketing much easier.
Download and install the “Tweet This” Wordpress plugin on your blog. It automatically loads a link at the end of each of your posts that allows your readers “re-tweet” them with a single click. If you’re using Twitter to drive traffic..
Channel the Viral Effect
Suppose you’ve written a controversial article that is relevant to your market. For example, if you’re marketing the health reform bill, you might write a post about the problems with reform and how it will be of no use to the united states, but will only promote socialism.
Once you create the content, post it on your blog. Then, “tweet” about it within your Twitter account. The more Twitter followers you have, the quicker bump in traffic you’ll Similarly, the larger your blog readership, the faster your article will spread virally.
Encourage your blog readers to jump-start your post by clicking the “Tweet This” link at the end of it. Assuming many of them have a Twitter account, their re-tweets will get the ball rolling and increase your exposure. Some of their Twitter followers will visit your blog post and re-tweet it as well, creating a snowball effect. A few of them will also subscribe to your RSS feed, which paves the way for re-tweets on your future posts.
At this point, you’re already enjoying a traffic jump
Twitter is just Getting Started
Unless Twitter fades away under its own momentum, the service is going to be around for a long time. There’s plenty more to reveal, such as branding your Twitter account, adding gear, optimizing for Twitter search, and more. I recommend you read my How do you twitter Marketing Tips Guide for More Information.
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How To Monetize Twitter
November 1, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Twitter is the next generation of social network. It allows you to connect with people from all over the world, it allows you to build your business, it also allows you to find your tons and thousands of friends that will and probably be your wife. I’m just kidding, now Twitter has been the talk of many people in a short time. Last but not least, you can also monetize it. But the question is how? How do you monetize Twitter?
Tens of thousands of articles are available for you; some of them are like, how to use twitter, how to twitter, top 10 twitter tips and also how to monetize twitter. I’m going to give you some tips based on my experiences on Twitter and also some stuffs I learnt from other people. Let’s start:
1. Why would you care on what or who is Twitter?
Now people have been asking, what exactly is Twitter? Who made it? Do they earn money from it? Twitter is definitely the next big thing; it has more than 8 million users currently and is predicted to have more than 50 million users by Christmas.
CNN, Fox News, Barack Obama, celebrities are on Twitter, I meant they were also on MySpace perhaps, but have you seen them giving their account to public? CNN plug their Twitter account every single day for their viewers.
You need to get on Twitter to build relationships and your network. It’s a way of free advertising and the people who are on Twitter aren’t like the kids on MySpace or Friendster. They actually have the money you want and they love to spend it, on useful things of course.
2. Followers. Are they important?
You might think if I’m here to stay connected with my friends, why must I get lots of followers for? It’s useless, I don’t even know them.
Now if you want to build your business, get noticed by some of the leaders out there, and maybe do some joint ventures, but when you have no followers on Twitter, you look like nothing. Absolutely nothing, nobody cares about you.
3. So what’s the best way to get money fast on twitter? How do you monetize it?
Now, I can’t tell you the best way on how to monetize twitter here although the title of this article is how to monetize Twitter. But I can tell you the worst way to monetize your twitter.
Here is how; you write up some creative words within 140 characters, sounds like you’re selling something, then put up a shorten URL in your tweet.
Believe me, you won’t get any money or you won’t get lots of money, because that’s not the way to monetize twitter.
What you want is a relationship with your followers and they will buy from you. People buy from the guy they likes or the guy they trusts, not the guy that looks great and have a bunch of great and exclusive products.
4. Having a lot of followers but I’m unable to know and speak to all of them. Isn’t it useless?
Just think of it like this, I got two grandmothers, two grandfathers, one mother, one dad, 10 aunts, 9 uncles, 15 cousins, 16 nephews. I don’t talk to all of them each and every day, maybe never for some of them. But regardless, they’re still my families.
So the point on having a lot of followers on Twitter is that you want to direct them somewhere, maybe to your list, or get them subscribed to your blog. That way, you’re going to build a close relationship with them.
5. So, how do you get lots of followers on Twitter fast?
Honestly, I don’t have any secrets for this. I’ll just tell you what I do on a daily basis. I’ll go and click on my followers’ link, and then I’ll choose three people to click on their link so that I get to see their profile and their followers. Then I’ll click on their followers and start to follow their followers’, this is the best bred.
Because not all people will follow you and of course some will, so you want to find those that will absolutely follow you, and this is the way that I learned.
The second one is, providing content, fun tweets, great quips and quotes, also write some articles or maybe make some videos, then put a link for them to your twitter account. Like this one! That’s it for today, have a great day guys.
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How To Use Twitter, Tip
October 31, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
So you’re learning how to use twitter and you may need some tweet ideas, right? You don’t have to tweet that you’re currently eating a bagel or that you’re about to water the plant and you don’t have to tweet links to your business all day. In order to gain followers that benefit from you and you benefit from them, you must tweet content.
Sure you can put your Twitter on automatic, but what will that do? It leaves YOU out of the equation and only causes people to not pay attention or respond to your tweets, and the entire point of Twitter is conversation not automation. You want to generate and stimulate conversation with your followers and likewise to the people you’re following. So have you been running out of ideas what to tweet or just trying to get started? Here’s some quick ideas for you:
- Blogs or Websites that have lists. Lists are extremely popular with people (you’re reading one now!) they love the quick how-tos to fix something in their lives. So find a reputable blog or website and tweet it with a good intro. For example: Top 10 Comedy Movies, 7 Ways Of Using Vinegar To Clean Carpet.
- Quotes are used A LOT. People love short, funny, and inspirational quotes. I’ve seen them turn viral. Plus you can use the hashtag #quotes to garner even more attention
- News, Pictures, Videos are best used with a great headline. I wouldn’t post news all the time though, but videos or pictures associated with related news items would provide more content than straight up news stories from CNN.
- Bookmarked sites. I have a handful of sites I visit everyday. I pick out the best articles of the day and tweet them. But I only tweet them once. Also tweeting just the articles or blog posts is a lot better than tweeting the entire site. This way your followers don’t have to pick through what’s interesting. You’re directly showing them.
- Find the hot hashtags or trends for the day right on the Twitter page. Tweet about that and join in the conversation!
- Questions. Why don’t you ask your followers some questions and generate quick conversations? You don’t want to “chat” per say, but you can quiz the hive mind of your followers. If you do want to chat with someone, take it to DMs or get another Twitter account strictly for that. You may also find other people joining in the conversation and you’ll never know.. maybe you’ll develop your own hashtag!
- Everyday life. Don’t be afraid to tweet your everyday life, but don’t make a habit out of it. If you do want to discuss what you’ve done for the day… at least include a little picture to make it more interesting.
These Twitter ideas are not intended for you to seek out to be RT’d or gain popularity. That should come naturally and not forced. So take your time, have fun, and get to tweeting!
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