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Building a Targeted Twitter Following

Clare — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:12:03 +0000

Many small business owners hop onto Twitter and aren’t quite sure how to find people to follow. So, they simply start following anyone and everyone. Of course, they’re hoping that 50% of these people will follow them back and that their Twitter following will grow beyond their wildest dreams.

One of the most important aspects of Twitter is building a “targeted” Twitter following. Keep in mind that it’s more important to have 500 targeted Twitter followers (related to your industry) than 5,000 general followers (unrelated to your industry).

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Social Media and Its Benefits

Clare — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:43:26 +0000

From the time that economic recession hit several parts of the globe, people have been more innovative in doing things to make a living and have both ends meet. This crisis gave rise to different small or home businesses, more particularly in the online world. This must be attributed to the success of actual companies who are utilizing internet technology as medium of their business. Alongside to this emergence of small online businesses is the popularity of social media networks that are now famously used by most every internet users.

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What is the Difference Between Blogging and Facebooking?

Clare — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:37:35 +0000

There seems to be a lot of overlap between what you might put on Facebook versus what you might put in a blog. They can both be personal. They can both contain your personal experiences and ideas, what you are doing and what you are interested in. In other words, they can both be like journals or diaries.

There are some obvious differences in the purpose behind each activity, however. Facebook is more interactive and the audience is, well, your friends. With a blog, the Web world is your potential audience, and your Facebook friends may never even know about or read your blog. Your blog can be interactive as well, as readers can comment on your posts and you can respond. But again, this interaction would probably be between you and a stranger rather than a friend. So there are, or can be, two distinct audiences.

There may be things that you would share with your friends on Facebook that you wouldn’t want your blog audience to know. On the other hand, you may have thoughts or experiences that you are more comfortable sharing with strangers on your blog than you would be sharing it with your Facebook friends.

Finally, your blog should have a theme, a purpose. People should have a specific reason for wanting to visit and read your blog, whether it’s informational, opinion, or promoting business. Your Facebook posts can be random, mundane, spontaneous, it doesn’t really matter because you aren’t trying to attract an audience – you are interacting with friends. So while there is the potential for overlap between Facebooking and blogging, it may be best to draw boundaries and let your audience be your audience and let your friends be your friends.

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What Should You Learn About Twitter For Business?

Clare — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:44:38 +0000

When we talk about Twitter for business and marketing, it is very straight forward that we will think about earning money on Twitter. With very incomplete understanding about Twitter marketing, most people think that it is just about sending promotion links to their followers on Twitter and they can earn money. If they failed to make sales on Twitter, there are two major reasons only – not enough followers and not enough tweets. Because of these two reasons, people will buy Twitter marketing software in order to help them to automate their works of gaining more followers and sending more and more tweets everyday. Is this the Twitter marketing that you understand?

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5 Reasons Why Social Media Works

Clare — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:26:58 +0000

Social media is a major force in the online advertising space. The reason it is so powerful is simple; that’s where the people are. In the last two years droves of online users have adopted social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter making them major pieces of real-estate for advertising. Here are five reasons why social media works:

People are Social by Nature – We are social beings and we enjoy the company of others when we don’t feel intimidated or judged. Social network removes the visual queues that we typically rely on to establish whether or not we want to engage in a conversation with someone. This allows people connect to more people then they normally would, creating a bigger community.

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Have You Ever Wondered – What Are Keywords?

Clare — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:12:55 +0000

When I first started out on this fascinating interesting journey of Internet and Article Marketing, having little, if any previous expose to this realm one of my initial questions was “What are Keywords?”

How many of us new ‘Newbie’s’ to the mind boggling world of Internet Marketing initially thought that the instant you uploaded your newly created (world’s greatest) web site to a host site, it would ‘as if by magic’ appear on each and every search engine out there on the big old ‘WWW’?

I hear some of you out there saying word to the effect “You mean it doesn’t”? Some of you older hands I hear secretly sniggering because you, through acquired experience, know that, No… it doesn’t appear ‘as if by magic’ on everyone search result, not without a little work. But, I in my naivety, honestly though that’s what happened.

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Advantages of Using Social Media Optimization For Online Business

Clare — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:22:49 +0000

Social Media Optimization is a mean of success for every business professionals as it provides a lot of advantages for online business. Popularity of SMO has increased over the last few years. In simple words, you can say that there is not any single business or company over the Internet who does not want to use this medium for better promotion of their website or products.

It is the authenticated medium for low cost advertisement, where you can promote each and every thing online and boost your client-base. With the help of social marketing, you can increase your web traffic as it provides the communication platform for your users. It also helps to gain attention from users more quickly as compared to other media. As far as it affordability is concern, it is very affordable even for small businesses because you do not need high cost for the advertisement of your product. You only need to sign up in social networking sites like Facebook and then with the help of proper social media strategies you can achieve you targets and goals.

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Do I Have to Be on Twitter?

Clare — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:19:37 +0000

If you want to build your personal brand, establish an online presence, and be in the right place at the right time for your job search, then you have to utilize social media. The big 3 social media sites are LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. While LinkedIn is focused more fully on business, and Facebook leans toward the social, Twitter lands somewhere in the middle. Nearly 75 million people visited Twitter in January 2010.

Twitter relies on “tweets,” which are posts of 140 characters or less. They’re short, but frequent. Life moves fast on Twitter. But then, the world moves fast and this is a way to keep up. And yes, while some tweets are huge time-wasters (some of us don’t want to know what someone else had for breakfast), there’s quite a bit of useful information you can gain from following the right people. It’s both a way to research and a way to network. You can follow companies, customers, suppliers, vendors, industry experts, and recruiters who post jobs-anyone who’s going to be useful for you. You’ll be able to keep up-to-the minute current. And then you can be useful yourself-pass along job leads, industry info, or the great book you just read. Any help or advice you can provide your contacts is a nice way to contribute.

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Are You Using Social Media the Right Way?

Clare — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:38:40 +0000

Facebook is the largest social media site in the world today with about 400 million users. What made it become so successful was when it reformatted its page, made it easier to do searches and then begun its instant messaging system. The searching features allows you to easily locate people that you want to link with your target market in mind.

By combining their search facilities and the instant messaging you have unlimited access to millions of people all over the world. So if you put Facebook and MySpace together, you have the means of connecting to over six hundred million people the world over.

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Useful Twitter Tips For Beginners

Clare — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:54:54 +0000

Twitter, Twitter, Twitter! Everywhere you go, you will see the word Twitter on people’s blogs or websites. Twitter has no doubt taken the virtual world by storm! So, if you have not jumped on to this Twitter bandwagon, it’s never too late to jump now! As probably this might be something new for you and it’s also why you end up reading my article now:) let’s take a few minutes and see what a Twitter beginner can do on his/her first day with Twitter!

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