Twitter Chats – Online Live Networking at #Linkedinchat

Once a week people get together on Twitter to talk about Linkedin, and the other night (Monday) I joined them for the first time. To be clear it wasn’t my first twitter chat/party, but it was my first time on the #Linkedinchat. I am so glad I went, and had a lot of fun. I think you should schedule yourself to come, too, but here’s why: Direct conversation with experts– […]

3 Tips for More Conversation on Twitter

If you’ve been on Twitter for awhile, you probably already have some followers, that’s great, right? You might be getting a response or two, maybe even a few clicks on your links, but what can you do to get even more results from Twitter? More Updates– If you want to get more responses, add more updates. Right now you might be only posting when you have a minute here or […]

Your Twitter Bio- What Should It Really Say?

One of the fun things about social media marketing, is that I am constantly coming across different/new ways of doing things on social media, that make sense. Last Friday, I was adding new content marketing feeds to Feedly (google reader replacement) and as I added the feed, I would go follow them on Twitter, too. Here is one of the companies I had added, and their bio on Twitter.   […]

Curate Content to Get Real Twitter Followers

A couple of months ago I listened to Dan Zarrella on the Science of Social Media. It was an older webinar, but it still had a lot of great information. In fact, about a month after I saw the one that was a couple of years old, he held a newer one with some of the same information. During the webinar, he mentioned that user accounts on Twitter that tweeted […]

How to Use Twitter for Business- 7 Ways to Get More Leads

One of the reasons I use Twitter so often is because it is easy to use, easy to grow and easy to find leads for business. There really is no end to the amount of ways you can use Twitter for Business, but I will say this, that I discover new ways to use Twitter alone and with tools weekly, so there are other ideas you can use to add […]

Social Media for Small Business- Part 3- How to Use Twitter For Business Continued

Social Media for Small Business- Part 3- How to Use Twitter For Business Continued

After yesterday’s post intro on How to Use Twitter for Business, I wanted to finish explaining the Twitter platform. I will follow up with adding a custom background, finding people to follow, getting followers, and what to tweet (when, etc) and retweets, where to find hashtags. I sometimes forget how much there is to know about social media platforms, so please ask any questions you have in the comments. So, […]

Social Media for Small Business 101- Part 2- How To Use Twitter for Business Intro

Social Media for Small Business 101- Part 2- How To Use Twitter for Business Intro

Before you can use twitter for business, it will help to fully understand what twitter is, why people use it, and how it can most effectively be used. Micro Blogging You already know it is one of the most popular social media platforms. It is considered what is called micro-blogging. Micro-blogging refers to writing very short posts, in this case 140 characters or less, including links, spaces, punctuation. For example, […]