Archive for August, 2009
Look around. You’ll see so many people offering tips on how to do well with twitter. Everyone is interested in Twitter and people are trying to “get the hang of it”. It’s an interesting situation, because Twitter is really rather simple.
It’s a way of having a conversation with people who share similar interests. That’s it. Twitter is talking. Via computer.
Sure, there are differences. When you talk with your flesh and blood friends you can use more than 140 characters at a time, Read the rest of this entry »
Email list marketing is a staple of the Internet marketing scene. That’s partially because it’s been around for awhile. It’s primarily do to one inescapable fact, however. It works.
When you think about it, twitter marketing is somewhat akin to list marketing. People opt-in (they become a follower). They can opt-out if they don’t like your messages (it’s easy to un-follow). When someone is on your list, you can send him or her a message at will (via tweet, of course).
Now, we know from Read the rest of this entry »
The quickest way to completely blow your chances of making a buck from marketing via twitter is to try too hard.
Twitter was made for people to network. It wasn’t created with marketing in mind. To make matter worse, there’s a strong anti-marketing sentiment dripping from the Twitter walls.
A recent ProBlogger posts asked Twitter users for their advice to new participants. The first entry on the list was, “Be honest. Have fun. Don’t try to sell anything”. That’s the prevailing attitude, Read the rest of this entry »
If you want people to see your tweets” rel=”tag”>tweets on twitter” rel=”tag”>twitter, you gotta have followers. Obviously, that can drive a person to commit himself or herself to building up the biggest follower base possible as quickly as possible.
One of the most popular techniques to get those followers in place is to start following others. There’s a tendency out there in Twitterland for those who’ve been followed to follow in return. That generous reciprocity can make it easy to build a follower list that will really Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t believe the critics and cynics who are having a good time roasting twitter. They like to think of it as a narcissism-driven site where people wildly shout out trivia about their boring lives hoping that someone is listening.
Yes, there’s a component of that happening. And it is sort of amusing in a sad way.
However, there’s real value under the surface of Twitter. There are people sharing important information and ideas. There are experts offering guidance. There are potential Read the rest of this entry »
A few years ago, we might’ve said that the quickest way to develop an online premise was to start blogging. One could use a free WordPress or Blogger blog and they’d be up and running within minutes, free of charge. Some might have advocated the creation of a simple static site with a contact page using a template and some cheap hosting.
Today, there’s a new answer and it’s better than the old ones in a lot of ways. It’s twitter” rel=”tag”>twitter. Twitter, as you undoubtedly know, can be classified as a micro-blogging Read the rest of this entry »
If you’re on twitter, you gotta have something to tweet. Here’s a recommendation for you that should help in that department. You’re al ot better off focusing on your ideas when you Tweet than on actions.
People have a tendency to mock Twitter because so much of the conversation revolves around trivialities and the actions people are engaging in every day. To be honest, those do tend to be the weakest tweets. You can avoid falling into that trap by focusing your Tweets on ideas (and preferably Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s the deal. When you go to make a tweet on twitter” rel=”tag”>twitter, you have 140 characters to work with.
That’s not a lot. In fact, it’s next to nothing.
That creates a little pressure for you to do things in the most efficient way possible. The difference between good Twitter users an those who are really getting good mileage out of their participation is often the ability to adjust to the hyper-tight format.
Here are a few tips.
First, don’t even think about multi-part Tweets. People Read the rest of this entry »
twitter is a micro-blogging platform, right? Well, that must mean it’s really nothing more than a tiny blog.
Structurally, that’s true. Your Twitter URL does read a little like a tiny blog. It catalogs your tweets” rel=”tag”>tweets chronologically and presents them that way. The similarities, however, end there.
Here are three reasons why Twitter use doesn’t really represent blogging.
First, there is a much-heightened level of interaction. As such, your Tweets are often part of a conversation, more Read the rest of this entry »