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Dec
05
Twitter Follow Limits – Don’t push your limits
What are the Twitter follow limits?
Twitter enforces a following limit of 2000 people per account, unless you have more than 2,000 followers yourself. If you have more than 2,000 followers, you’re able to follow a number that is different for every account, based on the number of people who follow you. You can always follow 2,000 people, if more than 2,000 follow you, you can follow a number higher than 2,000 that is determined by the number of people following you.
If this was easy…a monkey could do it. Not so much. But it is simpler than one might think.
Bottom line, you will need to have more followers before you can continue following more users. These are the steps I suggest if you are following less than 2000 so you are not banned from Twitter and is explained in my Turbo Charge Video Series.
Day 1) Add 100 – 200 friends with using Twollo or Tweetspinner (automated) or Twello (manual adds).
Day 3 or 4) Automate or manually Prune or Purge some of those friends who are not following you back using Tweetspinner or Twollo to keep your Twitter follow ratio at a safe percentage. Repeat this process over and over until you have followed 2000 and 2000 are following you then you would be safe to follow more people each day when your ratio is kept at or under 105%.
I think this is the best way to keep your twitter accounts safe when starting out.
Rules of the Road: Follows and Unfollows
Do not engage in follower churn! Twitter considers aggressive, repeated following and unfollowing to be “follower churn” and they suspend accounts engaged in this.
The definition of “follower churn” is a difficult one. Twitter is rather vague about it, largely because if they specifically define it, people will use this as a signpost for how far they can push the limits.
tweetspinner.com (highly recommended in accordance with Twitter’s new rules. Tweetspinner is regarded as the top Twitter networking tool to filter out spam and encourage Twitter safe filters so your Twitter account is not deactivated).
Nov
18
Social Media Economics – Improve Your ROI
Social media is not a fad. Making money from home and increasing sales using social media has endless possibilities for branding and marketing. Check it out. Big Companies and Corporations are using Social Media to build their brands and are gaining improved returns on investment.
Oct
29
What is Social Media?
What is social media? It’s not an addiction or something people should need to run from. Social media is people meeting other people. It’s your ability to be you and throw your personality, product, service or brand marketing out there for the world to see. It’s a place where you can make new friends and create new bonds with all kinds of people. A place where you can join groups and get to know others that have the same common ideas or common interests. It’s an opportunity to build trust in your core group by simply showing them who you are and going out of your way for them. It’s how you earn money online by being human and trusting instead of being the scum you traditionally were online at one time. What I mean is, anyone and everyone will be using social media and everyone’s reputation is at stake now a days.
Social media optimization is a tool that must used cautiously with care, but at the same time be yourself and be loud and clear if you want to. Be a human being and be social and at the same time, you might want to learn more about how to use social media correctly in branding your service or product. I highly suggest that you first develop a social media strategy to ensure you know what you are doing before presenting your product or service with social media. Hire a social media consultant or internet marketing consultant to help you or find all the many tools to get you started by reading articles and blogs online or watch videos to move you along in learning about how to brand with social media.
I’m curious how you define it for yourself and your business, click here for a free consultation about social media combined with your business or brand and the steps to get started making money on the internet.
Oct
29
How to Start at the Top of Twitter
Twitter can help you or any online marketer to build a large audience or prospect base fast and I mean fast. Where else can you build an build an audience of 1K to 2K in as little as 30 to 60 days. Talk about fast!
Social media is all about having an audience which Twitter refers to as follwers. If there is one thing Twitter does well and very well I might add, is help you to build an audience of targeted followers and prospects from which you will develop friends, partners and customers.
People who know social media maketing say they couldn’t imagine social media without the advantage Twitter provides by allowing you to direct so many more people so much quicker than Facebook and Youtube.
Twitter is Simple, Quick and Accurate
Unlike some of the other social media network sites Twitter only takes a few minutes to fully set up and get started but is powerful enough to move thousands of people from one social media site to another with 140 characters and a click of a button…
Because Twitter is so viral in nature it grows fast! In fact Twitter is currently doubling in size. Once you know what you’re doing it is quite easy build your own audience of thousands in a matter of weeks.
Social media requires planning and strategic execution of marketing plan. Twitter allows you to direct your audience or traffics attention where ever you choose using what referred to as a directional link and micro blog.
What’s ironic is that most people get a bad first impression of Twitter. Newbies say “Twitter it is too fast” or “People appear from no where and can watch and hear everything you say.”
Click here for more on getting started with Twitter or learn to use Twitter in social media to grow your audience by thousands in weeks.
Tweetspinner is an excellent tool to get started and my Turbo Charge Twitter Video Series can help you learn more about this ever exciting social media marketing tool . If you wish to learn more about Tweetspinner, Click here.
Oct
29
Why Blogs Are #1 In Social Media and Will Be For A Long Time
20 years ago blogs were used as web logs or online journals. What made blogs different is of course everyone can see them. Blogging became The most social of all websites and have grown to over 70 million and have surpassed static web pages making blogs the most important social media platform in social media marketing to say the least.
In fact, if you listen you’ll hear just about every social media guru say “If you don’t have a blog your don’t exist online”. In other words without a blog you can forget about being the life of the social media party and settle for being “that guy” that keeps showing up. No one knows where he from and where he goes back to once the parties end.
So why a blog what makes it such the cornerstone of social media? The natural social flow of online traffic and lead generation start at Twitter and flows from Youtube and Facebook to ultimately ends up at your blog. Every other social platform is shared with millions of other faces while your social media blog on the other hand is all about you “featuring” some guest.
You see your tweets (Twitter headlines) and videos (Youtube TV) and socializing (Facebook Lifestyle) of for the purposes of promoting your BLOG (which all these sites rolled into one). All your content (post, videos, pics etc) should actually be syndicated from your blog to the virtual world.
The moral of this story is don’t be the jerk at the social media party. Party and socialize but be sure you have a place to lay your head online and if you don’t you just might be “that guy or gal” flashing your opportunity every time you hear the word hello.
Wordpress is the best tool for a free blog and you will find an all in one SEO package and plug-ins by clicking here.
Oct
29
Social Bookmarking: Get More Traffic By Leaving Your Mark!
Social Bookmarking is so simple it’s confusing and therefore continues to be one of the most misunderstood topics in social media optimization. It’s a good thing that you’re about to get the scoop on a HUGE nugget that many ordinary marketers miss. Don’t Miss This!
Social bookmarks literally goes beyond your social media circles to the vast reaches of virtual space sort of speak. Why do I say all this? Maybe beccause social bookmarks basically gets you put on Googles radar and once Google knows your there… Lets put it this way… You want to bookmark!
Think of bookmarking as a way of letting bunch of people know what you like and they can to give you a thumbs up or down. This is why search engines loves social bookmarks so much because the community votes carries more weight than any algorythum ever could. With alll the changes iGoogle makes every 90 days or so social bookmarking remain the same because in social media social proof is pure gold. And let’s not forget you can use it to improve your blogs rank and search results for Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Social bookmarking makes this all possible in the push of a button! And we like “push button easy” don’t we?
2 Major advantages that make social bookmarking the smart and easy thing to do.
The first smart thing would be the convenience factor of social bookmarks can”t be matched. Try this one unlike bookmarks on your browser, social bookmarks are web-based and therefore follow you all over the world offfer you 24 hour access from any computer any place in the world.
The second smart thing would be the power you have in publicly displaying your interest to your audience. What could be more interesting for herds of like-minded people than to reading, watching or listening the same things that interest you. In no time their thinking more like you and therefore are likely to make similiar decisions which will lead to success for your followers and a bigger fan base and profits if you finish up with a plan to monetize.
As more and more people commenting or “Digg” your content your videos, post etc… remains fresh in the eyes of Google, Yahoo and MSN which means that any one piece of content can and will remain recognized by the search engines for years to come.
Lets not forget about the “link juice” that Social bookmarks also creates. Inbound links are often referred to as link juice builders because every time some enjoys your content it creates sort of a bridge between you and your friends and connections. In short inbound links are the life-blood of your blog or website.
If you know what you doing and you use them, bookmarks can get you and your blog seen by the rest of the world way beyond facebook – way beyond.
If you like what you’ve heard so far you’ll want hear learn how social bookmarking fits into social media and discover the real power behind bookmarking contact me as your social media consultant today. We can help you get started and find a plan that fits your budget.
Oct
29
Personal Branding and Social Media Optimization
Personal Branding and Social Media Optimization is at the cutting edge level with internet marketing. When you combine Social Media Optimization with traditional Search Engine Optimization you have a perfect scenario. Your product or service might not be presently known to the world wide web and therefore it doesn’t matter if you rank for that phrase or not. It is time to enter the world of Social Media Optimization, the new approach to Word-Of-Mouth marketing and Viral Marketing. SOCIAL MEDIA OPTIMIZATION allows you to efficiently spread the word and generate interest for your product or service.
Before your Social Media Optimization strategy or campaign gets into full swing an organized SEO campaign should be put into place to have the highest-ranking site for the keyword terms that you will be promoting. Once you have ranked your site or blog for all of your pertinent keywords you will be ready to receive all of the new searches.
When you put the two strategies above together you have what we call in the world of Social Media Optimization (SMO), which is a slam dunk.
Social Media Optimization is the be-all and end-all to Word-Of-Mouth marketing. Get in front of your online network and market sector with the innocence of a new found friend. And then deliver the ultimate marketing punch before they see it coming. They’ll never know what hit them. If you build your marketing network to say 5,000 or even 10,000 people is this so bad? No, not if you can take and give to it and learn from it.
Social Media Optimization enables us to position your brand to your customers on their own terms and in their environment which results in a more authentic internet marketing message. However you need to ask yourself, what is the sequential order in which I engage my marketing strategy? That is where a person will need to be trained to understand more than trends, but research and some math. How do you get there? Contact us for more information and free social media consultation.
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