Before the rise of the social media age obtaining feedback negative or positive was restricted to private abuse over the phone, compliments in a personal email or a glowing testimonial in a letter…
Are you looking for creative ways to spread the word about your Facebook page?
Your fan page can be one of your organization’s richest sources of interaction, R&D and lead generation. The only problem is making people aware of it!…
Retweets, you have heard about them, you know what they are but you aren’t gettin’ them.
For some reason you just can’t seem to get the engagement you are seeking, desiring and yearning for in social media and Twitter…
By testing, I’ve learned that the better a tweet sounds when starting with “Reminder: ” the more popular it is likely to be.
Tweets written to seem urgent, timely or containing critical reference information do better than those that don’t…
1. Don’t read EVERY tweet. It’s perfectly okay. You have permission.
2. Follow anyone who follows you (and unfollow spammers/jerks).
3. Promote other people 12x to every 1 self-promotional tweet.
4. Build lists to watch people who matter to you more closely.
5. Retweet the good stuff from others. Sharing is caring…
Old habits die hard and new habits don’t come easy – Twitter is no exception to that rule. If you’ve been using Twitter for a while, I’m sure you’ve become habitual with its use. Like our everyday lives, our Twitter lives also have good and bad habits…
5 Steps to Becoming a Twitter Champion
There are still a large number of folks who believe that Twitter is a very amateur and even entertaining task. After all, how hard could 140 characters be? Who needs a strategy for telling people what you had for breakfast?
Champion Tweeters think differently. They approach Twitter and their time in the Twitter community with a different behavior set, mindset and belief system. Their Twitter Habitudes separate them from the pack…
read the five tips on socialmediaexplorer.com

Social media is the cool kid on the inbound marketing block right now. Most members of the marketing community are obsessed with the toipc and are moving fast to develop new social media strategies. The problem with many social media strategies though, is that they are bloated and overstuffed with “social media junk.”
The problem is that, as marketers, we have limited staff time and budgets. Social media strategies overloaded with junk that doesn’t help drive business objectives use up precious resources and ultimately lead to the failure of the entire strategy…
~> full article on hubspot.com

We cover just about everything Twitter at AllTwitter.com, but one thing we do particularly well is provide advice, guides and tips as to how newcomers, veterans, businesses and brands can most effectively utilise their resources and maximise their returns on the network…
~> full article on mediabistro.com/alltwitter

Here’s the biggest secret of social media: if you don’t like people very much, it won’t work very well.
I did an interview for a magazine recently, where the first (not the second or subsequent question) was how one might automate all their social media usage and save time. Can you imagine? The very first question, rewritten by me, would have read: “How does one take this very human medium and robotize it the way we’ve done that with all the other communications methods in our life?…
~> full article on @chrisbrogan.com

Social media is making it easier to find the right jobs, and for you to connect to the right people that can help you get those jobs. Many job seekers are still using traditional job search methods that are yielding poor results. The New York Post reported that one woman applied for more than one thousand jobs over 99 weeks, getting only two interviews. Nearly one in three job seekers has been out of work for more than a year, and the average job seeker gives up after five months…
~> full article on mashable.com

By now, you’ve certainly heard why a polished, professional LinkedIn Profile could actually be MORE important than your resume. However, you could spend hours perfecting your Profile, and still not receive results from it.
But don’t give up! Here are 5common reasons your LinkedIn presence isn’t drawing attention for your job search or business…
Twitter is one fo the popular social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Some days back we mentioned about 1000+ Best Free Twitter Icons, 59 Twitter Mobile Apps and today we going to post Twitter Tips and Tricks, which help you to grow your business on twitter. This twitter list contains tips tricks and how to’s for everyone. So here are the list of 500+ Twitter Tips & Tricks…
~> full article on technobuzz.net

Do you want to get the most from Twitter? Because Twitter is so quick and easy to use, it’s also easy to get lost in the conversations.
Here are four tips to help you focus your Twitter efforts to get the maximum benefits for your business.
~> full article on socialmediaexaminer.com

Number 1. Special Offers
We live in a society that is as distracted as it is informed. People are making decisions on what to read, view, purchase, visit, and sample based on the information that filters through their attention dashboards. At best, even the most qualified information sourced from the most trusted contacts will receive only a cursory overview. The trick is to concisely introduce the value up front. If the offer is compelling and affiliated with their interests, the consumer will make the connection to personal value and benefits and click-through to redeem the special or coupon when ready or so inclined….
~> full article on fastcompany.com
