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This is a guest post by Leo Widrch. Efficient Tweeting is something that took me very long to figure out. I tested many approaches. They ranged from “pure” tweeting where every tweet was spontaneous and I had to spend lots of hours on Twitter. Or to the other extreme, a very automated form of tweeting [...]

I was perusing through my Twitter stream and noticed a couple of resolutions that involved increasing Twitter follower counts. Of course, it looks impressive to have a bunch of followers, but shouldn’t the real goal be to get more conversions, responses, clicks, etc. from your followers and connect with them? I remember when I first [...]

Automation can be great for business, as long as it’s used in moderation. Obviously you don’t want to become an impersonal social media robot, but finding the right mix of automation and personal interaction can really improve your productivity and sales. Even though I don’t do a ton of automation myself, I realize it has [...]

I’m probably shooting myself in the foot by writing this, because it could be taken the wrong way.  But I would really like some feedback on this issue. One common Twitter strategy that seems to be growing in popularity is when people @mention someone to let them know they’ve been mentioned in an article they [...]

When I first started making money online in the late 90′s, there was no such thing as social media.  My marketing strategy centered around the search engines. I spent my days altering meta tags and on-page keywords trying to climb to the top of sites like Infoseek, Webcrawler, Excite, Lycos, HotBot and AltaVista.  (Memorieeeeees!) The [...]

A Twitter user, (we’ll call her Jane Doe), sent me an email last week because she doesn’t understand why she receives very few @replies and RT’s (retweets) on Twitter. Just for the record, she is using Twitter to promote her craft related blog by networking with other people in her niche and announcing her blog [...]

The Self Promoter Some people join Twitter and have absolutely no intention of providing value or developing meaningful relationships. They look for popular users and blast them with @replies about their own products and services. I checked out one guy’s profile and he was doing nothing but sending self promotional @replies to me, Oprah and [...]

Even though I’ve had a Twitter account for a while, I didn’t become active until about 6 months ago.  Here are a few things I’ve learned. Keep in mind, many of these tips are only relevant if you use Twitter for site or blog promotion. 1. Your Last 20 Tweets Say a Lot! When someone [...]

I was reading, Darren Rowse’s blog, TwiTip.com, and came across an article that struck a chord with me. It was written by Skellie of Skelliewag.org. The article is called How to Follow Everyone Back on Twitter Without Ruining Your Experience. Skellie suggested that you follow everyone who follows you in order to grow your number [...]

I have really grown to love Twitter in the last two months. I must admit, when a friend told me about it a few years ago, I thought it was kind of dumb. But now I see the value of it from a marketing/researching/networking standpoint. At first, I only used it to announce my blog [...]

JohnnyInArizona is having dinner Helen12345 just got a traffic ticket KristenWilliams is late for work If you’re a Twitter member, these are the kinds of updates you might see when you login to your account. Ahhh yes, good ole’ Twitter — the official place to spy on people you know (or don’t know) 24 hours [...]