Still Friends I Hope?
The last couple of weeks have seen me making some definitive changes in how I am handling my social media presence. Mainly, I talked about why I decided to leave Empire Avenue, not because it’s not a viable platform, but more about keeping in mind what I have time for and working with platforms I am comfortable with. If we want to succeed, achieve even, in social media we must be willing to try out the new stuff. If it doesn’t work for us, so be it, move on. I started with Triberr almost three months ago. I wrote about it an earlier post. In that post I talked about how Triberr...
read moreTriberr, or How I Instantly Extended My Reach to Over 145,000 People.
Dino Dogan was introduced to me by my friend Mark Schaefer. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll know that Mark has been a bit of a mentor of mine. When Mark told me that Dino was a guy I should pay attention to, I listened. From the get go, I saw that Dino and I were very similar type people. He says what he thinks and doesn’t sugar coat anything. If you want to hear that your ideas are all 100% great, and your design inspiration is nothing less than phenomenal, he is very probably, the wrong consultant for you. If you want to hear the straight truth, check...
read moreSocial Media Metrics and What You Should Be Looking At.
ROI this, metrics that. We constantly hear about how to assess your social media benchmarks, and quite a few of them are pretty complicated. Bottom line, especially for small businesses, ROI really doesn’t need to be that hard to calculate. I’ve gathered together a few things that you can be looking at that will give you a basic understanding of how you are doing. The biggest thing here is that there are so many things that can be looked at, and so many that can seem very unrelated. No, you really cannot effectively quantify real, quality relationships, but you can put together...
read more5 Reasons You Should Auto DM New Followers
Twitter has now been around for five years now. Long enough, in my opinion, for people to get it. Twitter is engagement, not another place to put your billboard up. Auto DM’s for me can be a deal breaker. It’s kinda like that guy who gives you his unsolicited business card upon meeting you for the first time. Automatically, I am not going to use his service, and I will probably unfollow you on the spot. These are the last few DM’s I’ve received. Need design & illustration for flyers, brochures & more, website design & build, SEO, branding & corporate...
read moreDeserved Or Not Celebrity Tweeps Have Klout.
The verdict is still out on Klout. It seems that there are as many posts about what is wrong with Klout, as there are talking about what is right with it. Personally, I like Klout. I like it a lot. It is a very useful tool to gauge not only my progress, but to see where others stand as well. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Klout, in a nutshell it is “the measurement of your overall online influence,” according to the Klout blog. Having just read today’s (Feb 22) post on {Grow}, The Problem with Klout: An Infographic, I started wondering about other...
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