Don’t ask for client reviews once. Ask many times in many different ways! You can’t tell when a client will have the time and the focus to do a review. So ask often and make it easy! Here is a good example. Event Espresso is a plug-in for WordPress to organize events and ticket sales. They did a 7 day series of email lessons. At the bottom of #7, they inserted a link to their Twitter profile. They asked for a tweet. This is an easy type of review request. I didn’t have to think of what to write, look up their Twitter ID. Nothing like that! Click on the link and share the word.
Is Your Twitter Work Working?
Twitter can be a great platform for your business depending who your target audience is. Like any other marketing effort, you want to measure your results. This article from Social Media Examiner gives you instructions and links to good tools.
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Programming human beings to build a hate-free Internet
How To Stand Out in the Social Media Crowd
Every day millions of blog posts and social media updates are published. So you need yours to cut through.The trick to doing this? Using great graphics. Facebook says posts with graphics get 3.2 times more engagement (likes, comments and clicks). HubSpot has found that visual content is 40 times more likely to be shared online.
Up and Running with Twitter- Lynda.com
“Join the 140-character communication revolution. Important conversations play out every day on Twitter and this fun and fast social media platform offers one of the few ways to directly engage with celebrities, companies, media outlets, and even political figures like President Obama (@BarackObama). Learn how to get up and running on Twitter and start engaging in a new kind of conversation. Maria Langer shows you how to set up an account; read and write tweets; add images, links, and tags to your tweets; and interact with other users via sending replies, using mentions, favoriting tweets, and sending direct messages. She also shares her insider etiquette tips for tweets and retweets, and shows how to customize your privacy settings as well as personalize your feed.”
The Dead Zones: When Not to Post on Social Media
Study results on Use of Twitter by Small Medium Businesses
“I don’t understand Twitter or how to use it!” We’ve all heard this comment and I will agree that Twitter takes some creative thinking for a lot of businesses. The crucial point, however, is that you can’t ignore it. This study demonstrates that it does have value and can be beneficial. Take a look at the study results in an easy to read infographic.
Twitter Changes
Here is an article recapping the changes going on at Twitter. If you would like assistance changing your cover or profile photos, call Your Computer Lady. We can handle your other Twitter questions too!
Twitter is growing into a better tool for small businesses. Check your target market demographics and see if they are at Twitter. If they are, you need to jump in!
Twitter Expands Photo Use
We’ve been using photos on Facebook for a long time and have seen a strong preference for posts with photos. Now Twitter is allowing more usage of photos! And this study indicates that photos help you a lot!
http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-images-study_b51722
5 Ways Twitter Chats Can Help Your Business
Tweeting isn’t for every business but look over these ideas to see if you can spot a use for your company. 883 million people can’t all be wrong about this social media platform!
5 Ways Twitter Chats Can Help Your Business