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Tips for Avoiding Common Social Marketing Pitfalls

Attention Social Marketing newbies! Here's some ideas from the Wall Street Journal on how to avoid the common mistakes many newcomers make in social marketing. 

Be sure to read the comments too -- there's lots of good advice in there as well.

Social Networking: Common Mistakes Small Businesses Make

Linda Locke
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Using Twitter As a Traffic Generation Tool

By Karen L. Brooks

Do you understand how to utilize Web 2.0 to promote your business? Most of us are experimenting and not sure just how we are going to use these tools to drive sales in our organizations.

Twitter is one of the tools that can quickly help you to focus on your strategy to promote your business online, quickly!!

It's easy! Just answer the one question....What are you doing now? The catch, you only have 140 characters or less, to accomplish your mission. The good news is that you need to give the basic information, and not take them into "information overload". All you need is a quick sentence to tell people about the latest development in your business or posting on your website. Master this concept, and you are on your way to developing a loyal group of followers eager to learn more about you.

Twitter and blogs work together. Tweet (a twitter post) to get them interested in viewing your blog. Your blog address can be posted in your profile, as well as using an URL link in your tweet, directing them to the blog.

In today's society, time is at a premium. A series of well thought out, short and sweet tweets can actually help you maintain a loyal following. Blogs, at times, are lengthy, and people just don't have the time to do this on a regular basis.

Here are several strategies to keep you focused:

1. Keep continuity in your tweets. Think of each tweet as a headline, enticing your audience to click to read more.

2. Break your blog articles into a main point, tweeting only a major point.

3. Tweet about subjects important to your business, the How's, Why's and When's.

4. Ask questions at times, rather than posting statements. Get your audience to respond back to you with their thoughts and views.

5. Ask readers what they would like to see in your blog.

6. Put a poll or survey on your blog and ask your readers to vote through a tweet!

7. Tweet daily!!!

It's all about building a relationship and a business. Post useful information relevant to your business, and traffic will build over time. You will meet some great friends along the way.

About the Author
Karen Brooks is an Ebay PowerSeller and Internet Marketer dedicated to helping people develop multiple streams of online income. You can subscribe to the http://www.milliondollarbusinessblog.com newsletter to learn more strategies to help your business.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Karen_L._Brooks

Twitter Tips for Professionals

Still not sure how to use Twitter for your business?  Here's Eight Ways Twitter is Useful Professionally from Web Worker Daily to get you going.

I especially like #3

"Expand your professional network. By paying attention to @ messages, you see who people you’re working with are working with. If the discussion is interesting enough, you might find someone you’d like to follow on Twitter… and eventually work with."

Linda Locke
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Twitter Tips Weekly Digest - June 10, 2008

Here's some cool Twitter stuff for this week:

Zappos offers Twitter classes to employees.  http://snurl.com/2ev02

Tweeting from outer space -- the Phoenix Mars Lander has a Twitter account & 17,151 followers! http://snurl.com/2d0rk

Twitter is Paying My Rent http://snurl.com/2c6h5

Businessweek article on twitter, wikipedia, facebook: http://tinyurl.com/5cs5oe

Twitter Fails To Fail, Community Rejoices: http://snurl.com/2eyxz

Twitter Ideas for Libraries: http://snurl.com/2eyy4

Enjoy!
Linda Locke
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Twitter Tips Weekly Digest - May 18, 2008

What's so cool about Twitter? It gives you an eye inside the mind of early adopters. http://snurl.com/29er0

Some good ideas on how to be a contributor to social media. It's all about sharing links and providing fresh content. http://snurl.com/29eqh

Another nifty Twitter app! Tweet 2 Tweet let you view conversations between 2 Twitter screen names http://tweet2tweet.com/

Should I Stop Blogging? 20 Questions to Ask Yourself. http://snurl.com/29eei

Checking out http://addictomatic.com It's a really neat meta-search site that grabs results from lots of social networking & news sites

Most Popular Twitter Apps http://snurl.com/298yu

8 Tips for How to Work a Twitter Party - http://snurl.com/298ya

Twitter + MeetUp = one successful Tweetup! http://snurl.com/28zif

How valuable are you on Twitter? http://snurl.com/28zhv

Why Twitter Matters http://snurl.com/28zha

How to use Summize.com to "follow" conversations on Twitter http://snurl.com/28rgt

More fun Twitter Apps: http://snurl.com/28r85

Overcoming Social Media Objections: Our website has a “talk to sales rep” button, what else is there?" http://snurl.com/28r7m

ebay + Twitter = http://twibler.com/

Linda Locke
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6 Quick Twitter Tips

Here's a roundup of 6 of my latest tips to help you get the most out of Twitter:

1. How to use Summize.com to "follow" conversations on Twitter
   
   
2. Take http://quotably.com/ out for a spin. It allows you to follow conversations on Twitter. Very cool.


3. Want to tweet by phone? Check out http://www.twitterfone.com/


4. Lots and lots of tips on using Twitter for writers and journalists


5. More helpful Twitter tips
   
   
6. Great tips for Twitter newbies on how to handle followers

Enjoy!

Linda Locke
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How to organically grow your Twitter fan base

Want to expand your group of followers on Twitter? Try using an organic approach to building your Twitter fans and people will naturally want to follow you. In other words, be yourself, be open, write from the heart, and be helpful.

To get you started on this path, here's 5 natural growing tips on how to increase your presence on Twitter from Problogger, Darren Rowse.

My favorite tip from Darren is the one that I think is key:

"just be yourself and Tweet from the heart. Don’t stress too much about the numbers but connect genuinely with the Twitter followers you already have and let the rest take care of itself!"

Linda Locke, Editor
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5 Ways I Like to Use Twitter

In a relatively short time, Twitter has become my absolute favorite web addiction. It's exciting, fun to use, and it's a really handy tool for bloggers, writers, and web workers alike.

Here's 5 ways I like to use Twitter in my online publishing business.

1. Tapping into the Twitter stream. There are a gazillion cool hacks for Twitter, but the one that I like best is Summize.com. It's a search engine for the Twitter feed and I like it better than Google right now. The information is always fresh since it's constantly being updated as new tweets are posted. I use it to get ideas for blog posts and to get the up-to-the-second pulse on what the Twitterverse is talking about.

2. Network and Meet New People. Twitter is a great place to network and chat with people who are interested in the same stuff you are. When you have an online business or work at home, it's easy to feel isolated from the rest of the world. Twitter is always there when you need to take a break or just eavesdrop on some interesting conversations. I've networked with more people through Twitter in 3 weeks then I have in a whole year through my off line business network.

3. Idea Generator and Research Tool. Twitter is just one giant, fascinating think tank. It's like having a conversation with hundreds of people at once. You can ask questions, get feedback, and see what other Twitterers are reading, watching, thinking, eating or doing. I get so many ideas from using Twitter that it sometime keeps me up at night thinking about it all. For a research hound, Twitter is Nirvana!

4.  Keeping Track of Links.  Instead of bookmarking posts, web sites and web services like I used to, I now link to them through my posts on Twitter. That way I can share the good stuff I find with my Twitter friends and keep track of it for myself at the same time. No more time wasting, frustrating searches through my Firefox bookmarks looking for that elusive missing link.

5.  Warm up to Writing Blog Posts. Twitter really gets my writing juices flowing, sparking ideas and making the writing process fun and easy.  The limit of only 140 characters per post smashes through writer's block and brings the joy back into writing for me.  If I need an idea for a post, I can scan through my Twitter posts and replies and find a good topic idea fast.

I could go on and on, but Twitter simply ROCKS! But don't take my word for it. Take Twitter for a spin yourself and you'll see what I mean.

Linda Locke
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12 More Reasons to Start Twittering Now

If you just started Twittering or are still sitting on the fence wondering what all the fuss is about here's 12 More Reasons to start Twittering right now.

Linda Locke
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