> Jay, I've been so obsessed with Twitter I've written a number of posts
> lately- I think the following is a very powerful combination of web 2.0
> technologies:
> 1. your blog
> 2. your twitter account
> 3. social bookmarking (sphinn primarily)
> > I'm using it to try and drive awareness and sales - we're planning on
> > launching a blog and including it there as well. Any great ideas for
> > increasing "followers"?
> Jay, I've been so obsessed with Twitter I've written a number of posts > lately- I think the following is a very powerful combination of web 2.0 > technologies:
> 1. your blog > 2. your twitter account > 3. social bookmarking (sphinn primarily)
> > I'm using it to try and drive awareness and sales - we're planning on > > launching a blog and including it there as well. Any great ideas for > > increasing "followers"?
> I'm using it to try and drive awareness and sales - we're planning on > launching a blog and including it there as well. Any great ideas for > increasing "followers"?
Hi Jay... I've been on twitter for ages and ages and I can give you my PERSONAL opinion... YMMV. :)
For me, I get followed a good bit -- currently I follow 236 and 915 follow me. When people follow me, I get an email notice and I always click to see who they are. Now, the reason I follow some of those and don't follow others relates to the value of what they write. If someone is witty, I'll follow. If they do something in my industry I know about, and post relevant things, I'll follow. If I met them at a conference or something, I'll follow for a while and see how it goes... I sometimes even follow people that I see my friends replying to consistently that seem interesting. I've met great people that way.
If someone follows me and has 3 posts. Forget it (unless I know them). If their twitter stream only contains their blog post notifications being posted to twitter, I won't follow. I can subscribe to their RSS if I want that. If all they're doing is talking about their product -- why do I care? I'm inundated with advertising all over my life. That's not what twitter's for.
I will also unfollow people if they feel that twitter is an IM client and fill my stream with @ replies to everyone they know. Recently, I dropped a couple people that are using BrightKite to post their location and have set those notifications to be sent to twitter. I really don't want to see a full day of the addresses of everywhere you go - " I'm at 7804 King Rd, Meridian, MS 39305, USA" Whatever.
So I guess the moral of the story is -- if you want followers -- have something to say that is of value to them. Either be funny and witty, useful and smart, friendly and helpful or relevant to my life. But don't look at twitter as a tool only to be used to boost your blog, your product, or constantly chat with your friends -- that is if you want others to follow. :)
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> On May 5, 2008, at 8:20 PM, Jay Allen wrote: > > I'm using it to try and drive awareness and sales - we're planning on > > launching a blog and including it there as well. Any great ideas for > > increasing "followers"?
> Hi Jay... I've been on twitter for ages and ages and I can give you my > PERSONAL opinion... YMMV. :)
> For me, I get followed a good bit -- currently I follow 236 and 915 > follow me. When people follow me, I get an email notice and I always > click to see who they are. Now, the reason I follow some of those and > don't follow others relates to the value of what they write. If > someone is witty, I'll follow. If they do something in my industry I > know about, and post relevant things, I'll follow. If I met them at a > conference or something, I'll follow for a while and see how it > goes... I sometimes even follow people that I see my friends replying > to consistently that seem interesting. I've met great people that way.
> If someone follows me and has 3 posts. Forget it (unless I know them). > If their twitter stream only contains their blog post notifications > being posted to twitter, I won't follow. I can subscribe to their RSS > if I want that. If all they're doing is talking about their product -- > why do I care? I'm inundated with advertising all over my life. That's > not what twitter's for.
> I will also unfollow people if they feel that twitter is an IM client > and fill my stream with @ replies to everyone they know. Recently, I > dropped a couple people that are using BrightKite to post their > location and have set those notifications to be sent to twitter. I > really don't want to see a full day of the addresses of everywhere you > go - " I'm at 7804 King Rd, Meridian, MS 39305, USA" Whatever.
> So I guess the moral of the story is -- if you want followers -- have > something to say that is of value to them. Either be funny and witty, > useful and smart, friendly and helpful or relevant to my life. But > don't look at twitter as a tool only to be used to boost your blog, > your product, or constantly chat with your friends -- that is if you > want others to follow. :)
One of the dangers is if twitter is solely used for self-promotion. I
think that people would get tired of twitters about their products or
services. Best approach is to add value to your followers IMHO.
On May 5, 9:53 pm, "Brian Carter" <bbcar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jay, I've been so obsessed with Twitter I've written a number of posts
> lately- I think the following is a very powerful combination of web 2.0
> technologies:
> 1. your blog
> 2. your twitter account
> 3. social bookmarking (sphinn primarily)
> > I'm using it to try and drive awareness and sales - we're planning on
> > launching a blog and including it there as well. Any great ideas for
> > increasing "followers"?
Apologies for coming to the conversation a bit late.
I'm looking at doing a test account for a client, looking at how they
can drive incremental sales from using social media outlets like
Twitter. The thing is, it's a fine line between valuable information
and spamminess. A lot of the people I unfollow start off pretty
interesting, and then disintegrate into self-promotion and endless
brightkite postings. I'm trying to balance that myself, but am in the
meantime looking for ideas and suggestions for e-comm clients to trial
Twitter...
Does anyone know of a quicker way (or have contacts) to get two sites delisted from Google (and if they are in Yahoo and MSN those, too - I haven't had time to check there yet..
Situation: I got a Google news alert today with a site pointing to mine that appears to be telling people to hack the site or that we are a hacker - and it has the same page pointed to three times on the page. The blog post shows up four times on Google - postitions 2, 3, 4 and 5- twice as Wordpress blog posts and twice from something called trickyworld.com
Our actual page comes up as the first listing for the specific term (and always has.)
A bit further down on the first page of results is another site that also is spam - headline is : COMMUNICATION JUNCTION ADDER: 200 Ways to Start A Business by ... And it links to cjadd.blogspot.com
I just reported these through both webmaster tools and the report results you don't like link on Google. But is there any quicker way to get that garbage out of the search engine?
(knew I shouldn't have looked at email this morning.. Company's coming in an hour.)
What a terrible situation to be in! I have read many reports lately that competitors are engaging in dirty tricks to have their contemporaries removed either tarnished or removed from the se indexes and subsequent rankings.
I would suggest that you rather ensure that your platform is fully patched, if you feel that your own technical strengths are not enough to do this yourself, then pay a technical resource to do this for you.
You can of course submit the I donıt like contentı report on those spam sites, you could also take legal proceedings against those that incite others to attempt to hack (a form of terrorism in itself) your website. If you are based out of the US you should get into contact with your local FBI office to report this in the first instance. Regards quick resolutions to this, I am not aware of anything that is instantaneous.
Hope that this helps you out some,
Best,
Damien
From: Janet Attard <att...@businessknowhow.com> Organization: Business Know-How Reply-To: <SEM2@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 10:02:06 -0400 To: <SEM2@googlegroups.com> Subject: [SEM2] Offtopic - help with spammer/hacker pointing to site
Does anyone know of a quicker way (or have contacts) to get two sites delisted from Google (and if they are in Yahoo and MSN those, too - I haven't had time to check there yet..
Situation: I got a Google news alert today with a site pointing to mine that appears to be telling people to hack the site or that we are a hacker - and it has the same page pointed to three times on the page. The blog post shows up four times on Google - postitions 2, 3, 4 and 5- twice as Wordpress blog posts and twice from something called trickyworld.com
Our actual page comes up as the first listing for the specific term (and always has.)
A bit further down on the first page of results is another site that also is spam - headline is : COMMUNICATION JUNCTION ADDER: 200 Ways to Start A Business by ... And it links to cjadd.blogspot.com
I just reported these through both webmaster tools and the report results you don't like link on Google. But is there any quicker way to get that garbage out of the search engine?
(knew I shouldn't have looked at email this morning.. Company's coming in an hour.)
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zappos does a pretty good job of mixing regular twittering with marketing... (well, they do a good job with lots of things. ;))
> @Stephanie - That's the most unique way I've heard of to take a story > viral, marriage proposal! Congrats!
Heh. Wish I could say it was on purpose -- I will say I "took advantage" of the opportunity and DID get mention of our new book in there. ;) But that whole viral thing -- that's one of those things I wish i knew how to create for clients. It's tricky... LOL
