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Social Marketing Tips

How to Get Facebook and Twitter Linked

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (8 Jan 2010)  |  Leave a comment

One of the toughest parts of social media is keeping up with all the places you can post your thoughts, brainstorms, and general gibberish.  For small businesses, it can take precious time away from sales and all the other tasks that need to be handled (got a chill about getting taxes ready).

To make the job easier, let your social media applications talk to each other.  The place to start is in getting Facebook and Twitter to sync up.  There are a few steps, but its fairly easy.  I have included the step by step process below (time to complete: 5 min).

STEP ONE: In Facebook Find the Twitter Application

From your Facebook page, look for the search box in the upper right hand corner.  Type “twitter” in the search box and click ENTER or the magnifying glass icon.  Go on to Step 2 –

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Promote Your Customers With Twitter Lists

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (3 Nov 2009)  |  Leave a comment

Last week Twitter released one of their first innovations in a long time…Twitter Lists.

While the SEO and Social Media community wrestles over this new innovation, we have had a few brainstorms of our own.  One of the most compelling is to promote your customers and vendors.

As a web designer and Internet marketing agency, it is in our and our customer’s best interest to promote our relationship and the successes we achieve.  In addition, creating a referral network of trusted and recommended vendors is advantageous to all involved.

Twitter Lists allow you to create special categories of tweets and tweeters that are defined as their own individual URL’s.  For example:

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Twitter Taking Steps To Improve Credibility

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (5 Oct 2009)  |  Leave a comment

For those of my business friends who have been taking a wait and see attitude toward Twitter, it sounds like Co-CEO Evan Williams might finally be waking up to the potential of his product.

One of my biggest beefs with this particular social network is its lack of focus on credibility.  It seems that having a lot of followers is the main criteria for verifying that someone is who they say they are.  Sadly, all you have to do is be followed by a couple high profile sources and every Tweet spammer in the loop will start following you.  If you can get more followers than a credible source, then you can steal their traffic.

Williams this week noted that Twitter wanted to become more reliable as an information source and has proposed a reputation system, as well as a location feature (this is so you can’t pretend you’re somewhere you’re not…like sending Tweets from the South Pole, Iran and so on (I wonder how many cheating spouses will get caught through Twitter!).

If Twitter can accomplish building credibility levels with legitimate Tweets, more of those “wait and see” real business people may make the move to Twitter, which will only serve to make the discussion much more engaging and useful for all who partake.

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Managing Your Social Media Is Managing Your Brand

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (4 Sep 2009)  |  Leave a comment

Many of my clients are very curious about social media…and this is a good curiosity to have.  Staying fresh on the latest trends is important to any marketing campaign.  Using a variety of sources to get the word out about your products and services is a wise move.

But it can also be very dangerous and counter-productive to your on-going branding campaigns.

Here are things every small to medium-sized business should keep in mind when looking at pursuing a social media strategy:

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To Get Digg’s You Have To Give Digg’s

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (3 Aug 2009)  |  Leave a comment

As my clients find ways to get their sites noticed across the Internet, many of them are turning their attention to Social Media.

They sign up for Facebook and Twitter accounts and then sit and wait for the results.  Well, this is human nature with the web…build a shopping cart, become a millionaire.  But then it never really works that way.

No, actually its about hard work.  How are you going to get people sending tweets about you if you don’t tweet about them?  How are you going to get fans of your Facebook unless you become fans of someone else’s Facebook.  And how will someone Digg you, if you don’t Digg others?

That is the deep dark secret of social media…its “SOCIAL!”  (Sorry, didn’t mean to shout)

Its just funny that we sometimes miss the most obvious of things.

Don’t worry, we’ve all done it;  dreamed of great successes without paying attention to the labors that success requires.

Start by commenting on this article or sending a Tweet, or adding it to your Facebook.  Many sites like mine make it very easy…just click a button and go for it.

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7 Ways to Market With Twitter

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (11 Jun 2009)  |  Leave a comment

While doing some research for a client, I decided to take a stroll through Google to see if I could find someone who could give me some good reasons why a client might want to set up a Twitter.  My personal feeling is, it is only viable for a very small segment of the business website market…so I am looking for someone to change my mind.  Not sure if this does, in fact, it kinda confirms the main sites that would benefit from this “hot” app.

http://www.mpdailyfix.com/2007/09/7_ways_marketers_can_use_twitt.html

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Twitter and Facebook Little Business Power In Google

Drew Hannush by Drew Hannush (16 Mar 2009)  |  Leave a comment

Digging deeper into this concept of social media, I read some interesting articles the weekend.  Apparently anyone thinking their business is going to reap great benefits from putting links in Facebook and Twitter are just fooling themselves.

Both services use a “nofollow” attribute on their links to your site.  There are some ways around this, but for the novice or casual business owner who isn’t getting guidance from an SEO professional or web developer in the know are most likely wasting their time putting links in these two mediums.

Apparently Google developed the “nofollow” attribute to fight spam.  Years later, many business people don’t realize that Twitter, Facebook and Wikipedia have all agreed to use this tag to stop spiders from reaching through your posts to find your web site.

So in the end, it seems Google has chosen the Blog as the preferred medium for delivery of timely content.

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