Category Archives: Social Networking

Tag Responsible- A Facebook Marketing Strategy Which Can Turn Into Spam

Facebook is the place to claim a piece of the pie. Not being on facebook when pursuing free marketing strategies would be almost a crime.

I want to talk today a little about one strategy which is called “TAGGING” and it was designed to share pictures or videos with people who are included in either one. If you are not familiar with tagging let me quickly explain. Tagging can be done by adding your facebook friends to a video or picture and it will show up on his or her wall.

But over time some eager marketers figured out a way that tagging can bring them closer to their goal when it comes to generating leads.

Over the last year or so, I have watched the explosion of the tagging strategies and for some reason I also became what I l like to call “Tagging Victim”. Now it is not as harsh as it sounds but I really thought that I would write a quick blog post to express my thoughts and concerns.

When it comes to marketing, tagging people in videos will expose you on the wall and eventually yourself to all the friends of that person. The concept is great but overtime it has become a little crazy, because marketers do it with people who either are in the same company or represent the same system.

Guys, if I represent XYZ Company and your represent the same what do you think happens if you tag me in your video? Can you say “delete” and your behind gets canned for good.  Oh yeah as fast as you can say 1-2-3

It is the same like people of Coca Cola running against Coca Cola, Visa against Visa and McDonalds against McDonalds you get my point. It just makes no sense, and it also shows a lack of really caring what that person is all about and why he or she is on facebook.

Also people respond differently when it comes to tagging, some get annoyed and some will have a blast. But the bottom line is that is you use the tagging strategy make sure you check a few things

• Do not tag the same people over and over, it will burn the relations ship and most likely will get you ejected from their circle of friends.
• Make sure that what you promote in your video is not the same of your facebook friend. It would be unprofessional and also will burn the bridge of future project.
• If you have a picture, don’t go out and tag everyone, just tag the people in the picture. I am not the only one who does not care unless I am in it. I will see your posting at my home page.

Always remember, yes you might generate a lead, but you are taking the risk of burning a good relationship. Be professional and respect boundaries. Don’t become someone who seems to be a good guy who turns tagging into spam. Keep the relationship alive-Tag responsible

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Why Twitter Is Important to Your Business

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The last thing your business needs is an empty Twitter account taking up space in the twittersphere. You’ll have wasted your time in setting it up and when people find it (a simple Google search will suffice), an empty account will make it look like your company doesn’t know what it’s doing. While this is worse than not having a Twitter account, you’ll be squandering an excellent opportunity in either case.

So, before you jump on the bandwagon and setup your business’ Twitter account, or write off that whole social media thing as a bunch of snake oil, take a few minutes to learn why you need a Twitter account.

Find More Customers

Twitter can help you find more customers. Not only can you search Twitter for people who are interested in what your company has to offer, potential customers can find you. For example, if you are a life coach who works with people struggling with shyness, you can find people online who are talking about their struggle. Likewise, people who are shy can search twitter and find your services.

Enlarge Your Network

Twitter works much the same way when it comes to networking within your industry. Not only does this help you keep an eyeball on the competition, but also allows you to get to know, like and trust others in the same on complementary fields. For example, if you’re a web designer, you can follow other designers and keep up with what is new in your industry. Some freelancers have even been known to ditch their RSS feeds because industry Twitter leaders have been so good about tweeting the latest and most relevant news and issues.

Likewise, you can also get to know other people in your industry via Twitter. So, when you arrive at that point where you need to outsource some of your work, or hire contractors or employees, you can just send out a tweet for prospects.

Build Your Community Status

Getting known as an expert in your industry is a fast way to get people knocking on your door to hire your company. Social proof exists to confirm that you know what you’re talking about and it can be clearly seen in all the brilliant and insightful things you say in your feed.

When you achieve this status, you can just post that you have a new product or service and people will respond. For example, a jewelry and bead store owner that gets a new shipment of beads in can tweet this update to their followers and have a flood of traffic to check out the new merchandise. If she has an online store, this is even better because people can get to her virtual shop instantly. Now, if that store owner had never tweeted before, she won’t have much of a response. But if she’s been tweeting useful information, providing links to tutorials and answering customer questions, she’ll have built up a very responsive following.

As you can see, Twitter is not just about teens socializing when they should be studying their math lessons. When used effectively, Twitter can be an excellent tool for building customer relationships, getting to know your colleagues and promoting your business.

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Twitter, Twitter On The Wall

Launched back in 2006 and seized upon by tech geeks everywhere, Twitter has grown in to the darling of the web due to its ultra clean interface, zero ads and complete openness with allowing other businesses to leverage it’s userbase. It’s become so big that it has even got giants like MySpace and Facebook running scared.

For such a simple concept it’s quite mind boggling that it has become such a huge success. You are given just 140 characters to tell people ‘what you are doing’. You can then follow other people and they can follow you back.

The jury is still very much out on whether it’s common courtesy to follow back anyone that starts to follow you. Many people still do this though so if you start following people, you will get many followers in return. The downside is that unless you choose to follow people who are interested in your chosen niche they will probably not click on any links that you share.

The ideal scenario is that you put your twitter address on your website and forum signatures and people begin to follow you automatically because they are interested in what you have to say. Remember, there is no requirement to follow someone if they follow you but do have a look and see if what they are tweeting is of any interest to you.

Once you have started to build up your gang of followers remember to treat them with a lot of respect, just like on a social network or forum, if you are constantly bombarding them with sales talk or links then you’ll find that your followers get reduced very quickly!

It’s important to come across as a person and to be yourself, share interesting information about yourself, tell people what you are up to or going to get up to and mix in promotions and marketing for your website amongst the other tweets. Also share links to other websites that you found genuinely useful because if people start to build up a trust that you are giving them great information they are much more likely to click on the links you provide.

When you post a link, use a service like bit.ly to shortern the URL, that way you’ve got space to tell people why they should click a link. Just like on social networking, giving people a personal comment will increase the click through rates.

You should also engage in a two way conversation as well, if people are posting useful information, go ahead and retweet it, if they see you are retweeting their posts, they will be much more inclined to go ahead and retweet whatever you are saying. It also builds up the relationship between you and your followers.

I like to think of twitter as the public version of my mailing list, you have to treat it with respect, share information and contribute but when needed it can be like your personal cash machine when you do promote something.

For most of the Internet marketing world, Twitter is used not just to make money but more important to build relationships and to generate highly targeted leads. Use it wisely it can be a powerful tool in your warchest or just waste of your time.

How To Block Those Annoying Facebook Apps!!!

To be honest, in the beginning it was nice ,but now it is like a living nightmare. My facebook account looks like myspace page. And this had to end. I made a quick video to show you one of the ways to block those apps.

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