twitter & blogs for business

Twitter & Blogsfor

Business

How much time did it take to reach the billionth Tweet?

3 years, 2 months and 1 day

Now, there are 340 million tweets per day

Twitter now has more than 140 million active users expressing themselves in 140 characters or less.

Hot Topics 2011 Two & a Half Men

Rebecca Black- Friday Elizabeth TaylorCharlie Sheen

Dallas Cowboys Macs

Texas Rangers

Hashtags #egypt #japan

#superbowl

10 ways you can TWEET 1. @Replies 2. Retweets 3. Countdowns 4. Blog Posts 5. “As it Happens” Updates 6. Photos 7. Questions 8. Problems/Difficulties 9. Celebrations 10. Trivial Touchpoints

BLOGS

What is a blog? A diary, a soapbox, collection of thoughts and links, and outlet and so on…. Blogs are used to provide detail useful information for readers to respond to and listen to. Consider a blog a website, which speaks for you 24/7, like other social media means. Blogs are used by businesses to keep brands consistent and tie everything together. Even Google has a blog!

270,000 words are written per minute 54% of bloggers post daily 77% of active adults online read blogs

Over 340 million people view more than 2.5 billion

pages each month.

Dos and Don'ts of Blogging

+Install Plugins +Integrate social media links +Focus on a simple design +Have your blog on your domain +Blog Regularly

–Do not Treat your Blog as a press center –Do not hide your About Section –Do not disable comments and conversation –Do not make content hard to find –Do not expect too much, too soon

Getting Started with twitter

• Go to www.Twitter.com to create an account or to login to your current account.

• Set your @username as something unique and memorable but also something that goes with your business. This is how people will interact and find you on Twitter

Have a GREAT profile pic if not use your logo instead……

Your profile picture should be 73px X 73px

www.PicResize.com

www.Twello.com

www.WeFollow.com

www.search.twitter.com/advanced

So who is gonna follow you???

Shout it from the rooftops!

If you tell them, they will follow….Put your username everywhere!

Add it to your business cardsAdd it to your letterheadPut it on your counter

Now you have followers……

4 Part Twitter Plan

1. Find Your Purpose

2. Tweet Responsibly

3. Be Authentic

4. Consider Your Audience

Getting people to interact with youAsk QuestionsAnswer QuestionsAsk for postsTweet Consistently

Twitter Tools

www.Hootsuite.com

www.TweetBeep.com

www.goo.gl

Twitterriffic

Twitbird

Twitdroid