I will share 5 tweets here and give you some ideas as to how these tweets might have been done differently. This individual is in the ec0-friendly industry and their profile implied that they were looking for business contacts. The following tweets are not business related. Here is how they might have gone about these tweets a little differently to showcase their expertise, and share value add information to their target audience. See how you can use these examples and adapt them to your own environment.
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With Twitter usage up dramatically lately, it would appear that many are beginning to realize its potential to really help drive their business forward. Check out this interview that Chris Brogan did recently with Restauranteur Joe Sorge who owns AJ Bombers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. See how Twitter has in his words, ‘built his business’.
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There is nothing like the Olympic Games to bring the world together. Over 80 countries have gathered to compete, demonstrate their skills and share their culture and friendship. I am a huge fan of the Olympic Games. This year as I watched some of my favorite sports, I was struck by how many similarities there are between the Games and Social Media. Here are my top 7 ways the Olympics mirror the Social Media landscape.
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As a Social Media Specialist Virtual Assistant, I have clients asking me to help them clarify between a Facebook Group and a Facebook Business Page. For many they appear to accomplish the same thing…but do they? Here are 3 major differences between Facebook Business Pages and Facebook Groups.
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As a Social Media Specialist, I coach my clients to use their blog site as their hub so it was time to put my money where my mouth is. It’s so much easier for me now to maintain my Wordpress site than my static website.
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Posted in Business, Marketing on Jan 12th, 2010
It’s important to take a look at where your traffic is coming from. If you have invested considerable time in your social media sites, you should find that profiles like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., are great sources of traffic to your blog and to your website. You might also find, if you are pushing your blog posts out to the social bookmark sites, that places like Digg, Delicious and Stumbleupon for example are also a source of traffic for you. You will be able to see pretty quickly which sites are the ones that are working best for you and it is here that you should devote a little more time and attention.
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Posted in Advertizing, Brand Management, Business, Marketing, Outsourcing, Public Relations, Reputation Management, Social Media, Social Networking, VA, Virtual Assistant on Sep 1st, 2009
Twitter is the little rock star of the Social Media world. Who would have thought that 140 characters could be so powerful? Millions are using Twitter as a means of driving traffic to their own sites, to others’ sites and for communicating with the masses in real time. Yet for some, Twitter still seems a mystery. As a Social Media Specialist VA, I coach clients on Social Media usage. Here are my top 5 No-No when it comes to Twitter!
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I wonder how many businesses out there are paying attention to the change that is going on in terms of brand and reputation management. With the proliferation of Social Media, the power to define and control a brand is now shifting from corporations and institutions to individuals and communities.
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A good partnership with a Virtual Assistant can be like a well oiled dressage team. Each contributes masterfully. One excels because of the other. The magic comes from repeated long term effort on both parts to achieve success and will overtime, appear effortless. A really good partnership means both parties know when to be the horse and when to be the rider.
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Posted in Business, Family, Virtual Assistant on May 14th, 2009
As a busy Virtual Assistant, wife and mom, my usually well organized household occasionally goes to hell in a handbasket. Yesterday was one of those days.
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