8 Creative Ways to Use Embeddable Tweets
What if your Twitter conversations could expand to include more people from your online community?
Now you can thanks to embedded tweets, a new feature from Twitter.
Sharing Tweets Outside of Twitter
Embedded tweets allow you to take a tweet or a conversation and post it on your website or in a blog post. You can use this feature to share your Twitter conversation with a larger audience.
But more than that, the embedded tweets have interactive features. From an embedded tweet, a visitor to your website or a blog post reader can:
- Reply to the tweet and join the conversation.
- Share the conversation with their Twitter community using retweet.
- Mark the tweet as a favorite.
- View the Twitter profile of the tweet author.
- Follow the tweet author.
- View tweet replies by clicking the tweet date.
5 Tips for Moving Social Media Leads Into the Sales Funnel
Have you been able to turn your fans and followers into active prospects?
Are you interested in monetizing the social media channel?
Keep reading for five tips to turn fans and followers into a revenue channel.
But first…
Do Fans Mean Business?
Marketers have made tremendous strides in growing their audiences on social media channels. There have been concerns over whether social media could only be successful in business-to-consumer (B2C) companies, but we’re starting to see great case studies in both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) brands.
8 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Site With Google+
Would you like to drive more traffic to your website?
With new enhancements from Google+, you can more easily accomplish just that!
One of the biggest changes recently rolled out by Google might even be called a seismic shift in search.
Google is somewhat clumsily calling it “Search, plus Your World.” You see, Google has years of experience in the search engine business. And they are so good because they aim to deliver what people are looking for, not just what they actually enter into the search window. They have to figure out if your search on “porter” is supposed to show a lot of beer websites or websites focusing on people who carry luggage.
Part of what they’ve learned is that people want to see results based on their own personal history and social profile.
Google’s Search, Plus Your World
Google search is still search, but now they are tailoring a person’s search to include results based on their social media profile.
How Google+ Ripples Provides Social Sharing Insights
Are you on Google+? Are you aware of the insight you can gain from social content?
Google+ is a relatively new platform for businesses and marketers.
While the concept of circles is a great way to keep in touch and interact directly with a specific niche, there’s one feature that doesn’t seem to get that much press, and is actually quite beneficial to businesses. It’s called Ripples.
What is Google Ripples?
Ripples is a feature that shows you interactive graphs of everyone who has shared a specific post. Ripples is only available on posts that are sent out to “Public” and only displays those who shared the post publicly.
8 Tips for Training Social Media Marketers
Does your business have a plan for bringing on social media marketers?
Are you wondering how to work with experts outside the company while maintaining a consistent brand experience?
Before you jump in headfirst or turn over the social media reins , check out the following eight tips to make sure your employees or contractors correctly represent your company.
#1: Create a Social Style Guide
Agreeing on a style for outward-facing content helps solidify your company’s identity and character, and is the starting point of good social media employee training, because it puts all agents on the same page. Perhaps the biggest hurdle in creating a style guide is to define your company’s voice.
4 Tips for Creating Your LinkedIn Company Page
Does your business have a LinkedIn company page?
Keep reading for tips to create and grow a following for your LinkedIn company page.
Why LinkedIn Pages?
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network. The network has 150 million members worldwide, and is adding 10 new members every 5 seconds!
LinkedIn is a publicly traded company now (symbol LNKD), which means that information about their revenues, operations and earnings are publicly available.
You can gain a lot of insight about a public company by following their investor relations communications to better understand how the business is growing, and what the areas of focus are for the company.
3 Steps to an Effective Social Media Strategy
Do you have a social media strategy for your business yet?
If you don’t, you could be missing out on game-changing results.
According to the 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report, 78% of marketers saw increased traffic with just six hours a week invested in social media.
The businesses that do social media marketing well will see even bigger wins in 2012, as the gap between who “gets it” and who doesn’t grows wider by the minute.
The good news? You don’t need to be everything to everyone anymore. Chances are your strategy will be more effective if you keep it simple.
How to Use the Networking Clubs From Social Media Examiner
Are you looking for a place to connect with your social media peers?
Ready to start networking with other marketers, bloggers, business owners and social media enthusiasts?
Then Social Media Examiner’s Networking Clubs are the place to be!
What Are the Networking Clubs?
Watch this video for a quick overview of the Networking Clubs:
Michael Stelzner shows you the Networking Clubs.
26 Tips for Using Pinterest for Business
Are you wondering how your business could use Pinterest?
To say there’s been a lot of buzz about Pinterest in recent months would be putting it mildly!
Pinterest’s ease of use for visually bookmarking, organizing and sharing things you love has made it a hit among individuals and businesses alike.
What follows are 26 tips, an A-Z guide for creating a business presence on Pinterest.
#1: Add a Pinterest “Follow” and/or “Pin It” Button
One important way to let your clients and prospects know about your presence on Pinterest is to add a Pinterest button. Pinterest has several choices available on their goodies page. Find the one that works for you. When you add a Pin It button, you can encourage your customers and readers to pin your products onto Pinterest.
10 Ways to Deal With Upset Customers Using Social Media
How are you responding to upset customers?
No matter what you sell or what industry you’re in, you’re going to experience negative word of mouth.
You know, those customers who are expressing their complaints on social media.
It just happens.
Things break, problems come up and employees have bad days. But it’s how you handle it that separates you from everyone else.
Remember: Negative word of mouth is an opportunity.
A great response strategy can convert angry and upset customers into loyal, raving fans. The rule of thumb is that while unhappy customers talk to 5 people, formerly unhappy customers you win back talk to 10.
So get out there and embrace the negativity. Start responding. Here are 10 steps you can take to stop the negative, earn new fans and generate a ton of respect.
