What they don’t realize is that they’re saying, “I don’t have time to tell people about what I do.” It seems to be a generation gap. People who are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and up, are used to the old way of marketing and promotion. They believe in advertising that costs a lot of … Read more
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List of the “Twitter Elite” includes the top 1 – 1000 users. The top 3 are chrisbrogan, nytimes, guykawasaki.
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“When a business owner says to me, ‘Why do I need to change my way of advertising and start using social media?’ I reply, ‘Do you want to be an 8 track player in an IPod world’” —Rick Mosca
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Establish presence. With hundreds of millions of active participants (Facebook alone has several hundred million registered users), you want continuous visibility among the people who are important to your business, be they customers, partners, or other stakeholders. Build rapport and relationships with specific audiences. Cultivate relationships with your important stakeholder groups through two-way communication. Establish … Read more
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According to Twitter on Feb 24, 2010 tweople were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, 300,000, and by 2009, 2.5 million per day! Tweets grew 1,400% last year to 35 million per day. Today, we are seeing 50 million tweets per day—that’s an average of 600 tweets per second. As for age … Read more
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If you’re wondering what Google Buzz is, here’s a quick explanation. Google Buzz is a new way to share things. It’s built into Gmail. Comments go straight to your inbox and pop up live as the comments come in—like in Tweetdeck. You can import things from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr and Google Reader. You auto follow … Read more
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The word blog comes from a combo of “web” and “log.” A newsletter tends to list upcoming events and news related to an organization. Newsletters range from weekly, to monthly to quarterly. Blogs tend to be updated much more frequently. The most popular blogs are updated at least one time per day. Blogs have become … Read more
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Hi. I just checked myself out on Twitter Grader to see how my tweeting is going. I’m giddy with news. I rank HIGH! My grade is 95.5 out of 100 and my ranking is 277,803 out of 6,169,444!! Can i get a woo hoo?
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Just finished 3rd article of 4 due. Ahhhh. Nice feeling. Can’t stop reading tweets and emails and linked in group messages today. i’m obsessed with this stuff. i learn so much, so fast. Yay for social media!!!
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How often words appear on Twitter (source: tweetvolume.com): web: 57,200,000 socialmedia: 5,270,000 marketing: 3,660,000 design: 3,410,000 entrepreneur: 699,000
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