Now not only does the new MarketMe Tweet brand your tweets it’s a complete Twitter desktop management tool, with plans to keep it updated, relevent and add more features according to users requests – who could ask for more?
Posterous is a blogging platform with a difference! At it’s simplest it is a blogging platform that allows you to post via email. Yes! that’s right via email. Just create your blog post in your email or in word, add your images and post it directly to Posterous.
The most important thing I can recommend is this: If you are present and a presence on your fan page your fan base will grow just as quickly as your friends.
This list of Twitter apps and sites and some of my hints on how I use them, will provide you with some ideas on how to do the same for your busy social media calendars:
You know at the bottom of each Tweet where it says via ? e.g. via Seesmic, via Power Twitter, or via Hootsuite now it can say “via your url” and click through to your specified url of choice and it couldn’t be easier to set up with full video and image support and best of all it is free.
One question I get asked quite a lot about is whether there is any way to track your Social Media Marketing success. The short answer is Yes! although in the next breath I have to explain that it is done in a different way to your ‘other’ marketing. Would you like to know how?
Your keywords need to be words used in ordinary (not industry) conversation about your niche, words the average person needed your service or product would use. One of the most invaluable tools to use is: ordinary people not associated with your niche, and that is where social media can be one of the most invaluable tools to use.
Now as an online marketer I understand that “it’s all in the list” and a list can be a list of social media followers, friends and fans.. BUT! Yes there is a big BUT and not the kind you want to shake (as in booty) lol.
I presented a seminar on Social Media Marketing the other day and one of the questions that came up was “What’s the point of learning all this when my website isn’t even up yet?” My answer was immediate, “Start now to create buzz, so that when your site does go up, you already have people ready and waiting to find out more.”
Twitter is… well a revolution and to use Twitter effectively – like a pro – a few extra tools are needed to make your Twitter experience easier, more like marketing (because it is trackable), searchable, quicker and simple. These are a few of my favourite Twitter tools and why:
