Tag: social media marketing

Tagging in Twitter

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If you are new to Twitter marketing, you may be confused by the strange symbols and references that are used. But there is a simple explanation to this. It all makes sense when you consider that Twitter was initially conceived with SMS in mind. This meant that a character limitation had to be put in place which in turn left very little space to do other functions.

The @ – The “@” symbol is used to draw attention to a user. For example, @Harry Johnson accidentally squirted ketchup all over himself at Disney world today. However, you should note that this is used in a broadcast sense. If you need to talk to Harry privately, just send him a direct message.
The RT – “RT” is used as courtesy to others. Let us say that you saw an interesting post from one of your friends and want to post it to your own followers. But you also want to give credit to the person who originally posted it as well. This is where you use “RT” and the “@” symbol. Using the previous example this would be posted as, RT @Harry Johnson accidentally squirted ketchup all over himself at Disney world today.

The # – The “#” or hash tag is used to draw attention to words and help with filtering. This way, you can have one channel that shows you Tweets that you are really interested in and think are important. Using the previous example this would look like, @Harry Johnson accidentally squirted ketchup all over himself at #Disney world today. So everyone who is following you and is interested in Disney will see this message in their filters.

If you need further help in twitter marketing and promotion , we recommend hiring a company like iClimber, who specializes in social media marketing services.

Making Social Media Work for Offline Businesses

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Not every business can afford to be online and in some cases they don’t need to at all. But that doesn’t mean that they will not appreciate any extra advertising and promotions. It may sound surprising, but if you think about it social media marketing can indeed be used to promote a non-online business. Let us look at what Twitter can do for a bricks-and-mortar store.

1. Hold a contest via Twitter. Pick a product you want to promote and advertise in the store window that this product is the prize of a Twitter contest. The rules of the contest should be simple. Tell the people that all they have to do is become a follower of the store on Twitter and make a Tweet about the store. You can now see where this will lead to. Not only are you increasing your offline opt-in list, you are also getting some free publicity for your store every time one of your followers Tweet about you. Keep the promo going for a month before you hold the draw.

2. Dish out code words. Once again pick a product and using your store front, advertise that discounts will be given to those who use a code word when making a purchase on that promoted product. Let the people know that the code word will be Tweeted on a certain day of the week. You will be surprised at the number of people who start following you.

3. Mass Tweeting. Don’t overdo this, but this method will give you lots of attention very fast. Hold a contest for the most Tweets about your store. If you offer a decent enough prize, you will have a flood of advertising on your behalf flowing out on the social media circuit.

4. Build followers. In order for Twitter marketing to work effectively, you need to have a lot of followers. How do you build followers? First way it to post on regular basis, so people that like what you post will start following you. Second way is to follow people who think will be interested in following you and hopefully they follow you back. Your could use some twitter tools that can automate some of these tasks, or you could also higher a company like iClimber that does twitter marketing and promotion services.

90+ Social Media Sites

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I covered a listing of twenty dofollow social bookmarking sites in another post. This time around i am listed 90+ social bookmarking sites, both dofollow and nofollow. Some of the biggest sites online are nofollow but if you do get your submission to the front page of the site, it can mean a massive amount of traffic for a short period of time. The usefulness of both depends on your overall plan for your site.
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Here is a list of Social Bookmarking sites, the pagerank follows the name of the site along with the number of indexed pages appearing in google when I compiled the list, please note that I did this using the SEO addon for firefox so there might be some errors in the number of indexed pages.

1. Slashdot – PR9 – 188,000 links
2. Digg – PR8 – 3,470,000 links
3. del.icio.us – PR8 – 1,540,000 links
4. Reddit – PR8 – 1,040,000 links
5. Technorati – PR8 – 760,000 links
6. Stumbleupon – PR8 – 725,000 links
7. Blinklist – PR7 – 1,620,000 links
8. Furl – PR7 – 1,210,000 links
9. Propeller – PR7 – 322,000 links
10. Rojo – PR7 – 6060 links
11. de.lirio.us – PR7 – 3770 links
12. Folkd – PR7 – 410 links
13. Netvouz – PR6 – 912,000
14. Mister-Wong – PR6 – 898,000 links
15. Simpy – PR6 – 867,000 links
16. Bibsonomy – PR6 – 469,000 links
17. Kinja – PR6 – 438,000 links
18. Backflip – PR6 – 227,000 links
19. Clipmarks – PR6 – 121,000 links
20. Rawsugar – PR6 – 50,300 links
21. Searchles – PR6 – 32,000 links
22. Searchallinone – PR6 – 18,800 links
23. Tailrank – PR6 – 10,900 links
24. Linkagogo – PR6 – 6790 links
25. Web2List – PR6 – 4780 links
26. Spurl – PR6 – 38 links
27. Faves – PR5 – 1,280,000 links
28. Megite – PR5 – 753,000 links
29. Clipclip – PR5 – 323,000 links
30. StartAid – PR5 – 637,000
31. Linkroll – PR5 – 147,000 links
32. Sk*rt – PR5 – 104,000 links
33. Listible – PR5 – 60,400 links
34. Feedmarker – PR5 – 58,800 links
35. Markaboo – PR5 – 48,400 links
36. Bringr – PR5 – 16,500 links
37. Gabbr – PR5 – 5000 links
38. Mybookmarks – PR5 – 916 links
39. Buddymarks – PR5 – 907 links
40. Tallstreet – PR5 – 408 links
41. Mylinkvault – PR5 – 71 links
42. Ma.gnolia – PR4 – 818,000 links
43. Web2Announcer – PR4 – 305,000 links
44. Diigo – PR4 – 276,000 links
45. Plugim – PR4 – 120,000 links
46. Lifelogger – PR4 – 86,700 links
47. Dropjack – PR4 – 65,000 links
48. Indiasphere.Net – PR4 – 45,900 links
49. Otavo – PR4 – 35,000 links
50. Butterflyproject.nl – PR4 – 34,500 links
51. Lookmarks – PR4 – 32,700 links
52. Myvmarks – PR4 – 28,200 links
53. Blurpalicious – PR4 – 25,300 links
54. Cloudytags – PR4 – 24,100 links
55. Mysitevote – PR4 – 20,000 links
56. A1-Webmarks – PR4 – 15,200 links
57. Philoi – PR4 – 12,400 links
58. Oyax – PR4 – 12,000 links
59. Gravee – PR4 – 9940 links
60. Votelists – PR4 – 6150 links
61. Gd-Sites – PR4 – 5840 links
62. Contentpop – PR4 – 5490 links
63. Gaddiposh – PR4 – 3130 links
64. Urlex.Info – PR4 – 654 links
65. Connectedy – PR4 – 636 links
66. Connectedy – PR4 – 568 links
67. Unalog – PR4 – 162 links
68. Bookmarktracker – PR5 – 314 links
69. Marktd – PR3 – 130,000 links
70. Getboo – PR3 – 96,500 links
71. Listerlister – PR3 – 19,100 links
72. Bookmarkplace – PR3 – 15,100 links
73. Jigg.In – PR3 – 9220 links
74. Stirrdup – PR3 – 9220 links
75. Chaamp – PR3 – 7770 links
76. Ez4U – PR3 – 6520 links
77. Socialogs – PR3 – 5200 links
78. Business-Planet – PR3 – 4740 links
79. Articlesnetwork – PR3 – 3670 links
80. Wirefan – PR3 – 3030 links
81. Fritterware – PR3 – 2970 links
82. Sitesays – PR3 – 1560 links
83. Bookmark4You – PR3 – 948 links
84. Crowdfound – PR3 – 782 links
85. Authorcontent – PR3 – 513 links
86. Info4It – PR2 – 91,100 links
87. Palbe – PR2 – 9300 links
88. Dealoid – PR2 – 9270 links
89. Barksbookmarks – PR2 – 7370 links
90. Articlesarchieve – PR2 – 5350 links
91. Article-Publishers – PR2 – 4380 links
92. Latestramblings – PR2 – 3180 links
93. Xlmark – PR2 – 2120 links
94. Ebizgo.Info – PR2 – 1150 links
95. Actualtopics – PR2 – 749 links
96. Projecthear – PR1 – 19,600 links
97. Wordsjournal – PR1 – 14,100 links

You may also be interested in a service that will do social bookmarking services for you. If so take a look at iclimber.com.

Free Tools to Speed Up Social Media Submission

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Do you own a website or a blog and as a result spend a lot of time submitting your site to all the social media sites? What if you could cut down the time it takes to submit your pages to half an hour from the current two hours it takes? In this post I will be looking at two free tools which can drastically speed up the time it takes.
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First up on the list is Socialmarker found over at socialmarker.com. I initially came across this site during my first attempt at the thirty day challenge, when one of the members created it to make his submission process easier.

Socialmarker has an interesting way of going about the submission process. First of all you enter all the main details of your submission, page title, url, keywords and other details. Then you can select from a range of social media sites, either via select all or individually. There is also the option of selecting only dofollow sites. Once you have completed your selection, you can start posting.

The way this works is that using javascript, socialmarker opens all your selected pages at the same time in the background in the same tab and at the top of every site you are submitting to is a small horizontal frame which lets you go forward and backward between the sites you selected. Once you have completed one submission you can simple click next and finish another one. If you have already logged into all the sites, this process can be very very fast.

The other service is called Socialposter, available at socialposter.com. The selection process is much the same as socialmarker except that there is a link next to every social media site which submits your information. This might not be as fast as social marker but has the added benefit of not opening fifty or so pages at once in the background. If you are on a slower internet connection then this might be better suited for your needs.

In the end this is the most important difference between the two as they support most of the same sites and the initial process is quite similar. Try both out and see which one feels better for you.

If you are short in time to do your own social media marketing, we also recommend hiring a professional company to do it for you.  iClimber, is a social media marketing company, that offers social media profile creations and social media bookmarking service.