Tag: Twitter

  • How to display the Twitter Widget box on your site

    Social networking doesn’t happen in a vacuum. You really need to get out there and be social. To that end, I think steering people from your website to your blog, your blog to your Facebook account and your Facebook account to your Twitter account is a great way to help grow that sphere. Directing people…

  • Will a Social Media Presence Mean More Sales?

    I get asked this by nearly every client I work with. “So you are saying if I have a Twitter account it will mean more sales?” Then I have to see the confusion in their face and read what they are thinking, which is “Then what’s the point?” And my short answer is “Because you…

  • Gorillas in Our Midst

    On my Facebook profile I’ve got many friends I went to school with, some I’ve worked with, many I do business with and five hairy apes. No not ex-boyfriends, but Ugandan gorillas that I friended via an organization called Friend a Gorilla. The group is working to save gorillas by allowing people to “friend” a…

  • How to build a Twitter following

    I’m still surprised at the number of tweets I get on Twitter about “How to get 19,000 followers in 30 days.” From a purely competitive, goal-oriented point of view it sounds tempting and I’ll be totally honest, part of me secretly thinks “How cool would it be to have 45,000 followers?” Then the logical side…

  • Can Twitter help your business?

    So what’s the deal with Twitter? Every company seems to be jumping into the Twitterverse, but can it really help your business? Absolutely yes! That is, if you use it right. The first thing to remember is don’t be afraid to establish your Twitter account and just jump in. You can use your name and…

  • Five tips for using social media to promote your business

    Remember the days when if you wanted a web presence for your company you simply set up a webpage with your contact info and a little bit of info about who you are and voila!? (Remember too, those early days when it was cool to have some goofy intro page that was fully animated, had…

  • On Twitter

    If you haven’t heard by now, where have you been? With a crackdown on information dissemination in Iran people have used Twitter to spread information to the world. What was initially a tool for people to chat and be social has shown it can have serious power. Can Twitter work for you? By the way,…