A good tweet can inspire and prove quite useful. I loved this one from Kim Garst. It is one on which I had blogged before. Kim Garst tweeted this... "#TWITTERTIPS Having a lot of followers is GREAT but the real trick is having followers that COMMUNICATE with YOU! #youcandosocial". This is an idea that is near and [...]
Alpha Computer is now in the process of becoming Alpha Social Media Inc. With the bulk of the business being social media training, it just made sense to me and many of my online friends. They were actually wondering when I was going to make the change. A while back, I switched my Twitter username [...]
If pictures are worth a thousand words, then we had better be using them for the websites and pages we have on the web. My first real experience with pictures on the web that was real insightful to me was when I uploaded some pictures for my website and Facebook Pages. The photographer had me not [...]
You might see someone that you want to connect with on Twitter. You reach out to them. And there's nothing coming back. It's the reality of Twitter. I have been very fortunate to connect with a lot of super people over my 4 years on Twitter and other social media sites. I have tried to connect with [...]
Your Facebook Profile is not searched by Google; but your Facebook Page is. Make sure you take advantage of this for showing up in Search. Making sure that you use the keywords you want to show up for on Google is important to your Facebook Page ranking well. Not sure what words you should use. [...]
One of the keep areas that visitors look at the most is your Facebook Page picture. This is your one chance to make a great impression. Facebook allows you to put a picture in the upper left part of the Facebook Page that can be 180 pixels wide by 540 pixels tall. This is a [...]
There is no shortage of links on Twitter. The information, and the sharing of that information, happens a lot on Twitter. But are we chatting it up there? One of the key things that you will do on social media is engage others in conversations. Chit chat has to be there if you really want [...]
Being consistent on social media is what is required for increasing your business visibility. After all, you are feeding Google. Don't let it starve. One of the struggles that I see in business is consistency. Business owners and employees often feel overwhelmed and rushed. There's always that expression..."When I get around to it!" If you [...]
Most of the time you will never know who has been watching you and your Internet activity until you get a call out of the blue or some other type of connect. I posted a blog on the Twitter virus and made a few good comments on it. I was surprised that so many felt [...]
Babe Ruth knew how to hit a baseball. But he also missed quite a few as well. Like baseball, social media requires that you find your sweet spot to hit it well & a lot. I refer in my training a lot of baseball when I talk about social media. Every one I train is [...]