5 Tips For The Twitter Beginner

5 Tips For The Twitter Beginner

The world of micro blogging is in full force.  Being able to communicate in 140 character messages started with the early versions of text messaging and continues on Twitter.  If you are just getting started or ready to take your Tweets to the next level then here is a list of five tips to consider:

Define you niche: What space do you want to own?  Some provide insights on topics like sports, celebrities, or even cats.  You are not limited to that topic but as the old adage goes “If you do not stand for something then you stand for nothing”.  Who are we to judge?  Paris Hilton has made a fortune standing for nothing.  We still recommend having a theme for your Twitter space.
Link it to Facebook: Twitter has many different apps that make updating multiple places fairly simple.  Connecting both applications allows you to post to Twitter every time you update your status on Facebook.  There are many ways to pull in updates into many other social networking sites like MySpace also.
Use a Twitter Tool: There are many excellent programs to assist you with managing you Twitter accounts – Yes – multiple accounts.  You may have one for business and one for personal but will need different e-mail addresses to manage both.  We currently use Owl Suite to manage our accounts.  It allows you schedule posts, shrink URL’s, shrink pics and more.  For a list of top Twitter tools visit FasList.
Follow your Followers: Using tools like Social Too is great for managing your followers to keep growing your base.   Over time you will find that a few of your followers are annoying but let that pattern emerge and selectively stop following.  Several programs also assist with managing spammers.  Having that management on autopilot is excellent.
Use Twitter on a mobile device:  Using Twitter on an iPhone is a great experience due to apps like Twitteriffic.  This app allows you to log-in with ease and view multiple accounts, re-tweet interesting stuff and e-mail out the best tweets.  Excellent for killing time in an airport or waiting room.  We definitely do not recommend using Twitter while driving, it is a distraction.

 Go here for a list of the Best and Top Ranked Twitter Tools

Hopefully you have picked up a tip or two to assist you new micro blog – What is the next social or Twitter?  That is the question.  Enjoy.

The social Guide Page 2

The social Guide Page 2

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The Latest Internet Marketing Tool – New social Marketplace

The Latest Internet Marketing Tool – New social Marketplace

social first introduced the Marketplace application in mid 2007 as a way for people to post classified listings on the site. Now social has launched its new, updated Marketplace. This time the Marketplace is powered by a company with a funny name, Oodle. Despite the name they are a big online classifieds company founded by former Excite and eBay executives. Oodle has built a completely new version of the Marketplace focused on giving people a place to buy, sell or give things away to the people they know.

This social Marketplace Guide is a practical Step-By-Step Guide for all of you who want to learn how to sell your items effectively on the new social Marketplace.

Using the social Marketplace you can sell, give away, buy, ask or search for anything you want. You can also use the Marketplace to support your favourite charities by selling your unwanted goods for a good cause. Additionally, you can see what your friends are buying and/or selling. social users can post their Marketplace listings free of charge. Your listings will be viewable to millions of social Marketplace users worldwide. If you have previously used the old social Marketplace, you should see it bookmarked in the lower left hand corner of your monitor. And, if you had active listings in the old Marketplace, you should be given the option to transfer them to the new social Marketplace. If you have not used the social Marketplace application before, you can find it here: facebook.com/marketplace.

Ok, let’s get down to business. As I mentioned, this is a

Step-By-Step Guide how to sell in the social Marketplace effectively

So, here we go:

Step 1 – Take a Photo

Grab your digital camera and take a nice close-up picture of the item that you wish to sell. It is best to shoot against a light, solid background. Transfer your photo to your computer as a JPG-file. If your item is something that can’t be presented with a photo, don’t worry, you can still get it listed.

Step 2 – Log On

Log on to your social account and fire up the Marketplace application. Just click the Applications menu in the lower left hand corner of your screen and choose Marketplace. You are greeted with the Marketplace welcome screen.

You have four main options at your disposal:

Sell It Sell for a Cause
Give It Away and
Ask for It

In this guide we are concentrating on the Selling-for-Money side of things, so you may leave the screen as it is and write a short description of your item in the box where it says “Sell something to make extra cash.” When you click the box it will change into “Yourname” is selling..?. Write your main headline for the listing here. After writing your headline description, click the blue Post-button.

Step 3 – Write Your Advertisement

After you have written your headline for the listing you are presented with a new screen with more options related to your listing. Write a punch line type of a description in the box “Why are you selling it”?. You could write “I need money to buy more stuff.” but, even though it might be the case, I don’t think it would get your listing noticed. Consider this space as your sub headline for the ad. Write this description like you were working in an advertising company. Or, if you feel more conservative, just describe your item as funky as possible. You have two lines to hit the point.

Next, state your asking price in the Price-box. You know what its worth.

Write your location. This is a must. Just write in your city.

Choose a category for your item. At the time of writing this book, there are only the following 13 categories available:

Baby & Kid Stuff
Books & Magazines
Cars & Vehicles
Clothes & Accessories
Collectibles
Computers & Accessories
Electronics
Furniture
Home and Garden
Musical Instruments
Sporting Goods, Bicycles & Equipment
Tickets
Everything Else

If you can’t find a suitable category for your item, you can always choose Everything Else, however it is not a very good category to be listed under.

In the next box you can provide a wider description of your item. Here you have more room than just two lines. Describe your item with as much detail as you can. You know, size, colour, condition,.. those sort of things. But, don’t stress yourself too much with this; you can always change it later. Once you have created the best advertising text ever, hit the Browse-button to locate your photo from your computer, USB stick or where ever you think you saved it in Step 1. Yes, I know, … I can never find my images either. Don’t panic though, you have time to locate it; the screen isn’t going anywhere.

You found it? Good! Actually, you can upload two photos if you wish. For instance if you are selling a book, it is a good idea to upload both front and back covers. You can upload even more images later on, but for the sake of this exercise, one is enough.

Tick the Terms of Use-box and click the Submit-button.

Step 4 – Rather Unnecessary Step

The next screen has your details on it and your only option is to click the Continue-button. I really don’t know why this screen exists, but since it does all we can do is click the button.

Step 5 – Publishing

Next you will get a screen asking if you want to publish this listing in your own social profile. This is a good idea. You will get a choice for a Full, Short or a One Line description. I would recommend you’d choose the Short-option. You may tick the Always do this for Marketplace-box if you wish to use this same option every time you list something. So, if you wish to publish this listing on your profile, click the Publish-button, but if you only want it to appear in the social Marketplace, choose the No, Thanks-button.

Step 6 – Promotion

This step is your first chance to advertise your new listing. This is also a good idea. You can Recruit Friends to Promote your Listing in their News Feed. You can add up to 5 of your friends by clicking on their pictures. You can also choose them by writing their names in the Find Friends-box. Once you have chosen your friends who might be interested in promoting your listing, click the Send Request-button; or if you don’t want to bother your friends this time, choose Skip.

Step 7 – Personal Marketing Message

You will be presented a confirmation screen with your details. You can add a personal message to this post by clicking the blue Add Personal Message-hotlink. If you don’t want to add your personal message, just click the Send-button. You also can cancel this message altogether by clicking Cancel.

Step 8 – Done!

Congratulations! You have listed your first item on the social Marketplace. Listings take approximately 30 minutes to be included in the search index.
You will be presented with the screen titled “Manage My Listing: Active”. Here you can review your listing and, if you wish to make any changes click the Edit Details-hotlink in the light green bar. You can also delete your listing as well as promote your listing with a social Ad. I will not get into details how to produce social Ads in this book. That topic, among many other good ones, will be fully covered in my social Advertising Guide.

That’s it, you’ve done it! Good work! Thank you for reading so far.

Additional, good to know stuff:

Editing Your Listing

You can easily edit your listings after you have published them. Just click the Edit Details-hotlink on the screen mentioned in the Manage My Listing -page, and you will get pretty much the same screen as when you were writing the listing in the first place. You can change every detail of your listing here as well as upload more images if you wish. It is a good idea to show as many images as you can.

After you have made your changes in this panel click the Submit-button to get your listing updated. You will again be presented with a useless confirmation screen as seen. Just ignore it, and click the Continue-button.

Next, you will be asked if you wish to publish this updated listing on your social profile as in Step 6. You may choose to publish again, or you may just click the No, Thanks-button.
Finally, you will see your updated listing on the “Manage My Listing”- screen.

Managing Your social Marketplace Listings

You can easily manage all of your social Marketplace listings in one convenient location. If you click the My Listings-hotlink in the Marketplace menu, you will see your current listings. This is your place to manage all your listings. You can add more listings, edit them and after you have sold your items you can delete them.

As I mentioned earlier, you can also sell your items for a cause or you can give them away for free (don’t know why, but you can). You can also find something you need for yourself. These functions are not covered in this book, but I’m sure you’ll manage them with the principles covered here.

Ok, I hope you enjoyed this social Marketplace Guide. I wish you luck in selling your stuff through Facebook. I sold my first item, an awesome Jimi Hendrix Wah-Wah guitar pedal in just 3 days.

Best regards,
Kris Olin, MscBa, marketing

This social Marketplace Guide is also available as a fully illustrated PDF-version.
You can download it FREE: www.facebook-advertising-marketing.com

Is there a social guide for Nanas?

Question by Amanda: Is there a social guide for Nanas?
I don’t know how to explain everything to her in “her language”. I saw “social for Dummies” in chapters, but she’s not that computer illiterate haha. Even a really simple explanation or guide with none-to-very little slang. She’s so eager and I don’t want her to get confused and give up.

<3 Best answer:

Answer by hhoban
Here is getting started on facebook.

http://www.facebook.com/help/new_user_guide.php

At the bottom of the page there is a tab for help. There are really good explanations on anything you need help with there.

Good luck to your Nana!

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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I need adive or tips now?!?!?

Question by roschmask: I need adive or tips now?!?!?
This is a pretty common topic:
So theres this girl who i have psycology class with at my Community College and ever since the semester started i tried to figure out on how to approach this girl without looking desperate. She is soooo pretty, and im already jelous cuz a dude that is so lucky to sit next to her gets to talk to her, but not worried much cuz he dont look like a potential boyfriend for her. But anyways tha thing is that no1 talks in that class, the teacher talks troughout the whole class so theres not much socializing going on to give me the chance to start a conversation, and after class she leaves right away..I am pretty sure i already gave her the signal that im into her cuz she sits one chair behind me on my left side and the class faces on my right side, so everytime i turn back on my left side she notices that i turn around just to look at her and i hope she gets that!! haha and yesterday i faked that i was stretching so i could turn around to see her and i gave her a smile!!, btw i been told several times that i have a good flirty smile so i HOPE that helps haha Men those EyEs drive me coo-coo everytime i see her, her lips are so effing amazing damn. Oh and to prove yall im already obsessed with this girl, i even went to search her on social just to look at her picture but i couldnt find her: (
So pliz can yall help me ?! GOOD HELP!!! Remember she leaves right away after class so i gotta be fast to think of something or to catch a conversation or something!! i really really like this Doll.
THANX PPL!

Best answer:

Answer by Sure
Pass her a note in class saying you’d like to get a chance to talk to her after class. That’s what I’d do.

Give your answer to this question below!

How do you create a fan page on social (for a topic of interest to you)?

Question by S: How do you create a fan page on social (for a topic of interest to you)?
And can you use the same email address that you signed up with for your own social account?

Best answer:

Answer by Rom Cartridge
This guide will show you how to create a fan page on social with a screenshot:

http://romcartridge.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-to-create-fan-page-on-facebook.html

Good luck!

Add your own answer in the comments!

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