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Guestblog: Twitter for business – twitter backgrounds and twidgets

April 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Being as a friend calls me, a pioneer, I love finding things and trying them (trying in every sense of the word!).

One of my latest finds has thrilled me no end :-) It's here, http://www.freetwitterdesigner.com/

This nifty little gadget enables you to experiment with having a 'branded' twitter background. Yup a background that matches all your over stuff :-)

Research has shown having consistent branding across various social media platforms and apps increases recognition of the brand. Even if the brand is just you.

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Why are we adding loads of lists to Business on Twitter?

March 22, 2010 By 2 Comments

Bright AtlantaI’ve been asked this quite a lot recently, and as I have nothing to hide, I thought I’d blog about it :)

Recently we’ve added a lot of posts asking for lists of people – copywriters, PR companies, recruiters, Marketing people – and we plan to add a lot more.

And lots of you have emailed me saying “Why are you doing this?” – some of you even think I have some evil master plan :)

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How To Get Banned By Twitter

March 5, 2010 By 9 Comments

ChrisSherrod_bigger A Guest Blog By Christopher Sherrod.

In the early days of Twitter you could do anything and get away with it. Well, not anymore. Twitter has gotten pretty aggressive about certain techniques to get large number of followers.

I talked to consulting client of mine that bought a course on twitter (not mine). And his twitter account was suspended permanently.

So I asked him some questions on how he used twitter.

What I learned clearly shows why his account was suspended permanently.

Some Automation Is Not Good

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Twitter – enough to drive you to drink?

March 4, 2010 By 1 Comment

Pic_with_wife_biggerA Guest Blog by Mark Aselstine of  Uncorked Ventures Wine Clubs

“Over the past few months I’ve been experimenting using Twitter as a way to help my business during these very early days, I believe I’ve found a couple of very basic insights which may help others use Twitter more effectively for their business.

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Will ‘buzzing’ replace ‘tweeting’?

February 18, 2010 By 3 Comments

A Guest Blog From Colman Carpenter

Last week, Google started rolling out a new feature to Gmail users…Google Buzz. For now, those using Google Apps to manage their domain’s email miss out on Buzz, but Google have promised that they will be enabled in due course. Buzz is Google’s first serious entry into the social networking space, aimed squarely at the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Whilst Google have long been expected to expand into this area, Buzz ended up sneaking in under the radar somewhat, perhaps because Google didn’t want another high-profile damp squib on their hands (remember Wave)? But you can be sure that Google is serious about Buzz, and sees it as a core part of it’s future strategy.

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Twitter: Why does it work (so well) for small businesses

February 17, 2010 By 4 Comments

box_pic2A guest blog from Barry James of Receipt Angel

Twitter has been a bit of a revelation to me over the last couple of months or so. Of course I’ve been aware of it for a year or two – but it didn’t grab me straight away. In fact I was more than a little dubious about the whole ‘Social Network’ thing. Especially why it would work for small businesses – and how.

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Twitter for small businesses: Make it count

February 16, 2010 By 1 Comment

donutA guest post by James Ainsworth of Marketing Donut

Given that social media is a field of marketing still in its infancy, reports are published daily on social media habits. Indeed, the viral growth of social media usage studies, and studies of studies, was recently highlighted in terms more expected of Private Eye than a serious publication like The Economist, which said: “An astonishing amount of time is being wasted on investigating the amount of time being wasted on social networks.”

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Middle Aged Traditionally Built Women and Social Media Marketing :)

February 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment

knitted_pink_monkeyA guest blog from Gaynor Humphrey.

When you think of social media you may not instantly think of 2 middle aged, traditionally built women. However for Best Years, run by Gaynor (thats me!) and Liz, it has rapidly become an integral part of the marketing mix.

Best Years wholesale knitted and fair trade toys. As a small business in a sector dominated by large multi nationals we have had to carve a niche out for ourselves in order to survive and prosper. Our success is based on staying close to our customers’ needs. To do this we exhibit at 5 large trade shows a year and send out regular digital newsletters. We also use our website, www.bestyears.co.uk both to attract more customers and hold data on all our products.

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Twitter goes international – does it have a chance?

February 10, 2010 By 1 Comment

A recent study by SemanticHacker shows the overwhelming majority of tweets are in English. The majority of Twitter users are still from the US but other countries are catching up fast. As US growth is decreasing dramatically Twitter needs to internationalize fast to continue their growth story.

How to do so? First, individual language versions are a prerequisite for success. Only after Facebook localized their website with a specific language version did it take off in Germany, making it the largest social network in Germany with about 11 million unique visitors at the end of last year. With the roll-out of five language versions, the latest being German, Twitter is hoping to catch onto the international markets.

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Liverpool Chamber Of Commerce – Not A Grey Suit In Sight

February 5, 2010 By 1 Comment

Chamber Roundel Large

A guest blog by Nick Jones of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce

Liverpool Chamber of Commerce. Sounds pretty boring, eh? Makes you think of men in grey suits sitting around congratulating each other over brandies, maybe?

Well nothing could be further from the truth. Liverpool Chamber is the city’s largest, oldest and busiest business support organisation. We run over 100 networking events a year, provide vital support to companies large and small and are the voice of business in local and national government.

We like to think we are innovative, approachable and vibrant. But how do we let everyone else know?

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