Thursday, November 29, 2012

How to drive Traffic from Twitter Account

How To attract your Twitter followers to your website | How to get traffic to your website ?

Have you landed up on this blog post from Twitter ? Then I have increased my traffic by one visitor. . . (Live Example ) In this post which is again on social media and Search engine optimization we will speak on how you can increase your website traffic with the help of twitter account. But before starting you should note that twitter should not be the only traffic source henceforth you need to concentrate on other areas also such as link building, Content writing and other to build more traffic to your website.

My personal experience 

If you see this current blog there is around 55,000 page views which i got from various other activities from past 4 months out of which there are 30% of traffic has been drive from twitter itself. I will share my experiences in the tips section

Here we go with some of the Tips where you can increase the traffic from twitter :

  • Include a tweet button : Once you have created your twitter account you can convert your followers into your traffic and may be into your website subscribers which will help you in Long term. One of the first tip is to include a tweet button in your blog which allows you to tweet your article or blog post quickly. Apart from that it also allows other user to tweet it from there account which will drive the traffic to your website. 
  • Include a link in your Twitter bio : This is the simplest mistake people do of not including the website link into the twitter bio - "I personally gets more than 50 clicks on my blog for that link which i have posted in my twitter bio. so do remember to note that since it is vital. 
  • Include link while tweeting : This is sometime spammy if you put links in every tweet, but out of 10 tweets you can put link of your website in 4 post which will further increase the traffic from twitter to your website - do use the #HashTags while tweeting since it allows users for an easy search. 
  • Retweet : Retweet those people who are tweeting about your blog posting this will increase the value and they may tweet next time also. Retweet helps in keeping the topic on top when someone search. "One of my well-wisher tweeted about my blog posting on #SocialMedia and he got 17 retweets, that tweet was on top for 4 days while searching for #SocialMedia. I got around 800 clicks for that post."
  • Using HashTags : As said in the above post that on twitter people mostly search via hashtags # therefore implement the hash tags in your post to increase the power of your tweets. 
If you have more tips which you can share on how to drive traffic from twitter do share in the comment box

Social Media for Customer Support

How social media can help you in Customer Service!

This time another post on Social Media but from a different point of view – Sales & Marketing people this post is for you that how you can help your customers via social media. As discussed previously that Social Media is growing everyday both in communication and in number of users. Daily there are people who are talking about products and services offered by different company on various social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook or simply related Forums. Customers are even giving review of the products or complaints about the features or services. 

I personally feel before buying any product to research on social networking website about their review so that I may not end up buying bad product. As we all know customer is one of the most important part of any organization they are the actually revenue generator for the growth of your business. Today we will learn how social media can help you in managing your customer service and support.



Advantages of using Social Media for Customer Support: 

Quick Response : Social media sites such as forums or simply the facebook fan page allows your customer to post their queries, the first duty lies here is to respond them quickly which can increase the Customer satisfaction. 

Co – ordination: social media allows you to have a proper co-ordination with your support team. Apart from that there are other users also who help in case there are some issues customer is facing with the product. 

Support: With social Media channels you can quickly communicate with your clients and support them timely. Therefore they talk to you as if they are talking in front of you, which help in reducing the customer queries. 

Pre Purchase Review: Social media helps in providing proper reviews of the products which customer would like to purchase therefore this minimize the complaints also since they already experience the product from other people.

Better than other communication tools: Days are going where email or telephone was the primary source of getting support for the queries, since they were time consuming. There fore social media is now getting more and more powerful in customer relationship management. 

Therefore you can use social media for supporting your customers and their queries, Create facebook pages, or twitter account which will boost the experience of buying from your organization

10 Dangerous Texts which can end relationship

10 worst text which can end your relationships














A very short post on 10 dangerous text messages or replies which can end your relationship with your loved ones 

1. Yeah 
2. Yup 
3. Oh 
4. Lol 
5. Haha 
6. K 
7. Nope 
8. Chillin 
9. Naw 
10. Send me a pic

these 10 text messages or replies looks like you are not caring much about your partner and it may reduce the faith and respect. So a Big No to use them. . .Care them . . Respect them and Love them

If you have any other 10 worst text do comment 

Saturday, November 24, 2012

How to use Twitter Effectively for Social Networking

10 Effective Tips on using Twitter for Social Networking

We already covered many topics on using twitter the terminologies and other methods to enhance your social networking presence with twitter. This time I thought of writing effective tips where you can use your Twitter account to create powerful presence for social networking. 

What you did so far with your twitter account ?
  1. You created your logins
  2. Username
  3. Information about yourself
  4. A superb picture removing the egg avatar and 
  5. Following some people which interest you. 
  6. And start tweeting 
The above are just the basic step which any one do while starting with twitter, but in the above method you may not be using twitter effectively or I would say there would be more steps which you are not exploring. Let's cover the points where you can make effective use of your twitter account. 

1. Proper user name : If you are using twitter for your personal use I suggest you to have a proper twitter name where your friends or colleagues can find you easily. For business purpose the Twitter account should be used as the brand name you are using for other social networking website. Lots of twitter user make mistakes by using funky names, which makes you are a non serious twitter user. 

2. Removing egg Avatar : Egg avatar is little dangerous since again it shows that you are still an egg of twitter henceforth remove the egg avatar with good image or your company logo. This helps in getting brand recognition and people will remember you - We have already covered a topic on when to change your profile pictures

3. Write a complete Bio : Bio is important since they are the keywords which help user in finding you. Do put your company link by shortening the url this help in getting traffic also to your website. 

4. Check correct people to follow : Here is the first part where you started with social networking the above 3 points were related to social media. Henceforth check out the twitter directory of people and understand to whom you would like to follow. People may be in same business or of similar country. Check out our article on How to search people on twitter | How to build quality followers on twitter

5. Who you are : Start tweeting and create brand with your tweets people should remember you with your profile pic and with your tweets that who you are. 

6. Followers/Following Ratio : This is again important part to make your twitter account effective. Many newbies do this mistake of keeping their following ratio high as compare to their followers. Only follow those who interest you. If your following ratio is high then it might not create powerful image of your twitter account. 

7. Communicate : You'r views are very important to people whom you are following or who are following you on twitter. If you have difference of opinion then communicate and clear it. Get engage with your followers so that they start taking your views on certain topics

8. Retweets & Favorite : One of the best gesture you can give to tweets is retweeting or favoriting the tweet. This will increase the confidence of people in you. I have seen people who retweet my tweets and I love them more as compare to people who are just following me. 

9. Use Photos : Photos speak louder than written words, while tweeting you can use photos for greater effects. If you send those written monotonous tweets every time then the interest may go down. Henceforth use pictures in tweets whenever required. Article on How to post images on twitter quickly

10. Networking : The Final point is networking for which twitter is created. Introduce yourself to people share contacts or share references they might be interested in. Networking in twitter is quite micro activity but in return it pay you. 

So from the above 10 points I conclude that you can excel on twitter and can effectively use twitter for your social networking purpose. Happy Tweeting!

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What is difference between Social Media and Social Networking


Social media vs. Social networking

Social media Social networking or social media networking they all sound similar but there are some of the differences. You may find that that even some people use the term called as social media marketing, which is again little broader in actual.

Read this simple story : 

You created Twitter account or Facebook account you started adding people in your group as per your preference. Some of them started following you back or some of them accepted your friend request. 

Then after a good number of connections with people you started posting messages and no one giving any gestures like a follow or a comment on your post, and then you realize that you created "social media" presence by adding people to your group but there is not networking or 2 way communication happening which is also called as "Social networking"

So you started getting engage with people reading their views and start interacting - That's was the day when you realize that you got how to build relationship by networking with others. 

I hope with the above story, you understood the difference between Social Media vs. Social networking. Now let's cover some more details which can differentiate Social Media with Social Networking.

  • In social media the communication is one way - you created followers or friends that's all but in social networking the communication works both ways you have to engage people sometime with pull strategy - putting some good message and sometime with push strategy - communicating and giving your reviews on their post or photos or messages. 

  • Social media represent channel of communication like what you choose to build your social media presence say for example :  - You may find twitter is better for you or may be creating YouTube videos or may be Facebook. Whereas in Social networking you build relationship by getting engage in the communication.

  • With Social media you say to people "I am here" and with social networking you say "I am here show me some Actions & thoughts" Therefore social media create a presence whereas social networking leverage and put your social media onto next level of communication. 

  • Social networking compare to social media act as a communication platform with people that you choose. 

Both Social Media and Social networking are two different terminologies having separate concepts. They both are used accordingly as per the business strategy