CategorySocial Media

Last week in my 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence post John suggested that an additional strategy to grow your follower numbers in Twitter is to target bigger Twitter users for conversation. The logic behind this is that if you can get them to reply to you and even ...more

Yesterday I wrote 5 tips to help increase your follower numbers on Twitter. Thanks to everyone for your comments and suggestions on the topic. As I read over the comments I realized that there were a few more things that I’d been learning on how to use Twitter that might ...more

Twitter has a stronghold on the blogosphere, yet sometimes, it’s hard to be heard. If you’re struggling to grow your Twitter following, you’re not alone. I have more than 160,000 followers now, and quite a few readers have asked how I’ve grown my following. Here are my tips. 1. Leverage ...more

In this guest post Steven Snell (who writes about social media at Traffikd) examines the topic of generating readership for your blog through social media. Image by shoothead If you spend much time on social media websites, I’m sure you’ve noticed that you tend to see many of the same ...more

I don’t do many guest posts on other people’s blogs these days but this week I was asked to do one that I couldn’t resist. Kristen from Social Media Mom asked me to write something on Social Media and being a Dad. My first thought was that it was all ...more

Two days ago I asked my followers on Twitter why they loved Twitter. There were over 100 responses within 2 hours and some of them were really good – I wasn’t sure what to do with them all but just yesterday I’d seen a video with a whole lot of ...more

This is a guest post on targeting Social Media Sites is from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd. Most bloggers recognize the incredible potential that exists with social media marketing. Many want to maximize the traffic they receive from social media, so they add a Digg ...more

My good friend Aaron Brazell from Technosailor asked me if I’d record a short video for a presentation he was giving on the topic of Social Media. He asked me to speak about marketing with Social Media sites. I thought I’d publish the video here also. To summarize – I ...more

Today I spent a little time looking at the popular page on delicious. Here’s a few of my scribbled notes looking at the headings (click to enlarge a little). I find doing this type of analysis quite inspiring as I think about the type of posts and construction of titles ...more