5 Steps to Maximizing Your Exposure on Twitter

Do you have something to tweet about that you think others can benefit from or that meets the needs of your target audience? The following five steps that will help you spread the word:

STEP 1: Identify how your tweets will meet the needs of your followers and tweet accordingly.

STEP 2: Find out what time your followers are listening by visiting When to tweet? This will give you an idea of what the best times will be for you to tweet.

STEP 3: Schedule your tweets at regular interval in advance, when you have time, by using HootSuite. This will give your readers consistent information and save you the hassle of having to tweet in realtime.

STEP 4: Promote your Twitter account on the sidebar of your blog including why people should follow you, a Twitter widget to follow, and your latest tweets.

STEP 5: Consider purchasing banner ads at Featured Users if you believe your followers are on their sponsored site. This allows you to create banner ads to promote your Twitter account. Banner ads start at $40.

Please share your pearls of wisdom dear reader. This is an ongoing learning process for me and your feedback is greatly appreciated. What other efforts will help you increase your exposure on Twitter?

Top 10 Quotes from my Readers About Social Media

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and adding value to my posts. Congratulations on making the Top 10 lists of quotes relating to social media.

1. Blogging about upcoming events and follow-up blog posts help me gain visitors http://roarmkting.wordpress.com/
2. Zemanta is really cool – they suggest links, tags, and pictures. typhoidterri
3. Research like minded communities and keywords in both the blog world and on Twitter. Kathy Knorr http://kathyknorr.wordpress.com/
4. Successful blogging is about contributory content. Give people what they need …something with a twist. http://hydrogen-conversion.net/
5. Grammar is a huge deal. Moral of the story: Read your own posts.
   http://www.guidetosociety.com
6. Fresh content is probably the biggest drew for me. A lot of blogs I read are for recreation and entertainment. http://ht.ly/3q3fw
7. Blogging is all about your passion to share something wonderful, inspiring, funny, controversial, intriguing or educational. http://ajeva.com/
8. Transparency is not only good social media etiquette but in some instance it’s the law. Toby Bloomberg http://www.bloombergmarketing.blogs.com
9. ‘Trolls” refers to angry or nonsensical forum posters. Michael Collins – http://aucunknowntruths.wordpress.com/
10. People can see what I do and feel inspired. Taking knowledge from others is how we move through life as people. Jet Brew http://ht.ly/3q3Jx

Now I turn to you my dear reader, what tips / insights do you have relating to
social media?

If apps gave you super powers, what super hero would you be?

I’ve just purchased a shiny new Samsung Galaxy cell phone. What kind of relationship do you have with your phone? It’s already become my little buddy, a side-kick of sort.

Aah, now enters the world of apps. If I were an action hero, the apps would give me my super powers. What super hero could you be?

Super Music Guru. Gone are the days of not being able to recognize music you are listening to or not knowing details about the band, Shazam!

Captain Picture Search. You can search using a keypad and a search engine. Your alter ego, Captain Picture Search isn’t a slave to the confines of type. Google Goggles lets you search by pictures. It strives to identify objects that you’ve snapped a picture of and return related search results from identifying the text on a wine label to giving you information about a landmark.

Doctor Remember Everything. Ever think of a good idea, or seen or heard something interesting that you wish you could remember at a later date? You can capture it all and retrieve those memories quickly by using Evernote.

What about you, my dear reader? What are your favourite mobile apps?

How do you promote your blog?

You've written your blog post and your feeling pretty darn good about it. The potential is there to reach others, to interact and help shape the views of people within your field of interest. How do you share your insight with the world? I use the following social media platforms:

• Bookmarking sites: StumbleUpon, Delicious, Reddit and Digg.
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Craigslist. I use the community section.
• YouTube and Metacafe, when I make a video blog.
• LinkedIn

My dear reader, I’m passing the metaphorical talking stick on to you. How do you promote your blog? Which platforms have given you the most traffic?

Photo credit: webtreats

What is your typical social media morning like?

I wake up, get out of bed and feel like I’m being beckoned, a sort of come hither that draws me to my computer and leads me to do the following:

• Play some http://www.last.fm.
• Go onto Twitter Grid where information on any subject is delivered to me real-time. I tweet anything I found significant in the Twitter stream.
• Check my Facebook account.
• Check my Gmail account.
• Check my Twitter account.
• Check my blog stats and comments.
• Might write a blog post and find image on http://www.flickr.com.
• Follow up with comments posted on my blog.

And now, it’s your turn dear reader, what is your typical social media morning like?

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