Showing posts with label social networking sites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social networking sites. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How to Get Twitter Followers

If you’re looking for information on How to Get Twitter Followers for your online business, be very careful because there’s a lot of misleading info out there. As a matter of fact if you use some of it (think spamming), you could get banned from twittering forever.


Some simple and easy ways that aren’t misleading and won’t get you banned are:


Update your profile. Make sure you’ve got everything filled in and leave a link for visitors to follow.


Leave your profile link on your business page, blog, Squidoo pages and other social networking sites.


Follow other users on the site such as celebrities and don’t forget to say hi.


Invite your friends and family to create accounts with the website.


Tweet about your life and about the things you love in life.


The above are just a few ideas to help you get Twitter followers. Have fun and enjoy!


Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
4411001

Sunday, March 28, 2010

What You Need to Know About Twitter

Have you ever wanted to learn all about Twitter, but just didn’t know where to start. Well, you no longer have to look any further. The social networking site that has also been called a mini-blog is a service that allows people to send and receive updates, also know as tweets.


The tweets allow members to send a message of up to 140 characters. That message is then displayed on their Twitter page and sent to anyone that’s added to their contact list or anyone who’s added them to theirs.


If members don’t want everyone to see what they’ve written, there are two options. They can either block specific people, which also prevents those blocked from contacting them entirely or they can send a direct message to a specific person that can only be read by them.


Of course there is a lot more about Twitter than just the above basics, but once you get the hang of it, it’s fast, fun and best of all it’s free!


Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
4411001

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Make Money With Squidoo

Make Money With Squidoo

A lot of entrepreneurs will try to tell you that you can make money with Squidoo quickly. And while you can make a profit from the social networking site, the cold hard truth is, it’s not going to make you rich overnight.


If you have a product to promote, then you should definitely take advantage of creating a lens for it. However, if you have more than one product to promote, build another lens or series of lenses for each product you plan to promote.


Another word of advice, if you know nothing about your product from experience and you don’t love it - don’t try to promote it. You should always promote a product or service that you truly believe in.


Always use keywords to promote what you have to offer. If you’re trying to promote your Cajun cooking recipes, you should use keywords and phrases like Cajun cooking. Add them a few times throughout your article, but don’t over do it.


Take advantage of the Amazon and Ebay modules. If you want to make even more money, add a few related Amazon products like Cajun Cooking Books. If you have some cookbooks for sale through Ebay, add them to your lens.

And don’t forget, that you can also make money with Squidoo through their Adsense revenue program. You might not get rich overnight, but with these great lens options, you can make a little extra income without having to spend money doing it!

Mike Stokes
Baton Rouge, LA
Weber 3880001