HootSuite Apps, making social media even easier
November 26, 2011 By 2 Comments
Earlier this month HootSuite introduced their first round of apps. I’ve already installed mine! These are going to make social media even easier for all of busy entrepreneurs.
With this round they have introduced YouTube, flickr, tumblr, and Get Satisfaction. Now you can manage these social accounts from within HootSuite. Ahhh, I feel a bit of relief already. Now you can log into one place and check for updates and reply to your friends and audience.
Image by Hootsuite
Image by Hootsuite
I’m excited to see SlideShare and Posterous apps, which are in the line up! Also coming soon are:
- Disqus
- Chatter
- Constant Contact
- Summify
How much time will these features save you? Do you use HootSuite?
New Facebook Share Features
August 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Have you seen the new Facebook share features? I think its nice having them right there for every post. What’s your thoughts?
Check out this short video from Facebook on all the new goodies.
Creating Autoresponders for Your Business
June 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
With busy lives and awesome businesses we are all really busy! One great resource for online businesses are autoresponders, not to be abused but non the less they are useful.
First, what is an autoresponder?
A sequence of pre-written messages that you schedule to be automatically broadcasted to your subscriber.
Why use an autoresponder?
- To offer a freebie series
- To maintain a relationship after someone purchased a product
- To answer common questions
- To offer case studies
- There are so many ways you can use them!
Don’t have an autoresponder? The two that I like are Aweber and 1ShoppingCart. If you are looking for a shoppingcart to accompany your newsletters/autoresponders then I recommend 1ShoppingCart.
If you do have an autoresponder service provider here are a few ideas you can work on this week to improve your relationship with new subscribers:
After a purchase is made schedule a message to go out about a week later. In this message go through a detail of your product, engage your new customer, get them to consume your product.
Or after they sign up for your newsletter maybe have an announced bonus go out a week later. Something of true value that your reader can really benefit from. Over exceed expectations and your readers will always engage you!
What other great ideas do you use for your autoresponders?
How to Find New Twitter Followers on Goggle
May 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
I’m always watching social media videos, I mean what better thing to do when I have 5 free minutes right? HA! I learned a really neat trick with Google search that I just have to share. These are two easy ways to use Google search to find targeted Twitter followers.
The 1st search term is:
intitle:”entrepreneur* on twitter” site:twitter.comThis search will show results based on the users title (user name or real name). So with your search simply replace entrepreneur with your key term.
The 2nd search term is:
intext:”bio * entrepreneur” site:twitter.comThe search will show results based on the users bio text.
The results of these searches will be different so be sure to do both searches. And don’t just do this once. There are new people and businesses joining Twitter all the time.
Do you have specialized Google search terms you use? Please share them with us below in the comments, I love new Google searches! 
Have a wonderful week, if you have any questions be sure to catch me over on Facebook.
