The following post was inspired by Jon Morrow's latest post over at ProBlogger.net titled "How to Generate Massive Traffic, Excitement, and Even Jealousy with a Hollywood-Style Launch Trailer". It's a great read about the concept of having a movie style trailer created to promote an ongoing blog or project before actually committing to creating any content. You can check out the trailer here. Now I'm totally on board with this idea. I think it's a creative and fantastic way to build buzz and ...
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The Frustrating State Of Obtaining Inactive Twitter Usernames
Imagine you come up with a great idea for a blog, or business idea. Or maybe you just are helping a good friend out with getting them their website up finally. You’ve got the domain name, the business or organization is registered, and you’re just about good to go. Then you go to obtain your social media usernames. You know going into it that there’s a good chance it’s probably already taken, but worth a shot anyway. You go to Twitter, enter your desired username, and RATS…it’s taken. ...
Have You Survived The Kloutpocalypse?!?!
If you’re receiving this blog post, that means you are one of the last remaining survivors. You are the future now. You are the last hope for humanity. Only you can help rebuild our fallen world. Round up as many Facebook friends and Twitter followers that you can! Re-tweet dammitt! For god’s sake Re-Tweet!!!!!! (and don’t forget to @mention yourself in the Re-Tweet). You would literally think it was a zombie outbreak the way people are responding to the latest Klout score changes. ...
The Art Of Having Thick Skin aka Twitter Purge Follow Up
Well, nobody is perfect. Was unfollowing everyone and starting over a good idea? Probably remains to be seen. Looking back, I probably would have been better off not announcing it on my blog, but I’ve always been transparent with my actions, and simply thought it would be useful to others to document what I would be experiencing. But in my particular case, I do believe it was the right thing to do regarding my wants/needs when it came to managing my social media efforts on a personal basis. ...
The Great Twitter Purge of 2011 Or Why I Have Decided To Unfollow Everyone & Start Over
The time has finally come. I think I always knew that I'd have to do some sort of Twitter house cleaning, but based on my last blog post, and some folks like Michael Hyatt and the mighty Chris Brogan who have pioneered by braving the backlash, I think I'm ready for a purge myself. So starting today, I begin unfollowing everyone on Twitter with the help of SocialOomph. Up to this point, I've subscribed to the reciprocal follow approach. You follow me? Well then I follow you. Why not? ...
Twitter Direct Messages Are Useless
I want to be able to use DMs in Twitter, but really it’s such a vast wasteland of spam that it’s practically impossible to do. While I have a column for my DMs setup in Hootsuite, it’s really just for the rare chance that I may actually catch a legitimate message here and there. And even that is highly unlikely. What I fail to understand is that after years of being in existence, how is it that Twitter has failed to deliver absolutely nothing in the form of spam control or filtering ...