New Twitter Tips

The New Twitter format is only new if you have been through the last incarnations.  If you just signed up the New Twitter is all you know.  Here are two quick tips dealing with Search.

Twitter's most undervalued asset is the "Search" Feature.  Far better than Facebook's, (I personally find Facebook Search to be almost meaningless.  When I want to find someone on Facebook, like others, I use Google) Twitter search has an entire range of commands to help you sort people by place, or  "near" a city, or within a certain geography.  I will not go into those commands here, but will deal with the basics.

The Search feature is located in a small oval box on the top tool bar regardless of which page you are on.  This is what it looks like from my home page.

I have another account strictly for entertainment purposes called @CicerosGhost
so we will use the word "Cicero" in search from the Home Page of Twitter and from the @ Mention Page.   One lady Tweeted yesterday:  "Thanks New Twitter. No Manuel?"  I couldn't agree more with her sarcasm.  I have had to learn to use the new features by repeatedly looking up Cicero quotes.

From the Home Page, above, when we type "Cicero" into the Search Oval, we find TWEETS concerning Cicero.  From image above, we are finding Tweets with Cicero in them.

Tweets Containing the word: "Cicero"

However, from the @ Connect Screen, (button is located on the Top Left of every Twitter Account and Screen)

(formerly called the @ Mentions or Mentions Feature) when we type "Cicero" into the Search Oval, we find PEOPLE WHO have Cicero in their name, as opposed to Tweets containing the word Cicero. 

So remember, from Home, Search finds Tweets.  When you are in          @ Connect Search  finds People.


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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Building an Audience on Twitter

Beginner to Intermediate User

Twitter drives more traffic to blogs than either Facebook or LinkedIn.  Have you ever Googled the key words in the title of your blog, and noticed that you are on page 78 of Google search results?  I wouldn't count on Google to drive traffic to your blog.  If you are going to be heard, if you are going to be noticed in the clutter of the Internet, you need an audience.  If you are going to build an audience, you will eventually run into a paradox.  That if Twitter drives blog traffic, and you must tweet the link to your blog,  how are you going to increase the size of your Twitter following? 

Increasing our audience on Twitter amounts to learning that we must unfollow.  Mastering who to unfollow, and weeding out the unproductive tweeps frees up space due to Twitter follow limits.   It is no secret that Twitter allows us to follow no more than 1,000 people per day, regardless if we are Justin Beiber, or just some new person recently signed on.   Of those thousand people, maybe 100 or 200 follow back.  What about the other 800?   We have to unfollow them.

This is where we run into another Twitter rule:  We cannot "aggressively follow, then unfollow".  Twitter does not want us to strip the followers as soon as they follow back, or worse, follow a thousand people, and then unfollow them immediately.  This will get one's account  suspended until we reply to the eMail and beg forgiveness.

I use http://Tweepi.com  (Free Version) to Unfollow.   There is no need to "set up a profile" on Tweepi, you can by-pass this step.  Use the "FLUSH" feature to unfollow tweeps who are not following back.

Always unfollow from the last page.  After logging in, and going to the "Flush" feature, on the bottom of the page is a small square on the lower left corner.

This is key to your unfollowing process.  Always work from the last page, backwards towards today.   Mastering speed and ease of use on Tweepi means getting familiar with the arrows (indicated in the above screenshot) and quickly going to the bottom of the screen and moving on to the next group of followers.  Mastering Tweepi means immediately scrolling to the bottom of the page, and hitting the "next" or "previous" button.

For the intermediate user, or someone who has been on Twitter for more than 3 months, here is another Tip:

You can use http://Tweepi.com  "Clean Up" feature to unfollow people who haven't tweeted in a few weeks.  These are rather safe, since they are A. Following You.  B. Are probably innactive  or C.  Have forgotten their password to Twitter.

Using Tweepi Cleanup to Find and Unfollow 1500 Innactive Tweeps

Using this feature, we can locate those followers who are no longer "Active".  Why is this a safe bet?  It is a logical and statistically probable conclusion that someone who hasn't tweeted in 3 months (or 5 months or 12 months) is probably no longer on Twitter.  In the very least, they will not notice that you have unfollowed them to free up space under Twitter guidelines, so you can follow more people each day.    I have also found it to be true that someone with a low ratio of followers to following is NOT as good an account manager as someone who has a high ratio. (Tweepi allows you to control this feature as well.  At the top, again in the "column" feature, you will note a column marked "Ratio" just click that button, and Voila!  you have this very important statistic).


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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Get More Done Each Day

My dad, an executive for an insurance company taught me early on that writing things down crystallises our thinking, reminds us, and helps us to accomplish more in each day.  I think it was Napoleon Hill who used this technique and said, "Use this method.  You might not get ALL the tasks accomplished each day, but you will never discover another better method for getting them done either".

I received an eMail reminder of this easy method for accomplishing more each day, and I have reprinted it in it's entirety from Dan Robey.  Here it is:

Here's a question you may want to ask yourself regularly:

What am I doing with my 24 hours?

In other words, every day, what do you have to show for burning
through another 24 hours of your life?

If the answer is, 'next to nothing', or 'not nearly as much as I
would like', then I'm happy to tell you that you can change that
right now, and in a moment, in this email, I'm going to give you a
simple system for doing it.

If you're ready to put more life and more action into your day,
then get a pen and paper and write down this simple system.

It consists of 3 basic steps. Here they are:

1. Write down all the tasks you want to get done today

2. Assign a specific block of time for completing each task
   (like 30 minutes)

3. Select a task, start a timer, and focus on nothing else until
   that task is complete!

That's all there is to it.

Simple, yes! Incredibly effective, YES!

By itself, this system can put your productivity into high-gear -
IF you use it.

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As a productivity and efficiency expert for Evan Carmichael, I have some variations and tips on this above, easy method:

Make sure you can accomplish the task.  Don't write down, "Climb Mt. Everest" ... Tasks are achievable daily accomplishments, not life goals.

Write down the tasks you want to accomplish in no particular order. Don't worry about HOW you will get them done, just write them down.   As you go about your day today, and as you think of things, just write them down, don't worry about prioritising them yet.


At the start of each day, review your list for that day. 


Assign a task number, 1.,  2., 3.,  etc. to them at the start of the day.


Accomplish the HARDEST task first, the rest of your day is downhill.


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I hope these simple effective reminders make you more productive this week.  Remember, only about 5% of working adults actually write things down.  Move into the elite group, accomplish more.  Life is progress, not perfection.  Take what you learn, and pass it on.  Plant and Sow.


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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

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Social Media Marketing and Your ROI

Here's a great resource I found on LinkedIn this weekend.  It's a free download from Argyle, which recently raised 1.2 million in funding.  This is a complimentary  eBook about Social Media Marketing, and measuring your ROI (return on investment).

Free eBook: http://www2.argylesocial.com/l/9922/2011-11-14/60SR

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Giving

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.   

Wayne Dyer

Nobody wants our junk.  Giving an old set of clothes or a worn out car as a tax write off is fine for some folks, but I don't seem to benefit spiritually from giving those things.  I have been dwelling on ways to give something I am good at, for which I generally get paid to show professionals, writers, business owners, and corporations.   And it always comes back to my time.  The most valuable commodity we all have is our sincere honest effort, our best, the grand sum of all we have learned - ourselves.  

I would like to take this opportunity as the year ends to offer of myself, and my skills at Social Media to ANYONE who reads this.  If you would like to:

    *  Expand your audience

    *  Get more followers

    *  Learn Social Media 

Than I am offering an hour of telephone consultation to anyone who wants to leave a post below in the comment section.  If nobody comments,  well, at least I offered.  If 30 comment, well I guess I will have benefited 30 folks.  

I manage multiple accounts across all spectrum of Social Media, I write articles, I do networking events, and I have been involved with motivation, management, and training most of my adult life.  I just want to give back, to help others, and show my appreciation during the Holiday Season to all of the followers and all of you who have interacted with me, and have taken the time to stop by my blog. 

Here's wishing you all a Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Biz Rate False Advertising

I went to this website looking for a 50 inch TV.  Mostly to compare prices, I have been looking at one for a gift all summer.  I have noticed that alot of these sites, including Sears and others have one price to lure you in; and another, completely different price once you click which model you want.

Is this fair?  Do they take consumers for complete fools?  Don't they do more harm than good running false advertisements?

Here's the page I landed on.......

http://www.bizrate.com/television-tv/oid2722464660/search/retarget/

Here's the page that advertised the TV as $499.00

And here is the actual page they took me to when I clicked on the $499.00 model, note the price is now $599.00  a $100.00 Price Difference.

Price Jumps $100 When You Click the Image

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2

Watch Out for Sneaky Moves by Google Facebook and Twitter

Big Social Media wants your phone number.  After giving it to them, getting it back might mean having to change your number.   Numerous attempts have been made to get mine, and I just refuse to give it to them.   I simply refuse.    Let's use Google as an example ( Facebook uses identical tactics, so does Twitter ).  When logging into something like Google +, I will get a prompt asking for my phone number.

At first, Google did this supposedly for "Security" reasons.   After refusing no fewer than twenty times, Google stopped asking.  Then, two weeks ago, they started asking all over again!  Once again, I refused.    If they didn't want it so badly, if they weren't so conniving and sneaky about it, I might even consider giving it to them.  But the dishonest tactics are particularly suspicious.

My destination was ultimately gMail.  Since I have Google +, Blogger, Voice, Business Accounts that I manage, it's important to understand: All I wanted to do was check my mail!


ReType Your Destination

What to do?  The easiest thing is  A. Log in with your password.  B.  When you see the prompt for your phone number?    DO NOT GIVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER.  So  retype  http://gmail.com  which isn't that hard.  Just retype your destination.  The same for Blogger, or any other Google Product.

Do the same thing with Facebook, Twitter or any other site that requests your phone number.

Ultimately, they will sell your information, track you using your GPS within each cell phone, and do it all without your permission. Government agencies request information?  These companies provide it with little or no push back.   Obviously, most of us have nothing to hide.  But that is not even the threshold.

The threshold is greed, and how much is your privacy worth to you?  Supposedly,  the Big 3, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn DO NOT SELL your number or publish it without your permission.  Which means absolutely nothing.  How much will the highest bidder pay?  5 dollars per phone number?  10 dollars per phone number?  With only 200 million phone numbers, Facebook could make 1 Billion dollars in cash selling numbers to some schmucks from Russia for 5 dollars apiece.

So refuse to give out information, you already have an account, don't be fooled into giving them more information, and remember:  retype the destination.

Pass along my free tips, remember to plant and sow.  And use what you know about Social Media to start conversations with others - grow your network, and improve people's overall experience.  God Bless ya!

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Lon Dunn writes on Evan Carmichael as a productivity and efficiency expert. He wrote and edited The Thesaurus News from 1995 to 2001 with a specialty in Telephony Infastructure Stocks. With over 20 years following the Mobile Industry, Lon helps Companies, Professionals and Organizations develop Mobile Marketing Strategies combined with Social Media Strategies to strategically target specific markets and demographics to rapidly increase revenues. His most recent book available on Amazon is “How to Use Twitter for Local Business” with Tips and Mobile Marketing Strategies that anyone can do themselves. You can download the free “Kindle App for PC to download the book to your Desktop available on the Kindle Site:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Twitter-Local-Business-ebook/dp/B007VSR6Y2