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So I probably should’ve posted this yesterday, but here’s a recap of some of our most popular posts from 2009. Happy New Year, everyone! 7 Ways To Create A Professional Twitter Presence 8 Characters to Make Your Tweets Sparkle Who to Follow, and Not to Follow, on Twitter – That is the Question #followfriday Revolution What Did You Do The Day Twitter Almost Died? The Proper Way to Pitch on Twitter Why You Should Start Over On Twitter With A BRAND NEW Account What’s Your Biggest Twitter User Peeve? How to Grow an Interested Following on Twitter using RSS Should You Send an Autoresponse Direct Message to New Followers? 3 Ways to Recognize Bots and Spammers on Twitter How To Unfollow On Twitter With Class 10 Ways To Be Useful on Twitter 10 Reasons To Use Your Real Name As Your Twitter @Name Get More Followers by Spending Less Time on Twitter There’s a Better Way to ReTweet! The 90-10 Rule for Successful Twitter Networking To Follow or Not to Follow; that is the Question A Full-Time Job, a Wife, a Kid and Dial-up Internet: How to Keep up with the ‘Big Boys and Girls’ on Twitter Follow Me and Win a Prize – The Merit of Twitter Competitions 7 Ways to Be Worth Following on Twitter 8 Sure-Fire Ways To Tick Off the Twitterverse © 2008 TwiTip Twitter Tips . Happy 2010! Here’s Your 2009 TwiTip Recap

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The ability to retweet on Twitter was already available and has been mostly of use to those in business situations who could take advantage of their followers retweeting their promotions. This has been drastically changed with the retweet feature now being in a simple to use button under any of your feeds tweets. You may ask yourself why you would bother retweeting more often just because of a button, and you are right to do so. After all you are just making the ones you follow more exposed to the tweeters who follow you. However this works both ways. Your tweets can also be retweeted by your followers. The new feature doesn’t just place a simple RT in front of the retweeted tweet on your profile. By being retweeted your profile picture and username appears next to your own tweet, on someone else’s page! For example today I retweeted @johncmayer and his photo and link appeared on my profile. For him this means that now all of my followers (who otherwise may not have seen his tweet) have been exposed to his content and may choose to follow him and/or retweet it again creating a ripple effect and sending his message to an entirely new audience. By being promoted by other twitter users one could potentially gain thousands of new followers. Which we all know translates to twinfluence. For social users who hover around 100-200 followers this provides an avenue for increased twitter success. It should be noted however that without interesting tweets you are unlikely to be retweeted in this new fashion so although the features are useful, tweet-quality is still king in what determines your networking success. The new feature also gives even more power to those with staggering amounts of followers already. For example @aplusk who is almost at 4 million followers could choose to retweet a message and give that person’s content access to the gargantuan amount of followers he has. For tweeters who promote their own blog or product this could be the best free advertising campaign that they ever get. Even television commercials won’t receive upwards of 3.5 million views in a matter of seconds. The sidebar on twitter now includes a section appropriately titled ‘retweets’. Within this selection there are 3 mini-sections. The 1st of which is ‘Retweets by others’ which shows what the people you follow have been retweeting. This again will give added exposure to those lucky enough to be retweeted by someone like @biz. The 2nd section is ‘Retweets by you’ which is as simple as it sounds; it lists all the tweets that you have retweeted and gives you the option to untweet those messages. The 3rd and most important section for you is the ‘Your tweets retweeted’ section. This section allows you to follow which of your tweets have been retweeted and by whom. This allows you to track your tweets and observe the spread of your content and username which is ultimately the thing that will make this feature useful to you. All of these sections also show who else has retweeted what you have. For them it means they are being exposed to others who have similar interests and for you it means that you are also being exposed to others with similar interests, others who could potentially become your newest followers. As you can see the retweet feature will change how we network and how we make connections with others on twitter. The button doesn’t guarantee twitter success but it does make it easier for those with interesting things to say. © 2008 TwiTip Twitter Tips . How The New Retweet Feature Changes Marketing On Twitter

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It is now obvious that the internet is becoming a more forceful avenue for marketing , and not many companies are ignoring it. In fact , there are businesses which have only thrived because of the platform of the internet. It does not really matter the size of your business for you to use the internet as a forum for your advertising. The good thing is that the  internet has made it possible for  many companies not to restrict their marketing campaigns to their regions of incorporation. One  particular growing tool of internet marketing is the use of the social media platform. Social media marketing entails the use of instruments such as the social networking sites  and internet forums to promote the business. You do not need to  inject huge capital  to benefit from the social media marketing. It is all a matter of you getting to be serious ‘with being social in business’. That actually means that you will need to ensure that you  are focusing on social networking sites like the facebook, twitter, flixter , linkedin and such others. It means that  you will be focusing on the networking on the sites  for business as a way of marketing.  This medium of marketing has a number of benefits. The  following are some of the main benefits of using social media marketing: Low cost Unlike other marketing  channels , social media marketing will not call for you to spend a lot of money on marketing. It may just be as easy as  having an account on the facebook , and inviting friends that you will be updating to on what is new in your business. That will not necessarily require investment , and it will be more effective. Engagement of the customers This is a medium of reaching out to a customer and engaging them in a convincing manner so that they will be persuaded enough to buy your product. Imagine a system where friends  are endorcing a product in a social networking site! It will simply be a way of  getting immediate feedback from the consumers. Gives the product credibilty The most important part of it is that your product will be likely to be well advertised  through a channel that will be equivalent to the ‘word of mouth’ marketing. You will be likely to give your product some credibility. Information spreads faster With the social media marketing , you will be assured that whatever thing you come out with in the market will easily get to the target audience and you will be likely to have immediate feedback.   With that , you will be more likely to counter a negative feedback on the product before it may be too late to damage  it in the social arena. Because of the above benefits and many others, a lot of companies are finding  the need to have  links to their social networking sites on their websites.  Social media marketing will surely be the next major marketing avenue in the coming years.

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Blog World & New Media Expo is essentially a must for bloggers. If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, Darren’s running a “quick n’ dirty” competition for a free weekend pass . We’re drawing the winner on Wednesday, so if you want in, hurry up. (And yes, you need to be prepared to pay for your own transportation to Las Vegas, NV as well as your own hotel accomodations while you’re there. But the pass gets you into the conference and a couple of the parties, so it’s totally worth it! Value: $495) You can also still purchase tickets, and get a 20% discount by using the promo code PB20 at checkout. Here are some attendee reactions from previous years . I’m personally a huge fan, as I went last year. It’s a lot of fun, and there’s nowhere else you can get this up close and personal with so many industry leaders! We’re also holding another competition where you can win a place at dinner with Darren, myself, and a few of Darren’s blogging/social media friends on Wednesday night at the beautiful Fiamma Trattoria over at MGM (Dinner graciously provided by Fiamma and @TasteMGMGrand ). For this, you need to be already planning to attend Blog World, and must be available for dinner on Wednesday night (10/14/09) at 6pm. Details here . Hope to see you there! © 2008 TwiTip Twitter Tips . Going to Blog World Expo? Want To? How About Dinner With Darren? Related posts: Are You Planning to Attend Blog World Expo 2009? Twitter as Dinner Conversation: A Guide to Using Replies 5 Tips to Employ Online Networking in the Real World

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