Posts Tagged Twitter

Time to Turbo-Charge Your Twitter Strategy: Why & How

28 Feb 2012

Some key elements to Twitter’s growth, engagement habits, and future in mobile, to motivated you to get moving with your Twitter strategy.

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Fans & Followers: What are they really worth?

08 Dec 2011

Remember back in the day, when folks were still trying to figure out what exactly to do with all this “Social Media” mumbo-jumbo? Conference rooms around the globe were full of marketing professionals, khakis freshly pressed, saying things like “OK…we’re on Facebook. We’re on Twitter. Now what?”

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3 Free Social Media Tools for the Busy Small Business

25 Oct 2011

Running a small business takes a lot of time and even more hard work. It’s important, however, to understand the importance of actively managing and optimizing your social networks. These 3 simple and free tools provide a great start toward social media success.

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A Qwik Cautionary Tale: Grabbing Social Media Profiles

20 Sep 2011

Netflix has had quite a year. Poised to be the future of digital media distribution, (even having giants like Comcast quaking in their boots) they have pretty much blown it. First came the staggering 60% increases in monthly subscription rates, which sent their customers into a huge rage. The latest blow is Qwikster, a spin-off of their original brand that will handle exclusively the DVD-by-mail service. We won’t really get into the details of why this was such a bad idea, but The Oatmeal sums it up nicely. What we’d like to focus on is a point made by Tech Crunch. In their haste to split these two entities, the folks at Netflix neglected to acquire the social network properties before their big launch. TechCrunch highlights the user who owns the @Qwikster handle on Twitter, who is currently trying to sell this handle to Netflix. After a look into the…

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