Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Twitter Background for Product Awareness

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Twitter is an essential marketing tool for a lot of sites. It allows the user to post quick updates on their Twitter profile to let their followers know what is currently going on. Most users however, opt to use some of the generic themes given at their Twitter account. Instead of doing this, it is better to use a custom theme as it promotes product awareness in a good way as well.

In any twitter page, there are spaces on both the left and the right side of the page while in the middle resides the main twitter content. Users can actually create a background image that can take advantage of one or both sides of the picture. However, it is best to place all the contents wanted at the left side of the page rather than the right side as most people places more attention on their left instead of their right.

There are a few sites that the user can actually go to should they wish to create their own backgrounds. Stripe Generator is a pattern generating site on which the user may use to create striped backgrounds. Another great site to go to is ColourLovers which has an extensive control panel for the users.

Below are some examples on what the user may create for their own twitter page. Notice that for the second example, everything is blended in so well that it may seem to be an actual page without any major editing.

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YouTube – how to build your personal brand

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Building-YouTube-brandIn today’s business when the world has changed into a global village with the everyday advancements in the field of technology. The rapid increase of Internet users across the globe is also growing with every passing moment. Social networking sites have grabbed the attention of millions of users in no time. Individuals and businesses want to build their brand to get maximum visibility in a short span of time. Building your personal brand using various websites is very useful like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook but there are some websites which increase your brand visibility in the most effective manner. In the following article we’ll focus on building your personal brand using YouTube.

Building your personal brand via video is one of the most effective medium because of its content type and interactive nature. YouTube has brought the facility and leverage to everyone to broadcast one’s favorite videos.

Branding your profile

Branding your personal profile on YouTube is not difficult to do. You have to decide how to make your existing brand consistent with your newly created YouTube channel. Choose wisely between multiple face and single face channels as this might affect your branding effectiveness.

Choosing a channel name

Choosing a channel name on YouTube for your personal brand can greatly affect the overall impact of your branding efforts. You can choose the channel name as your business name or full name or any keyword for which you are doing your branding activities. In order to create a channel on YouTube, you have to register yourself first as a user and then you can create the channel as desired.

Setting up your profile

Setting up your profile and filling it out is very crucial as it may help people and other users in the community to locate you. This way you can reach to millions by only giving a single URL which best describes your brand.

Customizing your channel

In order to view your channel as it stands you need to log in to your account and select the option ‘switch to player mode’ (which is on top right on your account information screen). This will display the newer layout where people can choose your latest brand videos and watch others.

Title and tags of the channel

On the ‘Edit Channel’ option click on ‘settings’ to give your channel an appropriate title. It will be more effective to give your channel a title which best reflects your brand. For example ‘Tim’s SEO tools blog’. On the right you need to specify the tags for the content of your channel. These tags will be used while people will use search engines to look for a specific brand.

Once you have set up your profile for your brand and other customization. Focus yourself to creating amazing videos.

Create amazing videos

By keeping in mind the phrase ‘content is king’ you have to create videos that are really interesting and have something to watch for people that they have not seen before. You must keep in mind that your brand videos are worth spreading if they are unique and different.

Producing video content

Producing video content is very important part of building your personal brand using videos. You have to take several videos of the same concept and then select the best one that fits your content. In the description part of your brand video you need to post a link back to your website. This way you can make people visit your site who might not have heard about your brand before. Once you have created 8-10 videos you can start promoting your videos.

Promoting your videos

You are required to spread your channel and videos everywhere like facebook, twitter, Google reader and your blog. You can also embed your videos from YouTube to your existing website or blog.

With YouTube channel and video facility you can reach to hundreds and thousands of visitors within days. You can share your videos to a vast majority of people and can give a boost to your brand. Thanks to YouTube channels and videos.

Twitter hashtags business

Monday, December 7th, 2009

hashtags-twitterOn the Internet there are millions of topics which are related to one another in some way or the other. Hashtags are an easy and simple way to connect different tweets together or catalog them against a particular topic. This way it becomes easier for the users to filter tweets which are related to a specific keyword or phrase which they are looking for.  The hashtags got popularity in 2007. Hashtags are being used on various occasions especially against the events that are organized by different organizations. The event organizers can sort or filter tweets on the basis of a particular topic and then can be used in case of any necessity.

The creation of hashtag is very easy and simple. You need to place a hash symbol before a keyword, as #hashtag.

Utilizing Hashtags

While using the hashtags you should take care of the fact that they spread very quickly and you require consistency in utilizing them. The hashtags should be consistent with your tags and with your personal brand. The effective use of hashtags can provide you an opportunity to reach to your visitors in a more meaning manner. You can even use a large range of already created hashtags but you have to keep in mind your tags and keywords and use only those hashtags which best describe your brand.

It is very important to take part in those hashtags which are relevant to your business and your rationale to using the twitter. For instance it is a good idea to take part in the #healthcare hashtag if your business is related to health care and provides health care related facilities and services. Do not take part in those hashtags which are relate to games or sports because that is not linked to your business at all. So it’s all about choosing and using those hashtags that perfectly relate to your business and its requirements.

There is another important point is utilizing the hashtags and it is relate to spamming. Because of their notion to spread very quickly people are using them as a means of spam. Never use a hashtag on such tweet which is not related to your business or topic. In addition to that take care of populating your tweets with unnecessary hashtags to just appear in the search engine result pages for that twitter.  Use ethical way of utilizing and spreading hashtags on twitter.

Starting your own hashtags

Before utilizing hashtags on twitter carry out some research on using and participating in hashtags. A wiki can give you a brief description of the trends of twitter. It also explains the meaning of various hashtags. After going through that research select those hashtags that are associated to your business. You need to keep track of the tags that are used by the followers and time to time check the tweets that are associated to the tags by making a search.

Keeping track of hashtags

Hashtags provide an effective mean to keep monitoring the social media campaign that is carried out. They also help to create a community related to your business and assist your customers to share and exchange views on a particular business campaign. Thus you can calculate the effect of a business campaign as positive or negative.

When you have chosen your tags the next thing is to get started with it. Your hashtags must be meaningful and should be able to produce a good impact on the under going discussion. You have to promote your tags on other social media campaign programs and platforms.

Once the hashtag of your choice is there people can use it and you can respond to people which are taking part. Twitter search can be used to monitor the hashtags. TweetGridis one of the web-based dash board to check and view the real time usage of the hashtags by the users.