Using Twitter effectively for your marketing communications can be tricky! There are some Internet Marketers who claim great success from their Twitter marketing efforts; while others use it only occasionally, or no longer use it, because they just don’t seem to get the click-throughs and sales conversions they hope for or were led to believe are possible. To clarify, we are talking here mostly about manually using Twitter for marketing. There are all sorts of Twitter automating software packages available, such as Hootsuite, but you still need to do your Tweets input to keep control, and some packages also come at a [...click here or on post title to read the rest of this post...]

What are Twitter Hashtags? Twitter Hashtags are Twitter User defined words or phrases, usually written without spaces, and are preceded by a hashtag or hash symbol (#). They are written into tweets (Twitter messages) for ease of categorization and searching. Not just any words, but specific words that have been chosen around certain subjects, resulting in tweets using Hashtags being contextualized. Think of Hashtags like a language – for example, if you spell a Hashtag wrong, it can’t be found in search boxes. Anyone can define a new Hashtag for a particular topic, but it only makes sense to do so for topics, [...click here or on post title to read the rest of this post...]

How to save time and plan an effective Social Media marketing campaign with these free online Social Networking tools and software.

Internet Marketers use shortened URLs in their online marketing communications and Twitter tweets, for various reasons. This post lists some of the good reasons to use short URLs.

There are a number of issues to consider when using Twitter as part of your internet marketing strategy. Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate your Twitter strategy?

Analysis of three Twitter applications or tools, which will help automate and multiply your Twitter marketing activities.