HubSpot has released a guide titled “How to Use Twitter for Business”. The HubSpot team says, “42% of Twitter users follow brands or companies — is your business one of them? Maintaining an effective Twitter presence can be a powerful part of your business’ marketing strategy. To help businesses interested in mastering the basics of Twitter, we’ve put together a complete explanation of how to use Twitter for business. Used successfully, Twitter can help you develop and promote your brand, interact with your fan base, monitor conversations about your company,... [...]

If you aren’t using social media, like Twitter, in your marketing you could be missing out on a significant number of sales. Twitter helps to validate your website and is another channel through which your offers can be presented. Most important, you can use Twitter to build your brand. Or, if you segment the market as explained in Twitter Tapper+, you can use multiple Twitter accounts to build several brands, each directed at a particular micro-niche. MAO Flynn says he earned $5000 in his Twitter accounts in the last month, using Twitter Tapper+ strategies. Twitter Tapper+ is a 111 page... [...]

Gerry Lacuarta just announced WP Social Traffic Piranha Plugin, an updated version of his Google Share X3 plugin, which: • Generate traffic from Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn and more • Generate viral traffic from Pinterest • Use the Google Share button to get viral traffic from Google • Use Call to Action graphics to trigger sharing from your visitors • Use either Facebook Like or Facebook Recommend calls to action This plugin plugs your WordPress site into all the top social sites, bringing you traffic from all directions. Check it out in detail here: WP Social... [...]

HubSpot has released an ebook entitled “55 Brands Rocking Social Media with Visual Content”. HubSpot team says, “The times they are a-changin’. These famous words of Bob Dylan can easily be applied to the rapidly evolving character of social media. No doubt, social media is changing–it’s rushing into its most visual stage. If you aren’t prepared for the visual content revolution, you may be left in the dust. That’s why the HubSpot marketing team compiled this list of 55 brands killing it with visual content on these top four visually-driven social networks.... [...]

If you don’t want to be banned or sued for your Twitter marketing, check out Twitter White Knight. Danny Fikes, the author, says that a lot of the advice you get from gurus is just plain wrong and can lead you into risky, spammy marketing. He offers a completely “white hat” process that is nevertheless effective in pulling in Twitter traffic to your website. Twitter can bring you all the traffic you need, if you approach it the right way. You can even “borrow” followers of other marketers in an ethical way. In the process you can build your reputation on Twitter, while... [...]

Spokes Pigeon shows how to use the authority of Facebook and Twitter to improve your site’s rank and bring in more traffic. Chris Munch says it only takes a couple of days to set up your own Spokes Pigeon system that will then bering you targeted traffic all year. Formal studies have shown that Twitter and, especially, Facebook are highly potent indicators of a website’s rank. If you get good ratings in these social media tools, you get good Google rankings, and thus a lot of traffic. Spokes Pigeon shows you how to join the inner circle of high-ranking sites by cultivating your position... [...]

Doug Hudberg’s Feed 140 allows you to enter a text file where you place one tweet per line. It will then post these tweets to Twitter at random times, between the daily start time and stop time you set. You can load a month’s tweets (or even more) at one time into Feed 140 and it will deliver them to Twitter at whatever frequency you choose. It will also automatically deliver content from an RSS feed. You have your “playlist” of tweets to either play just once or to automatically repeat (if you like, have them play in shuffle mode”. Twitter can boost your marketing... [...]