How to Encourage Social Sharing

Here is a good article from mashable.com talking about how to motivate people to share your content on social media platforms, and below is a summary of some of the suggestions from the author of the article. See the link below to read the full article.

1. Increase the offer value as people share more

Very similar to group buying, you have an incentive to share it with more people as the payout gets bigger.

2. Give Them Something Exclusive

Your give-away does not have to be something expensive, just make them feel special by offering an exclusive product/service. 

3. Appeal to Their Altruism

Design campaigns that incorporates a good cause such as donating a dollar to a charity for every "share" on Facebook.

4. Let Fans Help Create the Offer

Give them what they want and your campaign will spread like a wild fire!

5. Identify, Recognize and Reward Superfans

Don't forget, 90% of content on Twitter is generated by only 10% of users. Identifying and rewarding power users will increase the effectiveness of your campaign!

Read the full article here;

http://mashable.com/2011/07/12/encourage-social-sharing/

Best Free Twitter Tools to Unfollow Non-Followers

Twitter is a very effective marketing tool for Internet marketers today. However sometimes people could get annoyed when managing their twitter profiles, especially when it comes to unfollowing Twitter users who are not following back. But wait a minute, we have a few tools/websites that can help you and make your life easier to manage your Twitter account. So here is a list of Twitter tools that we find useful:

ManageFlitter

This application is my favorite! It allows you to quickly unfollow lots of people. It shows you all those people whom you are following but who are not following you back and enables you to select and easily unfollow them.

Refollow

Despite being very simple it does the job and helps you to unfollow un-wanted non-followers. I have used it and seemed safe to me.

TweetSpinner

This is more than a unfollow tool, it helps you identify abandoned/spam accounts. It also schedules, archives all of your messages to its system.

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Influencer Marketing with Influenster !

Today, I came across an interesting website called Influenster.com . I was surprised that the website had not been featured in any of the social media websites before. Just to give a background, the idea is pretty straightforward; you sign up for the site, respond to a couple survey questions and earn badges. These badges are designed in a way that they reflect your life style and are pretty important for Influenster’s goodie bag program called Voxbox http://www.influenster.com/voxbox-overview . Voxboxes are sent to most active and influential members. The only expectation from members is to test the products sent in goodie bags and provide feedback. A win win situation for both Influenster and its users! Here is the website in case you want to check it out;


http://www.influenster.com/

The Beginners Guide to SEO

Are you interested in search engine optimization but do not know where to start from? Check out this website and you will find very valuable and concise information regarding SEO, a good starting point to learn the basics before you step into ever-evolving world of SEO.

http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

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Hey there,

I am very excited to start my own blog on social media and its use in internet marketing. My main goal is to share all the cool stuff regarding internet marketing that I came across. Hope you enjoy it!

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