Getting more retweets is a great way to extend your reach and influence on the web. Retweets may turn into gaining more followers, more visitors to your links, and more exposure for your brand. Getting more and more of retweets is a mixture of art and science. Now if you want to maximize your retweet potential your the best way is to have a catchy headline, clean English, and cool content to drive your tweet home. In this article I’ll share top 20 tips to help you get more retweets. Try these twitter tips out for yourself and watch as your tweets are retweeted far and wide! 1. Great Content How to get more retweets on Twitter starts with posting messages and content that will be of interest to your followers and have a high probability of being retweete...

When it comes to generate free advertising, social sharing buttons are no doubt one of the best ways to spread the words out via different social media channels. Many internet marketers will suggest you to add social sharing buttons to increase traffic. They might also agree that it will work as an element of social proof but not everyone agrees on how many social sharing buttons you should have. Though social sharing buttons helps you to generate tons of traffic but it’s not always good for user experience. Each social sharing button uses a piece of JavaScript code to make calls back and forth between the social network’s servers and your site. And if you are in WordPress using social sharing plugins then it also needs to load additional JavaScript files from an...

Upworthy has mastered the dark viral arts to change the internet forever. Upworthy’s ultimate goal is to find and repackage content that is visual, meaningful, and sharable. “Our goal is to reach millions of people on a daily basis with content that really matters. So we think a lot about how to package content in a way that’s compelling to share – and that means thinking a lot about how it works on Facebook.” — Eli Pariser, Upworthy CEO Today, Upworthy’s instant-virality strategy turning under-exposed news stories into viral gold. Unlike any news site/blog, rather than creating its own content Upworthy seeks unearths hidden gems from the internet in form of images, videos and graphics which were initially overlooked by mass people. Here are U...

Since the title makes you read this post, I assume that you are already branding your business through YouTube, or you intend to do so. If neither is the case with you, I believe it is time that you jump onto the YouTube marketing bandwagon considering the below facts. YouTube is now the 2nd biggest search engine surpassing biggies like Yahoo and Bing. (Source: Mushroom Networks) It attracts over 1 billion visitors every month. (Source : YouTube) 1 minute of a video is as effective as 1.8 million written words (According to a research by Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research). Also, according to Edgar Dale’s Cone of Experience, people remember and thereby learn 50% of what they see and hear, as compared to 10% of what they read and 20% of what they just hear....

Image courtesy of Pixomar — FreeDigitalPhotos.net Social media presents a useful and viable tool for a business to build their brand and increase their visibility. In fact, it’s getting to the point where you’re probably going to be at a disadvantage if you don’t have at least some form of an online presence through these mediums. While online marketing spans a wide range of topics, social media has quickly become the primary vehicle through which businesses and their websites increase traffic, reach potential clients and develop their brand. When done right, it’s quite possibly the single-most useful tool at the disposal of today’s website admin and/or small business owner. At the same time, social media can present some major pitfalls to businesses a...

We all post updates across different social media channels. But if you ever wondered about a picture perfect post….then this article is just for you. The content that you share on various social media channels surely varies depending on business to business. But have you ever paid close attention to what really makes your fans tick and what resonates within your community? Having a clear CTA, proper punctuation and use of URL shorteners are the very basic steps you can take to optimize the quality of your social media outcome. This significantly maximizes reader interest and helps to improve your ROI. You may be present different social media platforms but each social media channels has its own workaround. As an example, on your Facebook fan page, a “less is more...

There is no doubt that small businesses should have a social media presence or not. If not for anything else, but the visibility and connectivity which is offered by social media in todays’ time has convinced most business owners that it is indispensible to have an investment in the social media just for its undoubted returns. But the curiosity which often might arise for any businessman is how much time and effort will it consume to give the best ROI? While most of the average small business owners have an opinion that it’s worthwhile to be on Facebook, but again there is a section of people who might agree monitoring it and posting 24/7 would be a waste of resources. The only way to know how much social media is enough for you is to have some sort of metrics ...

When it comes to social media marketing are you still struggling with a social media marketing strategy? Is it getting hard for you control the conversations about your company, your products or your services? Give up control and drop the ego! Social Media is a totally different ballgame. The people in these social media communities talk about you whenever they want, however they want, and to whomever they want. The conversation goes on with or without you! – Liana Evans See it as a two-way street. As a brand, if you try to only promote your product or services then it isn’t a place for you. Use it as a tool to communicate and relate. Social Media can provide a conversational extension to a B2B company’s nurturing programs. Social Media gives us the opportunity...

More than often Pinterest is passed off as a mere marketing tool by many businesses. But they fail to realize that it can be of immense use if they want high rate of traffic to their website. Pinterest can bring ton of traffic and can be helpful to every kind of business. Last year in a study by Shareaholic it has been revealed that Pinterest can bring more traffic than Twitter too! The data is based on analytics from 200,000 publishers which reach approximately 270 million unique visitors a month. Here are top 14 ways Pinterest can generate more traffic to your website. #1:   Be Original Repining is a very usual practice but if you want your business to be influential, you must create a Pinterest business account. Make sure that you pin your content by yours...

Facebook has become a basic necessity for business owners to plan as well as implement social media marketing strategy. Though there are numerous social media networks like LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and Twitter, but with over 1.5 Billion users Facebook is the main game player. Participation and engaging on Facebook can be the most effective tactics but the business people are yet to get the most out of this useful tool. Many of them confused as to how and when they should publish their posts. A research conducted by Buddy Media reveals different ways to create the most effective engagement for retailers when interacting with their fans on Facebook. Here are a few findings which will help in clearing all the queries that surround Facebook. #1:   Best Time To P...